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MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-06-02

Now that PostgreSQL has been upgraded to version 12 (see earlier instructions), regular improvements, bugfixes, and React/JSX template refactoring are back on the menu. The most noticeable improvement is probably that we are now able to display more specific error messages in the URL relationship editor when a link is not allowed, instead of always giving a generic “not good”-style message. There are even new features, for admins only, that will allow them to spot and delete sock-puppets and to temporarily disable edit notes from editors who continue to be disrespectful to others without having to delete their accounts outright.

In news not directly connected to the MusicBrainz website, the public search endpoint has been moved from the old search server to the Solr-based search server. This can be used by slave servers if they do not need, or can not afford, to host their own search indexes.

And while talking about slave servers, a new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available. It follows this update of MusicBrainz Server and fixes a regression that affects servers with live indexing. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to Cyna for converting more edits’ display to React, to KamranMackey and navap for updating external links’ icons. Thanks to alastairp, BestSteve, chaban, chirlu, cyberskull, Freso, hibiscuskazeneko, jesus2099, and Kid Devine for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to eduardomariohs, kellnerd, mfmeulenbelt, salorock, and stich94 for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2020-06-02.

Bug

  • [MBS-9010] – Alerts about new edit notes are separate for production and beta
  • [MBS-10613] – Version info footer is shown on some pages in production
  • [MBS-10732] – Internal Server Error: Adding a collaborator to a collection without selecting from autocomplete dropdown
  • [MBS-10839] – “Add selected recordings for merging” missing in standalone-only overview
  • [MBS-10849] – Add release group preview on RE shows “This entity has been removed”
  • [MBS-10850] – Bad Amazon URLs report doesn’t ignore “streaming page” relationship
  • [MBS-10855] – Historic track edit involving since-removed entity doesn’t show recording
  • [MBS-10863] – “Edit barcode” edit doesn’t show barcode

New Feature

  • [MBS-10834] – New account flag for disabling ability to write edit notes
  • [MBS-10845] – Tool to allow account admins to look up accounts by e-mail

Improvement

  • [MBS #1516] – Update Facebook, Google Play, and Spotify icons
  • [MBS-7822] – Update OverClocked ReMix favicon
  • [MBS-8412] – Align number of edits per page
  • [MBS-9516] – Display specific error messages depending on URL validation rules
  • [MBS-9963] – Update Genius link format and logo
  • [MBS-10412] – Update URL cleanup for Niconico URLs, specifically channel links for artists
  • [MBS-10727] – Deny kasi-time.com URLs for lyrics
  • [MBS-10789] – Add validation for Genius links
  • [MBS-10813] – Update the Bandcamp logo used in the sidebar
  • [MBS-10831] – Allow niconico channel links for other entities than artist
  • [MBS-10840] – Capitalise “in key” info correctly in English guess case
  • [MBS-10841] – Add “Guess case” per-medium
  • [MBS-10842] – Remove report user link from deleted editor profiles
  • [MBS-10853] – Link to overview page for edits by subscribed editors in subscription email

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-10397] – Convert Edit Event edit to React
  • [MBS-10399] – Convert Edit Recording edit to React
  • [MBS-10793] – Convert historic Move Release edit to React
  • [MBS-10799] – Convert historic Move Release to RG edit to React
  • [MBS-10817] – Convert Edit Label edit to React

Other Task

  • [MBS-7781] – Merge duplicate artist credits
  • [MBS-10785] – Remove link to FreeDB Gateway documentation
  • [MBS-10822] – Change tableColumns tables to use named parameters
  • [MBS-10860] – Merge the production and beta Redis stores
  • [MBS-10878] – Convey search queries from slave servers to Solr

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-05-11

This is the last update before upgrading to Postgres 12. It is mainly focused on React conversion but also carries ten small bugfixes and improvements.

Thanks to navap for hacking the user interface. Thanks to admiy, chaban, fabe56, Freso, jesus2099, zas for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to kellnerd, mfmeulenbelt, and salorock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2020-05-11.

