beets: Better error message when MusicBrainz is unreachable
A user recently was confused by a terrible error message when their DNS was misconfigured:
Error: "caused by: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>" in
release search with query blah blah blah...
It would be great to have this instead print “MusicBrainz not reachable” (maybe with more info in the verbose log).
About this issue
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- State: closed
- Created 10 years ago
- Comments: 17 (7 by maintainers)
Commits related to this issue
- Changelog for #1190/#1272 — committed to beetbox/beets by sampsyo 9 years ago
We actually had a complete web service outage most of this (Europe time) night: http://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3596003/ - so musicbrainz.org/ws/ was inaccessible while musicbrainz.org worked fine.