Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-08-31

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2026-08-24
Next meeting: 2026-09-07

@reosarevok: Hi, and welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@Haris

[mailed in] Worked on finalising the mood tags and sent them over to Monkey for review.
Still trying to get my PRs merged, no luck in that but im working on it tho.
Got some nice review from Aerozol on the mood tags, more on it this week when we meet on call.

@aerozol

[mailed in] Quite a bit of comms work regarding recent downtimes/slowdown.
Needed some more music to work and finally found the time for quite a bit of MusicBrainz editing, for tagging!
A little side project has been to get vgm/video game music tags over 100k, using my ‘nuclear tags’ userscript, and I hit that this week.
I had forgotten about the tag cloud, but just checked it and realised that they are now the most-used folksonomy tags, above indie and pop/rock…
thought it’s worth mentioning as tags are a bit neglected in MB, and it doesn’t seem to take much to give them a bump…
what I’m getting at is that I have some long-standing tag-improvement tickets/mockups, if anyone is ever interested in picking them up : P

@Silona

[Silona Bonewald] More meetings esp w reosarevok and lucifer on twenty CRM setup to match w Website signups
I think some planet was messed up because everything took way longer than it should. Hotel issues etc.
Gusto setup and issues
Finalized PR w aerozol and Rassami
Thank you zas for starting up Server and Bots doc
Beginning to map out biz dev - ping me with ideas
Some pure service related so Matches up with zas needs
this week: Other more marketing related docs and research.
Gonna need some analytics! Do we have something like matomo or posthog running?
This week - analyses all the things. PR, traffic, load etc. so can start prioritizing servers etc
So send me THINGS like links, reports etc

@bitmap

at the start of last week I continued working on web service perf improvements
so far I’m seeing a median reduction in response times of 7.5% locally but more for larger releases. I found another gross inefficiency with how we serialize URLs, so I’m just going to w
later in the week I continued working on some validation bug fixes for the recording edit form which is a team priority, but that affects the release editor so it’s taking a while
otherwise I just helped with OOM alerts and load spikes on our postgres server

• MBS-12761: Convert recording edit form to React

@reosarevok

Last week I worked a bit on some URL handling improvements for MusicBrainz
But other than that most of my time went into dealing with all sort of mails, both support (a lot of IP blocks and whatnot because of the LB changes) and small commercial sign ups
And to talking with Silona about all sorts of things we need to get figured out

@Gopal7387

[Gopal] This week I got to spend some time in ListenBrainz’s Art Creator.(LB-1651)I fixed a text overlap issue, got the caption opacity slider working properly from start to finish.
And kept working on the album grid layout and the “LPs on the Floor” art style. A good week overall. monkey , whenever you have a moment, will appreciate the feedback.

• LB-1651: Add release/listen text options to art creator/stats art generator

@garvthakre

so last week i completed the refactoring work of bookbrainz
and got a little fever too so yeah not much this week as i am waiting for some reviews on my PR

@waqib2992

I was on a break last week and was attending university classes : )
so yeah nothing much to share. But i got some pr merged for the calibre plugin. So will continue refactoring it next week if i get time

@yateen

Last week I was involved in College acads. Most of the project is complete , only one pr left to review, currently working on improving that
Will start contributing regularly soon

@mr_monkey

[monkey] I was on vacation last week, but snuck in a few hours to review GSoC projects, their associated blog posts, and fill in the final evaluations.
Also a tiny bit of catching up on messages and emails.
Back at it this week!

@zas

So I had to add bot-detector to ListenBrainz, and of course, matching configs, etc. we ended blocking a lot of traffic, and a blog post was made at this subject
Situation is improving, we’re slowly returning to normal
On Friday evening (of course), SOLR cluster started to crash, investigation and countermeasures til 3AM, then the whole Saturday, SOLR cluster (search) is stable enough, but heavily rate limited for now
Wrote reports about everything, meeting with Yvan, etc
Since we plan to deploy SOLR 10 in November, and since apparently we need to upgrade our cluster, a lot of research on this subject
We are constrained by means (human & money), and the subject is rather central (search is vital to MB), we’ll come up with solutions soon
Apart that, I merged a bunch of patches I had in the queue for bot-detector (CLI!), and migrate mbstats to a Rust equivalent
That’s it (I forgot a lot of details).

