changelog – Page 17 – MetaBrainz Blog

MusicBrainz Server update, 2019-09-12

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

MusicBrainz Server update, 2019-08-22

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

MusicBrainz Server update, 2019-08-08

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.

CDs collection shared as a cloak for everyone to see

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

MusicBrainz Server update, 2019-06-30

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

MusicBrainz Server update, 2019-06-03

This server release mostly fixes bugs and regressions. It also updates the URL cleanup code and continues the conversion of templates to React.

Thanks to CatQuest, cyberskull, hibiscuskazeneko, Jeluang, Lotheric, mfmeulenbelt, tungolcraft, yeeeargh, and everyone who tested the beta version, reported issues, or updated website translations.

The git tag is v-2019-06-03.

Bug

[MBS-8826] – /ws/ requests that 404 should not return HTML
[MBS-10141] – Labels from Trois-Rivières should appear 1 layer up in labels from Mauricie
[MBS-10147] – Reports break if an entity in them has been removed / merged
[MBS-10148] – Can’t change entity type of empty collection
[MBS-10153] – Database statistic tables’ headers’ icons are 404s
[MBS-10160] – YouTube channel link that uses the https://www.youtube.com/c/username format won’t have the username shown in the sidebar
[MBS-10163] – “Javanese” does not show in instrument Alias page
[MBS-10167] – “Existing medium” results give medium position, not number
[MBS-10171] – ISE when calling ws/js with a wrong ID
[MBS-10182] – Some artist /relationships tabs show an internal server error
[MBS-10183] – Regression: Display bug in the title of page crediting the artist (Release Group, Release, Recording)
[MBS-10184] – Regression: ISE on displaying some edits
[MBS-10196] – XSS vulnerability in Knockout for IE <= 7

Improvement

[MBS-9762] – Standardize Songkick URLs
[MBS-10095] – Provide a better error than an ISE if trying to admin edit non-existing user
[MBS-10108] – Allow linking individual tweets to recordings
[MBS-10142] – Update URL cleanup for Sina Weibo URLs + add them to the sidebar
[MBS-10151] – Update LiveFans URLs to use HTTPS
[MBS-10152] – Display artist areas on Artists tab of area entity

React Conversion Task

[MBS-9849] – Convert the release group public pages to React
[MBS-10104] – Convert the area index page to React
[MBS-10127] – Convert root/components/relationships-table.tt to React
[MBS-10189] – Convert the place performances page to React

MusicBrainz schema change release, 2019-05-13 (with upgrade instructions)

We’re happy to announce the release of our May 2019 schema change today! Thanks to all who were patient during today’s downtime as we released everything to our production servers.

This is a fairly minor release as far as schema changes go, but please do report any issues that you come across, especially any related to genres and collections.

Visible changes with this release are limited to an indication if a specific artist credit is being edited (MBS-5387). Work on some of the changes to collections and genres is quite advanced, and we’re hoping to release some of the new features onto beta already in a week or so from now, while others might take a while longer.

Now, on to the instructions.

Schema Change Upgrade Instructions

Note: Importing the latest data dump is always a valid alternative to running ./upgrade.sh on an existing database, if you’d prefer to also get new data in one go. Just follow the relevant instructions in INSTALL.md. The git tag is v-2019-05-13-schema-change. The rest of the instructions here assume an in-place upgrade.

Make sure DB_SCHEMA_SEQUENCE is set to 24 in lib/DBDefs.pm.
If you’re using the live data feed (your REPLICATION_TYPE is set to RT_SLAVE), ensure you’ve replicated up to the most recent replication packet available with the old schema. If you’re not sure, run ./admin/replication/LoadReplicationChanges and see what it tells you; if you’re ready to upgrade, it should say “This replication packet matches schema sequence #25, but the database is currently at #24.”
Take down the web server running MusicBrainz, if you’re running a web server.
Turn off cron jobs if you’re automatically updating the database via cron jobs.
Switch to the new code with git fetch origin followed by git checkout v-2019-05-13-schema-change.
Install newer dependencies Yarn and NodeJS 8 or later according to install prerequisites.
Run cpanm --installdeps --notest . (note the dot at the end) to ensure your perl-based dependencies are up to date.
Run ./upgrade.sh (it may take a while to vacuum at the end).
Set DB_SCHEMA_SEQUENCE to 25 in lib/DBDefs.pm as instructed by the output of ./upgrade.sh.
Turn cron jobs back on, if applicable.
Restart the MusicBrainz web server, if applicable. It’s also recommended you restart redis. If you’re accessing your MusicBrainz server in a web browser, run ./script/compile_resources.sh.

