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mayhemchaos

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About mayhemchaos

I'm the creator of MusicBrainz/MetaBrainz and the 3D printing and human sexuality education site https://wearebeautiful.info/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #42266736

    Today Spotify has taken away some API endpoints, leaving many users in the lurch. ListenBrainz has been working hard to create similar API endpoints and datasets, all freely availa…

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    Comment #36324099

    I just added another suggestion to the README on the example project on how extra steps that can be taken to make the data lookup even more precise. Writing your own music tagger h…

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    Comment #36293546

    Tomorrow we'll post a blog post outlining how easy this process has become.

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    Comment #36291438

    If you've ever wanted to write your own music tagger, but the right data was missing to make it a fun/easier job, now is the time. I'd love to know what people think of the data se…

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    Comment #34442200

    Our decision to cancel this project has zero to do with the RIAA. All the reasons are in the blog post -- it is that simple.

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    Comment #28372258

    Yep, so true. Our assessment of the applicability of our project was: Those who don't need it, love it. Those who need it the most, won't look at it.

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    Comment #28372231

    Pretty much. Anything with a clear title was ignored, so I wondered if something like this would work better. Much to my dismay, it did.

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    Comment #28360417

    Exactly -- this was one of the reasons we created the site.

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    Comment #28359734

    Good questions, but I have no answers now. The only vaguely scientific thing we accomplished was creating compound models that show the sexual arousal of a vulva. I was told that i…

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    Comment #28358844

    We really wanted to release the textures that go with the models in order to make them more realistic. However, that would likely put us into the pornography realm and make the sit…

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    Comment #28358827

    pope_meat is right -- even in the age of unsolicited dick pics, mostly women were interested in participating in this project. Men were very hesitant. Also, more models of women th…

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    Comment #28358780

    Heh, yes, I tried a more useful link, but no one looked at it. :/

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    Comment #24541422

    We scanned the bodies and genitals of our friends to create a modern sex education site. We've released more than 120 models of humans and their bits, all ready to print, ready for…

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    Comment #23917320

    Agreed -- every time I tried to query data from the command line I could not get anything to work. I would usually find a piece of working python code and adapt that to run the que…

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    Comment #18688748

    When I realised that I no longer needed to live in California in order to run my business (MusicBrainz), I decided to move to Barcelona. As a friend of mine said: Barcelona isn't a…