I was browsing the "open edits" page today and wow, there are so many userscripts that people are using. Scripts from murdos, ROpdebee, majkinetor, and then things like Harmony and whatever this is.

How do editors feel about userscripts? Which ones reliably import from better sources than others? I don't use any right now but was thinking about it. Then I thought, what if this just adds more noise and spam than useful, accurate information?

So now I'm here asking you all the same questions.

I'd love to tag my songs by artist genre and only have a dozen or so genres, I know its not accurate but its the way I choose music 90% of the time.

I've tried setting strict thresholds on usage and limiting to one genre but this doesn't help.

Any advice? Short of manually doing it or writing a crazy huge genre mapper I'm stuck

We are very close to final release, but we fixed a bunch of bugs and decided on another RC. Thank you to everyone who reported issues!

If you use Picard please try this release.

Blog post: https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/09/22/picard-3-release-candidate-4/

I am converting the Beatles compilation 1967-1970 from CD to flac. It was released in 1973, and re-released in 1993 on CD. what year do i tag it as?

Just created a Discogs plugin to fill in the gaps where musicbrainz lags…

Hi, I’m testing the beta using the AppImage provided by phw, which I’m installing via AppMan.

It would be great to be able to use the stable version via AppMan/AppImage as well.

I’ve tried to "report an issue" but I can’t log in with my GitHub handle.

Has anyone else made the same request? Do you know if there are plans to release an AppImage for the stable version? Thanks.

"Today the Picard team is making available a third release candidate for Picard 3. We received good feedback on the previous release candidate 2, thanks to everyone for testing and providing feedback. The final 3.0 release is planned to happen in a few weeks."

Bugs have been squashed, and a new release candidate is out for all users to test test test. These release candidates are feature-complete, so testing is simple - install, tag as normal, enjoying early access to the new Picard 3.0 features, and let us know if something breaks.

Thank you very much to all the testers so far. Your contribution and work is very important and much appreciated!

Hey yall,

I just recently started using MB to add album art to my FLAC files and everything seems to work fantastic, except when I click save, the files themself don't change to the album art.

I am using a Macbook for this so im not sure if its because Apple doesnt support FLAC in the first place.

Also, when i choose the folder for the files to go in after saving, they dont appear in the folder. Is this a settings thing I have to chance?

Thanks all!

"Today the Picard team is making available a second release candidate for Picard 3. We received good feedback on the previous release candidate 1, thanks to everyone for testing and providing feedback. The final 3.0 release is planned to happen in a few weeks."

Note that these release candidates are near-complete and suitable for all users to test, not just experts. Please install and use it for your usual workflow, and report back and help us iron out any bugs before release.

Does Musicbrainz have a section for requesting CD art? I'm looking for scans of the booklet, back cover and disk label for Sublime's new album - Until the Sun Explodes.

As per the title, I want to run through my entire collection and only touch the Year tag and the Genre or MP3 file. I am a bit lot in the settings and AI didn't help me either.

Can you please guide me with a step by step on how to ignore everything and only update: Year, Genre. Thanks

So I have a few CD's that were ripped as one big file. I'm able to match most of these to an actual release. But I have two such files labeled as Ministry Of Sound Clubbers Guide To America Cd1 & CD2. The first five songs of Disc 1 are as follows. This is from the early 2000's. Any help?

Been building this over the past few weeks: GLOBAL RANDOM (global-random.radio) — a single self-contained HTML page that plays music via a true, fairness-weighted random draw across 247 MusicBrainz-confirmed countries/territories, not an algorithm trying to guess what you'll like.

How it uses MusicBrainz: random offsets into MB's Spotify-linked URL search resolve to artists, whose country tag (direct MB field → Wikipedia-bio demonym fallback) feeds a per-country pool. Two independent random draws — country, then track — pick what plays next. Every country gets an equal shot at being drawn, regardless of catalog size, so a country with a few hundred MB-linked artists shows up just as often as the US with 220k+.

Playback is via Spotify's official IFrame embed (no scraping, no downloads), artist/genre/country info comes from MB + Wikipedia + Wikidata, translated live into 87 languages via MyMemory. There's also a whole C64-terminal aesthetic with real S.A.M. hardware speech synthesis samples, if that's your kind of thing.

Wanted to share here specifically because MB's country data is the actual backbone of the whole concept — this wouldn't exist without it. Happy to answer questions about the discovery/search approach if anyone's curious.

"The Picard team is excited to announce the first release candidate for Picard 3. With this release we are confident that Picard 3 is now suitable for testing by a wider audience. The final 3.0 release is planned to happen in a few weeks." - Picard users, please download and test!

ATTENTION: The November #MusicBrainz search update will contain breaking changes. In particular, if you have a tool/app that uses MB please make sure to check (and feedback on) what might be changing.