Here’s the list of resolved tickets:

Bug

[MBS-5387] – ACs being edited aren’t marked as having pending edits on the aliases tab
[MBS-9365] – event_meta_fk_id was never created as part of any upgrade script
[MBS-9462] – Standalone databases created before schema 21 are missing some l_event_url triggers
[MBS-10146] – Regression: ISE on Remove DiscID page
[MBS-10149] – Swap track titles with artist credits fails to update both fields properly
[MBS-10150] – Regression: The link to the release group reviews in the release page is broken

Improvement

[MBS-9664] – Add database constraints to disallow loop relationship
[MBS-10044] – Add place area to place lists

Database Schema Change Task

[MBS-10052] – Add new schema for the event art archive
[MBS-10173] – Create a genre table in the DB and populate it with existing genres
[MBS-10174] – Create an addition timestamp in the DB for new collection items
[MBS-10175] – Create a position integer in the DB for collection items
[MBS-10176] – Create a comment text field in the DB for collection items
[MBS-10177] – Create an editor_collection_collaborator table for collaborative collections
[MBS-10178] – Create a genre_alias table
[MBS-10181] – Create filesize for cover art and each thumb in the DB

React Conversion Task

[MBS-9925] – Convert collection pages to React
[MBS-10179] – Convert all entity list components to React

MusicBrainz Server update, 2019-04-26

We finally have a new release! Some large conversions of the MusicBrainz website templates to React happened during the past three months, leading to a long delay between releases – sorry about that! This release also fixes several bugs and adds some small improvements.

Thanks to Cyna, Ge0rg3, and spellew for their contributed code, mostly written during GCI. Also, thanks to alpinetux, amCap1712, chirlu, culinko, cyberskull, derobert, Griomo, hibiscuskazeneko, Jeluang, jessew, kepstin, Kid Devine, ListMyCDs.com, Lotheric, mfmeulenbelt, rafwuk, RavenWorks, samj1912, yindesu, yurim, and everyone who tested beta version, reported issues, or updated website translations.

The git tag is v-2019-04-26.

Bug

[MBS-6895] – Cannot inc=tags when browsing releases
[MBS-8634] – Privileged user accounts page still mentions the style council
[MBS-9013] – Removing specific ordering of relationships doesn’t create an edit
[MBS-9276] – Transient test failure in Edit::Instrument::Merge
[MBS-9297] – “Set track lengths” from Disc ID with no change should not be allowed
[MBS-9309] – Mediums fail to merge when two recording positions are swapped
[MBS-9400] – Tags are missing from artist nodes in /ws/2/release JSON requests
[MBS-9413] – Older “Remove relationship” edits can’t be loaded
[MBS-9669] – UI language menu not available in Spanish and Greek
[MBS-9845] – country.null stats not being collected
[MBS-9893] – Batch voting check boxes disappeared
[MBS-9899] – Recording and recording artist tags/genres missing in JSON WS
[MBS-9943] – Autocomplete.js is pretty much untranslatable
[MBS-9975] – Clicking the “A-a” button (guess sort name) to add a release alias sort name does not work.
[MBS-9983] – Non-group artists statistics does not include characters
[MBS-9985] – “Last updated on Invalid date” on release sidebar
[MBS-9986] – RG types not translated on sidebar
[MBS-9991] – Relationship names are not translatable
[MBS-9993] – MusicBrainz server should allow CORS requests to /oauth/token
[MBS-9995] – Space missing in autoeditor election text
[MBS-10009] – Some sidebar types are not translated
[MBS-10021] – ArtistRoles is not translatable
[MBS-10027] – t::MusicBrainz::Server::Controller::Admin::EditBanner fails randomly
[MBS-10031] – Tooltip says ‘null’ for artist names in ‘writer’ column of ‘work’ search results
[MBS-10033] – Missing space after Wikipedia blurb
[MBS-10045] – Regression: External links to Anison Generation in the sidebar appends https
[MBS-10075] – Release with no mediums disappears from release collection when sorting on format/no. of tracks
[MBS-10081] – Invalid last updated date on search result pages
[MBS-10084] – Unable to add CDBaby URL containing “ï”
[MBS-10085] – Long URL fails to wrap on release page in Chrome
[MBS-10088] – Example search for relationships breaks with cardinality
[MBS-10090] – Loading a doc page containing %3F loads full wikipage html
[MBS-10099] – Lyrics URL relationship uses the wrong link phrase on work edit page