Bug

  • [MBS-10138] – Guess case crashes if track name ends with word “F”
  • [MBS-10564] – YouTube channel links that contain non-Latin characters won’t display the name in the sidebar
  • [MBS-10641] – Edit subscriptions email links to all edits for subscribed entities rather than open edits
  • [MBS-10768] – ISE on “Donation Check” tab for users with / in their names
  • [MBS-10772] – Sidebar doesn’t display genres if other tags have more upvotes
  • [MBS-10803] – Cannot link to https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/<artist>/<number>

Improvement

  • [MBS-10737] – Allow thesession.org URLs for Places
  • [MBS-10761] – Disallow YouTube links at wrong levels
  • [MBS-10804] – Remove redundant user header from edit page
  • [MBS-10805] – Support for Amazon.AE/NL/SG/TR ASINs

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-9910] – Convert wikidocs transclusion admin templates to React/JSX
  • [MBS-10748] – Convert the relationship doc page to React
  • [MBS-10760] – Convert Remove Track edit to React
  • [MBS-10762] – Convert historic Remove Release/Releases edits to React
  • [MBS-10764] – Convert historic Remove Label Alias edits to React
  • [MBS-10765] – Convert historic Add, Move and Remove DiscID edits to React
  • [MBS-10773] – Convert historic Change Release Quality edit to React
  • [MBS-10775] – Convert historic Add/Remove Relationship edits to React
  • [MBS-10790] – Convert historic MAC/SAC edits to React
  • [MBS-10791] – Convert historic Change RG edit to React
  • [MBS-10792] – Convert historic Change Artist Quality edit to React
  • [MBS-10811] – Convert historic Edit Relationship edit to React

Picard 2.3.2 released

Picard 2.3.2 has been released and is available for download. This is mainly a bug-fix release with few minor improvements, see below for a full list of changes.

This release contains code changes by zas, rdswift, outsidecontext, RaysDev and new contributors Undearius and Gabrielcarvfer, who also is working on some interesting changes regarding UI responsiveness.
Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback.

Download

Picard 2.3.2 is available for download from the download page.

Changes

Below is a list of all changes since Picard 2.3.1. If you are upgrading from an older version you might want to read previous release post.

Breaking change:

$find script function now returns “” rather than -1 on not found, for the sake of consistency. You may want to review your scripts.

Notable improvements:

Picard was trying to guess the file format based on file content. This was very IO expensive and in many cases not needed. So we decided to change the logic to:

  • Try guessing the format by file extension first
  • If no extension or no matching file extension is available, guess by file content
  • If format was guessed by extension and loading the file with mutagen fails with an exception, retry with guessing by file content. Retry loading if the newly guessed format is different from the format guessed by extension.

Also notable, On Windows 10, support for fractional scaling was implemented.

The complete list of changes is the following:

Bug

  • [PICARD-1775] – $firstwords function doesn’t catch IndexError
  • [PICARD-1776] – $datetime crashes when invalid format specified
  • [PICARD-1781] – Have $find return “” rather than “-1” on not found
  • [PICARD-1783] – Deleting performer, comment or lyrics tag fails for some cases in ID3, Vorbis, MP4 and Apev2 tags
  • [PICARD-1784] – Host not found error when downloading PDF artwork
  • [PICARD-1785] – $delete(_id3:TXXX:foo) does not delete the ID3 frames
  • [PICARD-1786] – Deleting tag stored in ID3 TIPL frame only removes first occurrence
  • [PICARD-1787] – Deleting case-insensitive TXXX frames does not delete anything
  • [PICARD-1788] – Saving ID3 tags marked as case-insensitive causes duplicated TXXX frames
  • [PICARD-1790] – Crash when selecting plugin that can be updated
  • [PICARD-1791] – Network access is disabled error under VPN service
  • [PICARD-1795] – iTunes tags not removable (reappear after being deleted)
  • [PICARD-1801] – List index out of range when saving Vorbis file
  • [PICARD-1803] – Instrument EWI is rewritten “e w i”

Improvement

  • [PICARD-1777] – Support fractional scaling on Windows 10
  • [PICARD-1800] – Simplify Unicode ‘Bullet’ to ASCII ‘Hyphen-minus’
  • [PICARD-1809] – Optimize format detection logic

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-04-27

A large variety of issue types have been addressed in today’s release!

