MusicBrainz Blog

We’ve just finished releasing the last release for January, 2013. This release is a combination of bug fixes and improvements to existing features, and was worked on by Frederik “Freso” S. Olesen, Michael Wiencek, Nicolás Tamargo, Pavan Chander and the rest of the MusicBrainz team. Thanks for your hard work, everyone! Here’s what’s changed:

Bug

• [MBS-5022] – Release Editor: Missing entities page doesn’t handle 0 or only 1 result
• [MBS-5453] – Bad redirect(s) https→http
• [MBS-5540] – Release editor eats tracklists
• [MBS-5586] – ISE when trying to submit an “Edit artist” edit with no changes
• [MBS-5609] – JSON webservice doesn’t send relationship attributes
• [MBS-5614] – Links to edit notes to other edit notes always use http
• [MBS-5691] – Artists’ recording lists show ISRCs but don’t link to them
• [MBS-5699] – CD stubs use “disambiguation” instead of “comment”
• [MBS-5711] – IPIs missing from IPI element in JSON webservice
• [MBS-5712] – JSON webservice handles missing values inconsistently
• [MBS-5713] – Alias types missing from the JSON webservice

Improvement

• [MBS-4536] – Include the presence of cover art in the webservice
• [MBS-5304] – “Other Databases” whitelist: “Trove” ammendment
• [MBS-5447] – Bandwidth performance: revert MBS-4764 now that thumbnail quality has improved
• [MBS-5606] – Implement STYLE-160 (The Session) in code
• [MBS-5651] – Clicking link for packaging types loses all entered information
• [MBS-5652] – Release Label sorting makes no sense on Release Group page
• [MBS-5702] – Change the text on the “Read more…” link under wikipedia extracts
• [MBS-5739] – Disconnect database handle on page timeout
• [MBS-5741] – Time out edit searches in 45 seconds, rather than 30.
• [MBS-5749] – 401 error: Add link to profile edit page

Task

• [MBS-5758] – Remove schwag/store links from musicbrainz.org pages

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-01-28.

We don’t rest for seasonal holidays at MusicBrainz, and we’ve just finished pushing out another release! This one is quite a small one release – thanks to Frederik “Freso” S. Olesen, Nicolás Tamargo, Pavan Chander and the MusicBrainz team for their work on this release. Here’s what’s changed:

Bug

• [MBS-5288] – Use API when checking for WikiDoc changes
• [MBS-5497] – CAA uploads are setting x-archive-meta-mediatype to ‘images’, but it should be ‘image’
• [MBS-5664] – musicbrainz_unaccent serverlog error message

Improvement

• [MBS-2966] – Give artist credits a special mark
• [MBS-3412] – Recording name in tooltip when hovering cursor over track title
• [MBS-4605] – S3 settings in DBDefs.pm are badly named

Task

• [MBS-5440] – Add lieder.net to the lyrics whitelist
• [MBS-5684] – Add Yate Tagger to Products menu and home page
• [MBS-5685] – Add SongKong to Products menu and home page
• [MBS-5686] – Update to new Amazon Affiliate Tags

We’ve just finished pushing out a tiny little update to the MusicBrainz servers. This one improves on the ’set release group cover art’ feature, but exposing an interface to make these changes. Later work will expose this cover art in more places. So, here’s the grand list of what has changed! Thanks to the MusicBrainz developers for their work on this release.

Bug

• [MBS-4627] – Highlight all images with pending edits

Improvement

• [MBS-5265] – Add release-group front cover art support

The Git tag for this release is v-2012-11-27.

The MusicBrainz team are all mostly back after participating in Google Summer of Code and having a small face-to-face meetup, so we’ve finally got round to getting the latest release out. Because of so much travel, this is a tiny release, but here’s what’s changed:

Bug

• [MBS-4727] – Regression : Can’t add ISWC when adding work
• [MBS-5463] – Release editor fails on releases without disambiguation comment
• [MBS-5478] – Can’t unselect all recordings / works

Improvement

• [MBS-5422] – Show close time in open auto-editor elections

We’ve just finished pushing out an update today, which will be the last update before the schema change, which is now due in 2 weeks. Sadly, this release doesn’t feature the much anticipated relationship editor, which had to be reverted at the last minute as we still think it could do with more user testing. Hopefully it will make the next release!

This release features work from Aurélien Mino, Nicolás Tamargo, nikki, patate12, Pavan Chander, Ulrich Klauer and the MusicBrainz developers. Thanks for your work everyone!

Bug

• [MBS-3825] – Release Editor is not displaying the release title on the tracklist tab
• [MBS-3866] – Disambiguation comments can be the same
• [MBS-3902] – Database allows artist type group with a gender set
• [MBS-4614] – Country dropdown is sorted by English name
• [MBS-4670] – "Relate to…" maybe should not add #relate_to hash to address bar URL
• [MBS-4861] – Data loss: Changing release artist revert track numbers
• [MBS-5019] – Release group with no name created
• [MBS-5089] – Statistics: "unique" number of ISWCs is higher than "all" number of ISWCs
• [MBS-5111] – Editor statistics data regularly falls out of cache, and cannot be recomputed
• [MBS-5199] – Recording disambiguation comment is not removed when it should in RE’s recordings tab
• [MBS-5240] – Adding an IPI code to an artist with IPI pending fails
• [MBS-5241] – Add Medium/Add Release do not show up in recording edit histories
• [MBS-5242] – Add Medium edits don’t always link recordings, even those that exist
• [MBS-5250] – Non-specific dates create negative ages
• [MBS-5264] – Track Parser results in edits changing durations on tracks in mediums with discids in some cases
• [MBS-5295] – Webservice should distinguish between "" and NULL as a value for release->barcode.
• [MBS-5298] – WikiDocs links are not scheme-independent
• [MBS-5301] – gravatars do not get loaded over SSL when they should be
• [MBS-5315] – ISE moving a discid
• [MBS-5319] – QUnit testrunner is not compatible with current phantomjs versions.
• [MBS-5335] – $entity is undefined in WebServiceStash.pm