Improvement

[MBS-6574] – Recursive area tabs
[MBS-7463] – Add redirect from /tag to /tags
[MBS-8782] – Show artist name on “Edit Note” tab of “Edit Release” page
[MBS-8922] – User reporting: Remove “Reveal my email address” option (or default it to on)
[MBS-9340] – Don’t allow more languages if [No lyrics] is selected
[MBS-9656] – [Change release quality] → [Change data quality]
[MBS-9935] – Indicate what to do with annotation reports
[MBS-9936] – Move from CJS style to ES6 (imports, exports)
[MBS-9988] – On /tags page, allow to go back to not showing downvoted tags
[MBS-9989] – Add new “Not applicable” gender option to stats
[MBS-9990] – Make formatUserDate error rather than return wrong date if given object
[MBS-9998] – Improve cleanup of Facebook URLs
[MBS-10008] – Generalize and localize CPDL link’s title in the sidebar
[MBS-10010] – Simplify sidebar_name methods for URLs
[MBS-10029] – When viewing edits by editor X, include editor X in the page title
[MBS-10032] – Detect and clean iTunes “author” URLs for artists
[MBS-10063] – “No linguistic content” → “[No lyrics]” in work edits display
[MBS-10074] – Display – on release search results for format/tracks if no medium exists
[MBS-10094] – Right-justify barcode on release group page
[MBS-10101] – Allow SecondHandSongs performance URLs for Recordings
[MBS-10102] – Use the containing country area of artists and labels for country statistics
[MBS-10103] – Update Bandsintown URL cleanup to strip languages

New Feature

[MBS-10011] – Congratulate/thank users on their birthdays
[MBS-10022] – Event tab for areas

React conversion task

[MBS-9632] – Convert statistics to React
[MBS-9699] – Convert the user account pages to React
[MBS-9904] – Convert the list of privileged users to React
[MBS-9909] – Convert report templates to React
[MBS-9926] – Convert entity subscribers pages to React
[MBS-10005] – Convert “Details” and ”Tags” tabs, for each entity, to React
[MBS-10007] – Convert “Add annotation” edit display to React
[MBS-10014] – Convert “Add area” edit display to React
[MBS-10015] – Convert “Add artist” edit display to React
[MBS-10016] – Convert “Add event” edit display to React
[MBS-10017] – Convert artist/cannot_split.tt to React
[MBS-10018] – Convert artist/special_purpose.tt to React
[MBS-10019] – Convert the artist and place event pages to React
[MBS-10026] – Convert the Labels page for Area to React
[MBS-10042] – Convert “Aliases” tab, for each entity, to React
[MBS-10046] – Convert /admin/banner/edit to React
[MBS-10049] – Convert user/report to React
[MBS-10086] – Convert attributes admin lists to React
[MBS-10091] – Convert root/components/relationships.tt to React

Other task

[MBS-8360] – Show BookBrainz relationships in the sidebar
[MBS-9082] – Standardize SecondHandSongs URLs
[MBS-9932] – Remove or update “Releases with superfluous data tracks” report
[MBS-9999] – Allow setting custom redirect URI while registering applications to be installed
[MBS-10035] – Add text to the “Report editor” page asking for links
[MBS-10036] – Add ccMixter.org to other database whitelist
[MBS-10037] – Send editor reports to MB user admin mailing list
[MBS-10080] – Relabel “MusicBrainz Blog” link as “MetaBrainz Blog” on MusicBrainz frontpage

Picard 2.1.3 released

Picard Team is proud to announce MusicBrainz Picard 2.1.3 is now officially released.

