RBrainz

RBrainz now has an Ubuntu package repository on launchpad. This makes it really easy for Ubuntu users to install RBrainz and MB-DiscID and to stay up-to-date when new versions get released. You can browse the repository on https://launchpad.net/~phw/ ... [More] archive. To use the repository add the following line to your sources.list: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/phw/ubuntu gutsy main [Less]

RBrainz 0.4.0 has been released. RBrainz is a Ruby library for accessing the MusicBrainz web service. This release adds support for folksonomy tagging. It is now possible to read and set user defined tags for artists, releases, tracks and labels. For ... [More] a full list of changes see the changelog at http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org/api/files/CHANGES.html For more information about RBrainz see the following resources: Homepage: http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org API documentation: http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org/api/ Download: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=3677 [Less]

RBrainz 0.3.0 has been released. This release fixes a bug with relation end dates and makes it easier to work with values such as release types or relation attributes with or without namespace. See the changelog at ... [More] http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org/api/files/CHANGES.html for details. For more information about RBrainz see the following resources: Homepage: http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org API documentation: http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org/api/ Download: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=3677 [Less]

RBrainz 0.2.1 has been released. This is a bugfix release which mainly solves two parsing problems which occurred when querying musicbrainz.org. See the changelog at http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org/api/files/CHANGES.html for details. For more ... [More] information about RBrainz see the following resources: Homepage: http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org API documentation: http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org/api/ Download: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=3677 [Less]

Version 0.2 of RBrainz, a Ruby library to access the MusicBrainz web service, has been released. With this release all of the features provided by the MusicBrainz web service are supported. The most notable changes from the previous beta releases ... [More] are: * Querying of collections * User authentication and querying of user information * PUID submission * Support for label aliases * Complete support of the MusicBrainz metadata scheme 1.2 (including the upcoming tagging) A complete list of changes can be found at http://rubyforge.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=13094 I like to thank Nigel Graham who joined development and implemented important parts of the library. Without him this complete release wouldn't have been so early possible. For more information about RBrainz see the following resources: Homepage: http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org API documentation: http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org/api/ Download: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=3677 [Less]

Version 0.1.2 of MB-DiscID has been released. MB-DiscID provides Ruby bindings for the MusicBrainz DiscID library libdiscid. It allows you to calculate MusicBrainz DiscIDs from audio CDs which you can use to find the release entry for your CD in the ... [More] MusicBrainz database. This is a stable release. It includes all functions provided by libdiscid. For an example on how to use MB-DiscID see the API documentation on http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org/mbdiscid/api/ or the file example/discid.rb included in the package. More information: http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org API-Documentation: http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org/mbdiscid/api/ Changes in this release: * Support the method put to set the TOC information directly instead of reading it from a device. * Fixed possible core dump if read was called twice and failed the second time. * New to_s method (returns string representation of the ID itself). * Complete RDoc documentation. [Less]

A new beta version 0.1.1 of RBrainz, a Ruby library to access the MusicBrainz webservice, has been released. This release adds support for relations between artists, releases, tracks and labels. RBrainz 0.1.1, has the following features: - ... [More] Support of most of the MusicBrainz data model, including the new labels and extended release events - Query the MusicBrainz webservice for artists, releases, tracks and labels by their MusicBrainz ID Support for querying collections will be implemented in the next releases. For more information about RBrainz see the following resources: Homepage: http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org API documentation: http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org/api/ [Less]

The first beta version 0.1.0 of RBrainz, a Ruby library to access the MusicBrainz webservice, has just been released. This first release has the following features: - Support of most of the MusicBrainz data model, including the new labels and ... [More] extended release events. - Query the MusicBrainz webservice for artists, releases, tracks and labels by their MusicBrainz ID. Support for querying collections and for relations between entities will be implemented in the next releases. I would appreciate feedback on RBrainz, even though the software is in an very early stage of development. RBrainz is installable as a gem, so just run "gem install rbrainz" and you should be able to use the library. For more information about using RBrainz see the API documentation on: http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org/ Download: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=3677 [Less]