Hi Kurian Bennoy, welcome to Metabrainz and thanks for introducing yourself.
The quickest way to meet the people who code and to see what they are doing seems to be to use IRC.
IRC
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Kia ora koutou katoa. Hello everyone. I’m known as TrisquelWhare across many online communities, but feel free to refer to me as just TW if you wish. My username denotes that I use Trisquel GNU/Linux, and that I am from 
New Zealand. The word “whare” is the NZ Māori word for house or home, hence “I use Trisquel GNU/Linux at home”. I was raised and live still in suburban West Auckland, where I am currently a sickness beneficiary after having had a major heart attack and seizures a couple of years ago. My working life mostly involved computer hardware, including OEM system building, running my own business doing upgrades and repairs, and teaching CompTIA A+ certification courses. I have been away from the computer industry for many years now though, and would consider myself to be more of a “power end-user” rather than any kind of computer professional now. I have been exclusively running GNU/Linux-based systems at home for about 10 years, and I am a bit of a “script kiddie”, only capable of wrangling existing code to make it suit my needs. Basically, I am a computer jack-of-all-trades, and have a little experience of a wide variety of technical pursuits.
As an older adult, I was diagnosed recently with Asperger Syndrome, meaning that I am on the Autism Spectrum. For myself this means that I tend to hyper-focus on narrowly-defined interests, being able to concentrate for long periods of time on minutiae. My focus tends to jump from one obsession to another, but while my interest is piqued, I can be quite productive. I hope to make use of some of that energy by contributing here to the MusicBrainz database. There are often other, less desirable side-effects of being on the Spectrum, and I will strive to keep those in check in my interactions here, but your tolerance would be appreciated.
I look forward to getting to know other contributors here, and learning more about how to improve my own music collection’s metadata, as well as how best to contribute to the wealth of information being made available through MusicBrainz.
Kia ora from Wellington!
MB provides a never ending place to focus and spend time on - but also a rewarding and varied one, as you are helping a global database, and you can change your editing focus depending on your current interests (e.g. tidying up a label or artist, tagging your collection, voting on other peoples edits, cleaning up reports, scanning art, ‘discussing’ guideline minutiae on the forum… the list goes on!). I hope you find as much enjoyment in your time here as I have with mine.
I’ve subscribed to your edits, feel free to ask any questions in your notes or on here!
Ngā mihi nui
Kia ora @aerozol, kei te pēhea koe? Thank you for the warm welcome. I was pleasantly surprised to find an active user here from New Zealand. Are there many others of us active here, from amongst the 296 currently registered Kiwi MusicBrainz users?
I have now subscribed to your edits, so I now have my first subscriber and my first editor subscription. I’m slowly learning how this interface works. I see your tags with underscores in front of them, and I am inspired, thanks. I will no doubt be following many of your examples as I establish my own presence here.
I see also that you’re into cassette recordings as a medium. There was an article in the local news media just recently about how cassettes are making a comeback these days. I well remember the days of compiling personal mix tapes recorded direct from the airwaves, haha. On MB, I’ll mostly be concentrating on Free Cultural Works and Creative Commons licensed releases, particularly those made available via Jamendo. I’m starting from the monthly playlists as selected by the Jamendo staff, and from there I want to build out the missing information for each track here on MB. My place to start will be a personal playlist on Jamendo which I have created of my own favourite tracks from amongst the 2018 “Best of” Jamendo monthly playlists. My very first edits here in the MB database are from the first such track from my personal playlist. I intend first to capture the information about that track, then the whole album, then the entire discography of that artist, and then move on to the next track in the playlist and do the same. I will no doubt be developing some form of procedure for myself along the way, to help standardise my contributions, and I will appreciate any advice and guidance you can offer as I do so.
Thanks again for reaching out. Ka kite anō.
Kei te pai!
I’m not really sure about people from NZ to be honest, but there are a few editors who repeatedly pop up editing NZ releases and artists which is always nice to see!
Cassettes are definitely making a comeback, but in the punk scene, especially smaller ones, I’m not sure they ever really went away, because of how easy and cheap they are to duplicate. With CD’s being on the way out and vinyl being expensive to press when you’re in the ass end of the world (excuse me!) it’s nice to have something physical you can put out for a few dollars. It is a shame when they sound bad though, which is often the case!
Have fun editing, sounds like you’ll have plenty to do!
Hello…newbie here referred by our streaming provider Securenet Systems, when I inquired about getting more album art showing up on our web player. We’re a jazz radio station, and I’m happy to help add our music to the Brainz. I’m filling in all the info I can find, and it looks like linking to the Amazon ASIN takes care of the cover art.
