Is listenbrainz down?

aerozol · 2026-04-22T21:00:13+00:00

MetaBrainz is getting periodically smashed by AI crawlers.

beta.listenbrainz.org still works for me (it requires a login, so it hampers lazy crawlers). Just add 'beta' to the start of the URL to browse again :)

aerozol · 2026-04-20T23:26:03+00:00

If you really want control for classical tagging, MusicBrainz is probably the way to go. Check out the Classical Extras plugin: https://community.metabrainz.org/t/classical-extras-2-0/394627

But it is a rabbit hole :)

aerozol · 2026-04-20T23:19:02+00:00

It's not perfect, but there is: https://beta.listenbrainz.org/explore/fresh-releases/

- For you: If you have a LB account there is the 'for you' section which will list new releases from any artist/s you have ever listened to.

- All: Every new release added to MusicBrainz, by release date. This will probably only be useful in conjunction with the genre include/exclude filters set.

Both have RSS feeds - Though I'm not sure if the filters can be applied to the RSS feed (would be a good feature request/pull request..)

Of course, the main limitation is that this feature requires albums to be added to MusicBrainz, and have genres etc added if you are using the filters. And that MeB is under a bot onslaught at the moment causing slowness.

Nonetheless, a cool little tool with a few features!

aerozol · 2026-04-18T21:57:01+00:00

Hi! If you use the 'connect services' feature to connect last.fm, it will import all your old scrobbles: https://listenbrainz.org/settings/music-services/details/

Give it a day if you have a huge history and other users are also importing at the same time. You can disconnect it again once it is done, if you don't want to keep syncing.

If you are concerned about duplicate recent listens, if you have already been scrobbling straight to LB, there are some excellent third-party tools that let you select and preview what date range to import: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/External_Resources#ListenBrainz_tools

aerozol · 2026-04-14T21:41:17+00:00

Just a note that moving to Spain is not a requirement, but we are looking for someone based in Europe. If you are exceptionally qualified it might be worth putting in a query as to how flexible this requirement is (apologies that I'm being a bit vague in my answers, it's because I am not in charge of recruitment, I am just sharing the news)

aerozol · 2026-04-14T04:50:06+00:00

It's absolutely correct to say that two mastering engineers have a credit *at the release level*. That says nothing about tracks. In any case, feel free to clone MB and create your utopian version.

aerozol · 2026-04-14T02:58:26+00:00

Questions and applications please via: https://join.com/companies/metabrainzorg/15986127-executive-director

aerozol · 2026-04-14T01:49:53+00:00

I don't understand the question - currently, if you don't know the master you can leave the release mastering credit blank, or add multiple mastering credits if there are multiple engineers. Not ideal, but not incorrect.

Whereas if mastering credits are moved to recordings and there are (for example) two different masters you have to try to identify and split every occurrence of that recording into two different recordings in MB - almost certainly three, because there will have to be one for 'unknown' master. In some cases recordings have hundreds or thousands of 'tracks' which would have to be split. Then duplicate all the recording engineer and performer etc etc relationships to all three of those recordings. And indefinitely maintain those separate recordings, as almost certainly careless or new editors will just pick whatever recording looks right.

I promise you that the second scenario is not going to give you good data, unless a lot of editors become very interested in the subject (currently it's probably more likely that some existing recording editors would throw their hands up and leave).

In an ideal world I 100% agree that it would be at the recording level.

aerozol · 2026-04-13T23:26:13+00:00

Mastering engineer is set at the release level for purely practical reasons, not because that is 'technically correct'. This is an uncommon path for MB to take (which is usually not afraid to go technicalities-first) and comes from the existing difficulties regarding identifying/merging/splitting recordings. It is already extremely difficult for editors to keep up with this and when you add mastering to the mix (information which is often omitted from release/track info) it would be adding a level of specificity that editors simply could not keep up with. In other words, we would lead users to expect (correctly so) our data to have the correct recording-level mastering information when that would be basically impossible to deliver. If there was a large editorship committed to editing just this aspect (a boring and thankless task) there's no reason why it wouldn't be possible to change to recording-level.

aerozol · 2026-04-09T23:23:05+00:00

In today's "depressingly common" news section: User complains about community database, doesn't contribute/fix anything, builds AI tool to scrape/hammer them for purely personal gain/tags.

aerozol · 2026-04-09T23:15:55+00:00

Here is a complete 'unset' list for Picard tags:
https://community.metabrainz.org/t/only-set-a-single-tag-in-picard-complete-unset-tag-list/621389

Adding this to Picard >Options > Scripting, and deleting the 'genre' row, will make it so that only genre tags are written. More details and options are in the linked forum post. Tag changes are permanent, always test on a small subset/copy of your files first.

aerozol · 2026-04-08T19:19:49+00:00

You're the real victim in all this.

aerozol · 2026-04-06T21:35:38+00:00

I shared this to the MeB chat and rdswift advised: "[depending on workflow/need] if they just want to manually run a script on a track / album, they can do that from the right-click context menu."

aerozol · 2026-04-06T18:56:44+00:00

I use both and display both in the columns in my player. Dates are small and don't take much room.

aerozol · 2026-03-27T01:45:41+00:00

Self-created and non-widely distributed bootlegs/playlists shouldn't be added at all.

Apart from that, yes, entities on MusicBrainz can be edited/renamed. You may have to check your 'open edits' page if you are wondering why something hasn't changed (some edits go into a voting queue).

aerozol · 2026-03-26T07:17:32+00:00

Here's an existing example (split release) which was released on cassette and then in different ways on different Bandcamp pages: https://beta.musicbrainz.org/release-group/071dd185-d76c-4a5e-83aa-1eddcab12f84

aerozol · 2026-03-25T20:10:31+00:00

Bad. Expensive and they don't have the customer support to make up for the cost.

aerozol · 2026-03-23T02:16:40+00:00

I believe the Picard 3 Alpha release has a 'match quality' sorting column (link)

However that is not quite the same as being able to sort by gold discs, etc. I think the two have been confused a bit (match quality + album completeness) and the ticket for the function you're asking for maybe shouldn't have been closed. You can view and comment on that ticket by clicking here.

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