Tag Archives: python

New Acoustid web service

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Lukáš Lalinský

Some time ago I realized that having the server code in Java keeps me away from working more on it. The original reason for writing it in Java was that I expected it would do harder work, but I really … Continue reading →

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Acoustid submission API extended to accept PUIDs

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Lukáš Lalinský

As strange as it might sound, the Acoustid submission API can now also accept PUIDs instead of MBIDs. I had the idea of using PUIDs to help bootstrap the Acoustid database for a long time, but I avoided implementing it, … Continue reading →

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Chromaprint plug-in for GStreamer

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Lukáš Lalinský

It’s been a long time since I learned some new framework (or even wrote some real code), so I decided to write a GStreamer plug-in that will wrap libchromaprint and make it very easy to generate Chromaprint fingerprints in GStreamer … Continue reading →

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MusicBrainz database replication

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Lukáš Lalinský

I wanted to work on the Acoustid lookup web service and for this I needed to setup a MusicBrainz replicated database slave. Normally I’d use the Perl code from mb_server, but I didn’t want to mess up the setup I … Continue reading →

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“MySQL server has gone away”

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Lukáš Lalinský

I have written a few Twisted scripts at work that parse incoming data from a socket and save it in a MySQL database, using the MySQLdb package. It’s a well-known fact that the MySQL server will close connections that are … Continue reading →

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