Tag: changelog

MusicBrainz servers update, December 2020

Let’s end the year 2020 on a brighter note with new releases of both MusicBrainz Server and its companions for advanced indexed search.

The most urgent task was to lower the risk of leaking private data again (see previous incident) by reducing the scope of editor data passed to the renderer.

The most visible improvement of the website is the addition of instrument illustrations by IROM. Thanks to him for these very welcomed drawings. See sistrum for an example; we will keep adding illustrations to other instruments little by little.

The most useful improvements to the API are the addition of their first release date to recordings (both in lookup and search) and release groups (which were missing it in search results), and the addition of MBIDs for artists’ gender and releases’ status.

Advanced indexed search has also been improved to allow searching for releases by type of packaging, for recordings and release groups by first release date, and to simplify searching for releases by type of medium’s format.

Finally, a fair number of smaller bugs have also been fixed, and React conversion is being continued.

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 amCap1712 for fixing a pair of bugs in outputting search API results, and jesus2099 for fixing a bug in seeding the release editor. Thanks to avilla, CatQuest, chaban, jgrmstr, jstranger, Lotheric, loujin, nikki, Psychoadept, and serg for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to Besnik, mfmeulenbelt, and salorock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tags are v-2020-11-12 for MusicBrainz XML Metadata Schema, v-2020-12-14 for MusicBrainz Server, v-2020-12-24 for MusicBrainz Simple Solr Search Server Schema, v2.0.0 for Search Index Rebuilder, and v3.4.1 for MusicBrainz Solr Query/Response Writer.

Bug

  • [MBS-4555] – Seeding the release editor when logged out loses the seeded information
  • [MBS-8438] – The same event is displayed twice on an artist’s “Events” tab if they have multiple roles on it
  • [MBS-10664] – Regression: HTML tags are incorrectly displayed in editor’s bio
  • [MBS-11092] – Some issue with userscripts/plugins and beta site
  • [MBS-11169] – Artist credit doesn’t display properly in release pages when credits are at the bottom of the release instead of inline
  • [MBS-11207] – Error messages from DBI are badly encoded
  • [MBS-11212] – Incorrect quality attribute in “ws/2/release”
  • [MBS-11214] – Relationships with different link order not split on “see at bottom” medium rels display
  • [MBS-11220] – Release editor seeding is displayed in wrong language
  • [MBS-11223] – Releases with “unknown tracklist” on a medium failed to load in the “Edit Relationships” tab
  • [MBS-11227] – Unexpected URL used when removing release groups from merge queue
  • [SEARCH-623] – Gender ID is missing from JSON/XML artist search results
  • [SEARCH-624] – Status ID is missing from release in JSON/XML search results

Improvement

  • [MBS-1424] – Add a “First release date” field to recordings
  • [MBS-11188] – Block smart links: “album.link”
  • [MBS-11224] – Releases with no medium should show a clear message in the relationship editor
  • [MBS-11225] – Make “staticbrainz.org/irombook/” URLs autoselect for image relationship
  • [MBS-11271] – Reduce the scope of editor data passed to the template renderer
  • [SEARCH-319] – Add first release date to the results of indexed search for release groups
  • [SEARCH-574] – Make release’s format search field insensitive to spaces and separators

New Feature

  • [MBS-10590] – Allow displaying IROMBOOK instrument images on MusicBrainz
  • [MBS-11216] – Split report “InstrumentsWithoutWikidata” from “InstrumentsWithoutAnImage”
  • [SEARCH-218] – Add first release date to the fields and results of indexed search for recordings
  • [SEARCH-384] – Add first release date to the fields of indexed search for release-groups
  • [SEARCH-590] – Add packaging to the fields of indexed search for releases

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-11018] – Convert Add Relationship Type edit to React
  • [MBS-11211] – Convert the login page to React

Other Task

  • [MBS-10634] – Rework the “Instruments without an image” report to only look at IROMBOOK images
  • [MBS-11210] – Allow more subpaths for “saisaibatake.ame-zaiku.com”

Picard 2.5.4 hotfix for Windows startup issues

We had many reports of Windows users not being able to launch the just released Picard 2.5.3. This is a hotfix release to address this issue. There are no changes for other platforms.

The updated version is available from the Picard download page.

Thanks a lot to everyone reporting on this issue and helping to get this resolved quickly and sorry for the trouble.

Changes

Picard 2.5.3 released

The Picard team is happy to announce the release of Picard 2.5.3. This release fixes a performance regression introduced in Picard 2.5.2 and brings many more bug fixes and improvements to existing functionality.

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

What’s new?

