Category: Updates

Happy new year with a new “Artists” page for instruments on MusicBrainz, plus a way to collapse the display of very long release country lists, alongside with some bugfixes, the usual improved handling of external URLs and continued conversion to React.

Thanks to CatQuest, chaban, Lotheric, mfmeulenbelt, outsidecontext, Sotho Talker, and all others who reported issues or helped test or translate today’s release!

The git tag is v-2020-01-06.

Bug

• [MBS-10335] – Installing Perl dependencies fails on outdated DBD::Pg version
• [MBS-10497] – Internal server error when editing artist and credits
• [MBS-10521] – Add Medium -> Existing medium search in the release editor is broken, spins forever
• [MBS-10524] – /account/change-password gives an internal server error if not logged in
• [MBS-10526] – Private collaborative collections for a user shown publicly

New Feature

• [MBS-10316] – Add “Artists” tab for instruments
• [MBS-10424] – Collapse release country list when there are too many release event countries for a single release

Improvement

• [MBS-10292] – Normalize and validate links to Québec Info Musique
• [MBS-10309] – Update URL cleanup for musik-sammler.de
• [MBS-10455] – Block more smart links

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-9919] – Convert the place public pages to React

More small improvements and bugfixes with today’s release, as well as continued conversion to React and other code refactoring.

Thanks to angriestchair, brianfreud, CatQuest, chaban, danbloo, draconx, dr saunders, dseomn, fmera, psychoadept, and all others who reported issues or helped test or translate today’s release!

The git tag is v-2019-12-10-hotfix.

Bug

• [MBS-4091] – Annotation trimming breaks initial li’s
• [MBS-10188] – “Merge releases” edit is stuck
• [MBS-10228] – Releases with no media not shown as merge source in release merge edits
• [MBS-10279] – Release merge edits display stale, possibly incorrect recording merge info
• [MBS-10422] – Recording inline search in release editor doesn’t display ISRCs
• [MBS-10468] – URL cleanup breaks Bandcamp URLs containing “merch”
• [MBS-10482] – Patreon post URLs are incorrectly normalized
• [MBS-10502] – 45cat/45worlds URLs point to the wrong place on MB

Improvement

• [MBS-4776] – Require confirmation when using Various Artists as a track artist
• [MBS-10243] – Show “[missing media]” when relevant on release duplicates tab
• [MBS-10244] – Show “[missing media]” when relevant on merge w recordings release merge
• [MBS-10248] – Show the type of link from instrument recording page
• [MBS-10255] – Explain when to use “Copy all track titles to associated recordings” and “Copy all track artist credits to associated recordings” when editing a release
• [MBS-10304] – Restore the ability to set special codes as editor language
• [MBS-10479] – Show release group types on recording page
• [MBS-10489] – Make EnterEditNote help text less redundant
• [MBS-10491] – Add “add a new instrument” link to instrument search results page
• [MBS-10493] – Enlarge and allow resizing relationship type multi-select box
• [MBS-10500] – Support localizing edit notes left by ModBot

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-10439] – Convert user collections list to React

Other Task

• [MBS-10350] – Remove Google+ links from the sidebar
• [MBS-10495] – Update Discourse SSO to use header based authentication

Starting with this release, we read our genres list from the genre table rather than a hardcoded list inside a JSON file. This should have no user-visible impact, but let us know if you encounter any new issues related to genres. (This change should however help us improve genres further.)

We also have a small list of bug fixes and improvements, listed below. One neat new feature is the ability to sort edit searches by date closed or closing.

Thanks to chaban, culinko, drsaunde, jesus2099, mglubb, lotheric, psychoadept, sothotalker, and all others who reported issues or helped test or translate today’s release!

The git tag is v-2019-11-25.

Bug

• [MBS-7097] – Release listed multiple times in “Non-digital releases with download relationships” report
• [MBS-10466] – MusicBrainz Happy Birthday wishes doesn’t take into account timezones
• [MBS-10467] – Pages ported to React do not show the new edit notes banner
• [MBS-10473] – Static resources fail to build when NODE_ENV=production
• [MBS-10485] – User profile’s “Statistics Edits (view)” links to bogus URL
• [MBS-10488] – Regression: User profile subscribe links no longer work

New Feature

• [MBS-9491] – Move genres to be read from the database

Improvement

• [MBS-4299] – Warning when merging releases with diff. recording artists should show disambiguation
• [MBS-10204] – Better overview of user edits on user page
• [MBS-10471] – Add option to view edits by date closed

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-9922] – Convert the series public pages to React

This release contains a new “Voting suggestions” page with some useful, predefined edit searches that ought to help editors find and review edits that need more attention.

We also have some minor improvements and display fixes, detailed below. The conversion of our template code to React slowly continues.

Thanks to cyna, chaban, and all others who tested or contributed to this release!

