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Version 2.8.2 - 2022-07-07

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2480 - Lookup CD from EAC log generates incorrect Disc ID from Enhanced CDs
  • PICARD-2498 - Except for the description no HTML should be allowed in plugin metadata
  • PICARD-2505 - Cover art type "matrix/runout" causes a folder "matrix" being created when saving cover art
  • PICARD-2506 - fpcalc errors out with paths > 259 characters
  • PICARD-2507 - CD pregap track not included in totaltracks
  • PICARD-2508 - Scripts being run repeatedly when script editor is open, can result in data duplication for scripts appending to existing tags
  • PICARD-2515 - macOS: Swatches not coloured in Options > User Interface > Colours
  • PICARD-2518 - Keyboard shortcuts not working in Italian localization

Improvements

  • PICARD-2504 - Increase default query limit and make it configurable
  • PICARD-2516 - Support CAA cover art types "Top" and "Bottom"
  • PICARD-2517 - Support media type "Mixed Mode CD"

Version 2.8.1 - 2022-06-07

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2489 - Preferred Releases UI not loading in Options menu on FreeBSD
  • PICARD-2491 - Crash upon loading album information for releases with MBID redirects
  • PICARD-2493 - If locales for picard-countries or picard-attributes are missing UI translation is completely skipped
  • PICARD-2494 - Remove empty info dialog for "[standalone-recordings]" special album entry

Version 2.8 - 2022-05-24

Tasks

  • PICARD-2484 - Update bundled PyJWT to 2.4.0 for Windows and macOS builds

Version 2.8.0rc2 - 2022-05-12

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2465 - RecursionError after dragging folder from file browser
  • PICARD-2470 - CD Lookup error: utf-8 codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte
  • PICARD-2472 - Cluster action applies to already matched albums
  • PICARD-2473 - CD disc ID from log files is unavailable on Windows if there is no CD drive
  • PICARD-2474 - Revert PICARD-2420: Adding a file with existing AcoustID fingerprint and recording MBID in the tags activates submission
  • PICARD-2475 - If search dialog query contains an MBID "Lookup in browser" will not open in browser

Version 2.8.0rc1 - 2022-05-03

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1570 - Windows: Files with path length > 259 char fail to load
  • PICARD-2292 - When a recording is a performance of multiple works, any instrumental performance attribute erases all other lyrics languages
  • PICARD-2368 - Matching files compares "totaltracks" to the total no. of tracks across all mediums on the release
  • PICARD-2398 - "Use track relationships" doesn't work on large releases
  • PICARD-2399 - Crash on login if options get closed before login requests finished
  • PICARD-2417 - macOS: Expand/Collapse tracklist should use Left cursor to collapse
  • PICARD-2420 - Adding a file with existing AcoustID fingerprint and recording MBID in the tags activates submission
  • PICARD-2423 - Dragging album with multiple files matched to a track back to unmatched moves only half of the files
  • PICARD-2425 - Picard crashes when accessing WinFSP / SSHFS-Win share
  • PICARD-2430 - "Submit cluster as release" drops text after quotation marks
  • PICARD-2435 - File naming examples crash if selected target directory exceeds Windows path limit
  • PICARD-2440 - FLAC cover art does not preserve ID3 image type
  • PICARD-2453 - "Submit cluster as release" won't submit catalog number if there is no label tag
  • PICARD-2454 - UI blocks when loading releases with a huge amount of tracks
  • PICARD-2457 - "Search for similar albums" loads cover art into wrong rows
  • PICARD-2459 - Crash if temporary cover art files are removed from disk
  • PICARD-2461 - File does not show error icon after saving
  • PICARD-2463 - Cover art box does not handle different screen scalings on multi-screen setups
  • PICARD-2464 - Cover art stack on HiDPI displays rendered too small

New Features

  • PICARD-1455 - Use EAC / XLD log files for disc ID lookup
  • PICARD-2410 - Use Whipper log files for disc ID lookup
  • PICARD-2411 - Add option to remove broken seektable from FLAC files

Tasks

  • PICARD-2332 - Convert code to use scoped PyQt enums
  • PICARD-2422 - Remove AcousticBrainz analysis and submission features

Improvements

  • PICARD-993 - Better error icons for file loading / saving errors
  • PICARD-2076 - Respect Windows 10 > 1607 removal of 260 limit on filenames
  • PICARD-2282 - Provide ability to import and export Picard config
  • PICARD-2349 - Use consistent terminology for "standalone recordings"
  • PICARD-2369 - Renamed "Preferred release formats" to "Preferred medium formats"
  • PICARD-2379 - Script options: Clarify what activating / deactivating scripts means
  • PICARD-2380 - Update to fpcalc 1.5.1 for Windows / macOS packages
  • PICARD-2382 - Make it easier to create a multi-value field value containing duplicate values
  • PICARD-2392 - Allow multi-value variables to contain empty strings
  • PICARD-2396 - Do not submit AcoustID fingerprints on significant track length mismatch
  • PICARD-2402 - Make end argument optional for $substr() function
  • PICARD-2405 - Support CAA cover art type "Matrix/Runout"
  • PICARD-2407 - Set browser integration port in add cluster as release functionality
  • PICARD-2409 - Allow searching and dropping MusicBrainz disc ID URLs
  • PICARD-2415 - Make "Other versions" easier to access as a separate dialog
  • PICARD-2419 - Improve track number from filename detection to not treat e.g. UB40 at end of filename as track number
  • PICARD-2421 - Consider track MBID when matching files to tracks
  • PICARD-2437 - Tag editor dialog box should say “OK” instead of “Save"

Version 2.7.3 - 2022-01-13

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2395 - macOS 10.13: On launch app is reported as damaged

Version 2.7.2 - 2022-01-11

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2375 - Loading indicator when loading releases stays near zero
  • PICARD-2377 - Crash on start if system reports a standard location path that no longer exists
  • PICARD-2378 - Windows: AcousticBrainz submission submits full path to files instead of just the basename
  • PICARD-2386 - Artist field sorts characters with diacritic after z
  • PICARD-2389 - Unsupported locale error on Windows
  • PICARD-2390 - "Default listening port" label only partially shown

Improvements

  • PICARD-2373 - Make $slice() "end" parameter optional
  • PICARD-2374 - Remove rate limit for archive.org
  • PICARD-2388 - Support .m4r file extension for MP4 (iTunes Ringtone files)

Version 2.7.1 - 2021-12-21

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2363 - ID3 v2.3 files show as changed directly after saving
  • PICARD-2366 - Auto analyze / auto cluster only works if files are loaded via built-in file browser
  • PICARD-2367 - Crash when dropping an album onto "Clusters"
  • PICARD-2372 - Settings changed in profile not always saved

Improvements

  • PICARD-2365 - Allow building / packaging with PyYAML 6

Version 2.7 - 2021-12-16

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2346 - ID3v2.3 files show as changed, even if no tags changed and no tag changes are indicated
  • PICARD-2351 - Windows: System language detection broken
  • PICARD-2352 - Log view colors are not restored after a clear
  • PICARD-2353 - Post cluster focus regression
  • PICARD-2361 - Removing files while clustering
  • PICARD-2362 - Added __pycache__ directories make builds unreproducible

Version 2.7.0b3 - 2021-12-02

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2320 - macOS: Picard 2.6.4 segfault upon authorization/login prompt
  • PICARD-2328 - Crash on startup with Python 3.10
  • PICARD-2329 - Changing the enabled options doesn't update the naming script
  • PICARD-2330 - Changes do not show when script editor is closed and re-opened from Options dialog
  • PICARD-2342 - Saving cover images to WMA or MP4 files fails if "clear existing tags" and "keep embedded images" are active

Improvements

  • PICARD-2325 - Show MusicBrainz login errors
  • PICARD-2327 - macOS: Treat files with hidden attribute as hidden files
  • PICARD-2334 - Have script editor consistently save to configuration
  • PICARD-2339 - Improve clustering performance
  • PICARD-2340 - Use configured name for Various Artists for clusters with unknown artist name
  • PICARD-2344 - Add more settings to option profiles

Version 2.7.0b2 - 2021-11-09

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2290 - macOS: System wide dark mode is not respected
  • PICARD-2291 - Portable Picard 2.7.0b1 on Windows can conflict with system wide Qt5 install
  • PICARD-2293 - macOS: 2.7 beta 1 for macOS 10.12+ requires macOS 10.14
  • PICARD-2294 - Incorrect local file cover art regex can lead to exception
  • PICARD-2297 - Loading many files can cause some files to be skipped and not loaded
  • PICARD-2302 - First function in naming script not displaying tooltip
  • PICARD-2307 - Unable to save Vorbis Comments after $delete script with tag name that's not valid in Vorbis
  • PICARD-2308 - Add cluster as release does not set track artists
  • PICARD-2311 - ID3 cover art types, as used by ID3, ASF, FLAC and Vorbis, are not preserved
  • PICARD-2314 - Hidden variable ~length gets written to MP4 tags
  • PICARD-2318 - Submit AcousticBrainz features enabled on unmatched files
  • PICARD-2321 - "Keep original cover art" for tracks not showing correctly
  • PICARD-2322 - If files are attached to album on load cover art changes are not shown on album level
  • PICARD-2324 - WavPack correction files are identified as duplicates to their WavPack files and renamed

New Features

Improvements

  • PICARD-2239 - Save option settings to specified profile
  • PICARD-2299 - Extend genre wildcard filtering with "?" and "[...]" matching
  • PICARD-2301 - Slight rewording of "CAA" cover art provider options
  • PICARD-2305 - Restructure user interface options
  • PICARD-2306 - Disable "Convert Unicode Punctuation" option by default

Version 2.7.0b1 - 2021-10-07

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-157 - "Translate artist names to this locale where possible" also translates ones already in the correct locale
  • PICARD-1645 - Picard doesn't respect MusicBrainz server settings for the CD lookup in browser functionality
  • PICARD-2189 - Network cache directory at wrong location on Windows
  • PICARD-2217 - $performer() pattern matches full tag name
  • PICARD-2233 - Composer Sort Order doesn't use the artist sort name when the "credited as" text is populated
  • PICARD-2236 - Renaming files with "replace non-ascii" treats fullwidth slash U+FF0F as directory separator
  • PICARD-2253 - Tagging script name can be changed to empty string
  • PICARD-2261 - Any tagger script causes multi-line fields to become changed
  • PICARD-2276 - Fix browser integration on Windows if hostname contains non-ASCII characters

New Features

  • PICARD-9 - Options profiles / quick presets
  • PICARD-257 - Option to preserve artwork when selecting "clear existing tags"
  • PICARD-1127 - Filename presets
  • PICARD-1734 - Add AcousticBrainz analyzer features
  • PICARD-2165 - Add $is_multi() function to test if a variable is multi-value
  • PICARD-2203 - Integrate add cluster as release functionality into Picard
  • PICARD-2204 - Support unicode escape sequences in tagger scripts
  • PICARD-2213 - Allow naming script import/export as YAML scripting package
  • PICARD-2277 - When translating artist names ignore selected scripts
  • PICARD-2279 - Allow saving AcoustID fingerprint in acoustid_fingerprint tag

Tasks

  • PICARD-2231 - Fix packaging Picard on Windows with Python 3.8 or later

Improvements

  • PICARD-226 - Cluster automatically
  • PICARD-412 - Allow several locales to be selected for "Translate artist names to this locale where possible"
  • PICARD-524 - Ability to have more that one rename script and choose desired
  • PICARD-563 - Pad disc number in default renaming script if more than 9 discs
  • PICARD-1568 - Improve parsing track number and title from filename
  • PICARD-1718 - Display and log crash details
  • PICARD-2150 - Option to show or hide the tag editor
  • PICARD-2151 - Provide functions $year(), $month(), $day()
  • PICARD-2171 - Make guessing title from filename if title is empty optional
  • PICARD-2174 - Optimize metadata view displaying format specific metadata
  • PICARD-2176 - Add column to see if cover art is present
  • PICARD-2178 - Select random sample of loaded files to use as renaming examples
  • PICARD-2179 - Refactor Options > File naming
  • PICARD-2181 - Support Markdown formatting for plugin descriptions
  • PICARD-2184 - Allow fully silent install using the Windows installer
  • PICARD-2198 - Update formats for Tefifon and 5.25" Floppy Disk
  • PICARD-2201 - Add help button to "Tags from file names" dialog
  • PICARD-2207 - Script editor: Show hover tooltip on Unicode escape sequences and functions
  • PICARD-2215 - Add function $countryname() to get country name from country code
  • PICARD-2218 - $performer() should allow regular expressions
  • PICARD-2220 - Set default file extension for files with empty extension
  • PICARD-2232 - Allow data submission to unofficial server
  • PICARD-2237 - Realistic progress and ETA
  • PICARD-2248 - Lazily initialize the file browser on first display
  • PICARD-2251 - Add ability to import/export tagging scripts
  • PICARD-2263 - Performers without role do not get saved to TMCL (TIPL respectively) frames
  • PICARD-2266 - Add already mapped tags gapless, podcast, podcasturl, show and showsort to list of known tags
  • PICARD-2271 - Allow removing obsolete option settings from configuration INI file
  • PICARD-2273 - Set acoustid_id tag also if AcoustIDs were found, but no recordings are attached
  • PICARD-2278 - Show the path and name of the configuration currently used
  • PICARD-2288 - Add variable %_workcomment% for the work disambiguation comment

