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@MichelleFindlay MichelleFindlay released this 09 Oct 19:07
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v1.6.8
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New

Sales certification badges. Tracks certified in the UK (BPI) or US (RIAA) now show a small record-disc icon, coloured by the highest level reached: Silver, Gold, Platinum or Diamond. Multi-platinum and multi-diamond tracks also show the multiplier (e.g. 12×). Hover the disc to see each region's award and unit count:

UK (BPI): 12× Platinum · 7,200,000 units
US (RIAA): Diamond · 10,000,000 units

Certifications come from the certification tables on English Wikipedia song articles, which cite BPI and RIAA directly; neither body offers a public API. A track only gets a badge when the article clearly matches both the track and the artist, and cover versions on the same page are ignored. RIAA Latin certifications are labelled "(Latin)" and never outrank a standard certification.

Explicit marker. Explicit tracks get the familiar boxed E, based on Apple Music's and Spotify's explicit flags.

"In films" on hover. Album-art tooltips now list the films a track appears in, taken from the soundtrack albums it's on in MusicBrainz. Films load the first time you hover a track and are then cached.

Listen links for the previous track. The "Previously played" card now has small Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music and Amazon Music icons.

"Powered by" footer. The footer now credits the services the dashboard uses: Last.fm, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Fixed

  • Apple Music and Spotify searches no longer cache a rate-limit or error response as "no match" for 30 days. Before, this could leave tracks without album art or listen links for a month after a busy cold-cache run.

Upgrading

  • No config changes are needed.
  • The server now also connects to musicbrainz.org and en.wikipedia.org. If your host restricts outbound requests, allow both.
  • Each track is looked up once more on Apple Music/Spotify to pick up its explicit flag, and once on Wikipedia for certifications. The first page loads after upgrading may be slower. Running cron.php warms these lookups in the background.
  • Film lookups are kept under MusicBrainz's limit of one request per second, so a track's films can take a moment to appear the first time you hover it.

Known limitations

  • Film data only covers songs that appear on a film's soundtrack album. Some TV and compilation soundtracks may still slip through.
  • Certifications only cover tracks that have an English Wikipedia article. Only the UK and US are shown.
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