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The comments on https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/516 are, well, an interesting read.

As someone managing a number of IRC rooms, how do we configure this? (I don’t use Matrix.)

I don’t see any of those licenses listed on https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical and it took me a bunch of digging in the license-review mailing list archives to find when …

> FreeDB avoids this problem by supporting multiple entries for any given disc. FWIW, something somewhat similar to this will Soon™ be part of MusicBrainz too: https://tickets.meta…

Cover art, when available, is via the Cover Art Archive API: https://coverartarchive.org/api (The Release lookup has a `cover-art-archive` JSON object which contains information ab…

… And I think this has exactly been @bunderbunder's argument from the start? That the "definition" put forth by threeseed is naïve and could at best be usable on an amateur level, …

Note that our current search server software is in "minimal maintenance" mode. We're working on a replacement which will hopefully allow for a lot of improvements to search ranking…

Oh, and the mp_top_stuff.html page was created less than a week ago. You're absolutely right that we could, in theory, have that data, but we do not currently. Not in any usable fo…

Note that ListenBrainz may be used for getting "popularity" metrics, but that is not its intended goal.

LinkedBrainz is not something that the MetaBrainz team is directly involved with, however, according to themselves, «[they are] back, if basic for now.» (Note that there's also a "…

Heh. It's about 17 years since MusicBrainz started now. :)

We may never have the stats Spotify has, but we are trying to get listening information via the in-development ListenBrainz: https://listenbrainz.org I'm not sure when/if we'll be …

Thanks! Looks like it's a fairly old post (and thus working with an old version of the schema), but still interesting to see how it's being used "out there". :)

Cheers!

Are you aware of the AcousticBrainz[1] and (upcoming/in-development) ListenBrainz[2] projects? We at MetaBrainz (the organisation behind MusicBrainz and the other *Brainz projects)…

Libre.FM sets out to be a ~1:1 (open) "clone" of Last.FM (or least the AudioScrobbler part of Last.FM), while ListenBrainz aims to improve on Last.FM/AudioScrobbler. E.g., the Audi…

Link? I tried looking around in http://www.datomic.com/support.html but I couldn't find any references to MusicBrainz (or music data of any kind).

> which is why I export in mp3 as well as wav; wav for higher quality, and mp3 for labeling purposes; I could probably just use flac but compressed audio like mp3 also has the bene…

MusicBrainz was created partly as a reaction to Gracenote's handling of CDDB; see https://musicbrainz.org/doc/About and https://musicbrainz.org/doc/About/History It would be comple…

Unauthenticated search is still possible and allowed, just as long as you use a proper User Agent string. See https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Development/XML_Web_Service/Vers... "Do I …

FWIW, you may be interested in ListenBrainz[1], an open alternative to Last.FM. We're just about to launch the beta which should be the milestone for when we'll promise to keep sub…