Version 2.6.4 - 2021-10-06

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2199 - Saving ID3 ratings fails, if rating e-mail contains non latin-1 characters
  • PICARD-2200 - Copy and pasting function names from inline scripting docs can copy Unicode left-to-right mark
  • PICARD-2230 - Picard fails to start on Windows if the hostname contains non-ASCII characters and browser integration is enabled
  • PICARD-2269 - "TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call" with Python 3.10
  • PICARD-2274 - Picard 2.6.3 crashes when track is removed or moved during lookup

Version 2.6.3 - 2021-06-07

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2205 - Syntax highlighting ignores functions starting with underscore or numbers
  • PICARD-2206 - Fix tab order in option pages
  • PICARD-2209 - Minimizing / maximizing Picard window registers desktop status indicator multiple times
  • PICARD-2214 - Backslash at end of script raises TypeError
  • PICARD-2219 - Empty file naming script causes files to be renamed to _ext
  • PICARD-2226 - Some config changes are not applied until restart

Version 2.6.2 - 2021-04-27

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2188 - Plugin update can fetch old version from network cache
  • PICARD-2191 - Revert title and track number guessed from filename should show up as changed metadata

Version 2.6.1 - 2021-04-15

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2160 - Switching dark mode in macOS preferences does not change list elements leading to mix of light and dark mode
  • PICARD-2166 - "Use original values" for a tag on a large selection takes very long with a high CPU usage
  • PICARD-2168 - Keyboard shortcut to trigger script editor auto completion does not work on macOS
  • PICARD-2170 - Title and track number guessed from filename should show up as changed metadata
  • PICARD-2173 - "Search for similar tracks" is enabled by default, causes crash if used without selection
  • PICARD-2187 - Scripting error in file naming options is not displayed properly

New Features

  • PICARD-2161 - Add script function $unique to remove duplicate values from multi-value variables
  • PICARD-2177 - Add script function $replacemulti to replace entries in multi-value variables

Improvements

  • PICARD-2157 - Reduce comparison overhead of logging window
  • PICARD-2162 - Coverart box is slow to update when many files are selected
  • PICARD-2185 - Remove empty elements from $map() output

Version 2.6 - 2021-03-30

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2156 - macOS: Use Cmd+Shift+H instead of Cmd+H for opening history view to avoid conflicts with system keyboard shortcut to hide window
  • PICARD-2159 - macOS: Scripting Documentation dialog opens behind options dialog

Improvements

  • PICARD-2158 - Make Scripting Documentation dialog available in renaming script
  • PICARD-2164 - Add shortcut Ctrl+T for "Search for similar tracks"

Version 2.6.0b3 - 2021-03-20

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2135 - Tags license and website cannot be deleted and get duplicated on update for ID3
  • PICARD-2136 - macOS: File browser does not use user's home folder by default
  • PICARD-2138 - macOS: After saving options the toolbar style changes

Improvements

  • PICARD-1357 - Support dark mode on macOS Mojave 10.14 and later
  • PICARD-2095 - Allow the user to choose between light or dark theme on Windows and macOS

Version 2.6.0b2 - 2021-03-06

Bugfixes

Improvements

  • PICARD-2130 - Restructure cover art options to make them easier to understand

Version 2.6.0b1 - 2021-03-02

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1528 - "Search for similar albums" causes crashes if the selection includes clusters and files
  • PICARD-1689 - Freezes when adding tags to large album
  • PICARD-1747 - macOS: Tearing when scrolling list of plugins
  • PICARD-1926 - "Show changes first" in tag preview window leads to freeze
  • PICARD-2088 - Picard hangs when adding new tag to multiple tracks in an album
  • PICARD-2091 - Loading images from cover art via drag and drop from browser only loads PNG and JPEG images
  • PICARD-2097 - Crash with zh_CN locale
  • PICARD-2113 - Script can change title of "Unclustered files" special cluster
  • PICARD-2127 - "Lookup in browser" in metadata box does not pass tagger port

New Features

  • PICARD-204 - Support for track-level original release date
  • PICARD-1998 - Add "director" (for videos) tag
  • PICARD-2089 - Support WebP images for cover art
  • PICARD-2124 - Add MB release annotation field as %_releaseannotation% variable

Tasks

  • PICARD-715 - Chrome to block browser access to localhost
  • PICARD-1950 - Fix macOS builds with PyQt > 5.13.2

Improvements

  • PICARD-2084 - Use TLS for AcoustID web service requests
  • PICARD-2090 - Reenable TIFF support for cover art images
  • PICARD-2092 - Improve script editor function/variable auto completion
  • PICARD-2105 - Improve script function popup descriptions
  • PICARD-2110 - Add %originaldate% and %originalyear% to file naming examples
  • PICARD-2114 - Show disambiguation comment in CD Lookup popup window
  • PICARD-2125 - Enable CAA Release Group cover art provider by default
  • PICARD-2126 - Allow cross origin access to browser integration

Version 2.5.6 - 2021-01-05

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1943 - App does not start on macOS 10.12 / 10.13, Gatekeeper reports it as damaged
  • PICARD-2074 - Crash when trying to add new tags
  • PICARD-2083 - Snap version: path to fpcalc gets invalid after update
  • PICARD-2087 - Adding new tags crashes Picard with Qt < 5.10

Version 2.5.5 - 2020-12-17

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2070 - Lookup on cluster only moves every other file
  • PICARD-2071 - Track listings sometimes in reverse order

Version 2.5.4 - 2020-12-15

Bugfixes

Version 2.5.3 - 2020-12-15

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-2016 - AcoustID API Key is not stripped
  • PICARD-2017 - Picard crashes when removing entries on the right side while loading
  • PICARD-2019 - Saving tracks to SMB share on Windows 10 results in ever more nested folders
  • PICARD-2020 - Multi-value album or recording ID tags prevent Picard from loading the proper albums
  • PICARD-2021 - SameFileError when moving files between network path and local path on Windows
  • PICARD-2022 - Crash accessing network share without access rights on Windows
  • PICARD-2023 - Appdata file not generated on non-Linux platforms
  • PICARD-2028 - Deleting albums and saving files is extremely slow
  • PICARD-2031 - Scripting documentation link 404
  • PICARD-2036 - MultiMetadataProxy::pop is not flagged as a WRITE_METHOD; this breaks the "keep" plugin
  • PICARD-2037 - Improve Info/Error tab readability
  • PICARD-2045 - After fingerprint, unsaved tracks have green tick
  • PICARD-2050 - File selector pane jumps around horizontally instead of expanding / collapsing the folder
  • PICARD-2056 - Interface color changes are not saved
  • PICARD-2058 - Add File dialog does not show files with uppercase extension on case-sensitive file systems
  • PICARD-2059 - Scripting Documentation shows extra line for each function
  • PICARD-2062 - Searching for similar tracks can remove current album even if there are unmatched tracks
  • PICARD-2064 - Cluster shows empty album column

Improvements

  • PICARD-2034 - Add context menu entry for copy and paste to metadata view
  • PICARD-2035 - More verbose tooltip for album error icon
  • PICARD-2038 - Integrate metadata box clipboard with system clipboard
  • PICARD-2039 - Unify error handling for albums, non-album tracks and files, show errors in info dialog
  • PICARD-2044 - Add date and originaldate fields to the choice of columns in the list views
  • PICARD-2046 - AcoustID submission can fail due to body size limit of AcoustID server
  • PICARD-2047 - Improve contrast for console text in dark mode
  • PICARD-2057 - Allow showing all files in Add Files dialog
  • PICARD-2063 - Add an option to disable automatic horizontal scrolling in file browser

Version 2.5.2 - 2020-11-15

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1948 - ScaleFactorRoundPolicy breaks text rendering on Linux
  • PICARD-1991 - Case-only changes to file names are not applied on case insensitive file systems on Linux
  • PICARD-1992 - Case-only changes to file names are not applied on FAT32 and exFAT file systems on Windows 10
  • PICARD-2001 - Directory drag & drop from file browser to cluster area broken
  • PICARD-2004 - Metadata changes loaded asynchronously by plugins are reset if file gets matched to track
  • PICARD-2005 - Modified fields are sometimes not correctly marked as changed when multiple files are selected
  • PICARD-2006 - "Local files" cover provider does not detect cover files for files already present at release loading time
  • PICARD-2012 - Loaded files not shown in UI if release MBID is a redirect
  • PICARD-2014 - Config upgrade from Picard < 1.3.0 to version 2.4 or later fails

Improvements

  • PICARD-1828 - Allow assigning cover art to multiple selected files
  • PICARD-1999 - Provide binary distributions for Windows and macOS on PyPI
  • PICARD-2007 - Disable analyze / audio fingerprinting for MIDI files

Version 2.5.1 - 2020-10-28

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1987 - Special variables %_multiartist%, %_pregap%, %_datatrack% and %_totalalbumtracks% missing after files got matched to a track
  • PICARD-1988 - Aborts if directory scan finds a directory which cannot be read
  • PICARD-1989 - Auto-sizing does not work right on first column
  • PICARD-1990 - Case-only changes to file names are not applied on Windows if running with Python >= 3.8

Improvements

  • PICARD-1985 - Support chorus master recording relationships as "performer:chorus master" instead of second conductor
  • PICARD-1995 - Add command line parameter --no-player to disable media player
  • PICARD-1997 - Reduce performance impact of fingerprinting column

Version 2.5 - 2020-10-22

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-214 - Take case insensitive file systems into account when renaming files
  • PICARD-1972 - Times missing in bottom panel
  • PICARD-1973 - Multi-value tags getting flattened when files get matched to tracks
  • PICARD-1974 - Picard crashes when using the same tag name more than once in "Tags from File Names..."
  • PICARD-1975 - Tags from file names does not properly set hidden tags
  • PICARD-1976 - Cover art providers do not handle URLs with query arguments correctly
  • PICARD-1979 - Comment tag in MP4 not saved correctly
  • PICARD-1982 - Cover art not saving properly

Improvements

  • PICARD-1978 - Add keyboard shortcut for Tags From Filenames and allow to place it in toolbar

Version 2.5.0b1 - 2020-10-15

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1858 - MusicBrainz Picard does not respond on macOS 11 Big Sur Beta
  • PICARD-1882 - Scripting text not well readable with dark theme on KDE
  • PICARD-1888 - Returning tracks to cluster uses matched release rather than what's in the files
  • PICARD-1932 - Failed AcoustID submission shows as successful
  • PICARD-1939 - Crash when "Remove" button is hit without picking a file first
  • PICARD-1941 - Unchanged multi-value tags on tracks show up as changed
  • PICARD-1954 - Right-clicking on album with "could not load album" message crashes
  • PICARD-1956 - It is possible to have the same file multiple times inside the same cluster
  • PICARD-1961 - Capitalization for non-standardized instruments
  • PICARD-1963 - Possible stack overflow when loading files
  • PICARD-1964 - Scripting documentation does not support RTL languages
  • PICARD-1969 - Browser integration port changes without saving options
  • PICARD-1971 - Tags from file names dialog does not restore window size

New Features

  • PICARD-259 - Make file-specific variables and metadata available to tagger script
  • PICARD-534 - Support SOCKS proxy
  • PICARD-1908 - Allow loading release group URLs / MBIDs
  • PICARD-1942 - Display tracklist in Info dialog for loaded releases
  • PICARD-1946 - Map "vocal arranger" rel to arranger tag

Improvements

  • PICARD-1390 - Apply a network timeout to avoid network requests hanging indefinitely
  • PICARD-1782 - Allow locking table headers to prevent accidental resorting
  • PICARD-1879 - When dragging tracks onto a release add those tracks sequentially
  • PICARD-1906 - Clarify uninstall message in Windows installer
  • PICARD-1936 - Rename the "Whitelist" cover art provider to "Allowed Cover Art URLs"
  • PICARD-1937 - Add context menu entry to cover art box to browse for local file
  • PICARD-1938 - Add context menu option to load files / folders from file browser
  • PICARD-1951 - Avoid complete hiding of metadata box or file panes
  • PICARD-1952 - Allow using native Qt styles on Linux
  • PICARD-1955 - Use built-in search by default for new installs
  • PICARD-1957 - Load files in file browser on double click
  • PICARD-1958 - macOS: Offer link to Applications folder in disk image
  • PICARD-1959 - In disc ID dialog rename "Lookup in Browser" to "Submit disc ID"
  • PICARD-1960 - Allow adding new items in list editor views using Insert key
  • PICARD-1965 - Allow opening fingerprinting options in AcoustID missing API key dialog