The git tag is v-2019-11-11.

Bug

• [MBS-10264] – The date/time display format isn’t localized in some places
• [MBS-10446] – Historic “Remove relationship” edits don’t display anything useful
• [MBS-10447] – Historic “remove relationship” edits don’t fail properly if data is missing
• [MBS-10460] – Remove alias edits don’t store “ended” info, always display “Ended: No”

New Feature

• [MBS-10299] – “Voting Reports” (pre-set edit searches)

Task

• [MBS-10389] – Add “Chat” or “IRC” link to footer
• [MBS-10394] – Convert Add/Remove Alias edit to React
• [MBS-10395] – Convert Edit Alias edit to React
• [MBS-10440] – Remove series/delete
• [MBS-10448] – Add the Dynamic Range Database to the other databases whitelist

Improvement

• [MBS-3839] – Merge edit pages should have a way to remove some items
• [MBS-10361] – Allow tabbing straight from edit note field to submit button
• [MBS-10371] – Update the Songfacts logo used in the sidebar
• [MBS-10382] – Explain what rename option does when merging
• [MBS-10403] – Explain when a release should be removed / merging is preferred
• [MBS-10456] – Show more info when entering artist merges

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-10206] – Convert user profile to React

You shouldn’t be afraid of this small release that fixes some bugs and delivers some improvements, making editors’ lives easier!

Thanks to Besnik, CatQuest, dkg, jesus2099, outsidecontext, zexpe, and everyone who tested the beta version, reported issues, or updated website localizations.

The git tag is v-2019-10-28.

Bug

• [MBS-9468] – Edit search finds no “remove (download for free) relationship” edits
• [MBS-10408] – Artists are not marked as pending in that recording merge edit
• [MBS-10420] – My Data Menu’s “All My Edits” links to bogus URL
• [MBS-10428] – WS: Recording request missing artist aliases
• [MBS-10429] – Empty aliases element returned for artists in relationships
• [MBS-10430] – Actions column for fingerprints wraps for translations

Improvement

• [MBS-2176] – Add a “Finish” button alongside “Next” in release editor
• [MBS-10356] – Replace <b> with <strong> in messages
• [MBS-10425] – Allow instrument credits for relationships from/to instrument
• [MBS-10431] – Remove ‘yourmusic’ from 7digital URLs
• [MBS-10454] – Block removing an area still in use

This post-summit release mostly contains bugfixes and small improvements for quality of life, along with continued conversion of templates to React.

Thanks to alastairp, andrebreiler, antonphoton, chaban, dibou, foolip, hibiscuskazeneko, jdamcd, jesus2099, mat813, mineo, okno, rochusw, silentbird, Skeebadoo, and everyone who tested the beta version, reported issues, or updated website localizations.

The git tag is v-2019-10-17-hotfixes.

Bug

• [MBS-4980] – Releases on the same date aren’t sorted by catalog number
• [MBS-5322] – Release group browse requests no longer return results in first-release-date order
• [MBS-9111] – It’s still possible to leave empty edit notes
• [MBS-10263] – Annotation not removed after it has been downvoted
• [MBS-10344] – Navigating to artist/ or recording/merge with only 1 item in the queue ISEs
• [MBS-10345] – /merge loads (brokenly) even if not ready to merge
• [MBS-10346] – Table of collections has large table cell padding
• [MBS-10353] – Enable ratings for release browse
• [MBS-10369] – Database statistics for countries are wrong
• [MBS-10406] – The WS can still sometimes try to communicate with the template renderer, timing out
• [MBS-10411] – Inconsistent type for place coordinate
• [MBS-10421] – Lookup of cluster in browser from Picard generates an server error
• [MBS-10423] – Internal Server Error when trying to query by release language

Improvement

• [MBS-3112] – TAB from “Edit note” doesn’t go to “Enter edit” in “Release editor”
• [MBS-4486] – Disambiguation input field sanitation: Automatically remove leading and trailing parentheses
• [MBS-4913] – Show how many CAA images we have for a release
• [MBS-5083] – Release pages: Display recording artist on tracks (recording)
• [MBS-5479] – Move “Edit relationships” to be a tab by “Edit” on releases
• [MBS-8566] – Release artist should be selected automatically for all tracks with the same artist name (CD stub import)
• [MBS-8967] – The duplicate events report should not show events if all of them have disambiguation comments
• [MBS-10229] – Block smart links
• [MBS-10240] – Allow specifying that a release has no barcode while seeding
• [MBS-10347] – “Actions” columns should only take as much space as they need
• [MBS-10349] – Clarify what “exclusive” vs “inclusive” means in relationship stats
• [MBS-10355] – Display track artist on recording pages
• [MBS-10363] – Cancelling merge on merge helper should stay in the same page
• [MBS-10370] – Add `direction: forward` to all forward relationships in WS
• [MBS-10373] – Link to How to Write Edit Notes above the edit note fields
• [MBS-10404] – Limit the total number of tracks that can be returned in a WS release list
• [MBS-10405] – Switch to XML::LibXML for serializing XML WS responses
• [MBS-10407] – Add limit/offset parameters to /ws/2/discid

