Back in prehistoric times, MusicBrainz used to use an automated script for matching releases to Amazon's ASINs. But quickly people interjected and demanded to be able to use ARs to associate ASINs to releases. So, we added support for...

The primary web server has just gone offline unexpectedly - we're looking into it. Meanwhile you can still the other parts of MusicBrainz (read on for details). Sorry for the inconvenience - please bear with us, and check back here...

Parts of MusicBrainz which are unaffected include:

* the UK web / web service mirror: http://www.uk.musicbrainz.org/
* the blog: http://blog.musicbrainz.org/
* the wiki: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/
* our FTP site: ftp://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz
* the mailing lists
* the chat room

The FreeDBGateway will be down for 15 - 30 minutes tomorrow Tuesday Nov 27 at 7pm PST (Nov 28 03:00:00 UTC) as it gets moved to a new VM cluster. Sorry for the inconvenience!...

UPDATE: The main search functions are back! FreeDB search will be offline until sometime tomorrow. Our search server finally gave up the ghost and its dead. We're bringing up a back-up server to take over for it, but it...

We just finished the update to the main server! The final set of changes that are now live are documented in our server release notes. Now its time to go an apply tags to your favorite MusicBrainz data! Thanks...

After finding a couple of serious issues upon doing a final code review, I've decided to post-pone the server release until Oct 14th. I've had to make invasive changes that require more testing, so I do not feel comfortable...

Due to a number of loose ends that we still need to tighten up (and lack of sleep on part of the people doing the work) we're going to rest, then fix issues and aim to complete the server...

After completing a slew of new features and a many more bug fixes, we're finally ready to schedule the next server release for October 7th. For more information on this upcoming release, please see our updated preliminary server release...

The MusicBrainz server devs (Lukáš, Murdos, Acid2 and myself) have been busy hacking on new features and fixing bugs for the next server release. While we're not quite ready for the next release, we are starting to narrow down...

Searches have been re-enabled. Thank you for your patience during the downtime....

Access to the search server has been reinstated, but with a much lower timeout setting. This should mean that as long as the server stays responsive, everything should be fine; but if it becomes unresponsive, that at least it shouldn't take down the whole web site with it. Time will tell, I suspect.

The search server is terminally overloaded (load average over 100, last I looked), and it was taking down the main web site with it. Therefore for now I've had to change mb_server to show a simple error message instead of...

Tomorrow at 2000UTC (1300 PDT, 1500 EDT, 2100BST, 2200MET) we're going to finally rotate the new Sun server into active service. We're expecting MusicBrainz to be unavailable for about 90 minutes while we dump the database from our old...

We've got the new database server finally ready to roll, except for one thing: We don't know how to monitor the hardware RAID array. Under Linux we would use mpt-status, but this doesn't work for Solaris. Does anyone know...

Its been a rocky week in the MusicBrainz universe, that's for sure! About three weeks ago the load on our database server started rising -- most likely due to the fact that after the April 1 release people went...

All the usual tricks to massage our database server aren't helping. :-( The problem appears to be the ever growing table of TRMs that the Classic Tagger uses. The table has gotten too big with dead TRMs and its...