Tasks

  • PICARD-1929 - Make NSIS installer translations available on Transifex

Version 2.4.4 - 2020-09-04

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1931 - Regression: "Unmatched Files" do not appear when release was deleted from MB

Version 2.4.3 - 2020-09-04

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1916 - Picard crashes on older releases of macOS due to theming exception
  • PICARD-1918 - Saving files fails if there is no front image and "Save only one front image as separate file" is enabled
  • PICARD-1921 - Windows 10: With dark theme inactive checkboxes cannot be distinguished from active ones
  • PICARD-1928 - After clustering fingerprint icon disappears
  • PICARD-1931 - Regression: "Unmatched Files" do not appear when release was deleted from MB

Improvements

Version 2.4.2 - 2020-08-18

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1909 - No refresh of metadata on "Use Original Value" or remove tags
  • PICARD-1911 - Removing tags does not update list views
  • PICARD-1913 - Changing tags of a track without matched files changes original metadata
  • PICARD-1914 - Editing track metadata edits data of previously linked file
  • PICARD-1915 - An album selected during loading should update the metadata view when loading has finished
  • PICARD-1916 - Picard crashes on older releases of macOS due to theming exception

Improvements

Version 2.4.1 - 2020-08-11

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1904 - Picard 2.4 does not start on Windows 7 and Windows 8

Version 2.4 - 2020-08-10

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1763 - App does not start on macOS 10.13 High Sierra
  • PICARD-1873 - Scripting documentation uses an ugly font on Windows
  • PICARD-1881 - Function names in script documentation not readable with dark theme
  • PICARD-1884 - No tracknumber tag if track number is 0
  • PICARD-1889 - "Use track relationships" is including release relationships
  • PICARD-1890 - User is warned about color changes when exiting options, even if no change was made
  • PICARD-1891 - Crash parsing bad date in metadata
  • PICARD-1892 - Deleting "Total Tracks" or "Total Discs" from Vorbis tags causes save to fail
  • PICARD-1894 - Detecting track number from filename wrongly detects leading or trailing numbers
  • PICARD-1896 - Instrument arranger is not being mapped for tagging using the correct key
  • PICARD-1902 - Crash when typing $noop(\) in the script editor

New Features

  • PICARD-1128 - Support Microsoft WAVE format (RIFF/WAVE) tagging with ID3
  • PICARD-1839 - Support DSDIFF (DFF) files

Improvements

  • PICARD-1812 - Support RIFF INFO chunks for WAVE files
  • PICARD-1871 - Use tag list editor for preserved tags
  • PICARD-1875 - Improve function documentation for $firstalphachar
  • PICARD-1878 - Inefficient reading of tracks leads to slow saving on some file systems and network shares
  • PICARD-1880 - Use Consolas font on Windows for monospace font (script editor, log view etc.)
  • PICARD-1887 - On macOS use dark syntax theme if dark mode is enabled (currently only when running from source)

Version 2.4.0b2 - 2020-07-05

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1864 - Adding single files does ignore existing MBIDs
  • PICARD-1866 - Coverart pane does not update during / after saving files
  • PICARD-1867 - Guess format fallback is broken
  • PICARD-1868 - CAA type selection dialog does not translate "Unknown"

Version 2.4.0b1 - 2020-07-01

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1753 - Fix font size of script editor and log view on Windows
  • PICARD-1807 - Wrong error handling when using python-libdiscid
  • PICARD-1813 - $title function throws error on empty value
  • PICARD-1820 - PLUGIN_VERSION no longer displayed correctly in plugins dialog
  • PICARD-1823 - Genre tag ordering is non-deterministic
  • PICARD-1826 - "no appropriate stream found" when saving .ogg (OPUS) file
  • PICARD-1838 - Files with a .dff file extension are interpreted as DSF files and fail to load
  • PICARD-1853 - Crash if tags contain null character
  • PICARD-1855 - Relationships not tagged for non-album track
  • PICARD-1859 - "ValueError: Invalid literal" followed by crash when opening certain files

New Features

  • PICARD-1704 - Support Windows 10 dark mode
  • PICARD-1797 - Autocompletion for script functions and variables
  • PICARD-1798 - Add support for inline translatable documentation

Improvements

  • PICARD-824 - Expand all option submenus by default
  • PICARD-920 - Remember selected options page
  • PICARD-1117 - Instrumental recordings of a work should set language to "No lyrics"
  • PICARD-1796 - Consider release date when matching files to releases
  • PICARD-1805 - Make it easier to add the first script
  • PICARD-1818 - Make PyQt5.QtDBus optional
  • PICARD-1829 - Add support for disc numbers in cluster Info dialog tracklists
  • PICARD-1831 - Mitigate performance impacts of file selection and UI updates during processing
  • PICARD-1840 - Instrumental recordings of a work should drop the lyricist credit
  • PICARD-1842 - AIFF and DSF: Add support for albumsort, artistsort, titlesort and discsubtitle
  • PICARD-1843 - Improve load and clustering performance
  • PICARD-1844 - Further improve loading and clustering performance
  • PICARD-1845 - Add "lookup in browser" for musicbrainz_discid tag in metadata view
  • PICARD-1846 - Metadata.unset should not raise KeyError
  • PICARD-1847 - Restructure tag compatibility options
  • PICARD-1852 - Make about a separate dialog
  • PICARD-1854 - Improve sorting performance in main window
  • PICARD-1856 - Use pgettext function in Python 3.8

Version 2.3.2 - 2020-05-06

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1775 - $firstwords function doesn't catch IndexError
  • PICARD-1776 - $datetime crashes when invalid format specified
  • PICARD-1781 - Have $find return "" rather than "-1" on not found
  • PICARD-1783 - Deleting performer, comment or lyrics tag fails for some cases in ID3, Vorbis, MP4 and Apev2 tags
  • PICARD-1784 - Host not found error when downloading PDF artwork
  • PICARD-1785 - $delete(_id3:TXXX:foo) does not delete the ID3 frames
  • PICARD-1786 - Deleting tag stored in ID3 TIPL frame only removes first occurrence
  • PICARD-1787 - Deleting case-insensitive TXXX frames does not delete anything
  • PICARD-1788 - Saving ID3 tags marked as case-insensitive causes duplicated TXXX frames
  • PICARD-1790 - Crash when selecting plugin that can be updated
  • PICARD-1791 - Network access is disabled error under VPN service
  • PICARD-1795 - iTunes tags not removable (reappear after being deleted)
  • PICARD-1801 - List index out of range when saving Vorbis file
  • PICARD-1803 - Instrument EWI is rewritten "e w i"

Improvements

  • PICARD-1777 - Support fractional scaling on Windows 10
  • PICARD-1800 - Simplify Unicode 'Bullet' to ASCII 'Hyphen-minus'
  • PICARD-1809 - Optimize format detection logic

Version 2.3.1 - 2020-02-27

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1745 - Packaged libdiscid is not compatible with macOS 10.12
  • PICARD-1748 - Many release events can cause the versions context menu to overflow
  • PICARD-1750 - Existing acoustid_fingerprint tags are not considered for AcoustID submission
  • PICARD-1754 - DEL always removes release or file from main window
  • PICARD-1756 - Plugin update fails to compare plugin versions with double digit versions
  • PICARD-1757 - Crash on loading a release if $div(n,0) is used in a script
  • PICARD-1760 - Prevent duplicates in top tags editor
  • PICARD-1762 - Dropping a PDF file on cover art image box doesn't work
  • PICARD-1765 - Adding uppercase tags to preserved tags list is not handled correctly
  • PICARD-1772 - Unexpected results with $num function
  • PICARD-1773 - Untrapped error on $mod with zero input
  • PICARD-1774 - $lenmulti with missing name returns "1"

New Features

  • PICARD-1743 - Add script functions $sortmulti and $reversemulti to sort and reverse multi-value variables
  • PICARD-1751 - Provide a %_releasecountries% variable

Improvements

  • PICARD-1746 - Change Generate AcoustID Fingerprints shortcut to Ctrl+Shift+Y / ⌘⇧Y
  • PICARD-1752 - Use preferred release countries to select a matching release country if there are multiple
  • PICARD-1755 - "Supported Languages" on Microsoft Store shows only English (United States)
  • PICARD-1759 - Make editing tags in top tags list more intuitive
  • PICARD-1771 - Completely ignore release types set to zero in preferred releases

Version 2.3 - 2020-02-17

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1739 - Update check does not handle alpha, beta and rc versions properly
  • PICARD-1744 - Invalid ignore path regex can crash Picard

Improvements

Version 2.3.0rc1 - 2020-02-11

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1688 - "Submit AcoustIDs" fails with many tracks
  • PICARD-1719 - $unset marks tag for deletion
  • PICARD-1724 - Fingerprint status on left should not be submittable (red)
  • PICARD-1725 - Fingerprint indicator rendering artifacts
  • PICARD-1726 - Crash when closing options quickly before plugin list got loaded
  • PICARD-1727 - Performer tag in metadata list is not translated
  • PICARD-1733 - App does not start on macOS 10.12
  • PICARD-1736 - "Generate AcoustID Fingerprints" is too long for the toolbar

Improvements

  • PICARD-1716 - Add script functions for strings ($find, $reverse, $substr), multi-value variables ($getmulti), and loops ($foreach, $while, $map)
  • PICARD-1717 - Backup config file on update
  • PICARD-1720 - Add script function $slice to extract a portion of a multi-value variable
  • PICARD-1721 - Add script function $join to join the elements of a multi-value variable
  • PICARD-1723 - Match to album should consider the disc number
  • PICARD-1729 - Add scripting function $datetime to return the current date and time
  • PICARD-1737 - Add keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+F for "Generate Fingerprints"
  • PICARD-1738 - Load a recording URL entered into the search field as standalone recording

Version 2.3.0b1 - 2020-01-30

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-239 - Using tag "comment" should behave the same as "comment:" (with colon) in tagger script
  • PICARD-965 - Items in tagger scripts list are squished
  • PICARD-1054 - Picard swallows values of Qt command line arguments
  • PICARD-1218 - Script names aren't truncated properly
  • PICARD-1312 - Hotkeys for buttons do not work on macOS
  • PICARD-1565 - Picard ignores results in Acoust ID web service response
  • PICARD-1592 - APEv2: Read tags case insensitive
  • PICARD-1625 - UI unresponsive while matching files to release
  • PICARD-1626 - Locales in Options > Metadata are not translated and not sorted
  • PICARD-1629 - Duration for AAC files with APEv2 tags is wrong
  • PICARD-1658 - macOS: System wide libdiscid is used instead of the bundled one
  • PICARD-1662 - Issue saving FLAC with large (~ 16 MiB) embedded images
  • PICARD-1664 - Cluster lookup does not use preferred release types
  • PICARD-1667 - Some scripting functions are always true
  • PICARD-1668 - Read fails if mp4 file has "disk" tag set but empty
  • PICARD-1675 - Allow disabling auto update for Windows builds
  • PICARD-1678 - Picard crashes if result from search server contains non-integer scores
  • PICARD-1693 - Position and size of log view and activity history are not preserved
  • PICARD-1699 - On scan asking the user to enable the fingerprinting does always abort the scan
  • PICARD-1700 - Crash with PyQt5 when opening cover art context menu
  • PICARD-1709 - Saving AIFF files can make them unreadable (requires mutagen >= 1.43)
  • PICARD-1711 - Cannot delete lyrics from ASF, ID3, MP4 and APE files

New Features

  • PICARD-34 - Add a fingerprint indicator
  • PICARD-118 - Windows: Provide a portable Picard version
  • PICARD-125 - Support for AC3
  • PICARD-170 - Allow selecting displayed columns
  • PICARD-714 - Allow user to reorder fields in the lower pane
  • PICARD-991 - Allow calculating AcoustID fingerprints for matched recordings
  • PICARD-1098 - MP4: Support custom tags
  • PICARD-1521 - Make Picard recognize "TOFN (Original Filename)" ID3 tag
  • PICARD-1656 - Allow setting cover art for clusters
  • PICARD-1673 - Show progress in Windows taskbar
  • PICARD-1674 - Show progress in Linux docks / taskbar supporting the Unity.LauncherEntry DBus interface
  • PICARD-1677 - Option to ignore tags for file changed status
  • PICARD-1684 - Allow re-ordering multi-value tags