Bugfixes

  • [PICARD-2016] – AcoustID API Key is not stripped
  • [PICARD-2017] – Picard crashes when removing entries on the right side while loading
  • [PICARD-2019] – Saving tracks to SMB share on Windows 10 results in ever more nested folders
  • [PICARD-2020] – Multi-value album or recording ID tags prevent Picard from loading the proper albums
  • [PICARD-2021] – SameFileError when moving files between network path and local path on Windows
  • [PICARD-2022] – Crash accessing network share without access rights on Windows
  • [PICARD-2023] – Appdata file not generated on non-Linux platforms
  • [PICARD-2028] – Deleting albums and saving files is extremely slow
  • [PICARD-2031] – Scripting documentation link 404
  • [PICARD-2036] – MultiMetadataProxy::pop is not flagged as a WRITE_METHOD; this breaks the “keep” plugin
  • [PICARD-2037] – Improve Info/Error tab readability
  • [PICARD-2045] – After fingerprint, unsaved tracks have green tick
  • [PICARD-2050] – File selector pane jumps around horizontally instead of expanding / collapsing the folder
  • [PICARD-2056] – Interface color changes are not saved
  • [PICARD-2058] – Add File dialog does not show files with uppercase extension on case-sensitive file systems
  • [PICARD-2059] – Scripting Documentation shows extra line for each function
  • [PICARD-2062] – Searching for similar tracks can remove current album even if there are unmatched tracks
  • [PICARD-2064] – Cluster shows empty album column

Improvements

  • [PICARD-2034] – Add context menu entry for copy and paste to metadata view
  • [PICARD-2035] – More verbose tooltip for album error icon
  • [PICARD-2038] – Integrate metadata box clipboard with system clipboard
  • [PICARD-2039] – Unify error handling for albums, non-album tracks and files, show errors in info dialog
  • [PICARD-2044] – Add date and originaldate fields to the choice of columns in the list views
  • [PICARD-2046] – AcoustID submission can fail due to body size limit of AcoustID server
  • [PICARD-2047] – Improve contrast for console text in dark mode
  • [PICARD-2057] – Allow showing all files in Add Files dialog
  • [PICARD-2063] – Add an option to disable automatic horizontal scrolling in file browser

The complete list of changes of this and previous releases is available in the changelog. You can also discuss new features or usage on our forums.

Acknowledgements

This release contains code contributions by Sophist, mineo, BSDKaffee, zas, and outsidecontext. Many thanks also to all translators and everybody who suggested features and reported bugs in our community forums or on the issue tracker.

Picard 2.5.2 released

Picard 2.5.2 is a maintenance release, fixing some bugs and providing minor improvements to the recent 2.5.1 release. Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback and reported issues.

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

What’s new?

Bug

  • [PICARD-1948] – ScaleFactorRoundPolicy breaks text rendering on Linux
  • [PICARD-1991] – Case-only changes to file names are not applied on case insensitive file systems on Linux
  • [PICARD-1992] – Case-only changes to file names are not applied on FAT32 and exFAT file systems on Windows 10
  • [PICARD-2001] – Directory drag & drop from file browser to cluster area broken
  • [PICARD-2004] – Metadata changes loaded asynchronously by plugins are reset if file gets matched to track
  • [PICARD-2005] – Modified fields are sometimes not correctly marked as changed when multiple files are selected
  • [PICARD-2006] – “Local files” cover provider does not detect cover files for files already present at release loading time
  • [PICARD-2012] – Loaded files not shown in UI if release MBID is a redirect
  • [PICARD-2014] – Config upgrade from Picard < 1.3.0 to version 2.4 or later fails

Improvement

  • [PICARD-1828] – Allow assigning cover art to multiple selected files
  • [PICARD-1999] – Provide binary distributions for Windows and macOS on PyPI
  • [PICARD-2007] – Disable analyze / audio fingerprinting for MIDI files

The complete list of changes of this and previous releases is available in the changelog. You can also discuss new features or usage on our forums.

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-11-02

Right after Halloween, this new release of MusicBrainz Server tricks some bugs and treats some improvements, plus some work on the usually terrifying React conversion and updates to handle external links.

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, darwinx0r, kellnerd, hibiscuskazaneko, jesus2099, lotheric, snartal, and tularion for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to grafi_tt, mfmeulenbelt, salorock, and shepard for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2020-11-02.

