MetaBrainz Blog
blog.metabrainz.org · Company blog · on HN since 2019
The MetaBrainz team, which runs MusicBrainz and ListenBrainz, writes about open music data, service changes, and the problems of running these projects.
What HN saysHN links it for open alternatives to Spotify's API changes and for its post on AI scrapers straining the service.
23HN people shared it
5linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Pissed off by Spotify Enshittifying more API endpoints? We can help3 people · 50 points · first shared 2024 · 8 comments on HN
- 2Robert Kaye from MusicBrainz has passed away2 people · 4 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 3We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers2 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 4ListenBrainz moves to TimescaleDB1 people · 154 points · first shared 2020 · 96 comments on HN
- 5AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project (2022)1 people · 13 points · first shared 2023 · 4 comments on HN
- 6ListenBrainz Presents: Your Year in Music1 people · 6 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 7New open dataset: MusicBrainz Canonical Metadata1 people · 5 points · first shared 2023 · 2 comments on HN
- 8MusicBrainz and Plex: Not your usuage service outage1 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 9Remembering Mayhem1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 10GSoC 2019: An open-source music recommendation engine1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 11MetaBrainz is looking for a new executive director1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 12Current ListenBrainz server issues/high load, Part 21 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Growing pains: An update on the ListenBrainz service status1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 14The Strangest Releases in MusicBrainz: Weird and Wonderful1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 15ListenBrainz Service Incident1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
snthd · 2021-10-16
Listenbrainz[0] looks like an interesting project for building better (or at least more open) recommendation systems[1].
[0] https://listenbrainz.org
[1] https://blog.metabrainz.org/2020/12/24/playlists-and-personalised-reco…
k310 · 2026-01-14
Metabrainz hosed?
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https://blog.metabrainz.org/2025/12/11/we-cant-have-nice-things-becaus…
mr_monkey · 2024-11-29
> De-enshittify by any means necessary!
Damn straight! https://blog.metabrainz.org/2024/11/28/pissed-off-by-spotify-enshittif…
toomuchtodo · 2024-11-28
Lammy · 2019-12-29
Updating FreeDB clients to use Musixbrainz used to be as easy as changing the API URL, but unfortunately Musicbrainz deprecated their side of that interface a year or so ago: https://blog.metabrainz.org/2018/09/18/freedb-gateway-end-of-life-noti…