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-9915] – Convert the artist public pages to React
• [MBS-9920] – Convert the recording public pages to React
• [MBS-9924] – Convert the work public pages to React
• [MBS-10357] – Convert edit diff macros to React

It’s time for another server update! This release mostly includes small improvements to make the MusicBrainz site show data in places where it was missing and have more clear messages for the users. We have a lot of other small improvements in the pipeline which we hope to release in the next couple of updates, so if this doesn’t help with any of your pet peeves hopefully those will!

Thanks to CatQuest, chaban, danbloo, demosdemon, eey0re, ianmcorvidae, ijabz, jesus2099, Lotheric, murdos, PeterCodar, $nake, SothoTalker for having reported issues, and to every single one of you who tested the beta version and updated website localizations.

The git tag is v-2019-09-12.

Bug

• [MBS-4478] – Misleading messages when adding new entities through an edit
• [MBS-10273] – Huge and weird spacing in front of the release year column on artist pages in beta
• [MBS-10320] – Don’t wrongly nag local users of MB slave server
• [MBS-10337] – ISRCs and ratings not shown when artist overview consists of recordings only

Improvement

• [MBS-975] – Permanently (301) redirect from track/ to recording/
• [MBS-4161] – List blog relationship type under the External links section
• [MBS-4787] – Permanently (301) redirect http://musicbrainz.org/ns/mmd-2.0# to web service documentation
• [MBS-5049] – Show edit note syntax help in edit page too
• [MBS-10269] – Release editor: Open artist credits preview in a new window
• [MBS-10280] – When deleting user, cancel open edits from newest to oldest
• [MBS-10291] – Consider “、” as a delimiter when splitting featured artists
• [MBS-10324] – Lowercase “Takes” with guess case
• [MBS-10336] – Clarify disc.track on recording pages
• [MBS-10338] – Show ratings on artists’ recording page

Here is our summer vacation homework for the MusicBrainz Server: mainly improving the Guess Case tool, fixing a fair amount of bugs and continuing the migration of templates to React.

Thanks to ferbncode for fixing the Dockerfile that creates a test database. Thanks also to acid2, alastairp, bort27, brianfreud, CatQuest, chaban, cyberskull, florentl, fmera, foolip, hibiscuskazeneko, Jeluang, liftarn, michelv, mineo, murdos, paulakreuzer, PoQStacker, tommycrock, yindesu, zexpe, and everyone who tested the beta version, reported issues, or updated website localizations.

The git tag is v-2019-08-22.

Bug

• [MBS-2614] – Vote on edits shows expired edits
• [MBS-5338] – Guess Case doesn’t seem to recognize roman numerals above 10
• [MBS-5755] – English/Katakana is incorrectly classified as “unlikely language/script pair”
• [MBS-6087] – Relationship edits for recordings don’t show up on the release edit list
• [MBS-9028] – Wikidata link makes fetch english blurb even though resulting page is a redirect
• [MBS-9657] – Remove “with” from Guess Case at the end of a track title
• [MBS-9837] – Regression: Guess Case button lowercases “Ya” in English
• [MBS-9976] – ISE on ISWC report when works have been merged away
• [MBS-10134] – Browse query with incorrect parameters gets submitted to the search server
• [MBS-10137] – Guess feat button doesn’t change AC on recording pages
• [MBS-10162] – Alias seemingly ignored for recording, release and RG direct searches
• [MBS-10250] – User profile link on Spotify shows up as “Stream at Spotify” on the external links bar
• [MBS-10260] – Video attributes for URL relationships can’t be removed in release editor
• [MBS-10274] – Docker: musicbrainz-test-database container fails to start
• [MBS-10278] – Artists with members listed in PossibleCollaborations if they also have other rels

Improvement

• [MBS-1679] – Don’t display Merge Process in release editor
• [MBS-2250] – Go back when cancelling merge
• [MBS-3848] – Guess Case: Support for additional common ETI phrases
• [MBS-3920] – Extend the “Titles with Featured Artists” reports
• [MBS-7421] – Properly capitalize iWhatever-like when guessing case
• [MBS-8065] – Stop Guess Case needlessly standardising “aka”
• [MBS-8521] – Allow work-level-rels in browse recording request
• [MBS-8865] – Lower case “rmx” just as “remix”
• [MBS-9855] – Generalize NotFound templates to one general file
• [MBS-9981] – Consider “conductor” and “founder” relationships when reporting Artists that may be collaborations
• [MBS-10143] – Allow querying for tags/genres on discid WS requests
• [MBS-10156] – Lowercase “remode” and “re‐mode” in ETIs when guessing case
• [MBS-10161] – Lowercase mono/stereo/quadraphonic in parentheses when guessing case
• [MBS-10262] – Indicate to user that new RG will be created if RG field is left empty
• [MBS-10287] – Count tracks (rather than recordings) when determining top work artists
• [MBS-10315] – Add the LyricWiki icon to links in the sidebar