It includes a lot of bug fixes, and few improvements, but no major feature.

Thanks to all developers, translators, testers and users who contributed to this version, and especially Philip Wolfer (phw/outsidecontext).
Here is the complete changelog:

Bug

[PICARD-323] – Only the discid of the first disc in a release is written to tags
[PICARD-455] – Picard setting cover art height, width and depth to 0 for FLAC files –> breaks libFLAC
[PICARD-729] – Tracks get stuck at “[loading track information]” on Bad Gateway errors
[PICARD-938] – Need two left-arrow key presses to go from track with file to album
[PICARD-1178] – Images tagged with extra types that the user has chosen to ignore should not be shown as ‘modified’
[PICARD-1288] – Folskonomy tags / genre fallback on album artists tags not working
[PICARD-1422] – Windows: Uninstall 32 bit Picard before upgrade
[PICARD-1447] – When releasing a new version, appdata should also be updated
[PICARD-1460] – Windows installer does not detect running instance
[PICARD-1461] – Crash when running with Spanish language
[PICARD-1463] – Picard crashes on startup on Windows
[PICARD-1469] – Force close when adding songs to larger albums
[PICARD-1471] – Artist searches do not show begin and end area
[PICARD-1473] – AcoustId lookup fails if fingerprint already in tags
[PICARD-1474] – Windows installer shows outdated version string in file properties
[PICARD-1475] – Cover art sources do not support HTTPS
[PICARD-1476] – Filled up thread pool prevents metadata box updates
[PICARD-1478] – Changing MB server requires a restart
[PICARD-1480] – Search line input clear button icon is too small

Task

[PICARD-1459] – Remove OptionsPage.info method
[PICARD-1472] – macOS code signing on Travis CI fails for xcode7.3 image

Improvement

[PICARD-1242] – Consider the number of AcoustID sources for linked recordings
[PICARD-1457] – “Check for Update” should be in the Picard menu
[PICARD-1458] – “Check for Update” should have an ellipsis at the end
[PICARD-1470] – Make warning about Qt locale loading less prominent

As usual, packages will be available from Picard website and from GitHub release pages

Bugs can be reported on Picard bug tracker.

Server update, 2019-01-22

More bugs fixed, that’s our wish for 2019! Additionally, this release comes with usual update of URL handlers and a heap of code being rewritten behind the scenes. Thanks to Jaykin for the patch he wrote during GCI. Thanks to culinko, drsaunde, jesus2099, johnlinp, jrv, outsidecontext, silentbird, thomasboehm, zastai for having reported issues. The git tag is v-2019-01-22.

Sub-task

[MBS-9954] – Convert the tag cloud and tag entity list pages to React

Bug

[MBS-4469] – Annotation syntax : lists syntax only partly working
[MBS-4709] – Can’t use square brackets in annotations
[MBS-8978] – Schema does not include id attribute for <packaging> element of a release
[MBS-8979] – Schema does not include <cdstub> as top-level subelement of <metadata>
[MBS-8980] – Schema says a <cdstub> has a <comment> element, but the webservice returns a <disambiguation> instead.
[MBS-9089] – “change all artists on this release that match…” does nothing if you hit “Next” instead of “Done”
[MBS-9605] – Tracklist editor badly converts track length over 1 h
[MBS-9865] – Release editor’s artist credit recently broken
[MBS-9867] – Slave server cannot display page with annotation
[MBS-9941] – Some edit pages are missing JS gettext domains in non-English translations
[MBS-9957] – Cover art image types not updated properly
[MBS-9966] – Event creation on place page does not seed
[MBS-9967] – Regression: Subscribers tab in user profile is broken
[MBS-9971] – Regression: Sidebar ISNI code is not a link anymore
[MBS-9980] – Regression: “Edit User” tab link is shown to own non-admin user