Please let me know if I’m screwing it up!
Thanks… Andy
(I began with: https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/a8dee4d2-125f-4f8d-9c91-bcf04f634743 )
Ideally MB would like you to stick that CD or Vinyl onto a scanner and then upload a scan from the actual release. That way other people know they have the exact same copy as you do.
As you have spotted there is a fallback of using a link to Amazon. Please do check carefully you are really matching up the same release - CD to CD, Digital to Digital, etc. Amazon artwork is seen as “better than nothing” as it is usually accurate, but sometimes can be miles out.
Looking at that link you have supplied it looks okay. Assuming what you have at your end are the MP3s from Amazon. Just leave lots of verbose notes about where you get your information from and that allows other people to crosscheck and help where needed. So maybe say a little more than just an Amazon link.
If what you actually have are MP3s copied from a CD sourced from elsewhere, then you should actually be adding details about the real source CD.
Thanks, Ivan. I’ve discovered this is a lot more involved than I anticipated! But I appreciate the thoroughness of info. I will be more careful and thorough when adding full CDs…or just stick to adding album art links where the music already is cataloged here. I deal almost entirely in actual CDs (or a radio single ripped from the actual CD) so I’ll be more careful that I’m supplementing information (such as Amazon) from the same recording.
@JazzHallRadio a lot of the manual work can be reduced by getting used to Picard. It can directly lookup the CD’s “discID” in the MB database reducing your search time. In return it then adds the MusicBrainz IDs to your MP3 files speeding up the lookups while streaming.
(Shortly I expect a mod will bounce this little conversation into a new thread - just keep asking questions in the forum and you’ll learn plenty of tricks to speed up what you are trying to achieve.)
Hello there everyone i’m Derek and i’m new here. So why am i here???
I have a large media collection spread over vinyl, cd, dvd etc and rip my collection often, i recently set up a freenas & Retropie set up with Kodi so i could stream media around my flat. The problem i have is my cd collection is frustrating to rip. I use a mix of Asunder CD Ripper, Rhythmbox & Banshee media player mixed with a program called easytag for adding correct tags.
The problem with this is not all my collection gets tagged properly and Kodi plays hell showing double albums, missing covers, missing artist info etc. So after looking at information on Kodi i came across the musicbrainz app which after a install in Linux it’s cleaning up my collection very nice with all correct info.
Trying to get to grips with adding albums to database with covers, cd id etc so may of made one or two mistakes or need to continue to learn to do it better but so far i’m a very happy. I look forward to adding all the albums i own than are not on the database.
Thank you for this wonderful database and app 
Hello fellow KODI user. It was my khaotic tags konfusing KODI that also brought me here initially… but this has pushed me beyond KODI levels of tagging now. A case of waiting for KODI to now catch up with all the options that MB tags supply 
Hi @electricwildflower, and welcome, from a fellow MB newbie. I see that you use EasyTag, which I also previously used. Just a word of advice on that: avoid editing *.ogg files with EasyTag, as it may corrupt them beyond repair! See this bug report from 2016, which is still unfixed in the latest version some 3 years later. MB Picard is a great replacement for EasyTag. I’m now using a combination of Picard and Quod Libet (with the MB plugins) on my GNU/Linux systems at home.
Hello Metabrainz!
My name is Rihan Pereira. I am currently a graduate student at California State University, Channel Islands. I am originally from India but presently studying in Sunny Southern California I speak english/hindi/marathi(native). I listen to world music, basically any tune that catches my ears. Mostly, I listen to classic rock(dire straits, deep purple, led zeppelin, etc), reggae(bob marley, UB40, etc). I also listen to metal(limited to metallica, lamb of god, iron maiden, judas priest, megadeth) and some popular music from languages that I speak. I am also read books(mostly, non-fiction) but I do enjoy comics. I love the idea behind Musicbrainz and its sister projects! I have a background in software development and I am looking forward to contribute to a project under bookbrainz not only under gsoc 2019 but also after that. In fact, the knowledge I grasp will be win-win for me to be incorporated in my own project. Happy to be here.
@rihan27 Welcome aboard! You will find the Brainz forum contributors are passionate about all types of music and willing to help in many ways. Enjoy the ride. 
Hi there!
I am Qingzhi I am from China but currently study in the Netherlands. I am a newbie here and I get to know metabrainz quite a few months ago and still exploring the things around a bit. My major at school is Statistics but I also do lots of programming in my spare time. I am very excited to join an open source community concerning music and I also play the piano over 10 years now.
Nice to meet you all
@jesus2099 suggested I put my intro up, so here is a revamped edition.
