# AcousticBrainz SSL error

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/acousticbrainz-ssl-error/815287
**Category:** AcousticBrainz
**Tags:** picard
**Created:** [July 20, 2026, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/acousticbrainz-ssl-error/815287 "2026-07-20T22:59:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![MusicLoverS](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@MusicLoverS](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/MusicLoverS)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2026, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/acousticbrainz-ssl-error/815287/1 "2026-07-20T22:59:08Z")

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I hope this is the right place to post this topic. But right now, I’m getting an SSL error on the [acousticbrainz.org](http://acousticbrainz.org) website. The ‘AcousticBrainz Tags’ plugin for Picard is also affected by this.

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### Author: ![chaban](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/chaban/32/111349_2.png) [@chaban](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/chaban)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2026, 11:13pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/acousticbrainz-ssl-error/815287/2 "2026-07-20T23:13:17Z")

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> **[AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project – MetaBrainz Blog](https://blog.metabrainz.org/2022/02/16/acousticbrainz-making-a-hard-decision-to-end-the-project/)**

> [@AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/acousticbrainz-making-a-hard-decision-to-end-the-project/572828):
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> Hi everyone, Thanks for your interesting discussion on AcousticBrainz over the last few weeks. We’ve written a blog post outlining some of our reasons for shutting down the project, the final steps that we’re taking, and a few ideas about our future plans for recommendations and other things in the MetaBrainz world.

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### Author: ![Zas](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/zas/32/28_2.png) [@Zas](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Zas)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 6:48am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/acousticbrainz-ssl-error/815287/3 "2026-07-21T06:48:36Z")

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The read-only archive of AcousticBrainz is often saturated by bot traffic, yesterday it was stopped for a while and then it had issues on restart. I fixed those issues.

This server will eventually be retired in near future.  
All plugins using AcousticBrainz API are obsolete.