MusicBrainz Mac Client Bounty

Are you a Mac user? Do you use MusicBrainz?

If you answered both questions with a yes, you know that iEatBrainz is no longer under active development by Jay Tuley. I’m sure that, like me, you thank Jay for his hard work on iEB and are wondering what will happen come the day that MusicBrainz stops accepting TRM submissions and has completed their transition to MusicIP’s PUIDs, the new fingerprinting technology. You may also have read that Mayhem has been pretty frustrated with his inability to get Picard working in OS X.

After all, like Mayhem says: they’re going to support TRMs for six months from 12 Mar 2006. We’ve got … under two months.

So, if you’re frustrated by all that, join me in putting your money where your mouth is: funding a bounty for a developer to put together a Cocoa-based GUI front-end for the Picard library. I hereby promise $100 to the first developer that can build a Picard-compliant Mac client for MusicBrainz that satisfies the Bounty Committe’s testing and works for the MusicBrainz technical staff as well. Care to join me? Feel free to comment here, or you can email me: gfmorris AT gfmorris DOT net. Let’s put together a bounty to make it worth some developer’s time.

Here’s the one condition I’ll put on the bounty: if the MusicBrainz developers work this together themselves, all the pledges towards the bounty go to the MetaBrainz foundation to cover their costs.

Posted July 17th, 2006 in Geekery, Music.

4 comments:

  1. Bebbo:

    Hopefully with the changes over at MusicBrainz to their code move to the QT toolkit we may yet see a stable version for the Mac …

    Given this, we plan to do the following:

    1. Extend the end-of-life deadline for TRM until the end of 2006.
    2. Migrate Picard away from wxWindows and start using the Python bindings for the QT toolkit.
    3. Revamp the user interface in Picard to support both track based tagging and album based tagging.
    4. Make the Picard user interface easier to use for new users and offer methods other than drag and drop to tag files.

    Lets hope (And good luck to the MusicBrainz crew).

    On a side note, for some reason my iEatBrainz tagger has stopped working the last few days, anyone else have this same issue?

    What taggers are people out there presently using to keep their iTunes house in order?

    July 20th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
  2. Geof F. Morris:

    Yeah, I was happy to read Mayhem’s reply. [I'm fairly sure that me emailing the URL of this entry to him is what sparked their response. ;)]

    iEB has been flaky at times for me lately because of overloads on the server end, but it works fine when it has good connectivity.

    July 20th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
  3. wesr:

    http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/PicardDownload

    It’s finally here! Pay up :)

    November 5th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
  4. Geof F. Morris:

    Two things:

    1. It’s not fully functional.

    2. I have donated well over $100 to MB already. But when 1.0 is done, yes, I’ll donate $100 more. :)

    November 6th, 2007 at 11:30 am

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