Bug

  • [MBS-6666] – Artist credits not renamed from artist edit page unless the artist name is changed
  • [MBS-10281] – Improper encoding of ISE pages
  • [MBS-10829] – Indexed recording search fails to find recording with no length
  • [MBS-11160] – Internal server error pages display empty stack traces
  • [MBS-11161] – Internal server error page sometimes not returned when an error occurs
  • [MBS-11186] – Inconsistent username font-weight for edit owner
  • [MBS-11194] – TypeError: Cannot read property ‘linkTypeID’ of undefined (part 2)
  • [MBS-11204] – ISE: Validation failed for \’Int\’ with value undef

Improvement

  • [MBS-7219] – Only display “Show only standalone recordings instead” when there are standalone recordings to display
  • [MBS-11158] – Document URL link_type integers for release editor seeding
  • [MBS-11177] – Do not show useless “Description:” label in entity type doc boxes
  • [MBS-11185] – Add “is not” operator for relationship type in edit search
  • [MBS-11192] – Add voting-icon for Approved
  • [MBS-11197] – Add validation for Mainly Norfolk links
  • [MBS-11199] – Update 7digital.com URL cleanup

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-11195] – Convert the artist credit renamer to React

Other Task

  • [MBS-11182] – Remove LyricWiki links from the sidebar
  • [MBS-11189] – Remove PureVolume links from sidebar
  • [MBS-11196] – Add saisaibatake.ame-zaiku.com to “other databases” for instruments
  • [MBS-11200] – Add works to VGMdb autocleanup

Picard 2.5.1 released

Picard 2.5.1 is a maintenance release, fixing some bugs and providing minor improvements to the recent 2.5 release. Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback and reported issues.

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

What’s new?

Bugfixes

  • [PICARD-1987] – Special variables %_multiartist%, %_pregap%, %_datatrack% and %_totalalbumtracks% missing after files got matched to a track
  • [PICARD-1988] – Aborts if directory scan finds a directory which cannot be read
  • [PICARD-1989] – Auto-sizing does not work right on first column
  • [PICARD-1990] – Case-only changes to file names are not applied on Windows if running with Python >= 3.8

Improvements

  • [PICARD-1985] – Support chorus master recording relationships as “performer:chorus master” instead of second conductor
  • [PICARD-1995] – Add command line parameter –no-player to disable media player
  • [PICARD-1997] – Reduce performance impact of fingerprint status column

The complete list of changes of this and previous releases is available in the changelog. You can also discuss new features or usage on our forums.

Picard 2.5 release

Picard 2.5 is now available.

Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback.

What’s new?

This release contains few fixes and improvements over previous beta version. A complete list of changes since the beta release is available below.
New packages can be downloaded from Picard website Downloads section.

As usual, please report any issue through our bug tracker.

Bug

  • [PICARD-214] – Take case insensitive filesystems into account when renaming files
  • [PICARD-1972] – Times missing in bottom panel
  • [PICARD-1973] – Multi-value tags getting flattened when files get matched to tracks
  • [PICARD-1974] – Picard crashes when using the same tag name more than once in “Tags from File Names…”
  • [PICARD-1975] – Tags from file names does not properly set hidden tags
  • [PICARD-1976] – Cover art providers do not handle URLs with query arguments correctly
  • [PICARD-1979] – Comment tag in MP4 not saved correctly
  • [PICARD-1982] – Coverart not saving properly

Improvement

  • [PICARD-1978] – Add keyboard shortcut for Tags From Filenames and allow to place it in toolbar

The whole Picard team would like to thank everyone involved in this project, whether they are developpers, users, translators, documentation contributors.

Since some time the whole Picard documentation is better than ever, thanks, mainly, to the fantastic job rdswift did. With the help of the community we should be able to provide translations for this documentation in upcoming future (tests were done recently). If you want to help, read Contributing page.

You can also discuss new features or usage on our forums.

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-10-19

Today’s MusicBrainz Server brings a new data report, a continued conversion to React, some bugfixes and small improvements, but also tests refactoring.

Meanwhile, the search server has been updated twice in a row to fix bugs in JSON output mostly with MB Solr 3.2 (release notes) and MB Solr 3.3 (release notes), including the MusicBrainz API breaking change announced last month.

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 amCap1712 for fixing bugs in MB Solr, and to loujine for contributing code with yet a new data report. Thanks to Avamander, bonchiver_, chaban, draconx, eloise_freya, GTF1982, hawke, hibiscuskazeneko, jesus2099, jrv, kellnerd, Kid Devine, Psychoadept, selflessself, and wcw1966 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-2020-10-19.