New Feature

• [MBS-2663] – Search for edits by non-subscribed entity
• [MBS-6791] – Search for edits made by beginners

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-9916] – Convert the event public pages to React
• [MBS-9918] – Convert the label public pages to React
• [MBS-10087] – Convert doc pages to React
• [MBS-10116] – Convert the recording index page to React
• [MBS-10201] – Convert artist works tab to React
• [MBS-10202] – Convert artist relationships tab to React

Other Task

• [MBS-10313] – Reenable CAA images on the homepage for Chrome-based browsers

This summery release brings one main new feature: collaborative collections! As an editor, you can now share your collections with others. This is mainly intended for community projects, but it can also be a good way to, say, have a shared “Music we have at home” collection with your family, or collect artists with funny names with your friends. You decide how to use it!

To add collaborators to your collections, edit the collection and enter the editors you’d want as collaborators in the appropriate section (suggestion: ask first whether they’re interested, then add them!). Once they’ve been added as collaborators, they’ll be able to add and remove entities from the collection in the same way as you, but they won’t be able to change the title / description: that’s still only for the collection owner to change.

The release also comes with a bunch of small improvements and bug fixes, including a couple about collections, and continues migrating to React.

Thanks to Ge0rg3 and sothotalker for their contributed code. Also, thanks to chaban, chiark, cyberskull, Dmitry, hibiscuskazeneko, jesus2099, Lotheric, mfmeulenbelt, psychoadept and everyone who tested the beta version, reported issues, or updated the website translations.

The git tag is v-2019-08-08.

Bug

• [MBS-8867] – Guess Case normalizes “C’mon” as “C’Mon”
• [MBS-9512] – Changing recording name to empty string should not be allowed
• [MBS-10100] – ISE without “non-required” attributes for admin/attributes/Language/create
• [MBS-10133] – Error message when sending an empty query to the WS is unclear
• [MBS-10212] – SoundCloud URL with trailing slash is not displayed with user name in artist sidebar
• [MBS-10218] – Regression: Cover Art tab not selected / highlit on release page
• [MBS-10233] – Regression: ISE when trying to cancel a “add release annotation” edit

Improvement

• [MBS-8569] – Don’t display ended legal names in the overview page for artists
• [MBS-9381] – Show user’s own private collections in the list of collections for an entity
• [MBS-10135] – Support WikiaParoles as its own site rather than LyricWiki
• [MBS-10139] – Clarify why recording lengths can’t be edited when non standalone
• [MBS-10210] – Only allow allowed frequencies in language admin form
• [MBS-10215] – Make ISO number required for script admin form
• [MBS-10217] – Explain what renaming artist credits does when editing artist
• [MBS-10219] – Add Muziekweb to other DBs whitelist, with sidebar display
• [MBS-10222] – Pull legal name alias instead of legal name artist for the relationship Artist-Artist “perform as/legal name”
• [MBS-10224] – Don’t show the same legal name string multiple times in artist overview
• [MBS-10246] – Don’t assume all event collections are attendance lists
• [MBS-10272] – Convert the header / navbar to Bootstrap

New Feature

• [MBS-8915] – Allow editors to choose delimiter in track parser
• [MBS-9428] – Allow multiple users to share one collection

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-9914] – Convert the area public pages to React
• [MBS-10047] – Convert /oauth2/ pages to React

Other Task

• [MBS-10131] – Update LyricWiki domain to lyrics.fandom.com

Today’s release contains some new features/improvements to the web service, several entity index pages being rewritten in React, and tweaks to the edit expiration wording to make it less confusing. See the tickets below for more details.

Thanks to kepstin for helping test the new CORS / OPTION support in the web service.

We’ve also released a number of new changes to the beta server (which as a reminder uses the live, production database), particularly collaborative collections, if you’d like to help test those!

The git tag for today’s release is v-2019-06-30.

New Feature

• [MBS-10124] – Allow to browse recordings linked to a given work through web service

Improvement

• [MBS-6033] – Allow CORS preflights
• [MBS-6072] – WS: Answer OPTION requests
• [MBS-9732] – Change “expires in” wording/phrasing
• [MBS-10197] – Remove unneeded data quality edit code

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-9923] – Convert the URL public pages to React
• [MBS-10105] – Convert the instrument index page to React
• [MBS-10106] – Convert the place index page to React
• [MBS-10122] – Convert the event index page to React