Improvements

  • PICARD-115 - Display 'YYYY', 'MM' and 'DD' in date input field when value not available
  • PICARD-321 - Backslash support in filenames if Windows compatibility is disabled
  • PICARD-1260 - Sort entries in Clusters more "naturally"
  • PICARD-1349 - Change the sorting by clicking on a column title so that it switches through three states (sort ascending/descending/not at all)
  • PICARD-1401 - CD Lookup dialog does not make it clear how to submit a disc ID
  • PICARD-1402 - macOS: Register for supported file types to open with Finder or drag and drop on dock icon
  • PICARD-1467 - Provide signed Windows installer
  • PICARD-1523 - Make Picard case-agnostic for "Preserve tags from being cleared"
  • PICARD-1589 - Support language for ID3 COMM tags with comment:{language}:{description} syntax (enables support for MediaMonkey's Songs-DB_Custom tags)
  • PICARD-1628 - Make APEv2 tags with AAC optional
  • PICARD-1631 - Notarize macOS app
  • PICARD-1646 - Respect preferred release types when scanning tracks
  • PICARD-1650 - Select / load multiple items from search results
  • PICARD-1652 - Support extended info for TAK files (requires mutagen >= 1.43)
  • PICARD-1659 - Natural sorting for search results
  • PICARD-1661 - Improve preserved tags autocomplete
  • PICARD-1665 - Disable uninstall for globally installed plugins
  • PICARD-1666 - Consider video / audio when comparing files to tracks
  • PICARD-1671 - Rework Options > Tags page
  • PICARD-1672 - MP4: Use hdvd atom to detect videos (requires mutagen >= 1.43)
  • PICARD-1680 - Select / load multiple items from CD lookup results
  • PICARD-1682 - Multiline editing for lyrics and comments
  • PICARD-1683 - Autocompletion when editing media, releasetype, releasecountry and releasestatus tags
  • PICARD-1686 - Always keep [non-album tracks] entry on top
  • PICARD-1692 - Change sliders to jump to clicked position
  • PICARD-1695 - Make script editor UI consistent with other option pages
  • PICARD-1712 - Use Ctrl+D as keyboard shortcut to remove albums or files
  • PICARD-1714 - Focus search input with Ctrl+F
  • PICARD-1715 - Allow changing file extension by manipulating the %_extension% variable in renaming script

Tasks

Version 2.2.3 - 2019-11-06

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1633 - macOS: Automatic locale detection broken
  • PICARD-1634 - macOS: File browser sets wrong horizontal scroll position
  • PICARD-1635 - Terminated randomly when deleting files when saving
  • PICARD-1636 - Default locale detection fails if locale categories have different locales
  • PICARD-1637 - Crash when saving after removing some underlying files
  • PICARD-1640 - Picard with --config-file parameter copies over legacy configuration
  • PICARD-1642 - Picard crashes on launch (AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'setPopupMode')
  • PICARD-1643 - Performer with instruments containing non-ASCII characters are not written to Vorbis and APE tags
  • PICARD-1644 - Crash when initializing translations on Python 3.8
  • PICARD-1647 - macOS: Plugin enable/disable button does not always update the icon
  • PICARD-1648 - Crashes when using search dialogs
  • PICARD-1651 - File and release counts in status bar not updated when files get removed
  • PICARD-1654 - macOS: Logout button / username stays visible after logout
  • PICARD-1655 - macOS: Login dialog can be hidden behind options

Improvements

  • PICARD-1630 - Ensure FLAC metadata is visible/editable in Windows Explorer
  • PICARD-1632 - Tooltips for genre filter help hide too quickly

Version 2.2.2 - 2019-10-08

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1606 - Crashes on opening options with broken plugin
  • PICARD-1612 - Trackpad tap is not working properly on macOS
  • PICARD-1614 - macOS: Incorrect 'LSMinimumSystemVersion'
  • PICARD-1618 - macOS and Windows packages built without C astrcmp
  • PICARD-1621 - Lookup CD dropdown does not list additional drives
  • PICARD-1624 - Updating default CD device in options does not change default for keyboard shortcut

Improvements

  • PICARD-1610 - Make the labels in Options > User Interface > Colours wider
  • PICARD-1619 - Grey out cover art providers list when cover art is disabled

Version 2.2.1 - 2019-09-20

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1603 - Translations from picard/ui/colors.py don’t show up in Picard
  • PICARD-1604 - Windows install is not using Qt default translations
  • PICARD-1607 - Upgrading a plugin displays the dialog box multiple times
  • PICARD-1608 - "[non-album tracks]" can not directly be removed
  • PICARD-1609 - Picard About shows Qt version PyQt was build against, not actually used Qt

Improvements

  • PICARD-1602 - Tests should not be included in the sdist package

Version 2.2 - 2019-09-14

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-456 - "Delete empty directories" should not delete special folders such as the desktop
  • PICARD-571 - Scripting and renaming font on macOS and Windows not monospace
  • PICARD-622 - File Browser resets horizontal scrolling on selection change
  • PICARD-765 - Refreshing a release reloads the CAA index.json file from cache, even if it changed online
  • PICARD-1025 - An empty destination directory prevents the options from being saved, but doesn't show an error
  • PICARD-1090 - Match quality indicators are blurry
  • PICARD-1282 - ⌘W does not close Preferences window
  • PICARD-1284 - Can't quit with preferences open
  • PICARD-1446 - Expand/collapse indicator for the release is briefly missing
  • PICARD-1483 - Can't submit fingerprints to non-album recordings
  • PICARD-1489 - Crash on start when loading python-discid without libdiscid being available
  • PICARD-1490 - Local cover art provider fails on Windows
  • PICARD-1491 - Version check when loading Picard plugins too strict
  • PICARD-1492 - Can’t save rated tracks when it’s a FLAC file (when Metadata/Ratings is active)
  • PICARD-1493 - Crash on pre 1.0 config upgrade
  • PICARD-1497 - Saving fails when setting tags with invalid names for the underlying tagging format
  • PICARD-1499 - Picard loads embedded cover art with ID3 type "other" as sticker
  • PICARD-1501 - Double click in a cover opens it in web browser instead of an image viewer
  • PICARD-1503 - Scanning CDROM uses path containing ampersand (&)
  • PICARD-1516 - Picard fails to load MP4 without tags
  • PICARD-1517 - Functions matchedtracks and is_complete throw exception when run on cluster
  • PICARD-1522 - Crash when removing NAT recordings
  • PICARD-1527 - Can't resize options window in 2.1.x (Mac)
  • PICARD-1529 - NAT tracks get assigned wrong cover art
  • PICARD-1533 - Attribute Qt::AA_EnableHighDpiScaling must be set before QCoreApplication is created
  • PICARD-1541 - Closing log views destroys widgets
  • PICARD-1543 - v2.1.3 crashes when selecting Preferences in the Apple menu 10.14.5
  • PICARD-1547 - Picard doesn't warn about not updating .wav metadata
  • PICARD-1549 - Source distributions are broken on Windows
  • PICARD-1551 - "compare_to_track" method considers "score" parameter only if track has releases
  • PICARD-1556 - Default File Naming Script produces "00" track number in file name.
  • PICARD-1558 - Setting rating on a track does not apply to already matched files
  • PICARD-1566 - Cannot drag misidentified song back to the left pane
  • PICARD-1567 - Parsing track number from file name modifies original title in metadata
  • PICARD-1571 - On macOS multiple option dialogs can be opened
  • PICARD-1573 - Crash when loading release with a tag that contains only whitespace.
  • PICARD-1575 - Can't drag and drop a picture from the Google Picture Result Page to Picard.
  • PICARD-1580 - Crash when closing options window on "Preferred Releases" page
  • PICARD-1582 - "Allow selection of multiple directories" has no effect on Linux with Gtk file chooser
  • PICARD-1584 - Crash when disabling script function providing plugin
  • PICARD-1585 - On macOS restore default options dialog opens in background
  • PICARD-1588 - Metadata box shows tags unsupported by format
  • PICARD-1591 - Error when loading Vorbis file with invalid metadata_block_picture
  • PICARD-1593 - Picard crashes on plugin install error
  • PICARD-1595 - Cursor in tag edit box always jumps to end on input
  • PICARD-1598 - Metadata box hidden when album gets updated
  • PICARD-1601 - PyPI source tarball misses some test data

New Features

  • PICARD-143 - Add a plugin hook for a file-added-to-a-track event
  • PICARD-1130 - Post save plugins
  • PICARD-1488 - Built-in media player (beta feature)
  • PICARD-1510 - Add a plugin hook for a file-removed-from-a-track event
  • PICARD-1512 - Add a plugin hook for an album-removed event
  • PICARD-1514 - Replace genre / folksonomy tag blacklist with more comprehensive list
  • PICARD-1524 - Replace hardcoded colors by user-configurable ones
  • PICARD-1560 - Add a plugin hook for a file loaded event
  • PICARD-1594 - Provide $is_video() / $is_audio() scripting functions

Tasks

  • PICARD-1353 - Update Travis CI to use newer Xcode
  • PICARD-1388 - Document how to uninstall local built version of picard from CLI
  • PICARD-1561 - test_file.TestPreserveTimes fails on macOS 10.14
  • PICARD-1563 - Add 'picard.egg-info' file to .gitignore

Improvements

  • PICARD-1235 - Picard is not responding during start while CD is being inserted
  • PICARD-1361 - Add "Launch Picard" to Windows installer
  • PICARD-1400 - Remove Amazon cover art provider from Picard and place it into a plugin
  • PICARD-1468 - Localize Windows installer
  • PICARD-1485 - Picard should show the hours of long tracks
  • PICARD-1494 - Use Python3.3+ nano seconds resolution stat()/utime() to preserve times on file save
  • PICARD-1496 - Display count of Other versions available once known in album's contextual menu
  • PICARD-1502 - qApp.setDesktopFileName (wayland app_ip)
  • PICARD-1525 - Log/History views are updated even if not actually visible
  • PICARD-1546 - Display in Others submenu is messy for albums with a lot of tracks
  • PICARD-1552 - "compare_to_release_parts" considers track count of only first medium
  • PICARD-1559 - Allow moving files to subfolders without renaming
  • PICARD-1564 - Picard code for parsing response from AcoustID servers ignores tracks
  • PICARD-1576 - Open option help context sensitive
  • PICARD-1578 - Allow dragging images from Bing image search result
  • PICARD-1579 - Dragging cover art from Google image search on Linux drops just preview image
  • PICARD-1581 - "Recursively add files and folders" is very technical and hard to understand
  • PICARD-1586 - Support for ReplayGain 2.0 tags
  • PICARD-1599 - Use fpcalc json output for more robust output parsing

Version 2.1.3 - 2019-03-03

Bugfixes

  • 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

Tasks

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

Improvements

  • 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

Version 2.1.2 - 2019-01-29

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1382 - macOS packaging script ignores all errors

Tasks

Version 2.1.1 - 2019-01-29

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1451 - Redirects of authenticated requests fail with 401 error
  • PICARD-1453 - Dropping events do not work in CoverArtBox
  • PICARD-1454 - Crashes when adding action to toolbar in options

Tasks

Improvements

Version 2.1.0 - 2018-12-20

Bugfixes

  • 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 Features

  • 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)

Tasks

  • 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-tasks

  • PICARD-1407 - Save originalalbum / originalartist to ASF/WMA
  • PICARD-1408 - Save originalalbum / originalartist to APE

Improvements

  • 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-1068 - Picard should use MP4 ©wrk for Work rather than generic text field
  • 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

Version 2.0.4 - 2018-09-05

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-803 - tagging "8½ Minutes" with "replace with non-ascii characters" results in a directory being created
  • PICARD-1216 - Does not display version information
  • PICARD-1267 - 2.0.0dev6 crash in debug mode on Windows April Update (1803)
  • PICARD-1281 - Picard has wrong version string
  • PICARD-1294 - Crashes every time Picard connects to MB server.
  • PICARD-1310 - Picard crashes on clearing log
  • PICARD-1318 - RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration
  • PICARD-1321 - CD drive selection not working on Linux
  • PICARD-1322 - Crash in options on "Restore defaults"
  • PICARD-1323 - Restore defaults does not restore CAA types
  • PICARD-1324 - Default locale not working reliable
  • PICARD-1326 - Picard Save Changes 5.1 Mix Type
  • PICARD-1327 - Loading TAK files fails
  • PICARD-1328 - Loading OptimFROG files fails
  • PICARD-1329 - Picard fails saving ID3 tags with iTunNORM tag
  • PICARD-1331 - Picard crashes on error during plugin install

Version 2.0.3 - 2018-08-10

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1122 - Preffered release type settings are exclusive and should be inclusive
  • PICARD-1207 - Move additional files feature fails when source directory contains non-ascii characters
  • PICARD-1247 - Not all "preserved" tags are preserved
  • PICARD-1305 - Search dialog crashes picard when record doesn't have an album
  • PICARD-1306 - picard crashes when opening the options dialog if the cwd doesn't exist

