GSoC’22: CritiqueBrainz reviews for BookBrainz entities

Greetings, Everyone!

I am Ansh Goyal (ansh on IRC), an undergraduate student from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India. This summer, I participated in Google Summer of Code and introduced a new feature, CritiqueBrainz reviews for BookBrainz entities.

I was mentored by Alastair Porter (alastairp on IRC) and Nicolas Pelletier (monkey on IRC) during this period. This post summarizes my contributions made for this project and my experiences throughout the journey.

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GSoC 2022: Unified Form Editor for BookBrainz

Hi, I am Shubham gupta (IRC Shubh) pursuing my bachelor’s from the National Institute of Technology, Kurushetra. This year I participated in Google Summer of Code and implemented a new editor in Bookbrainz.

In this project, I was mentored by Nicolas Pelletier (IRC monkey). The purpose of this blog is to summarize my contribution made for this project and share my experiences along the way.

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MusicBrainz Server update, 2022-09-06

This release mostly consists of small bug fixes and improvements. One bigger bug fix (MBS-12497) involves an issue where it was impossible to apply any edit which would cause an artist credit with any redirects pointing to it to be removed. Sorry about your stuck edits, people! They should now pass.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to chaban, HibiscusKazeneko, jesus2099, Mineo and sammyrayy for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to ikerm2003 and salo.rock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2022-09-06.

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MusicBrainz Server update, 2022-08-22

It’s time for more fixed bugs and refactoring/maintenance tasks.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to CatQuest and otringal for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to hamaryns, ikerm2003 and salo.rock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2022-08-25-hotfixes.

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Picard 2.8.3 released

Picard 2.8.3 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 2.8 which fixes a potential crash in the album search dialog and provides updated translations.

The latest release is available for download on the Picard download page.

The detailed changes for this maintenance release are below. For an overview of the new features since Picard 2.7 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 2.8 and the changes in Picard 2.8.1 and Picard 2.8.2.

Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback and reported issues.

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MusicBrainz Server update, 2022-08-08

This is a small release since we’ve been resting (and sometimes fully on holiday) for the summer. The most visible change for website users is that the “Ratings” tab for ratable entities is now a “Reviews” tab, and it also includes ratings and reviews from CritiqueBrainz. We used to only display these for release groups – now you can see them for every entity that supports reviews (artists, events, labels, places, recordings, release groups and works). We’re hoping having this reminder that things can be reviewed will encourage more users to have a say and let us know about their favourite – or less favourite – music!

Also: for people running a mirror server who updated to our May schema change and want to use tags and genres: sorry, we broke your tags table. Please check our separate blog post on how to run a script to fix it.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to chaban and rdswift for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to mfmeulenbelt and salo.rock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2022-08-08.

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Steps to fix missing genre and tag data on MusicBrainz mirror servers

If you recently updated your mirror server to the 2022-05-16 schema change release, we’re sorry to say that a bug in our upgrade script caused aggregate genre and tag data (if you had imported any) to be deleted. If you need this data, it can be re-imported from a recent dump, and we’ve written a script to help automate that.

You can safely ignore this post if

To restore the genre and tag data, follow these steps:

  1. Ensure you’ve replicated up to the most recent replication packet available. If you’re not sure, run ./admin/replication/LoadReplicationChanges. If you’re up-to-date, it should log “Replication packet … is not available.”
  2. Run git checkout production && git pull origin production.
  3. Turn off any cron jobs that update the database, including for replication.
  4. Run ./admin/sql/updates/20220720-mbs-12508.sh.
  5. Restart any cron jobs that you disabled.

You can verify that this process worked by checking the number of tags in the database: echo 'SELECT count(*) FROM tag' | ./admin/psql READWRITE. It should be over 200,000.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and let us know if you encounter any further issues.

MusicBrainz Server update, 2022-07-18

This release is very small, mainly consisting of minor improvements related to genre relationships. We have quite a few of those now, including links to Wikidata and Rate Your Music for pretty much any genre that has matching entries in those sites and links between many genres and their country of origin. We’re also fixing one bug with event setlist display that had probably been there since we introduced events – whoops!

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to chaban and sound.and.vision for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to mfmeulenbelt, outsidecontext and salo.rock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2022-07-18.

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Picard 2.8.2 released

Picard 2.8.2 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 2.8 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations.

The latest release is available for download on the Picard download page.

The detailed changes for this maintenance release are below. For an overview of the new features since Picard 2.7 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 2.8 and the changes in Picard 2.8.1.

Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback and reported issues.

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