As a new feature, search indexes are now dumped and made available along with database dumps under the FTP directory search-indexes. They are mainly intended to be loaded on a MusicBrainz slave server to start a mirror with search.

Among improvements, a noticeable one is to lighten the area’s overview page that was heavily crowded with all sorts of relationships that have been scattered over more specific tabs.

As for bugfixes, the major one secures user/admin forms against CSRF attacks.

Thanks to atj for contributing code to support Traxsource URLs. Thanks to alex_s7, chaban, danbloo, Lotheric, murdos, Skeebadoo for reporting issues. Thanks to kellnerd, Jormangeud, mfmeulenbelt, salorock for updating the translations in German, Finnish, Dutch, Italian, respectively. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2020-04-27.

Bug

  • [MBS-10359] – Guess feat. artists from track titles do not give expected result
  • [MBS-10677] – Place type shown as null on WS event place rels
  • [MBS-10717] – Cookie attributes must be adjusted to work with with new behavior in browsers
  • [MBS-10719] – “remove PUID” edit doesn’t load
  • [MBS-10742] – “Show more” country miscount
  • [MBS-10756] – Inconsistent default sort order for recordings on Works page
  • [MBS-10778] – User/admin forms are prone to CSRF attacks

New Feature

  • [MBS-10546] – Dump MB Solr data along with MB DB full export

Improvement

  • [MBS-1921] – Display edit link under annotations
  • [MBS-9086] – Move most relationships away from area overview
  • [MBS-10666] – Collapse work artists when there are too many on merge pages
  • [MBS-10741] – Make “relationship [attribute] in use” pages consistent
  • [MBS-10755] – Add entity type restrictions for musik-sammler.de URLs
  • [MBS-10781] – Add support for Traxsource URLs

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-10740] – Convert /relationship static pages to React
  • [MBS-10751] – Convert Remove PUID edits to React

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-04-13

No Easter egg in today’s update but rather a dozen or so of small bugfixes and convenient improvements.

Thanks Rotab for the pair of bugfixes he submitted, to CatQuest, chaban, chirlu, FSpy, HibiscusKazeneko, JesseW, KRSCuan, MichelV, wcw1966 for issues they reported, to salorock for the Italian translation he updated, and to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2020-04-13.

Bug

  • [MBS-7465] – Tag cloud isn’t updated
  • [MBS-9169] – Inconsistent locale identifiers
  • [MBS-9728] – Recently-added Unicode emojis can’t be used in titles
  • [MBS-9894] – Timeline shows future date
  • [MBS-10360] – Whitelist User-Agent header in CORS Preflight requests
  • [MBS-10640] – Incorrect donation status in “Donation Check” tab
  • [MBS-10688] – Attaching a CDTOC that already exists on the medium gives a cryptic error
  • [MBS-10718] – Duplicate series “part of” relationships which got grouped are harder to detect
  • [MBS-10730] – Recording is displayed twice in artist overview when credited multiple times

Task

  • [MBS-10735] – Remove (discontinued) CD Baby links from the sidebar

Improvement

  • [MBS-5641] – Show release language/script in reports ReleasesWithUnlikelyLanguageScript, NoLanguage and NoScript
  • [MBS-10679] – Link to the JSON WS from the Details tab
  • [MBS-10680] – Link to WS docs from the Details tab
  • [MBS-10724] – Make sorting options (area, date, artist) consistent
  • [MBS-10747] – Change wording/phrasing of status description for open edits
  • [MBS-10753] – Use artist sort names for artist collection ordering

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-03-31

This time we have a couple bugfixes, a couple of small improvements, and continued changes to simplify the React table code.

Thanks to chaban, kellnerd, Kid Devine, and all others who submitted patches, reported issues, tested beta version, or contributed to translations!

The git tag is v-2020-03-31.

