MusicBrainz

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with MusicBrainz, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 12 complaints

Horrible user experience makes the site hard to use2026-09-30
Can't figure out how the preferred releases slider bar works2025-06-13
Completely alien at first; unclear what scan, clusters and saving do2025-06-13
Unintuitive first-use experience; unclear how to start and which buttons to use2025-06-12
Tagging a huge archive with Picard requires too much manual work2025-04-17
Unclear how to respond to rage emails after submitting data2024-10-01
Auto-filled fields were confusing and scripts failed silently, leaving unclear what happened to submissions2024-09-30
Tracks split into releases, release groups and recordings, so finding the right one is confusing2022-06-04
Release dates show remaster year, not original recording year, breaking genre-based playlists2021-12-31
Searching for Harry Potter is nearly impossible without extra investigation2019-01-01
Unclear what it will do to files before changes are applied2017-01-24
Described as pretty much impossible to use2012-12-13