#metabrainz

Hey jasje (IRC) could u pls leave a review for my proposal whenever u can.. thanks

pranav[m]: i did read the proposal again and I think everything looks fine

i had my doubts earlier but they are cleared now

hey everyone, can someone please guide me on my proposal?

huhridge: you can check out community.metabrainz.org for past proposals

it’ll give you a good idea

thanks, jasje!

i'll take a look and submit a draft EOD

noice!

Hey lucifer (IRC) / monkey , How do i get user listening activity stats on my local env?

satyaraj, if you set the api_url to api.listenbrainz.org, and login on the local env, it should work

ah, got it. Thanks huhridge (IRC) !

<08wileyfoxyx> hello there, I already sent out a letter to the MetaBrainz email regarding this, but i'll repeat it here. since this morning MusicBrainz is not available in Russia. according to the service that checks the database for Russian internet restrictons, it was blocked because of the release “Токсидермисты городского безумия” by Пурген

(https://musicbrainz.org/release/f1ae8b15-cf4a-4...)

blocked because of some 1999 punk rock album. That's wild. Probably not the only reason, I guess there are plenty of releases they would like to see blocked these days.

Hi theflash__ and pranavkonidena. I have left reviews on your GSoC proposals on the forum. Please fix things and let me know when done so that we can wrap this part soon

<08wileyfoxyx> Usually it would show that it was blocked because of multiple URLs, but in case with MB it displays only this specific release

Probably the last title is the cause?

According to my translator Не голосуй! = Do not vote!

the question is if something an be done about that. probably not

akshaaatt (IRC): thanks for the suggestions, will update the proposal as needed. Also can we please migrate/rename the existing artist and album view models to something like BP view models because that would be helpful for when I start working on artist and album pages? We might need to do a room migration..

Sure. So you are going to rename the existing artist album vm to BPvms and keep those separate from server related vms? Is that it pranav[m] ?

Yes

Cool. I am aligned on that

Sure then will do 👍

pranav[m]: can you also help write a logic such that ringtones, etc don’t show as music in the app?

We should probably omit a few reserved folders where those are. Also, some cold start screens will also be good for users that do not have any local music for BP to work.

“Get back to this section when you load some music on your device” or something like that

Sure thing will do that.. will update the get songs or add artists function in the repo as needed

I’ll have to research a bit as to where the ringtones etc are stored tho..

But one thing, I personally love to download mp3 as my ringtones so won’t they still be showing up in downloads? I’ll need to research a bit.. I’ll keep u posted

hey outsidecontext I have a query regarding PICARD-187, if the second case (when all images are removed) is handled in the new proposed method `strip_selected_image()`at `picard/util/imagelist.py`, then can't we avoid any changes in the code of individual formats (as the changes are made directly into `metadata.images` of the audio file)?

Also I am not sure on how picard handles when there is no coverart for any audio, does it assign the default `CoverArtShadow.png` to its metadata or its just for the ui ?

PICARD-187: Support for manually removing cover art https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-187

Shubham: The placeholder image is just for UI, it's not supposed to be written to tags. If there are no images Picard by default will not write images, so existing ones are kept

I think we need to handle this as Picard does for other tags. There are three states:

yvanzo: I restarted solr on mb solr 5 as it was using excessive disk I/O since hours, I'm not sure why it happens, but it happens sometimes (once every few months), and only on this node.

looks like shubham lost connection :(

<06napolo_bonaparte> Hi, actually my Firefox glitches out whenever I get new message Kiwi IRC

Actually my firefox freezes whenever I get new message on Kiwi IRC, I read the answer on discord

Though I couldn't read after `There are three states:` if there was more

akshaaatt: thanks for the review, will update the required changes and let you know

"Since this morning MusicBrainz is not available in Russia."

well, that is a milestone for us. go us?

😂😂😂😂😂

Shubham: sorry, I stopped writing when you had dropped out. So now the rest:

np

1. A tag is filled with data. It gets written to the file and overwrites existing data

2. A tag is not filled in Picard, the tag does not get written, which means existing data stays (by default)

3. A tag is explicitly marked for deletion and hence gets removed from tags when writing. This requires specific implementation in the file format handling

I think the cover art must do the same. if data is set it overwrites, if nothing is set it keeps existing. This is already working and will work with your implementation

What is missing is that the user explicitly removed all cover art. The imagelist I think must have a "deleted" property or something that gets set if the user explicitly removed all cover art. If that is set cover art must be removed from files as well

does this make sense now?

yeah

lucifer: ping on the Mac builds

Zas: ping

pong

We've been blocked in Russia. Go us!

What if we get another domain, MusicBrainz.ru, lol and serve MB from it?

outsidecontext: we could remove the release, but we shouldn't

"Russians, use a VPN" seems about as much as we can/should do about this

is there a way to live-reload the BB website? everytime i make a change i have to stop and start the docker which takes alot of time and computation. I tried to find ways to achieve live-reload but since i do not have any experience with docker, i failed. I need to know whether i should formally learn docker to contribute to this codebase?

Or maybe a another domain... Ukrainian?? !😂

:D well, I guess the whole internet might be blocked in Russia soon.... not sure it is worth the effort. Russian people often use VPNs and it seems many of those are now blocked too

Yeah, I am not going to put a lot of energy into this.

But registering a domain and serving mb from that, how much effort is that? Hardly any, yes?

We can try, but I guess we'll also have to deploy new MB containers (isn't there a config for domain on this side?)

^^reo?

Wouldn't they immediately ban it too?

Likely

Our DBDefs does

It does say *names* but I honestly have no idea if it does support more than one, yvanzo might

I certainly haven't tried to support several

Not sure how fast they are to ban.

Turns out .eu domains are only 5€. So, we now have musicbrainz.eu

Zas: registered at Gandi, should be ready for config.

In case it isn't a ton of effort

Ok, I'll do after lunch and we'll see what needs to be done on MB side, I guess the simplest will be to deploy new containers or reconfigure existing ones.

batcypher (IRC): Hi! Have a look at the developer docs here: https://bookbrainz-dev-docs.readthedocs.io/en/l...

mayhem (IRC): Circumventing state censorship is a good new addition to the "never thought creating an OS projects would result in..." list, isn't it?

Srsly, yes. But that thought did come pretty early, about Taiwan.

I've posted my draft GSoC application on the forum: https://community.metabrainz.org/t/gsoc-2024-em...

Let me know if I've done anything stupid :)

I had to remove some links because of Discourse's 10 link limit for new users

<08wileyfoxyx> Could be easier to remove it really, so other users wouldn't have to use VPN

<08wileyfoxyx> non-tech savvy users specifically

We do *not* remove existing music, wileyfoxy, especially not on censure attempts by autocratic governments :)

*wileyfoxyx

We'll try to do something to make it possible to not require a VPN, but we'll see :)

<08wileyfoxyx> Would it be possible to change the domain on Picard too? Or is it already?

zas: ^

wileyfoxyx: you can change the domain in Picard options > general

<08wileyfoxyx> okay, thanks. I'll check it out later

wileyfox: once we have .eu domain on, it is possible to change target server in Picard config https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/en/config/o...

<08wileyfoxyx> I think it would be also a good reason to ask other Russian speakers to come and help me fix/add the translations haha

+1