The inevitable drawback of using tables...

EDIT: Okay, think I've worked out the solution:



And in the CSS, declare a new rule:

Weird error, guys:

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Fa ... est/162604

Try editing the release: it jumps back with a bunch of errors, claiming none of the mandatory fields are filled out.

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[EDIT: Another weird bug, this one going back to the hanging Reports tab mentioned earlier:

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Char/3540273118

... except one glance at the report history reveals that there were no reports.

WTF... checking this out now.

Edit: Oh gods... this was caused by a server security module (an anti-SQL injection feature) intercepting the POST due to the fact that the words "delete from" were present in one of the song's lyrics... I inserted a non-breaking space between the delete and the from and it seems to have worked. But this is really annoying...

Edit 2: regarding the orphan reports, it seems that this one is an old report dating back from v1, so it's largely irrelevant and I deleted it, but I could have sworn I had already taken care of the old orphan reports...

I'll bet it is. Maybe call a JS function that replaces matching said word combinations with non-breaking spaces...?

-Multiple search now supports multiple release types (singles, full-lengths, EPs, demos, etc.)

Okay, so I was adding an album and accidentally clicked the big MA logo that looms over the top of the screen...now I have to fill out the entire form again. >_> If a user is editing something and they try to click a link to another page, could the website automatically send a generic "You have unsaved changes, are you sure you want to leave" message?

That's pretty complicated to do, and no one has ever mentioned having that problem before in 9 years or so... seriously, how about you just stop derping?

Sorry but, somehow this seems fitting: "If you try to make an application foolproof, the universe will just invent a bigger fool."

Seems fair enough. I'll be more careful next time, then.

Ok, the following enhancements have been added to the band queue:

• Ability to search the queue (on the queue page itself)
• Band's timestamp is updated upon queue submission instead of keeping draft date (please let me know if that works ok, not tested in production yet)
• When adding a band, after entering the band name and country, there is now a check to see if a band with the same name/country is present in the queue OR on the site (if so, a warning appears, but the user can still hit Submit unless it's blacklisted)

Hero!

(Or heroine, rather)

Finally! Thx.

It's now possible to filter the band's modification history.

Dunno if this has been said before, but I noticed that in the moderators list people with lower-case nicknames (emperor_zola, failsafeman, helvede) are not sorted in alphabetically but tacked at the end.

So it sounds like it's sorting the moderators list case sensitively.

Yes, that's what I'm saying.

6 reviews, but the number under the album's label says 5.

I think it takes a while for that to be updated. Notice that the last review was approved today.

Hmm, looks like a minor cache issue...

Edit: now I see only 5 reviews again. The author had edited his reviews, which brought it back to the queue. I re-accepted it and now everything looks OK.

Awesome work with the "Next/Previous" links on the release page, guys. Making navigation a lot easier already.

Just one (very) little nitpick; would it be alright if had the "Discography (all)" row placed first...? I find myself reaching for the top-most button first, and I rarely (if ever) see the need to browse a discography by release-type...

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EDIT: 'Ey, refresh my memory: we're free to siphon detailed biographies off solo band pages and onto the artist's bio, aren't we?

http://www.metal-archives.com/artists/L ... Krull/1747
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Liv ... ab_members

I figure it'd be better to put "Solo project of Liv Kristine" under the band's notes and hoarding all the extra info that was on that page in her actual Bio...

Really?

It is quote hidden and should be put more in the center: above the main information field.

Definitely. Personal bio belongs to the artist's page, while info on the solo project goes on the band's page.

Thought as much. Alright, now what's the policy regarding Session members listed in legacy line-ups?

I keep seeing big chunks of member info piled onto a band's additional notes, under the title "Session Members:"... to me, this seems like a particularly crude (and messy) way of adding the data. Not to mention it does nothing to show up in the artist's Guest/Session roles if their exact album roles were unknown.

Isn't it better to simply add them as past members with " (Guest)" or " (Session)" added on? (That's only if their actual guest appearances aren't known, so there was nowhere to add them to a Guest line-up)

Okay, I'm tired of there being a discrepancy about this... Which is preferable: listing the actual track names for people who play on certain tracks, but not all of them; or listing the track positions?

What I mean is this, which of these is correct:
Logan Karkenny Vocals on tracks 10, 11
Logan Karkenny Vocals on "Labia Beautification (EP Version)" and "Appeasing the Butcher (EP Version)"

That's being discussed.


It doesn't really matter.

If it's okay with you guys, I'm gonna continue adding "band session" members in the line-ups as they were displayed in the legacy line-ups while migrating the data across, just so I can be 100% sure every link was added... Once the legacy line-ups are gone, we can take the links down and do whatever we have to. That okay?

Otherwise, it just becomes such a pain in the arse to have to try and remember which members are session members in what bands... ('Course it'd be easier if the session bands appeared in the artist line-ups, but y'know...)

I think that it can be a good thing to migrate the session members as well, and then just take it from there. It's easier to delete them if that will be the general rule, rather than to add them again, making it harder on smaller bands.

I cannot add existing artist to a newly approved band http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Doo ... /354033499. The artist is Desolate from Japan, who also plays in Grand Extreme Black, Desolate, Abyss Inferno. I search it, and click the check mark. Nothing happens.

Sorry if this has been asked before.

Um, you had the wrong ID in the URL... missing a 9. The correct URL is http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Doo ... 3540334999. I don't know if it's related (in fact, it shouldn't be...), but I just tried adding Desolate and it worked.

It's not the wrong ID thing. http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Ear ... 3540335000 This is another one-man band of Desolate. I just tried and still cannot add the artist. It should not the browser problem also, because I tried 3 browsers.

Hmm, I just tried and it was added fine :/

Yeah, I dunno what's going on... do you get any javascript error by any chance?

By the way, please don't add those blog URLs in the additional notes. I assume they're the proof of existence/physical release, so you should add them to the "submission notes" field instead, or you can add them as an external link but not in the notes field.

Did not get any javascript error... Maybe it's the 64-bit windows?


Sorry. I added them as proof of existence of physical release. Commonly, when the band was approved, I would quickly delete the notes. I will follow your instructions next time.

the bug with the artists is back the latest artists added don't appear, annoying when you have to add them to different bands

Ok, reported.

Btw, it would nice if the discography view had some numbers in it about how many items the tabs contain.

For example, like this: Complete discography (10) Main (4) Lives (1) Demos (3) Misc (2)

While the discographies grow larger, the numbers would become more useful. I'd imagine it'd be rather simple to carry out. Ensuring it looks good might be another thing.

Besides that, it's okay to add links to work places of artists? I'm talking about when it's relevant, meaninge eg. for sound engineers a link to their sound studio's website and for graphical artists a link to their art studio's website.

In case anybody else happens to copy+paste tracklists from MA to fill out ID3 tags, here's a handy bookmarklet:

http://artofalhadis.com/labs/bookmarklet.php?i=2

Just press it when on an Album page and it'll bring up the tracklist for you to copy+paste into a .txt document or whatever. Simple, but handy.

That is assuming if you're the sort who gives a fuck about tagging your Mp3s properly. XD

Requested.


Sure.

Any chance the bug with artists will be repaired soon? annoying to correct some reports & add members

The site owners are on vacations right now, so we'll have to wait unless they'll be able to fix it earlier.

Fixed.