Bug

  • [MBS-10221] – Track Parser not filling in artists
  • [MBS-11149] – Misspelling of the word “misspellings”
  • [MBS-11150] – Add CD-TOC wrongly defaults to last listed artist when none selected
  • [MBS-11156] – Track parser unsets “Various Artists” track artist credits
  • [MBS-11162] – Work type description bubble starts as default even if type is selected
  • [MBS-11174] – Editor profile added entities: Missing Add release edit type 216
  • [MBS-11176] – Heading of the release group section in the external links sidebar has disappeared

Improvement

  • [MBS-5225] – Allow showing tracklists everywhere when attaching/viewing discIDs
  • [MBS-7256] – Add “Expand all mediums” option to the release page
  • [MBS-8725] – Allow mediums to have an unknown tracklist
  • [MBS-11115] – Show detailed information when attaching disc IDs
  • [MBS-11139] – Use HTTPS for display on Library of Congress links
  • [MBS-11163] – Show type descriptions when editing entities
  • [MBS-11165] – Update the VK logo used in the sidebar
  • [MBS-11167] – Normalize vk.com links to HTTPS
  • [MBS-11173] – When deleting users, change their No and Yes votes on pending edits to Abstain

New Feature

  • [MBS-11117] – Report for mediums with very long durations from discID

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-11141] – Convert Edit Relationship edit to React
  • [MBS-11152] – Convert entity/ratings page to React

Other Task

  • [MBS-11148] – Remove Google Play links from the sidebar

Picard 2.5 Beta 1

Picard 2.5 Beta 1 is now available. This is a pre-release to gather final feedback on the changes before the final 2.5 release.

Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback.

What’s new?

This release fixes some possible crashes, makes Picard able to run on the new macOS 11, provides several small UI improvements, allows using file tags and variables in tagger script, and more. See below for a full list of changes.

Bugfixes

  • [PICARD-1858] – MusicBrainz Picard does not respond on macOS 11 Big Sur Beta
  • [PICARD-1882] – Scripting text not well readable with dark theme on KDE
  • [PICARD-1888] – Returning tracks to cluster uses matched release rather than what’s in the files
  • [PICARD-1932] – Failed AcoustID submission shows as successful
  • [PICARD-1939] – Crash when “Remove” button is hit without picking a file first
  • [PICARD-1941] – Unchanged multi-value tags on tracks show up as changed
  • [PICARD-1954] – Right-clicking on album with “could not load album” message crashes
  • [PICARD-1956] – It is possible to have the same file multiple times inside the same cluster
  • [PICARD-1961] – Capitalization for non-standardized instruments
  • [PICARD-1963] – Possible stack overflow when loading files
  • [PICARD-1964] – Scripting documentation does not support RTL languages
  • [PICARD-1969] – Browser integration port changes without saving options
  • [PICARD-1971] – Tags from file names dialog does not restore window size

New Features

  • [PICARD-259] – Make file-specific variables and metadata available to tagger script
  • [PICARD-534] – Support SOCKS proxy
  • [PICARD-1908] – Allow loading release group URLs / MBIDs
  • [PICARD-1942] – Display tracklist in Info dialog for loaded releases
  • [PICARD-1946] – Map “vocal arranger” rel to arranger tag

Improvements

  • [PICARD-1390] – Apply a network timeout to avoid network requests hanging indefinitely
  • [PICARD-1782] – Allow locking table headers to prevent accidental resorting
  • [PICARD-1879] – When dragging tracks onto a release add those tracks sequentially
  • [PICARD-1906] – Clarify uninstall message in Windows installer
  • [PICARD-1936] – Rename the “Whitelist” cover art provider to “Allowed Cover Art URLs”
  • [PICARD-1937] – Add context menu entry to cover art box to browse for local file
  • [PICARD-1938] – Add context menu option to load files / folders from file browser
  • [PICARD-1951] – Avoid complete hiding of metadata box or file panes
  • [PICARD-1952] – Allow using native Qt styles on Linux
  • [PICARD-1955] – Use built-in search by default for new installs
  • [PICARD-1957] – Load files in file browser on double click
  • [PICARD-1958] – macOS: Offer link to Applications folder in disk image
  • [PICARD-1959] – In disc ID dialog rename “Lookup in Browser” to “Submit disc ID”
  • [PICARD-1960] – Allow adding new items in list editor views using Insert key
  • [PICARD-1965] – Allow opening fingerprinting options in AcoustID missing API key dialog

Tasks

Download

Picard 2.5 beta 1 is available for download from the download page.

Helping out

The easiest way to help us getting a great Picard 2.5 release is using and testing this release candidate. Please report bugs on the Picard issue tracker and provide feedback in the community forums.

Please also help translate Picard. There have been many changes to the user interface and existing translations need to be updated for the final 2.4 release. Translating is easy and can be done online: Head over to MusicBrainz’s translation page on Transifex and click on “Help Translate MusicBrainz”.
Once you have registered an account on Transifex you can start translating. For Picard the primary resource to translate is “picard“, but there is also the “picard_appstream” resource which is used for providing descriptions for various Linux software-center applications.

If you are a software developer you are very welcomed to provide fixes and features. Picard is free software and the source code is available on GitHub. See Developing on the Picard website to get started.