#metabrainz

I merged the Picard Qt6 changes finally. And with this I broke my own workflow of always running Picard from source as now plugins are all broken. Need to switch to the stable release for my own tagging for now :D

relaxoMob: You need to create an account on the wiki. See https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MusicBrainz_Wiki and https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Wiki_Spam_Protection

outsidecontext, zas: What was the idea of “cover art processing” for Picard? (with just a few more words to get a rough idea)

yvanzo: options like automatically resizing images or even changing image format

Also it touches the area of generally more options for images, like not overwriting images with smaller ones, min. and max. sizes, separate options for embedded images and files etc.

Thanks, that’s more linting then?

(I was confused because tracklist recognition is a kind of cover art processing too)

sorry, I don't get the linting part

-linting +processing to look good

(with “good” following user’s preferences)

monkey: What was the GSoC idea about plugin for BookBrainz? I can neither hear nor read it from the session video.

akshaaatt: I added a paragraph with the list of ideas to summit notes. However, there seems to be some redundancies/contradictions in the above lists/paragraphs.

Thanks a lot for adding that yvanzo!

I think we should rephrase a bit and say that we do not aim to run a program of our own yet. But we do intend to start the gsoc program earlier than before and have our ideas page out. Maybe also get a social media post out when gsoc is announced and we have updated the page (let's say late dec or jan)

monkey: For LB-1264, do I just add the special purpose artist in an array, or filter them from the database? I believe they're mostly static

LB-1264: Releases by "Various Artists" should not be included on "Fresh releases" page https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/LB-1264

bitmap: I tried to look into MBS-13340 but I'm not quite sure I follow the whole search function (is that searchItems in Autocomplete2?)

MBS-13340: Instrument attribute search is case-sensitive https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-13340

I'm hoping it's a trivial change, but

ansh: Not sure if I understand everything of your question, but I think being able to filter Various Artist releases out is ideal. I'd say we want to hide them by default on the user's personal page but show them by default on the "all releases" pages

I mean that since there are 11 special purpose artists, so for every page, should I fetch them from the database or should I manually define them in an array form?

yvanzo: The GSoC idea for BookBrainz was a plugin for Calibre, an open source Ebook reader. There was once such a project: https://github.com/bookbrainz/CaliBBre

monkey: Merci, c'est du gros !

Hehe

added to the notes

Thx

Ah, I see ansh, thanks for the explanation. I was thinking about VA only.

So solution 1 is to load all special purpose artists but put them in a separate array to be able to filter them out, and option 2 is to not load them at all for the user's personal releases page. Does that sound right?

IMO a solution with more flexibility is preferable, which in this case probably means option 1: loading special purpose artist releases but hiding them by default when on the user's personal page (shown by default on the 'all releases" page). Does that make sense?

monkey: I'm not sure it makes sense to have the toggle turn itself on and off between both views?

the issue is that there realy *shouldn't* be 11 SPA

Sorry, I'm just about to go to sleep, but that caught my eye 😛

Heh hi aerozol !

zzzz

OK, then maybe hidden by default on both then. But does it make sense to load them in that case?

Apart from that no real preference here.

What does not loading them do? Make it so we can't toggle them on?

Yes

Or we would have to load them separately, which would be slightly trickier code-wise but doable.

Maybe I'm conflating compilations with when someone has accidentally played a *track* credited to 'various artists'? Because I don't think I get any VA compilations in my 'for you' page

I don't mind if we don't load weird stuff, but I do like seeing fresh VA releases

I got to sleep though! I'll leave it in your capable hands

Well, see LB-1264 . I think filtered out by default is the right option

LB-1264: Releases by "Various Artists" should not be included on "Fresh releases" page https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/LB-1264

Night night aerozol

Got it. I'll implement the first solution

reosarevok: probably in indexItems or getNGrams. we already call normalize (which lower cases) in getNGrams so not sure which part is lacking

with a link to MB too

[design-system] 14dependabot[bot] opened pull request #119 (03master…dependabot/npm_and_yarn/browserify-sign-4.2.2): Bump browserify-sign from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 https://github.com/metabrainz/design-system/pul...

[design-system] 14MonkeyDo merged pull request #119 (03master…dependabot/npm_and_yarn/browserify-sign-4.2.2): Bump browserify-sign from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 https://github.com/metabrainz/design-system/pul...

