Development/Summer of Code

Since 2007, the MetaBrainz Foundation has been a regular participant in the Google Summer of Code program. We've had great success with the program, even going as far as to hire several of our past students (now mentors) as full-time employees.

If you're interested in becoming a GSoC student under the MetaBrainz Foundation, be sure to read up on Getting started.

Next Summer of Code:

2022

Our previous student projects have been:

2022

• Make Picard work in single instance mode
• MusicBrainz Android App: Adding BrainzPlayer in Android App
• CritiqueBrainz reviews for BookBrainz entities
• Add Timezone support to ListenBrainz
• Unified Creation Form
• Clean Up The Music Listening Histories Dataset
• Send a track to another user as a personal recommendation

2021

• Musicbrainz Android App: Dawn of Showdown
• Pin Tracks & Review Tracks Through CritiqueBrainz
• Implement "Series" entity for BookBrainz
• Complete Rust binding for the MusicBrainz API
• Push the URL relationship editor to the next level

2020

• User Collections : BookBrainz
• Designing Responsive UI and Completing Fragmented Features of MusicBrainz(Android)
• To make MusicBrainz for Android stable and robust
• Add 'love/hate a recording' and 'delete a listen' support to ListenBrainz
• Adding Statistics and Graphs for ListenBrainz Users and Community
• Spam detection with online learning
• AcousticBrainz - New machine learning infrastructure

2019

• Bring back MusicBrainz for Android to Life
• Support For Reviewing and Rating More Entities (CritiqueBrainz)
• Music recommendation system: Collaborative filtering using Apache Spark (ListenBrainz)
• Edit Previews for non-release type Musicbrainz Entities
• JSON Web API for BookBrainz
• Recording Similarity Index for AcousticBrainz

2018

• Building a design system with React UI components for MusicBrainz
• Developing infrastructure for importing data into BookBrainz
• SpamBrainz – Fighting spam in MusicBrainz using machine learning
• More detailed integration of AcousticBrainz with MusicBrainz
• A way to associate listens with MBIDs in ListenBrainz

2017

• Picard v2.0
• Rating System in CritiqueBrainz
• Hacking on ListenBrainz
• Directly accessing MusicBrainz DB in CritiqueBrainz

2016

• A Job Running Client for AcousticBrainz
• AcousticBrainz BigQuery data exploration
• AcousticBrainz Dataset Creation Toolkit
• Gamification of submission system
• ListenBrainz: A submission API compatible with Last.fm scrobblers
• Show tag search results in Picard

2015

• SOLR search server
• AcousticBrainz datasets
• Unified browse and search interface
• CritiqueBrainz improvements

2014

• CritiqueBrainz
• Events
• Search server rewrite
• Picard website
• UI improvements

2013

• CritiqueBrainz
• Places
• Release editor improvements

2012

• internationalization
• collections
• iOS
• log processing/statistics

2011

• Create a timeline graph (plus other statistics work)
• Update Picard to make it NGS-ready

2010

• Improve collections feature
• Develop Mobile apps for iPhone and Android

2009

• Implement NGS (stage 2)

2008

• Implement NGS (stage 1)
• Add collections feature

2007

• Added music dashboard