Bug

  • [MBS-10704] – Relationships header shown for works with no rels to be displayed
  • [MBS-10707] – Open Add DiscID edit already adds discID, cancelling does not remove it
  • [MBS-10712] – ISE when trying to load “merge release” edit

Improvement

  • [MBS-10669] – Restrict “Metal Archives” album links to release
  • [MBS-10699] – Remove “medley” from Guess Case when at the end of a title

Task

  • [MBS-10365] – Refactor display of entity list/table
  • [MBS-0401] – Replace handshaking protocol with bit mask

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-03-16

Mostly bugfixes today, along with a new data report, plus usual small improvements, React conversion and refactoring. We also blocked ratings for unverified users, since a specific artist was getting hundreds of ratings by people creating many accounts per person just for that (people, please be nice!).

Thanks to andrybo6, chaban, cyna, dimpole, dseomn, gioele, hibiscuskazeneko, jesus2099, kellnerd, mfmeulenbelt, nikki, outsidecontext, panos, sophist, sothotalker, yindesu, and all others who submitted patches, reported issues, tested beta version, or contributed to translations!

The git tag is v-2020-03-16.

Bug

  • [MBS-7835] – [No lyrics] works showing up as “No linguistic content” in old edit summaries
  • [MBS-9359] – Web service shows “mul” languages, but all single languages are duplicates
  • [MBS-9651] – Top voters overall includes more edits than editor profile’s yes+no+approve
  • [MBS-10628] – [no label] should not be editable
  • [MBS-10633] – Can’t change capitalization on username
  • [MBS-10661] – Recording-work rel not showing pending edits on release page
  • [MBS-10683] – Map doesn’t focus on new marker when creating a new Place
  • [MBS-10684] – Message over Place’s map is misleading
  • [MBS-10685] – Place maps: Zooming by clicking doesn’t follow the cursor
  • [MBS-10693] – Artist merge submission page doesn’t show any error message if you attempt to merge a special purpose artist

Improvement

  • [MBS-4090] – Report for recordings with a single track but with different spellings
  • [MBS-10607] – Give context to translations of “unknown” / “(unknown)”
  • [MBS-10676] – Add MD5/SHA256 checksum files for JSON data dumps
  • [MBS-10695] – Show full language names on work lists

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-10618] – Convert Edit work edit to React

Other Task

  • [MBS-10671] – Block ratings for unverified users
  • [MBS-10689] – Update MapBox API calls
  • [MBS-10692] – Change React imports to “import * as React”

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-03-02

It’s now possible to find genres through the web service with a new /ws/2/genre lookup endpoint. Additionally, this update fixes some bugs and refactors a lot of stuff behind the curtains, including the continued conversion to React of edit display pages.

Thanks to chaban, cyna, jesus2099, kellnerd, and speardog who contributed through issue reporting, code changes, translation updates, and beta testing.

The git tag is v-2020-03-02.

Bug

  • [MBS-10515] – Weird display of recording info on release merge pages
  • [MBS-10593] – “Edit release label” edit fails to load if country name is undef
  • [MBS-10594] – “Add annotation” edits are stuck
  • [MBS-10649] – Release label edit shows [removed] if label is deselected
  • [MBS-10659] – “Edit relationship” edit not showing credits if they don’t change

New Feature

  • [MBS-10166] – Add genre lookup to the web service

Improvement

  • [MBS-9654] – Show expanded artist credits in “Merge recordings” edits
  • [MBS-10643] – Autoselect relationship type for CPDL artist URLs

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-10058] – Convert entity merge edits to React
  • [MBS-10617] – Convert “Add work” edit to React

Picard 2.3.1 released

Picard 2.3.1 has been released and is available for download. This is mainly a bugfix release, but also some smaller improvements and features made it into this version. Notable changes are the addition of the $sortmulti and $reversemulti scripting functions, overall better handling of releases with multiple release countries and some fixes for the AcoustID fingerprinting. See below for a full list of changes.

This release contains code changes by zas, rdswift, outsidecontext and new contributor RaysDev, who also is working on some interesting changes for the next release. Thanks a lot again to everybody who contributed to this in release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback. The Picard 2.3 release already was well received, but it is thanks to you all that we can provide a sizeable list of improvements just 10 days later.