Improvement

[MBS-8803] – Document [<entity>:<mbid>|<name>] links in annotation editor page
[MBS-9470] – Expose UUID of relationship attribute type
[MBS-9838] – Update 22 external link formats from http to https
[MBS-9969] – Display external links to lyrics in the sidebar
[MBS-9970] – Display links to Anison Generation, B.R.A.H.M.S. (Ircam), and Classical Archives in the sidebar

Picard 2.1 release

MusicBrainz Picard 2.1 is finally here. This version includes a lot of fixes and improvements over previous stable version (2.0.4). It is recommended to upgrade of course.

Most notably, it includes following changes:

support for MusicBrainz genres
new convenient script functions: $title and $delete
new command line option (-P, --no-plugins) allowing to skip plugin loading, which may help when a plugin is crashing Picard at start and to identify if an issue is due to a plugin or the main program
improve tags support, better compatibility with other applications, wider range of audio files supported
better stability and performance

I’d like to thank all developers, translators, testers and users who contributed to this version, kudos to Philip Wolfer (phw).

Binary packages from OSx and Windows are available from Picard Github releases page and from Picard website.

Here is the complete change log:

[PICARD-105] – Picard won’t load non-album tracks from fingerprints
[PICARD-421] – Releases in private collections are not shown as being in them
[PICARD-518] – Sliders without labels in “Options – Metadata – Preferred Releases”
[PICARD-637] – $matchedtracks is broken
[PICARD-875] – AIFF does not support any of the compatid3 tags
[PICARD-949] – Track can be placed in the incorrect spot on the release after using Scan
[PICARD-1013] – False file save error in specific circumstances
[PICARD-1060] – Collections menu not displayed correctly anymore
[PICARD-1112] – Cannot save tags that were previously deleted from file
[PICARD-1133] – Plugins list doesn’t load automatically after setting proxy
[PICARD-1162] – Solo vocals are tagged wrong
[PICARD-1219] – Picard creating empty ID3 TIPL / TMCL / IPLS frames
[PICARD-1245] – Set field “Grouping” doesn’t work as expected
[PICARD-1275] – After uninstalling a plugin Picard needs to be restarted for it to be reinstalled
[PICARD-1281] – Picard has wrong version string on macOS
[PICARD-1320] – Black text on a dark theme
[PICARD-1332] – Deleted tags for matched files stay deleted
[PICARD-1336] – MP4 reports “bpm” as unsupported tag
[PICARD-1339] – Removing unclustered files can be very slow
[PICARD-1340] – File info doesn’t display Mono / Stereo in Channels field anymore
[PICARD-1341] – Cluster track order misinterprets disc/track numbers
[PICARD-1346] – Move additional files fails if multiple patterns match
[PICARD-1348] – Keyboard shortcuts broken due to localization
[PICARD-1350] – Drag and drop on cover image box does not always work as expected
[PICARD-1355] – Setting or unsetting album for non-album tracks does not work
[PICARD-1359] – Crash with tagger integration when using DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
[PICARD-1364] – picard.exe has no version tag
[PICARD-1368] – Info messages are not shown on logging level Info
[PICARD-1369] – Crash on Python 3.7.0 opening URLs
[PICARD-1370] – Windows installer to add “Quick Launch” icon no longer supported on Win10
[PICARD-1371] – Windows installer does not warn when installing on 32 bit system
[PICARD-1373] – Source distributions are unusable
[PICARD-1374] – Picard crashes while typing a regular expression in some cases
[PICARD-1375] – Metadata sanitation before move-script execution fails
[PICARD-1376] – Error saving Ape files with tag marked for deletion that does not exist
[PICARD-1381] – Test results depend on execution order of tests
[PICARD-1397] – Do not save tags marked as unsupported
[PICARD-1398] – Snap package is missing locale files
[PICARD-1405] – Pasting formatted text into scripting window shows formatting
[PICARD-1410] – Loading Vorbis file with invalid rating value fails
[PICARD-1412] – Deleting tag counts not as important metadata change
[PICARD-1414] – Image errors lead to crash in info dialog
[PICARD-1415] – Open Containing Folder and Open with MusicPlayer does nothing for UNC paths
[PICARD-1418] – Display localized default dialogs and keyboard shortcut hints
[PICARD-1420] – Can not save wma file. TypeError: sequence item 0
[PICARD-1428] – Removing tags which are only in original file metadata not possible
[PICARD-1430] – “Authentication required” dialog does not trigger authentication
[PICARD-1431] – Some ID3 frames gets deleted even if the corresponding tags are shown as unchanged
[PICARD-1434] – Tag acoustid_id can not be removed or deleted in script
[PICARD-1436] – Text extraction of “title” and “label” for translation.
[PICARD-1437] – After reload file is being shown as changed
[PICARD-1438] – Message box buttons Yes/No aren’t translated
[PICARD-1439] – Newline character in cover art naming script causes exception on saving

