Hi. \o I'm working on a GSoC project for MusicBrainz Picard this summer. You can follow the imaginably exciting development progress on this blog.
What will my coding entail? First, giving Picard basic support for the new MusicBrainz NGS web service. Would you believe that this is already done?! Download the recently-released Picard 0.15beta if you don't believe me.
This week I'll be keeping an eye on bugs people report for the beta, and try to address them. But now that the groundwork's implemented, I can also start working on some new features in Picard that take advantage of NGS:
- Ability to use "standardized" recording metadata (instead of track metadata) and artist metadata (instead of artist metadata as credited on a specific release). I'd like to start working on this during the week, so expect a blog post concerning it soon.
- Collections support. The ability to add or remove releases you're tagging from a collection on your MusicBrainz account.
- Investigate improvements to how we're displaying multi-disc releases. (This requires further discussion with other developers.)
- More? We'll see what else I have time for, if the community can think of any additional features that are wanted.
You might now be wondering about specific details of how these features are going to be implemented, or work in the interface. That will all come in future posts. For now, I hope this has shed some light on how I'll be spending my time.