New Features

  • PICARD-1289 - Allow manually running any tagger script

Improvements

  • PICARD-1292 - MusicBrainz Picard 2.01 64-bit for windows installs to "C:\Program Files (x86)" by default
  • PICARD-1302 - Dropping an image from Google image crashes picard
  • PICARD-1303 - picard crashes when matching a cluster with a release with no tracks
  • PICARD-1304 - Info dialog for album crashes because track doesn't have a tracknumber

Regression

  • PICARD-259 - Make file-specific variables available to tagger script

Version 2.0.2 - 2018-07-30

Sub-tasks

Tasks

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-342 - Picard is not properly signed for Mac OS X Gatekeeper
  • PICARD-1212 - Picard 2.0.0dev4 crashing at startup
  • PICARD-1300 - Picard crashes when logging lots of events

Version 2.0.1 - 2018-07-21

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1283 - Fingerprinting not working on macOS in Picard 2.0
  • PICARD-1286 - Error creating SSL context on Windows

Improvements

  • PICARD-1290 - Improve slow start up times by moving to a non single file exe
  • PICARD-1291 - Use an installer for Picard 2.x windows exe

Version 2.0 - 2018-07-18

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-153 - Non-configuration data is saved in Picard.conf
  • PICARD-173 - ID3 tag TSOP appears to be stored blank
  • PICARD-340 - Cover art embedding will overwrite existing ones
  • PICARD-405 - Save stopped working
  • PICARD-817 - On high-resolution / high DPI displays, Picard's GUI is scaled wrong
  • PICARD-1047 - Incompatible plugins are loaded with picard 2.0
  • PICARD-1051 - Searching for similar tracks causes coredumps
  • PICARD-1052 - Not disabled Search for similar tracks can cause coredumps
  • PICARD-1056 - Crash when viewing file info dialog
  • PICARD-1058 - Saving images as files doesn't work
  • PICARD-1062 - Picard crashes when moving files on release
  • PICARD-1063 - After #689 unit tests fail if astrcmp is not compiled
  • PICARD-1064 - python setup.py test -v doesn't work
  • PICARD-1065 - python setup.py patch_version doesn't work
  • PICARD-1066 - python setup.py update_constants doesn't work
  • PICARD-1067 - Visual bug after un-checking an installed plugin
  • PICARD-1073 - "Add New Tag" crashes picard
  • PICARD-1084 - Picard 2 doesn't find DVD drive
  • PICARD-1085 - Multi-Dir Add Folder not working
  • PICARD-1105 - Crashes when using the edit tag dialog
  • PICARD-1106 - cancel plugin installation file dialog results in crash
  • PICARD-1114 - Cannot submit ratings in Picard 2.0 dev
  • PICARD-1119 - picard sets "Disc Subtitle" to the track title
  • PICARD-1123 - Multiple work languages are collapsed
  • PICARD-1126 - Unhelpful error message logged on network request errors
  • PICARD-1135 - Picard is not able to save on MTP devices
  • PICARD-1138 - Search crashes due to AttributeError
  • PICARD-1143 - Wrong amount of songs from added files
  • PICARD-1147 - FYI, Can't load "Alan Parsons" album "On air" in Picard 1.2
  • PICARD-1153 - "Lookup in Browser" and "Search" fail silently if artist name contains umlaut
  • PICARD-1156 - Picard fails to start when trying to upgrade plugin which is a symlink
  • PICARD-1159 - Can't open WAV files
  • PICARD-1161 - Dragging artwork from Chrome pages doesn't work
  • PICARD-1171 - Text of "About" can't be selected
  • PICARD-1179 - Error while searching for alt. releases
  • PICARD-1181 - In-app search dialog excessive slow down
  • PICARD-1188 - Picard chooses incorrect value for language tag
  • PICARD-1199 - Crash when right-clicking album
  • PICARD-1202 - Right click on tag listing causes exception and crash
  • PICARD-1203 - Hide unsupported tags from the tag diff in UI
  • PICARD-1204 - Picard freezes on unchecking show diff tags first
  • PICARD-1206 - Text is not displaying properly in some fields.
  • PICARD-1210 - Long lines in the option dialogue don’t wrap
  • PICARD-1213 - Wrong Movement of coverart providers
  • PICARD-1215 - Does not use config / ini file specified on command line
  • PICARD-1221 - Picard 2.0 won't start on Windows 10
  • PICARD-1226 - Different fonts in the plugins dialog
  • PICARD-1230 - Looking up CD crashes Picard
  • PICARD-1234 - Crash when loading plugin from local directory
  • PICARD-1252 - Crash on pasting invalid naming script
  • PICARD-1253 - Crash on image saving
  • PICARD-1255 - Crash on startup - no GUI
  • PICARD-1265 - Can't "Lookup in Browser": UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 0-7: ordinal not in range(256)
  • PICARD-1270 - Corruption of saved audio files located on a network share
  • PICARD-1271 - Artist credit saved in tags sometimes loses closing parenthesis
  • PICARD-1277 - Picard crashes on unknown cover art types

New Features

  • PICARD-1187 - Add DSF file support
  • PICARD-1220 - Add keyboard shortcut for deleting scripts from options > scripting page

Tasks

Improvements

  • PICARD-259 - Make file-specific variables available to tagger script
  • PICARD-581 - Picard XML processing should use lxml module rather than QXmlStreamReader
  • PICARD-588 - Picard 2.0 based on Python 3
  • PICARD-807 - Retry release fetch on MB server overload
  • PICARD-922 - Make multi-value script functions work correctly
  • PICARD-976 - Reimplement the picard WS code to accommodate future versions of MBWS
  • PICARD-978 - Distinguish in UI between unclustered and release unmatched files
  • PICARD-994 - Show all release countries in CD lookup
  • PICARD-1075 - Add unit tests for Metadata object variables
  • PICARD-1087 - Improvements to UI for Lookup CD
  • PICARD-1100 - Error when running confined in a snap because of gconf
  • PICARD-1174 - Option to tolerate differences in track times
  • PICARD-1200 - In Options dialog, tree pane on the left cannot be resized
  • PICARD-1201 - Add a command-line option to not restore persisted UI sizes or positions
  • PICARD-1211 - The “X” close button doesn’t work on the options dialogue

Version 1.4.2 - 2017-05-08

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-1053 - Picard does not stop analyzer while moving
  • PICARD-1055 - picard hangs with: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp
  • PICARD-1070 - The "Convert Unicode punctuation characters to ASCII" function only works in certain tags
  • PICARD-1077 - ID3v2.4 text encoding settings are not saved correctly

Improvements

  • PICARD-969 - Search dialog webservices get queued behind matched album requests
  • PICARD-1034 - Picard not seeing TOPE and TOAL

Version 1.4.1 - 2017-04-01

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-953 - Album shown matched even if extra unmatched files
  • PICARD-972 - Removing album with saves pending does not remove pending saves
  • PICARD-973 - Pending log messages not flushed to stderr on quit
  • PICARD-988 - Drag & Drop not working
  • PICARD-990 - Picard violating ID3 standard for TXXX frames
  • PICARD-996 - Disabling the cover art box and enabling it again doesn't bring it back
  • PICARD-998 - Disabling the action toolbar sometimes doesn't work
  • PICARD-1005 - If a cluster is moved to the album side of the main window it gets moved to unmatched files
  • PICARD-1006 - Drag and drop for cover arts doesnt work on OSX
  • PICARD-1010 - Unsetting View/Cover Art doesn't work permanently
  • PICARD-1011 - Toolbar tab order incorrect after PICARD-908
  • PICARD-1014 - Number of images in release info is calculated incorrectly
  • PICARD-1015 - Artwork tab of the Track Info DIalog doesn't show changes anymore
  • PICARD-1018 - CoverArtBox doesn't show new/removed images after unmatched files are added/removed to the album
  • PICARD-1023 - Directory persistence for Add Directory needs tweaking
  • PICARD-1029 - Fix ~artists_sort metadata variable
  • PICARD-1042 - Missing import for PICARD_APP_NAME

New Features

  • PICARD-258 - Visual feedback for changes to artwork in before-after pane.
  • PICARD-1000 - Implement artwork diff for albums

Tasks

  • PICARD-943 - Remove monkey patching of file write methods in picard formats
  • PICARD-1041 - Replace Ok button text by Make It So! in Options dialog

Improvements

  • PICARD-223 - Remove should work when Unmatched Files is selected
  • PICARD-951 - Always use HTTPS for musicbrainz.org
  • PICARD-952 - Use Cover Art Archive over HTTPS
  • PICARD-961 - Mention AcoustID on Scan button too
  • PICARD-980 - Drag&drop cover art doesn't work for images from amazon/google images/https links
  • PICARD-1012 - Buttons on the "User Interface" and "Scripting" pages are smaller than buttons in other places
  • PICARD-1016 - Multiple images in related tracks confusing
  • PICARD-1021 - Picard loads all pending files before quitting
  • PICARD-1024 - Allow specifying a configuration file path
  • PICARD-1030 - Allow to add/replace cover art images and keep existing cover art

Version 1.4 - 2017-02-14

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-82 - AcoustID submission fails with code 299
  • PICARD-335 - Ignoring "hip hop rap" folksonomy tags also ignores "rap", "hip hop", etc.
  • PICARD-350 - Picard downloads multiple 'front' images instead of just first one.
  • PICARD-357 - Saving hidden file with only an extension drops the extension
  • PICARD-366 - Add directory opens in "wrong" dir
  • PICARD-375 - Picard should de-duplicate work lists
  • PICARD-408 - Tree selector in Options window is partially obscured, pane too narrow
  • PICARD-419 - tag acoustid_id can not be removed or deleted in script, renaming or plugin
  • PICARD-546 - Can't remove value from field
  • PICARD-592 - Can't open Options
  • PICARD-688 - "Tags from filenames" action stays enabled even if it is unavailable.
  • PICARD-701 - Using the first image type as filename changes the name of front images
  • PICARD-706 - Fingerprint Submission Failes if AcoustID tags are present and/or invalid
  • PICARD-726 - Picard moves into the selected folder
  • PICARD-730 - Picard does not support (recording) relationship credits
  • PICARD-748 - Picard repeats/duplicates field data
  • PICARD-751 - Number of pending web requests is not decremented on exceptions in the handler
  • PICARD-753 - Divide by zero error in _convert_folksonomy_tags_to_genre when no tag at the release/release group level
  • PICARD-754 - Directory tree (file browser) not sorted for non-system drives under Windows
  • PICARD-759 - Crash when loading release with only zero count tags
  • PICARD-761 - No name and no window grouping in gnome-shell Alt-Tab app switcher
  • PICARD-764 - Lookup in Browser does not and can not load HTTPS version of musicbrainz.org
  • PICARD-766 - Unable to login using oauth via Picard options with Server Port set to 443
  • PICARD-775 - "AttributeError: 'MetadataBox' object has no attribute 'resize_columns'" when enabling the cover art box
  • PICARD-778 - Pre-gap tracks are not counted in absolutetracknumber
  • PICARD-780 - CAA cover art provider runs even if cover art has already been loaded
  • PICARD-782 - Toggling Embed Cover Art in Tags and restarting doesn't have the expected behavior
  • PICARD-788 - XMLWS redirects incorrectly
  • PICARD-798 - Handle empty collection-list in web server response
  • PICARD-799 - Amazon Cover Art provider does not work (and does not have a lot of debug logging enabled)
  • PICARD-801 - Cover Art from CAA release group is skipped even though it exists
  • PICARD-804 - Multiple instances of history and log dialogs
  • PICARD-805 - Empty string lookup
  • PICARD-811 - Will not load album information on any albums
  • PICARD-814 - Redirect URL is not encoded which leads to http 400 error.
  • PICARD-833 - Not compatible with latest Mutagen
  • PICARD-834 - Can't save any files. Get: "error: invalid literal for int() with base 10"
  • PICARD-839 - Picard 1.3.2 shows cleartext username & password on status line when errors occur
  • PICARD-848 - Cannot fetch cover art from amazon link contains https scheme.
  • PICARD-851 - media-optical-modified.png icon still displayed after release save when two files match one track
  • PICARD-853 - Release that Picard will not load (due to disc with just data track?)
  • PICARD-855 - ValueError in metadata.py
  • PICARD-857 - Improper detection of Gnome as a desktop environment and no support for gnome 3
  • PICARD-858 - Apparent non-functional tagger button
  • PICARD-859 - Picard does not read Ogg/Opus files with an ".ogg" file exension
  • PICARD-865 - Setting a large value in in $num function as length causes picard to become unresponsive
  • PICARD-867 - id3 deletion needs to be improved
  • PICARD-868 - id3v2.3 does not properly handle TMOO ( mood tag)
  • PICARD-870 - Coverart providers duplicates on reset
  • PICARD-873 - Restore defaults broken for plugins page and tagger scripts page
  • PICARD-874 - Coverart providers erroneous save
  • PICARD-876 - The metadatabox doesn't correctly show the tag selected
  • PICARD-881 - Length tag for ID3 is no longer displayed in the metadata box
  • PICARD-882 - Removed tags are not removed from the metadatabox after saving the file
  • PICARD-884 - File Browser pane doesn't check for path type (file or folder) when setting home path/move files here
  • PICARD-885 - mov files return a +ve score for mp4 container leading to errors
  • PICARD-888 - "Restore defaults" doesn't log out the user
  • PICARD-907 - Broken 'Restore Defaults'
  • PICARD-911 - Messagebox wraps and displays title inappropriately
  • PICARD-914 - An “empty” track shouldn’t get an “excellent match” tooltip.
  • PICARD-915 - In plugins list, some plugins don't show description
  • PICARD-916 - Plugin restore defaults broken
  • PICARD-917 - Does not use UI language but locale on Windows
  • PICARD-925 - Preserve scripting splitter position
  • PICARD-926 - Having trouble submitting AcoustIDs
  • PICARD-931 - Cluster double‐click opens the Info… panel
  • PICARD-937 - Status bar not cleared when selection changed
  • PICARD-942 - Open containing folder not working for shared files over network
  • PICARD-945 - Warning: Plugin directory '…/python2.7/site-packages/contrib/plugins' doesn't exist
  • PICARD-946 - Additionnal files aren't moved anymore
  • PICARD-947 - Search window error message does not appear translated
  • PICARD-950 - Open Containing Folder duplicates
  • PICARD-958 - Errors when directory / file names contain unicode characters