[design-system] 14dependabot[bot] opened pull request #120 (03master…dependabot/npm_and_yarn/babel/traverse-7.23.2): Bump @babel/traverse from 7.21.5 to 7.23.2 https://github.com/metabrainz/design-system/pul...

[design-system] 14dependabot[bot] opened pull request #121 (03master…dependabot/npm_and_yarn/postcss-8.4.31): Bump postcss from 8.4.5 to 8.4.31 https://github.com/metabrainz/design-system/pul...

[troi-recommendation-playground] 14mayhem merged pull request #113 (03main…fix-empty-album-string): Do not emit an album key in JSPF if we don't have album info. https://github.com/metabrainz/troi-recommendati...

[troi-recommendation-playground] release 03v-2023-10-30.0 has been published by 14mayhem: https://github.com/metabrainz/troi-recommendati...

[listenbrainz-server] 14mayhem opened pull request #2610 (03master…update-troi): Update troi to the latest release https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-serv...

[listenbrainz-server] 14mayhem merged pull request #2610 (03master…update-troi): Update troi to the latest release https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-serv...

[listenbrainz-server] 14mayhem merged pull request #2608 (03master…popularity-fixes): Fix recording/release/artist popularity stats https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-serv...

mayhem: Got a minute for a quick-quick review? LB#2598

LB-1332: Display user top navigation on playlist page: https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-serv...

I smell an approaching release of LB

[listenbrainz-server] 14mayhem merged pull request #2598 (03master…LB-1332): LB-1332: Display user top navigation on playlist page https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-serv...

zas: checking to see if the ftp.musicbrainz.org works correctly and it doesn't seem to: http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/

https://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/ works fine, so maybe were just missing a redirect?

are we moving away from osuosl?

yes.

for a few reasons, but one of them being that our bandwidth is free. :)

Is that a hetzner thing? Free bandwidth?

yep.

all bare metal servers (not VMs) come with free unlimited bandwidth on a 1Gig network drop;

and I keep hearing about these absurd bandwidth bills that people on AWS have to deal with.

I'm so happy we're on hetzner.

Yeah aws has almost free ingress so that you can bring any amount of data and then you are trapped because egress/outgoing bandwidth is expensive.

That unlimited bandwidth thing is awesome.

yep, all that. we make good use of the free bandwidth, but really, we could be pushing sooo much more.

mayhem: on it

thx

[listenbrainz-android] 14akshaaatt merged pull request #245 (03dev…feed-section-phase-2.5): Feed section phase 2.5 https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-andr...

mayhem: it is fixed, missing hostnames in config

thanks!

bitmap: MBS-10411 looks like search should return floats, right?

MBS-10411: Inconsistent type for place coordinate https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10411

reosarevok: yep

Not sure if that's a search fix or something to be fixed on our side tho

the meeting is in an hour, right?

yes

thanks

bitmap: re the attribute search

I'm assuming that's not getting normalized?

That's the only reason I can see for this issue anyway

meeting shifted by 1 hour?

EU daylight savings time change

reosarevok: iirc we keep the first search term non-normalized so that exact prefix matches are weighted first. maybe it's the input that needs to be normalized after trying the prefix match?

bbiab

<BANG>

Welcome to Weird Timing Monday, hope everyone is around despite said Weird Timing!

monkey used to be a developer just like us, until he took a BANG to the knee

was he coding with his feet too?

We have three mailed in reviews

First is Pratha-Fish:

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Hi all!

Cheers to another productive week.

Almost done with the bot. All the data is in, finding and posting differences is all that's left.

Fetched ~117k+ rows from Wikidata, so I think we'll have a ton of new ones incoming on the musicbrainz database :D

Ideally, the whole project should've been wrapped up by 7th, but I'm risking a couple of days extra to get the project to a proper working state before starting a blog for the final submission 🫠

The deadlines are stressful, but also fun. Gonna take the most relaxing break known to mankind once this project finishes 💀

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Then there's aerozol:

'''

Been busy, but not with MeB stuff - Lucy and Bean are sick and I’ve just moved into a new co-working space.

I managed to squeeze in doing some more summit blog notes, and posting that everywhere

SPAM-9: Tools and criteria for auto-flagging spam

A bit more LB options menu design stuff with monkey

And the usual social media monitoring and a bit of spam fightin’

The person who has consumed the most cans of spam can go next

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