I have been collecting music since the early 1970’s, mostly rock, with some blues and jazz. The first 45rpm singles that I purchased, with my own money, were “The Cover of Rolling Stone” and “Dueling Banjos”. But most of my music was in album form, since both of my parents worked on the LP pressing lines at the Columbia Records plants (Terre Haute, IN & Carrollton, GA). Every Christmas and birthday, I would get a nice, fat stack of LPs. So that set in motion the music collecting. I actually worked in the same buildings in Terre Haute, that my parents did, but they were called Sony DADC not CBS Records. I maintained and calibrated measurement equipment for the manufacture of CDs, DVDs and BDs. Unfortunately, I was laid off from DADC in the Spring of 2018. Some folks say that physical media is a dying format, after all.
I have been using and maintaining computers since the early 80’s and I also started maintaining a personal music database using Swift on my Commodore-128 in the late 80’s. I later designed and created a database using MS Access in the early 90’s, which I still use today, but I do port it over to MS Excel and a .PDF, for normal folks to read.
As far as the Hi-Fi stuff, well I remember drooling over the very large Pioneer receivers and open-reel machines in the late 70’s and I was hooked. I’ve been collecting and upgrading gear on a budget scale, ever since.
I have been involved with computer audio since the late 90’s. I remember recording LPs or cassettes to wave files, then worrying about hard drive space, until I burned the files to a CD. I am so glad the days of small HDDs are history. I am currently at the over 32k mark for music files on my NAS, what a long way from 40MB HDDs, eh? I have been using EAC and foobar2000 on my systems (Linux and Windows) for years and I also use several USB DACs for audio output. Now that I am more into quality (i.e. lossless & hi-res) one-time tagging has become important. So back in 2009, I decided to join this project, I tried to help out, where I could. As far as my personal music files, there always seems to be something that needs to be fixed, right? Cheers, all!
Oh, how rude of me! My name is Lee and I’m from the United States (Terre Haute, Indiana to be specific.) I’m from and currently live in Terre Haute, but I did live in Colorado for over twenty years. I’m also an U.S. Air Force veteran with almost ten years in and was stationed in Colorado and the former West Germany. I used to play the trumpet in my earlier life (actually I still have it and would love to start again.) I have spent most of my career as a field engineer or service technician (electronic/calibration/computer) with a couple assorted degrees, such as an BSEET and BSTC. Later everyone! 
Hello Everyone! I am Prabhleen, in my second year of B.Tech graduation in IT field. I have done projects on open source and participated in Hackthon. I am comfortable with node.js and Express, and willing to learn React so that i can contribute more.
When i started exploring projects, Book-Brainz caught my attention, and i also found some small issues that i can resolve.
I cloned the code for Book-Brainz on my local system and was beginning to edit it in VSCode. @mr_monkey(can u help?) I am just getting some error while running it. i have installed node.js and npm commands are working fine but to install postgresql, i have to use “sudo apt-get install postgresql” which throws an error as “no such cmdlet, function, …”.
i am getting what are the isues specified in the tickets and really want to contribute, but just little stuck with getting the code running on my system.
Anyone here, who is also using VScode, do suggest.
also i am not able to join the IRC channel. I don’t know why, but i denies the connection the server everytime. So, please suggest the latest link to join your IRC channel.
Thank You. 
Hi Prabhleen, and welcome to our community!
First things first: for IRC, there is a web-based client you can use: https://webchat.freenode.net/#metabrainz
If that doesn’t work, I suggest installing an IRC client on your computer.
Is it possible that your network blocks the connection?
Now for installing Postgres, I had a look at the error you mentioned. It seems to me (correct me if I’m wrong) that you are using Windows, in which case the command sudo apt-get… certainly won’t work, as it is meant for Linux users
Head here for Windows download instructions: https://www.postgresql.org/download/windows/
Overall, here’s what I would suggest: run the dependencies (Postgres, ElasticSearch and Redis) using Docker (as described here), while running the webserver locally (outside of Docker. This is described here).
In my opinion that’s the easiest way to run you local development, and the one I use myself.
Good luck with the continuation, and let us know if you got yourself set up !
@mr_monkey thanks a lot! 
i will try installing IRC client on my system.
i have installed postgress, and now going to set up dependencies outside docker.(using: https://github.com/bookbrainz/bookbrainz-site/blob/master/DEPENDENCIES_MANUAL_INSTALL.md). i hope this will go right.
Plus, if i am not using docker then, redis and elasticsearch also require installation?
if the above doesn’t work, then i will try using docker (because it requires great internet connection)