Server Updates

Changes since the last release (10 Feb 2003):

Tagger

• a lot of people were experiencing problems uploading anything more
  than a small amount of TRM data at a time, using the Tagger. This was
  due to some server code which was too slow, the client was “timing out” waiting for it. The offending code has now been sped up a lot, so you shouldn’t see that error any more.
• when showing TRM collisions in the tagger, sort the albums by artist and show the artist name
• when showing found albums/tracks in the tagger, show the album
  attributes (e.g. “Official Album”, “Official Various Artists
  Compilation”). Also show the track length.
• when a discid has just been added (via the tagger), show the album
  you’ve just added the discid to.
• fixed a bug whereby sometimes “various artists” albums were not
  returned to the tagger

Moderating

• login names, as well as passwords, are now case-sensitive
• ensured that the “related artist” data is maintained for artist
  removals and artist merges
• when merging artists or moving an album, the “source” artist is never shown as a possible match. Also a full search is done for artists (e.g. if you enter “Bach”, you’ll get every artist matching “Bach”, not just J.S.Bach)

Other web updates

• the MusicBrainz IRC channel is now logged and archived! You can see the archives here: http://musicbrainz.org/archives/irc/ . There’s a link to that page on the “contact us” page.
• fixed a bug whereby sometimes an album’s displayed discid/TRM/track counts were incorrect
• various textual pages updated, especially the front page, the Finances page, and the download page
• My and Rob’s TODO lists are now much more up-to-date (and are much
  more likely to be /kept/ up-to-date, since it’s now easier for us to do). However, these pages aren’t really there on the staging server, but trust me, they’ll be there when it goes live.
• general re-working of some HTML to be more “modern”, making more use of CSS

Other (non-web) server updates

• various fixes and improvements relating to importing and exporting data.

Dave Evans