New Features

  • PICARD-42 - AIFF support (ID3)
  • PICARD-137 - Test and integrate support for "local" cover art into Picard
  • PICARD-680 - Display infos (album, artist, tracklist) for clusters without release match
  • PICARD-691 - Add download plugin functionality to existing UI
  • PICARD-738 - Fallback on album artist's tags if no tags are found for album
  • PICARD-743 - Add m2a as a supported extension
  • PICARD-756 - MusicBrainz/AcoustID entities should be hyperlinked in Picard
  • PICARD-769 - Support key tag
  • PICARD-901 - Export / import settings
  • PICARD-927 - Search releases from within a Picard dialog
  • PICARD-928 - Searching tracks and displaying similar tracks in a dialog box
  • PICARD-929 - Search for artists from dialog

Tasks

  • PICARD-717 - Picard default name files script refinement
  • PICARD-760 - Update Picard logo/icons
  • PICARD-779 - Link to the Scripting documentation on the Scripting options page
  • PICARD-835 - Remove contrib/plugins from the repository
  • PICARD-841 - Raise the required mutagen version to 1.22
  • PICARD-861 - Renaming save_only_front_images_to_tags option to something more appropriate
  • PICARD-895 - Allow translators to finalize translations before releasing Picard 1.4
  • PICARD-904 - Raise the required Python version to 2.7.
  • PICARD-912 - Bump Picard’s copyright date
  • PICARD-982 - Add Norwegian to UI languages
  • PICARD-652 - Provide ~video variable for video tracks
  • PICARD-708 - Improve error logging on AcoustId submission

Improvements

  • PICARD-22 - Link to Picard Scripting page under 'File Naming'
  • PICARD-116 - Restore default settings button/s
  • PICARD-133 - Speed of Ogg tag writing/updating
  • PICARD-207 - Allow adding/removing tags to be preserved from context menu in the tag diff pane
  • PICARD-210 - Make it easier to remove everything currently loaded in Picard
  • PICARD-222 - Bring back keyboard shortcuts for editing tags
  • PICARD-229 - Case sensitivity for "Move additional files" option
  • PICARD-253 - Metadata comparison box shows that it intends to write (and has written) tags unsupported by underlyingfile format
  • PICARD-267 - Add more descriptive tooltips to buttons
  • PICARD-268 - Allow musicip_puid and acoustid_id to be cleared from tags
  • PICARD-287 - Make it possible to remove existing tags without clearing all tags
  • PICARD-291 - Disable recurse subdirectories should be added
  • PICARD-305 - display how many "pending files" left on lookup
  • PICARD-307 - Handle MP3 TSST/TIT3 (subtitle) tags better with ID3v2.3
  • PICARD-353 - Customisable toolbars
  • PICARD-359 - Ignore file extension and try to read anyway
  • PICARD-384 - Make it possible to unset all performer (etc) tags
  • PICARD-388 - Progress tracking
  • PICARD-404 - Add ability to handle multiple tagger scripts
  • PICARD-476 - the option "select all" to save
  • PICARD-514 - Option to load only audio tracks, i.e. not DVD-Video, CD-ROM tracks
  • PICARD-615 - Picard should use OAuth for authentication
  • PICARD-648 - Improvements to WMA tags
  • PICARD-678 - Only ask to "log in now" once per session
  • PICARD-683 - Show codec info for MP4 files
  • PICARD-692 - "Play File" button should be renamed to "Open in Player"
  • PICARD-695 - ID3 padding not reduced can result in large files
  • PICARD-705 - Set option 'caa_approved_only' disabled by default
  • PICARD-707 - Validate fpcalc executable in options
  • PICARD-733 - Improve File Naming options
  • PICARD-734 - Add --long-version/-V option, outputting third parties libs versions as well as Picard version
  • PICARD-740 - missing info in the help file
  • PICARD-773 - Pass command-line arguments to QtApplication
  • PICARD-777 - Use the more detailed icons in more places on windows
  • PICARD-794 - Use .ini configuration file on all platforms
  • PICARD-806 - Use python2 shebang as of PEP 0394
  • PICARD-808 - Display existing covers in File Info dialog
  • PICARD-818 - Use HTTPS for external links
  • PICARD-838 - Install a scalable icon
  • PICARD-852 - Use HTTPS for requests to the plugins API on picard.musicbrainz.org
  • PICARD-864 - Use magic numbers to determine the audio file types instead of relying on extensions
  • PICARD-883 - Multi-scripting UI is very basic
  • PICARD-887 - Allow scripting functions to have arbitrary number of arguments
  • PICARD-890 - The "Restore defaults" confirmation buttons should follow the quit confirmation dialog in style
  • PICARD-896 - Replace submit icon with AcoustID logo
  • PICARD-897 - Rename "Submit" button to "Submit AcoustIDs"
  • PICARD-898 - Use UTF-8 for ID3v2.4 by default instead of UTF-16
  • PICARD-902 - Restore defaults is slightly broken for tags option page
  • PICARD-908 - Rearrange the action toolbar icons from left to right according to the expected user-flow
  • PICARD-913 - Add tooltips to “Restore all Defaults” and “Restore Defaults”
  • PICARD-918 - Make PICARD-883 UI have adjustable widths for list of scripts and script content
  • PICARD-919 - Move Options/Advanced/Scripting to Options/Scripting
  • PICARD-921 - Move UI options page up the options tree
  • PICARD-923 - Add $startswith and $endswith string functions
  • PICARD-924 - Make list of scripts smaller than script text by default
  • PICARD-944 - Wait for save thread pool to be finished before exit
  • PICARD-970 - New guess format functionality should use explicit buffer size

Version 1.3.2 - 2015-01-07

  • Bugfix: Fixed tags from filename dialog not opening on new installations

Version 1.3.1 - 2014-12-20

Bugfixes

  • PICARD-273 - Picard should use the correct Accept header when talking to web services.
  • PICARD-589 - Picard refuses to load files if any path component happens to be hidden
  • PICARD-642 - ConfigUpgradeError: Error during config upgrade from version 0.0.0dev0 to 1.0.0final0
  • PICARD-649 - Windows installer sets working directory to %PROGRAMFILES%\MusicBrainz Picard\locale
  • PICARD-655 - Last.fm plus tooltip help elements are all messed up
  • PICARD-661 - Regression: Tagger script for cover art filename does not work anymore
  • PICARD-662 - Retrieving collections causes AttributeError: release_list
  • PICARD-663 - Artist name makes it impossible to save

Improvements

  • PICARD-658 - Support the new pregap and data tracks
  • PICARD-659 - Set the originalyear tag when loading a release
  • PICARD-665 - Web service calls to ports 80 and 443 do not need explicit port specification. 443 should be automatically made https.

Version 1.3 - 2014-10-20

  • The "About" window now displays the versions of libraries used by Picard
  • Picard now correctly handles matching of MP3 files saved in ID3v2.3 tags (which is the version that Microsoft Windows and iTunes both use). Note: You may need to re-save your tags once to get them to match in future.
  • A sort tags plugin is now provided as tag data is no longer displayed sorted by default.
  • A new tag, musicbrainz_releasetrackid, containing the MusicBrainz Track MBID introduced in the May 2013 schema change release, is now written to files.
  • PICARD-515 - Add %_recordingtitle%
  • PICARD-444 - Fix plugin install bugs
  • PICARD-516 - Fix Options / File naming examples to handle primary/secondary release types
  • A new advanced option is available to permanently set the starting directory for the file browser and "Add files/folder" buttons.
  • PICARD-337 - Requests to Musicbrainz against your own account e.g. for collections are now handled through SSL
  • Refresh of Albums using Ctrl-R and selection of Other Releases are now more responsive during batch lookups.
  • Main window is now emitting a "selection_updated" signal, plugin api version bumps to 1.3.0
  • Append system information to user-agent string
  • Compilation tag/variable functionality (for tagging & file naming) has been split into two:
    • %compilation% is now aligned with iTunes, and set only for Various Artists type compilations
    • %_multiartist% variable now indicates whether this release has tracks by multiple artists (in order to prepend the artist name to the filename as shown in the default file naming script)
  • PICARD-123 - autodetect the CD drive on Mac OS X
  • PICARD-528 - Ignore directories and files while indexing when show_hidden_files option is set to False
  • PICARD-528 - Add ignore_regex option which allows one to ignore matching paths, can be set in Options > Advanced
  • Added an "artists" multi-value tag to track metadata, based on the one in Jaikoz, which contains the individual artist names from the artist credit. Also useful in scripts (joining phrases like 'feat:' are omitted) and plugins.
  • Added %_artists_sort%, %_albumartists%, %_albumartists_sort% variables for scripts and plugins.
  • PICARD-205 - Made Picard use the country names also used on the MusicBrainz website
  • New setup.py command get_po_files (Retrieve po files from transifex)
  • New setup.py command regen_pot_file (Regenerate po/picard.pot)
  • New Work tag (which for Classical music is often different from the track title) saved as ID3 TOAL tag.
  • New Composer Sort Order tag (variable %composersort%).
  • Improve the Other Releases list to prioritise and separate releases which match the correct number of tracks and your Options / Metadata / Preferred Releases settings for Country and Format.
  • New %_absolutetracknumber% variable numbering tracks sequentially regardless of disc structure (so you can numbers tracks on multi-disc releases without a disc number)
  • Support dropping image directly from Google image results to cover art box
  • Add %_musicbrainz_tracknumber% to hold track # as shown on MusicBrainz release web-page e.g. vinyl/cassette style A1, A2, B1, B2
  • PICARD-218 - Show the ID3 version of the file in the Info... dialog (Ctrl-I)
  • PICARD-112 - Fixed a bug where Picard crashed if a MP3 file had malformed TRCK or TPOS tags
  • PICARD-566 - Add --files option to setup.py build_ui, used to force .ui to .py regeneration
  • New setup.py command update_constants (Regenerate countries.py and attributes.py)
  • Made Picard use release groups, medium formats and cover art types also used on the MusicBrainz website
  • Use MusicBrainz Server translations for release groups, medium formats and cover art types
  • Add checkbox to toggle debug at runtime in log/debug view dialog
  • Add a plugin to add Artist Official Homepage relationships to the website tag (ID3 WOAR tag)
  • Add integrated functions $eq_any, $ne_all, $eq_all, $ne_any, $swapprefix and $delprefix.
  • Add %_performance_attributes%, containing performance attributes for the work e.g. live, cover, medley etc. Use $inmulti in file naming scripts i.e. $if($inmulti(%_performance_attributes%,medley), (Medley),)
  • Add optional priority parameter to register_album_metadata_processor() and register_track_metadata_processor() Default priority is PluginPriority.NORMAL, plugins registered with PluginPriority.HIGH will be run first, plugins registered with PluginPriority.LOW will run last
  • Add Standardise Performers plugin to convert e.g. Performer [piano and guitar] into Performer [piano] and Performer [guitar].
  • PICARD-418, PICARD-53 - Add support for release group cover art fallback
  • Add a clear button to search box
  • PICARD-631 - Honour preferred release formats when matching AcoustIds
  • PICARD-630 - Prevent ZeroDivisionError in some rare cases