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I worked on splitting the LB Server into two parts - web server and API to manage the high loads on the website.
Next, I added http caching on our endpoints to save on workers.
And worked with zas on adding PoW challenges, managing cache at nginx side and planning a long term improvement on the situation.
And continued reviewing PRs for GSoC and LB in general.

@lucifer

last week i worked on setting up garage-fs for common storage of user data exports and imports. this will let us remove the docker volumes which are host local and make it difficult to move containers around or add capacity without ugly gateway hacks.
did some more work on moving the listens db refactor forward, beta is now constantly syncing listens with prod. will let it run this week and if everything is fine next week we can switchover.
GSoC and other PR reviews. and did a couple of technical meets with fankee devs to unblock them.

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] I am incredibly tired, it’s been a week!
I ended up shooting videography mainstage at Greenbelt Festival for SK Shlomo and the Goddexes of Beatbox Orchestra on Saturday, with my only notice being on thursday afternoon when their original videographer dropped out
using a camera I hadn’t touched before the practice gig on said thursday!
[video screenshot]
Somehow inbetween all that I managed to get in the GSoC final review
it was crazy haha

@julian45

mostly quiet background stuff this week; i discussed with zas some potential steps for abuse mitigations, and had a go at reconfiguring our server backups to use new storage, but ran into a blocker there (alas)

@yvanzo

Last week I went back to community and reviewing MBS pull requests by bitmap .
Just had two calls with zas he already mentioned and detailed earlier.
We are hoping to have new (bare-metal or VM) servers by the summit.
For this week, I am planning to block deep searches and tag requests from MBS.
Otherwise, I worked on search upgrades for Q4, the announcement should be published tonight.

@outsidecontext

Last week I finished a Picard PR to preserve the language for ID3 unsynced lyrics tags. This unifies the handling of language and optional description for the tags lyrics, syncedlyrics and comments.
I also tried to keep up with reviewing zas ’ many Picard PRs, but zas was submitting them faster than I could review. I catched up today, though. We should be good for the next pre-release.

@lioncat6

Now that I’m mostly settled in with my new schedule, I should be able to make these meetings regularly again!
Anyways, the last few weeks I’ve been putting in a ton of work into SAMBL. Type rework is basically complete with all code fully updated to work with the new data format. SAMBL seeder is fully functional now, including language and script detection, which took a bit of work (Thanks to some of harmony’s code for a little bit of inspiration). This includes artist resolving! Release actions aren’t available yet, but they should be coming next.
Tidal support should be fully working again (the tidal devs like to change things without telling anybody ).
Subvert provider is still waiting since I can’t seem to find a good cross-platform curl-impersonate JS library. (It works on *my* machine though…)
SAMBL now has a providers page that lists all supported providers and their capabilities since I got tired of updating the little table in the README
Latest build should be up on the dev server once it finishes building if anyone wants to try out the SAMBL seeder. MusicBrainz album resolving is currently disabled for single albums for testing.
(I need to look into a better hosting solution for SAMBL since building crashes the VPS half the time. Money and all that.)
Few things that I want to work on next are some basic onboarding / hints for new SAMBL users, artist role support, and proper API docs & typing

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] Finished INST-1156 (and actually INST-1161 too)
now working on INST-1160

• INST-1156: improve caixa
• INST-1161: Tarol
• INST-1160: improve Tambourim

I will also set up a PR for the IROM images so far on this mini version
That’s mostly it, still waiting for electrician guy to fix the fire alarm so I can finish the hallway roof

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week was lazy
Mostly vacationing back at home
Did PR and report review for GSoC

Absent: failure (1), kellnerd (1) op3kay (3, removed from regulars), Nirvan Jain (1), fettuccinae (1)