New Feature

[PICARD-490] – Allow tagging AAC/ADTS files with APEv2 tags
[PICARD-1043] – Support reading & writing iTunes Classical tags
[PICARD-1045] – Check for new version
[PICARD-1268] – Support concertmaster recording relationships as performer:concertmaster
[PICARD-1273] – Add an option to exclude new cover art type “Raw / Unedited”
[PICARD-1319] – Provide cover art metadata to cover image naming script
[PICARD-1344] – Add $delete function
[PICARD-1352] – Add a command-line option to skip plugin loading
[PICARD-1354] – Allow using vocals and instruments as credited
[PICARD-1367] – Allow opening searches in browser when using search dialogs
[PICARD-1384] – Add AppStream data
[PICARD-1386] – Add $title function
[PICARD-1395] – Support genres from MusicBrainz
[PICARD-1440] – Support loading and renaming Standard MIDI Files (SMF)

Task

[PICARD-1333] – Run CI tests agaist oldest supported mutagen
[PICARD-1347] – Refactor script.py to avoid code duplication
[PICARD-1365] – Allow building with PyQt 5.11 or later
[PICARD-1442] – Support new Audio Play secondary type

Sub-task

[PICARD-1407] – Save originalalbum / originalartist to ASF/WMA
[PICARD-1408] – Save originalalbum / originalartist to APE

Improvement

[PICARD-664] – When dragging a recording, show the actual file name instead of the path
[PICARD-792] – Package a start menu tile for Windows 10 on the windows version
[PICARD-1039] – Use forward delete instead of delete button on macOS
[PICARD-1049] – Picard should use TXXX:WORK rather than TXXX:Work
[PICARD-1244] – Refresh list of plugins after uninstalling or installing a local plugin
[PICARD-1285] – There is no Close menu item in Picard 2.0 on macOS
[PICARD-1313] – Refactor plugin UI
[PICARD-1325] – Allow disabling new version update checking for packagers
[PICARD-1338] – Picard should be more resilient if it gets invalid responses from servers
[PICARD-1358] – Use macOS style widgets in the user interface of the macOS version of Picard
[PICARD-1363] – AcoustId submission for matched files is impossible when musicbrainz_recordingid is unset
[PICARD-1366] – Show Python version in about
[PICARD-1379] – Port astrcmp to new Python C Unicode API
[PICARD-1383] – Use MCN / barcode read from disc to improve DiscId lookup
[PICARD-1393] – Change the application ID
[PICARD-1416] – Should store ID3 Artists field as TXXX:ARTISTS not TXXX:Artists
[PICARD-1417] – Only show plugins with compatible API version
[PICARD-1424] – Translate AppStream data
[PICARD-1425] – Support all movement tags for APE, Vorbis and MP3
[PICARD-1426] – Map musicbrainz_originalalbumid and musicbrainz_originalartistid to MP4 and WMA
[PICARD-1443] – Sort secondary release types in UI alphabetically