Version 1.2 - 2013-03-30

  • Picard now requires at least Python 2.6
  • Removed support for AmpliFIND/PUIDs
  • Add support for the Ogg Opus file format
  • It's now possible to download cover images without any plugin. Cover Art Archive images can be downloaded by image type
  • Improved directory scanning performance
  • Prefer already-loaded releases of the same RG when matching files
  • Allow dropping new files onto specific targets
  • PICARD-84 - Add basic collections management support
  • PICARD-349 - Allow adding custom tags in the tag editing dialog
  • PICARD-393 - Fix replacing of Windows-incompatible characters
  • PICARD-240 - Save both primary and secondary release types
  • PICARD-391 - Handle errors from the AcoustID service better
  • PICARD-378 - Accept HTTPS URLs on drag-and-drop

Version 1.1 - 2012-09-03

  • PICARD-201 - Always show basic tags in metadata comparison box, even if empty (title, artist, album, tracknumber, ~length, date)
  • PICARD-82 - Fixed AcoustID submission failure after removing files from Picard
  • PICARD-194 - Allow multi-select in new MetaDataBox for delete/remove tags
  • PICARD-104 - File browser remembers last directory/no longer crashes on OS X
  • PICARD-11 - Removed the "Run Picard" option from the Windows installer
  • PICARD-220 - Refreshing a non-album track correctly clears previous track metadata
  • PICARD-217 - Fixed the preserved tags setting for tags with uppercase characters
  • Added a completion box to the preserved tags setting, and clarified how it works
  • PICARD-242 - Store lyrics language in tags instead of text representation language
  • PICARD-255, PICARD-256 - Fix various oddities in the metadata comparison box

Version 1.0 - 2012-06-02

  • PICARD-43 - New UI: Extended comparison of existing vs. MB metadata & tags
  • Merged the renaming and moving options pages
  • PICARD-159 - Removed the VA file naming format option (there is now a single format option)
  • Add %license% tag
  • PICARD-21 - Made %writer% available to tagger scripts and plugins with contents of songwriter
  • PICARD-139 - Allow two multi-valued variables to be merged in tagger scripting
  • PICARD-147 - Allow multi-valued variables to be transformed in tagger script and then set back in tags as multi-valued
  • PICARD-138 - Fix $copy not preserving multi-value variables as documented
  • PICARD-148 - Load/save free-text tags for ID3 as TXXX frames
  • PICARD-88 - Fix writing of MusicBrainz Work Id / musicbrainz_workid to tags
  • PICARD-27 - Handle mimetype for embedding cover art from EXIF jpegs
  • Change cover art box to open MusicBrainz release rather than Amazon
  • Support manual drag-and-drop of cover art onto a release via cover art box
  • PICARD-190 - Only open browser on left-click of cover art box
  • PICARD-186 - Fix Lookup in Browser (previously 'tag lookup') for clusters
  • Lookup in Browser will now not use MBIDs to lookup unmatched files/clusters
  • PICARD-198 - Add Date/Country to CD Lookup results dialog
  • PICARD-4 - Fix/reset album folksonomy tag counts while refreshing releases
  • Plugins actions can now create sub-menus using the MENU class attribute
  • New plugin hook register_clusterlist_action
  • PICARD-191 - Display the port Picard is listening on at bottom right status bar
  • PICARD-33 - Make album drops from right hand pane to left default to "unmatched files" again
  • PICARD-75 - Remove .DS_Store, desktop.ini, and Thumbs.db from otherwise empty directories
  • PICARD-200 - Update artist translation to use new alias features (primary flag, sort names)
  • PICARD-165 - Deleted tags aren't indicated as changes
  • PICARD-45 - Picard log entries have inaccurate timestamp
  • PICARD-103 - Interface doesn't allow keyboard only management
  • PICARD-31 - Added option to preserve timestamps of tagged files
  • PICARD-99 - Added keyboard shortcut to reload release
  • PICARD-91 - Medium formats weren't listed in order in the "Other versions" menu
  • PICARD-74 - Couldn't select multiple directories in "Add Folder" window on OS X

Version 0.16 - 2011-10-23

  • Added AcoustID support.
  • Fixed track metadata plugins.
  • PICARD-16 - Added new internal %_totalalbumtracks% tag field.
  • PICARD-7 - Track metadata plugins now run also on non-album tracks.
  • PICARD-5 - Fixed custom Various Artists name on the %albumartist% field.
  • PICARD-1 - Album artist is now correctly "translated".
  • Unicode punctuation is now converted to ASCII by default.
  • PICARD-15 - WavPack correction files are moved together with the main files.
  • Unicode filename normalization on OS X.
  • Original release date is now saved into %originaldate%.
  • PICARD-17 - Allow tagging with localized artist aliases
  • PICARD-46 - Added a quit confirmation dialog.
  • PICARD-10 - Standalone recordings can be tagged with relationships now.
  • PICARD-8 - Refreshing an album will refresh its "other versions" listing.
  • PICARD-50 - "Unicode punctuation to ASCII" now works on album-level metadata.
  • PICARD-20 - DJ-mix tags should only be written to the medium where they apply.
  • PICARD-54 - Support URL redirects in web service/network request module
  • PICARD-52 - Jamendo and Archive.org cover art is displayed on web page, but not loaded by Picard plugin
  • PICARD-13 - Edits to metadata in "Details..." menu not reflected in UI
  • PICARD-14 - The status bar/new metadata box is updated when a selected file/track is changed.

Version 0.15.1 - 2011-07-31

  • "Other versions" menu now displays release labels and catalog numbers.
  • Added CD-R, 8cm CD to the format mapping.
  • Picard no longer fails to load releases with new or unknown media formats.
  • Threading issues that could occasionally cause Picard to stop loading files have been fixed.
  • Fixed album metadata processor plugins not working (#5960)
  • Fixed loading of standalone recordings (#5961)
  • Fixed requests stopping at midnight (#5963)
  • Stopped using QDateTime for timing requests (for Qt 4.6 compatibility) (#5967)
  • Fixed display of ampersands in the "other versions" menu. (#5969)
  • Fixed use of numerical functions in advanced scripting.

Version 0.15 - 2011-07-17

  • Added options for using standardized track, release, and artist metadata.
  • Added preferred release format support.
  • Expanded preferred release country support to allow multiple countries.
  • Added support for tagging non-album tracks (standalone recordings).
  • Plugins can now be installed via drag and drop, or a file browser.
  • Added several new tags: %_originaldate%, %_recordingcomment%, and %_releasecomment%
  • Changes to request queuing: added separate high and low priority queues for each host.
  • Tagger scripts now run after metadata plugins finish (#5850)
  • The "compilation" tag can now be $unset or modified via tagger script.
  • Added a shortcut (Ctrl+I) for Edit->Details.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Version 0.15beta1 - 2011-05-29

  • Support for the NGS web service

Version 0.14 - 2011-05-15

  • Fixed a problem with network operations hanging after a network error (#5794, #5884)
  • ID3v2.3 with UTF-16 is now the default ID3 version
  • Option to set preferred release types for improved album matching
  • Added support for sorting the album/file lists (#75)
  • Fixed OptimFROG tag reading (#5859)
  • Fixed colors for a white-on-black color scheme (#5846)
  • Added an option to replace non-ASCII punctuation (#5834)
  • Support for writing release group and work IDs, currently unused (#5805)
  • Fixed saving of the release event format tag (#5250)
  • Added support for the language and script tags (#943)
  • Plugins can now use track-track relationships (#5849)
  • Allowed external drives to be visible in the file browser panel on OS X (#5308)

Version 0.13 - 2011-03-06

  • Changed Picard icon license to CC by-sa
  • Small UI consistency changes
  • Albums with tracks linked to more than one file are never marked as "completed".
  • Fixed matching of scanned files to tracks while the album is still loading.
  • Support for properly embedded FLAC pictures
  • Existing embedded images in APE and ASF files are removed only if there are new images to replace them.
  • More strict tagger script validation.
  • Fixed the $truncate tagger script function.
  • Proper rounding of track durations.
  • Fixed a bug with saving images larger than 64k to WMA files.
  • Added a $swapprefix tagger script function.
  • Release events with a date are preferred over the ones without a date.
  • Files that are being saved as marked as pending.
  • Updated .desktop file to allow opening Picard with multiple files.
  • Handle the "open file" event on Mac OS X.
  • Added timeouts to the HTTP web service client.
  • Fixed a bug with albums missing the expand/collapse icons

Version 0.12.1 - 2009-11-01

  • Fixed deletion of all COMM frames in ID3, which was introduced with the iTunNORM fix in Picard 0.12.0.
  • Restored native add folder dialog.

Version 0.12 - 2009-10-25

  • Live syntax checking for tagger script and naming strings. (Nikolai Prokoschenko)
  • Support ratings. (Philipp Wolfer)
  • Support for user folskonomy tags. (Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Embed cover art into APEv2 tags. (Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Embed cover art into WMA tags. (Philipp Wolfer)
  • New high quality application icon (Carlin Mangar)
  • Support for originaldate tag. (Philipp Wolfer)
  • Restructured file naming options. (Nikolai Prokoschenko)
  • Added option to select the user interface language. (Philipp Wolfer)
  • Highlight fully matched albums. (Nikolai Prokoschenko)
  • New script functions $matchedtracks(), $initials(), $firstalphachar(), $truncate() and $firstwords()
  • CD drive dropdown selection on Linux. (Philipp Wolfer)
  • Add disc ID to album metadata if loaded via disc lookup. (Philipp Wolfer)
  • Add expand/collapse all actions to tree views. (Philipp Wolfer)
  • Added DCC media format.
  • Removed unncecessary and confusing PUID lookup threshold. (Philipp Wolfer)
  • Fixed saving of copyright in ASF metadata. (#5419, Philipp Wolfer)
  • Write TRACKTOTAL and DISCTOTAL to vorbis files. (#4088, Philipp Wolfer)
  • Added keyboard shortcut to toggle file browser (#3954, Philipp Wolfer)
  • Write ISRCs from MusicBrainz into tags (Philipp Wolfer)
  • UI improvements on cover art box and icons (Carlin Mangar)
  • New Windows installer (Carlin Mangar)
  • New plugin extension point ui_init (Gary van der Merwe)
  • Updated plugin options page (Carlin Mangar)
  • Python 2.6 fixes. (Gary van der Merwe)
  • Fix PUID generation on big endian machines. (Jon Hermansen)
  • Fix lookup encoding for non latin characters. (#5233, Philip Jägenstedt)
  • Fix infinite loop when using Qt 4.5. (Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Ensure 16-byte memory alignment for avcodec, fixes issues with enabled SSE2 instructions. (#5263, Philipp Wolfer)
  • Use default CD device for disc ID lookups if no device was specified. (Philipp Wolfer)
  • Preserve file information (bitrate, extension etc.) on saving. (#3236, Philipp Wolfer)
  • Allow empty release events (#4818, Philipp Wolfer)
  • Respect the option "clear existing tags" when saving WMA files. (Philipp Wolfer)
  • Detect image format of cover images. (#4863, Philipp Wolfer)
  • Don't load CD stubs. (#4251, Philipp Wolfer)
  • Set match background color relative to the base color. (#4740, Philipp Wolfer)
  • Fix infinite loop when using Qt 4.5. (Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Fixed various issues with the PUID submission button. (Philipp Wolfer)
  • Fixed copy and paste (#5428, Philipp Wolfer)
  • Fixed loading of files with corrupted PUIDs (#5331, Carlin Mangar)
  • Fixed redirection handling (Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Fixed writng of iTunNORM tags in ID3 (Carlin Mangar)
  • Always restore window position so that the window is visible (Carlin Mangar)
  • Updated translations.