Improvement

• [MBS-1579] – Add Release editor: option to swap track title <> artist
• [MBS-4066] – Simple RE parser speed boost
• [MBS-4539] – Add h1 to release editor
• [MBS-4831] – Exclude releases with pending art edits from the CAA report
• [MBS-5152] – Allow removing a disc ID from the disc ID page
• [MBS-5281] – Display relationships on release-group overview page
• [MBS-5282] – language switcher should appear when number of languages > 1, not > 0
• [MBS-5337] – Add more classes to entity pages and when displaying edits

Task

• [MBS-2404] – Private mb dump files to be encrypted
• [MBS-5169] – Add "Rock in China" to the "Other Databases" whitelist

The Git commit SHA for this release is ce2da4b67e39821348cd849ca1957b8e15c33f52, tag is v-2012-10-01.

We’ve just finishing pushing out another update to the MusicBrainz servers. This release is mostly a bug fix release, with a few improvements thrown in for good measure. Thanks to Alastair Porter, Aurélien Mino, Nicolás Tamargo, nikki, and the MusicBrainz developers for their hard work on this release! Here’s what has changed:

Bug

• [MBS-3540] – Set track length edits can become too wide
• [MBS-3757] – ‘releasegroup’ used as the annotation type when displaying search results
• [MBS-3956] – Merging URLs can be done as auto-edit
• [MBS-4085] – Users with open edits can delete their account
• [MBS-4143] – Removing a tag from a well-tagged entity can give "undefined" as text
• [MBS-4365] – "Edit Recording Associations" displays track artists for recordings
• [MBS-4584] – Track parser doesn’t understand fullwidth full stops
• [MBS-4599] – Artist not shown next to release name in edit release label edits
• [MBS-4872] – Can’t directly add a release to a collection if no collections exist
• [MBS-4946] – Deleting account does not unset new profile fields
• [MBS-4950] – Internal server error when cancelling a recording merge instead of submitting
• [MBS-5010] – Running a slave database without READONLY database settings produces confusing exceptions
• [MBS-5029] – Cover art from downvoted ASIN still being displayed in the sidebar
• [MBS-5043] – Edit search forgets "low" data quality selection
• [MBS-5066] – IPI fields are not validated properly
• [MBS-5086] – Degrade release editor gracefully if release editor session memcached is not available.
• [MBS-5120] – Edits changing an empty cat number to a non-empty one can overwrite each other
• [MBS-5143] – Non-translatable items on "http://musicbrainz.org/relationships"
• [MBS-5164] – Non-translatable items on "http://musicbrainz.org/artist/<MBID>/edit_annotation"
• [MBS-5194] – Set primary alias for locale is auto-edit
• [MBS-5204] – & in an image comment shows up as &amp; in edits
• [MBS-5205] – Text diff incorrectly highlights first word that didn’t change
• [MBS-5209] – statistics/editors largely untranslatable
• [MBS-5210] – statistics/timeline shows the menu and page footer in English
• [MBS-5211] – (Part of) page title untranslatable for statistics/*
• [MBS-5212] – search/edits is largely untranslatable
• [MBS-5217] – Internal server error loading a report when reports have never been generated
• [MBS-5224] – Historic edits are shown incorrectly when the server is translated
• [MBS-5235] – Edit search is not correctly ordered when edits have the same open time
• [MBS-5239] – Dropdowns on "Add/Edit Relationship" pages are untranslatable
• [MBS-5248] – Subscriptions mails should not have In-Reply-To and References headers
• [MBS-5252] – data dump MD5SUMS file includes temporary paths and private dump
• [MBS-5255] – Replication trigger for release_group_secondary_type_join is misnamed and duplicates trigger for release_group_secondary_type
• [MBS-5257] – Split artist is stuck and doesn’t get removed
• [MBS-5258] – DropReplicationTriggers.sql not in sync with CreateReplicationTriggers.sql
• [MBS-5259] – Track Parser "detect track durations" is broken on releases with DiscIDs, appending lengths to Artist
• [MBS-5270] – scripts complain about LWP not being loaded
• [MBS-5271] – gravatar hash should be made of lower cased smtp address

Improvement

• [MBS-169] – Show number of subscriptions on subscriptions page
• [MBS-3360] – Remove unused tags and garbage collect tags on retagging
• [MBS-3878] – Number of votes to fail normal and low quality data should be the same
• [MBS-4465] – Cover Art Archive > Ability to navigate through zoomed cover arts
• [MBS-4638] – Show more information on the reorder cover art page
• [MBS-4779] – http://musicbrainz.org/iswc/ISWC url should accept various ISWC formatting
• [MBS-5251] – URL statistics
• [MBS-5263] – Cover art from sidebar should not be included in the set of images when you’re navigating through zoomed cover arts
• [MBS-5267] – Make fallback to language detection via browser headers optional
• [MBS-5273] – Normalise mobile Wikipedia URLs

New Feature

• [MBS-4825] – Normalize blogspot URLs

Task

• [MBS-5008] – Remove voting differences for data quality
• [MBS-5249] – Update replication triggers verbosity for the search server updater module

Sub-task

• [MBS-3135] – Predefined edit URL should be redirect/converted to standard edit searches

The Git commit SHA for this release is 8060824492, git tag v-2012-09-17.