Download

Picard 2.3.1 is available for download from the download page.

Changes

Below is a list of all changes since Picard 2.3. If you are upgrading from an older version you might want to read what is new in Picard 2.3.

Bug

  • [PICARD-1745] – Packaged libdiscid is not compatible with macOS 10.12
  • [PICARD-1748] – Many release events can cause the versions context menu to overflow
  • [PICARD-1750] – Existing acoustid_fingerprint tags are not considered for AcoustID submission
  • [PICARD-1754] – DEL always removes release or file from main window
  • [PICARD-1756] – Plugin update fails to compare plugin versions with double digit versions
  • [PICARD-1757] – Crash on loading a release if $div(n,0) is used in a script
  • [PICARD-1760] – Prevent duplicates in top tags editor
  • [PICARD-1762] – Dropping a PDF file on cover art image box doesn’t work
  • [PICARD-1765] – Adding uppercase tags to preserved tags list is not handled correctly
  • [PICARD-1772] – Unexpected results with $num function
  • [PICARD-1773] – Untrapped error on $mod with zero input
  • [PICARD-1774] – $lenmulti with missing name returns “1”

New Feature

  • [PICARD-1743] – Add script functions $sortmulti and $reversemulti to sort and reverse multi-value variables
  • [PICARD-1751] – Provide a %_releasecountries% variable

Improvement

  • [PICARD-1746] – Change Generate AcoustID Fingerprints shortcut to Ctrl+Shift+Y / ⌘⇧Y
  • [PICARD-1752] – Use preferred release countries to select a matching release country if there are multiple
  • [PICARD-1755] – “Supported Languages” on Microsoft Store shows only English (United States)
  • [PICARD-1759] – Make editing tags in top tags list more intuitive
  • [PICARD-1771] – Completely ignore release types set to zero in preferred releases

 

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-02-18

Today’s release brings a fair amount of small bug fixes and improvements to the website. Notably, it changes the way we display relationships to group ones that are similar (such as different instruments by the same performers) and makes editing history (but not editors and edit notes!) available to visitors without needing to log in.

Thanks to chaban, chirlu, cyberskull, cyna, dimpole, hibiscuskazeneko, jeandeaual, kellnerd, lotheric, mfmeulenbelt, murdos, nikki, rdswift, salorock, supersandro2000, v6lur, and all others who submitted patches, reported issues, tested beta version, or contributed to translations!

The git tag is v-2020-02-18.

Bug

  • [MBS-2436] – “Edit medium” edits don’t link to new recordings
  • [MBS-10209] – Error parsing URL when entering Instagram link on artist’s page
  • [MBS-10223] – ArtistRoles lists don’t use relationship credits
  • [MBS-10329] – URL cleanup breaks Amazon Music URLs
  • [MBS-10576] – Medium merge error messages with links are not properly formatted
  • [MBS-10583] – Event dates displayed twice in event lists
  • [MBS-10586] – Release duplicates tab shows [missing media] when medium format is simply unknown
  • [MBS-10587] – Medium counts broken in Release Duplicates list
  • [MBS-10588] – Medium formats untranslated in Release Duplicates list

New Feature

  • [MBS-3873] – New Report: Release groups with name not matching release’s name
  • [MBS-10331] – Add new URL cleanup/autoselect/sidebar for Amazon Music URLs
  • [MBS-10620] – Add the Discography of American Historical Recordings to the otherdbs whitelist

Improvement

  • [MBS-4326] – Add “Add discid” edits in release artist(s) editing history
  • [MBS-7678] – Combine display of multiple relationships to the same entity
  • [MBS-9164] – Show edit history (but not edit notes) when not logged in
  • [MBS-10308] – Cleanup maniadb URLs
  • [MBS-10584] – Collapse work artists when there are too many
  • [MBS-10623] – Automatically add US store country-code to iTunes URLs missing it
  • [MBS-10625] – Block even more smart links

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-9917] – Convert the instrument public pages to React
  • [MBS-10401] – Convert Edit Series edit to React