Version 0.11 - 2008-12-02

  • Support for new FFmpeg install locations
  • Automatically remove whitespaces from MB hostname in options
  • Release date from MB is now optional
  • Fixed per-track folksonomy tag support
  • Evaluate tagger script for album metadata
  • Show donation info in the about dialog
  • Support for .oga files (Ogg FLAC, Ogg Speex or Ogg Vorbis)
  • Fixed loading of performer tags from Vorbis Comments
  • Load embedded cover art from COVERART/COVERARTMIME Vorbis Comments
  • Allow setting the "Move Files To" location from the internal file browser
  • Copy&paste support in the file details dialog
  • Correct handling of "; " as a separator for sort names
  • Minimal support for TAK files
  • Fixed parsing of the "Pseudo-Release" release status
  • Fixed reading performers with empty role from ID3 tags
  • Don't allow empty file naming formats
  • Interactive password dialog
  • Fixed checking for non-Latin characters when using sort name as the main artist name

Version 0.10 - 2008-07-27

  • Fixed crash when reading CD TOC on 64-bit systems
  • Fixed handling of MP4 files with no metadata
  • Change the hotkey for help to the right key for OS X
  • Replace special characters after tagger script evaluation to allow special characters being replaced by tagger script
  • Actually ignore 'ignored (folksonomy) tags'
  • Remove dependency on Mutagen 1.13, version 1.11 is enough now
  • Escape ampersand in release selection (#3748)

Version 0.10.0rc1 - 2008-05-25

  • Stop analyzing files that have been removed. (#3352, Gary van der Merwe)
  • Automatically disable CD lookup if no CD device is specified. (Will Holcomb)
  • Don't abort directory reading on invalid filename. (#2829, amckinle)
  • Add an option to select multiple directories from the 'Add Directory' window. (#3541, Will Holcomb)
  • Avoid scanning files that had been removed from the tagger. (#3352, Gary van der Merwe)
  • Folksonomy tags/genre support. (Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Added menu items (with keyboard shortcuts) for CD lookup / Scan / Lookup / Cluster. (Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Add taggerscript function $performer(). (Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Lower the default PUID lookup threshold to 10%. (Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Compare tracknumber and totaltracks as numbers, not strings. (Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Correctly escape special Lucene characters for searches/lookups. (#3448, Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Use MusicIP Mixer "archived analysis" to speed up PUID lookups. (Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Add language and script to variables. (#3635, Nikki)
  • Option to initiate searches with advanced query syntax on by default. (#3526, Lukáš Lalinský)
  • "Save Tags" item in options menu. (#3519, Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Create empty "plugins" directory by default on installation. (#3529, Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Added default release country option. (#3452, Philipp Wolfer)
  • Added release format type to release selection. (#3074, Philipp Wolfer)
  • Convert Vorbis tag "tracktotal" to "totaltracks" on load. (Philipp Wolfer)
  • Save 'arranger' to ID3 tags. (Lukáš Lalinský)
  • Store cover art in Ogg and FLAC files. (#3647, Hendrik van Antwerpen)
  • Album title not updated when related 'Unkown files' are modified. (#3682, Hendrik van Antwerpen)
  • Match selected release event to existing files. (#3687, Hendrik van Antwerpen)
  • Allow multiple files to be linked to a single track. (#3729, Gary van der Merwe)
  • Don't use mmap to resize files on Windows. (Lukáš Lalinský)

Version 0.9.0 - 2007-12-16

  • More custom tags in MP4 files (compatible with MediaMonkey and Jaikoz) (#3379)
  • Fixed MP4 fingerprinting on Windows. (#3454, #3374)
  • Fixed CD lookups on Windows. (#3462, #3362, #3386)
  • Set the %compilation% tag correctly. (#3263)
  • Fixed location of saved cover art files. (#3345)
  • The Picard window now won't start as hidden. (#2104, #2429)
  • Fixed reading of length of MP3 files with VBRI headers. (#3409)
  • Fixed WMA saving. (#3417)
  • Fixed saving of comment to ID3 tags. (#3418)
  • New mapping of "chorus master" AR to "conductor" tag.
  • Fixed system-wide plugin path on Linux. (#3430)
  • Use the earliest release date by default. (#3456)

Version 0.9.0beta1 - 2007-10-28

  • Save ASIN to MP4 files.
  • Add a --disable-locales option to setup.py build. (Santiago M. Mola)
  • New threading code, should make Picard crash less and be faster.
  • Replace initial dot in file and directory names. (#3204, Philipp Wolfer)
  • Fixed caps in the default cover art image. (#3242, Bogdan Butnaru)
  • Fixed broken naming preview. (#3214, Daniel Bumke)
  • Re-enable the drag/drop target indicators. (#3106)
  • Fix adding files and directories from the command line. (#3075)
  • Don't show the cover art box by default.
  • Lookup files individually for "Unmatched Files", not as a cluster.

Version 0.9.0alpha14 - 2007-08-05

  • Fixed PUID submissions.
  • Fixed drag&drop from Finder to Picard on Mac OS X.
  • Don't save files from "Unmatched Files" when saving an album.
  • Renamed "Analyze" to "Scan", to avoid confusion with MusicIP Mixer analysis.
  • Added plugin API versioning. Plugins now need to define constant PLUGIN_API_VERSIONS, otherwise they won't be loaded.
  • Added option to overwrite cover art by default.
  • Never wait more than second for the next HTTP request.
  • Fixed setting of the "Move Tagged Files To" folder, if the name contains non-ASCII characters.

Version 0.9.0alpha13 - 2007-07-29

Bugfixes

Version 0.9.0alpha12 - 2007-07-29

Changes

  • "User directory" location changed:
    • On Windows from "%HOMEPATH%\Local Settings\Application Data\MusicBrainz Picard" to "%HOMEPATH%\Application Data\MusicBrainz\Picard"
    • On UNIX from "/.picard" to "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/MusicBrainz/Picard" (usually "/.config/MusicBrainz/Picard")
  • Picard no longer logs every action and doesn't saves the logs. To enable more debug logging, use command line argument "-d" or "--debug" or environment variable "PICARD_DEBUG".
  • For plugins:
    • metadata["~#length"] is now metadata.length
    • metadata["~#artwork"] is now metadata.images

New Features

  • Save embedded images to MP4 files.
  • Added option to select release events for albums.
  • Added internal log viewer.
  • Track and file context menu hooks for plugins.

Bugfixes

  • Deleting files from clusters increments total time rather than decrementing it. (#2965)
  • Update metadata boxes and cover art for selected items. (#2498)
  • Display error message for tracks.
  • Fixed drag-and-drop bugs on Mac OS X.
  • Added %releasecountry% to the file renaming preview.
  • Cluster multi-disc albums identified by tags, not (disc x). (#2555)

Version 0.9.0alpha11 - 2007-05-27

New Features

  • Added "Edit" button to the tag editor.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed initialization of gettext translations.

Version 0.9.0alpha10 - 2007-05-27

New Features

  • New TaggerScript function $len(text). (#2843)
  • Don't compress huge ID3 frames. (#2850)
  • Move "Add Cluster As Release" to a plugin.
  • Allow horizontal scrollbar in the file browser panel. (#2856)
  • Removed "Basic" tab from the "Details" window, "Advanced" tab renamed to "Metadata".
  • The tag editor can be used to edit multiple files. (#2893)

Bugfixes

  • F1 for Help instead of CTRL+H on Windows and Linux. (#2485, Nikolai Prokoschenko)
  • Tabbing focus transition from search isn't as expected. (#2546, Nikolai Prokoschenko)
  • Display an error message if launching a web browser failed.
  • Fixed web-service error caused PUID submissions.
  • Change function $gt(), $gte(), $lt(), $lte() to compare numbers, not strings. (#2848)
  • Fixed kfmclient launching under KDE/Python 2.5.
  • Fixed similarity calculation of non-latin texts. (#2891)
  • Don't try to auto-analyze files with "loading" errors. (#2862)

Version 0.9.0alpha9 - 2007-05-12

New Features

  • The tag editor now accepts free-text tag names.
  • Load 'DJ-mixed by' AR data to %djmixer% tag.
  • Load 'Mixed by' AR data to %mixer% tag.
  • Delay the webservice client to do max. 1 request per second.
  • Sort files in clusters by disc number, track number and file name. (#2547)
  • Support for any text frame in special variable %_id3:%.
  • Ignore empty ID3 text values.
  • Windows installer:
    • Removed DirectX-based decoder.
    • FFmpeg compiled with AAC (faad2) support.

Bugfixes

  • Save XSOP frame to ID3v2.3 tags. (#2484)
  • Use attributes like 'guest' or 'additional' also from generic performer ARs.
  • Fixed capitalization of %releasetype% in file naming preview. (#2762)
  • Fixed 'python setup.py build_ext' if py2app and setuptools are loaded.
  • ID3v2.3 frame TDAT should be written in format DDMM, not MMDD. (#2770)
  • Don't display an error on Ogg and FLAC files with no tags.
  • Remove video files from the list of supported formats.
  • Always use musicbrainz.org for PUID submissions. (#2764)
  • Files/Pending Files count not reset/recalculated after removing files. (#2541)
  • Removed files still get processed during fingerprinting. (#2738)
  • Read only text values from APEv2 tags. (#2828)

Version 0.9.0alpha8 - 2007-04-15

New Features

  • Notification of changed files in releases. (#2632, #2702)

Bugfixes

  • Don't open the file for analyzing twice. (#2733, #2734)
  • Save ASIN and release country to ID3 tags. (#2484, #2456)
  • Variable %country% renamed to %releasecountry%.
  • Save release country to MP4 and WMA tags.
  • Don't take unsupported tags into account when checking if the tags are 'complete' and the file should have 100% match. This fixes problems with showing the green check-marks for file with limited tag formats, like MP4 or WMA.
  • Ignore missing tag in $unset().

Version 0.9.0alpha7 - 2007-04-14

New Features

  • Remember location in the file browser. (#2618)
  • Added FFmpeg support on Windows (MP3, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack and many other audio formats).
  • Lowercase the extension on file renaming/moving. (#2701)
  • TaggerScript function $copy(new,old) to copy metadata from variable old to new. The difference between $set(new,%old%) is that $copy(new,old) copies multi-value variables without flattening them.
  • Added special purpose TaggerScript variable %_id3:% for direct setting of ID3 frames. Currently it supports only TXXX frames in format %_id3:TXXX:<description>%, for example: $copy(_id3:TXXX:PERFORMERSORTORDER,artistsort).
  • Support for WAV files. (#2537)
  • Removed GStreamer-based decoder.
  • Implemented python setup.py install_locales.

Bugfixes

  • Failed PUID submission deactivates the submit button. (#2673)
  • Unable to specify album art file name mask. (#2655)
  • Fixed incorrect copying of album metadata to tracks. (#2698)
  • Added options to un-hide toolbars. (#2631)
  • Fixed problem with saving extra performer FLAC tags containing non-ASCII characters. (#2719)
  • Read only the first date from ID3v2.3 tags. (#2460)
  • If the remembered directory for add dialogs and file browser was removed, try to find an existing directory in the same path.

Version 0.9.0alpha6 - 2007-04-04

New Features

  • Added option --disable-autoupdate for 'build' and 'install' commands of the setup script. (#2551)
  • Automatically parse track numbers from file names like 01.flac for better cluster->album matching with untagged files.
  • Support for the new sorting tags in MP4 tags from iTunes 7.1.
  • Strip white-space from directory names. (#2558)
  • When replacing characters with their ascii equivalent, 'ß' should be replaced by 'ss'. (#2610)
  • Track level performer ARs. (#2561)
  • Remove leading and trailing whitespace from tags on file saving. (#892, #2665)
  • Support for labels, catalog numbers and barcodes.

Bugfixes

  • Artist names from ARs should be translated, too.
  • Freeze after answering no to "download the new version" prompt. (#2542)
  • %musicbrainz_albumid% not working in file renaming. (#2543)
  • Track time appears to display incorrectly if it's unknown on MusicBrainz. (#2548)
  • Fixed problem with removing albums/files after submitting PUIDs (#2556)
  • The user's script should be applied also to album metadata.
  • Fixed moving of additional files from paths with "special" characters.

Internals

  • The browser integration HTTP server rewritten using QTcpServer.

Version 0.9.0alpha5 - 2007-03-18

New Features

  • Replace Æ with AE in file/directory names. (#2512)
  • "Add cluster as release" (#1049)
  • Text labels under icon buttons. (#2476)

Bugfixes

  • Fixed fileId generator (caused problems with drag&drop if files with multiple formats are used).
  • Original Metadata not greyed out when no tracks are attached. (#2461)
  • Better detecting of the default Windows browser, with fallback to Internet Explorer. (#2502)
  • Better album/track lookup. (#2521)
  • File browser stays 'hidden' after first time use. (#2480)
  • Track length changed in Original Metadata after save. (#2510)
  • "Send PUIDs" button not disabled after albums are removed. (#2506)
  • The Windows package now includes JPEG loader to show cover art images correctly. (#2478)

Version 0.9.0alpha4 - 2007-03-09

Bugfixes

  • Fixed case-insentive file renaming. (#2457, #2513)

Version 0.9.0alpha3 - 2007-03-08

New Features

  • Using of 'performed by' AR types (without instrument or vocal).
  • The "Replace non-ASCII characters" option will try to remove accents first. (#2466)
  • Added option to auto-analyze all files. (#2465)

Bugfixes

  • Fixed file clustering.
  • Added %albumartistsort%, %releasetype% and %releasestatus% to the file naming example (#2458)
  • Sanitize dates from ID3 tags. (#2460)
  • Fixed page switching in the options window on error. (#2455)
  • Correct case-insensitive file renaming on Windows (#1003, #2457)
  • Relative paths in the "Move files to" option are relative to the current path of the file. (#2454)
  • Added a .desktop file. (#2470)
  • Release type and status should be in lower case. (#2489)

Version 0.9.0alpha2 - 2007-03-04

New Features

  • New variable %_extension% (#2447)
  • File naming format tester. (#2448)
  • Added automatic checking for new versions.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed window position saving/restoring. (#2449)
  • Fixed iTunes compilation flag saving. (#2450)

Version 0.9.0alpha1 - 2007-03-03

  • First release.