What changed in MusicBrainz Picard from 1 to 2

56 releases numbered after 1.4.2 up to and including 2.13.3, stable releases only. 1.4.2 and 2.13.3 are the newest stable releases of 1 and 2 we track; this page follows them as new ones ship.

425 changes across 56 releases · 1 landed on more than one version

Added 32

2.13.1

  • Support Python 3.13
  • Avoid manual copying of authentication token
  • Support PKCE for OAuth2 authorization
  • OAuth2: Implement token revocation on the server
  • Add context menu action to metadata box to merge original and new values

2.12

  • Support .ogx extension for Ogg container

2.9.2

  • Include resource/images in source archive

2.9.1

  • Notification on plugin updates available
  • Provide the new audio director relationship as tag

2.8.4

  • Support media types DualDisc (DVD side) and Betacam SP

2.8.2

  • Support CAA cover art types "Top" and "Bottom"
  • Support media type "Mixed Mode CD"

2.7.2

  • Support .m4r file extension for MP4 (iTunes Ringtone files)

2.6.1

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

2.6

  • Make Scripting Documentation dialog available in renaming script
  • Add shortcut Ctrl+T for Search for similar tracks

2.6.0b3

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

2.5.3

  • Add context menu entry for copy and paste to metadata view
  • Add date and originaldate fields to the choice of columns in the list views
  • Allow showing all files in Add Files dialog
  • Add an option to disable automatic horizontal scrolling in file browser

2.5.2

  • Allow assigning cover art to multiple selected files
  • Provide binary distributions for Windows and macOS on PyPI

2.5.1

  • Add command line parameter --no-player to disable media player

2.5

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

2.4

  • Support Microsoft WAVE format (RIFF/WAVE) tagging with ID3
  • Support DSDIFF (DFF) files

2.3.1

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

2.0.3

  • Allow manually running any tagger script
Changed 56

2.12

  • Accept encodings other than UTF-8 when opening CD extraction logs
  • Improve results of genre filter options

2.10

  • If a tag got unset by scripting display a file's original tag value in the columns

2.9.2

  • Linux allows opening new instance via XDG desktop entry application action

2.9.1

  • Provide code signed source archives

2.9

  • Make modal first use and file save confirmation dialogs
  • Revise wording of first use and file save confirmation dialogs

2.8.2

  • Increase default query limit and make it configurable

2.8

  • Update bundled PyJWT to 2.4.0 for Windows and macOS builds

2.7.2

  • Make $slice() end parameter optional
  • Remove rate limit for archive.org

2.7.1

  • Allow building and packaging with PyYAML 6

2.6.1

  • Reduce comparison overhead of logging window
  • Coverart box now updates faster when many files are selected
  • Remove empty elements from $map() output

2.5.3

  • Improve Info/Error tab readability
  • More verbose tooltip for album error icon
  • Integrate metadata box clipboard with system clipboard
  • Unify error handling for albums, non-album tracks and files, show errors in info dialog
  • AcoustID submission can fail due to body size limit of AcoustID server
  • Improve contrast for console text in dark mode

2.5.2

  • Disable analyze / audio fingerprinting for MIDI files

2.5.1

  • Support chorus master recording relationships as performer:chorus master instead of second conductor
  • Reduce performance impact of fingerprinting column

2.4.3

  • Include tests in PyPI sdist tarball

2.4.2

  • New added tag should open field to enter value automatically
  • Update help links to go to https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org
  • Open documentation in options dialog using the platform's help shortcut (e.g. F1 on Windows or Ctrl+? on macOS)

2.4

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

2.3.2

  • Make $find return empty string rather than -1 when value not found
  • Support fractional scaling on Windows 10
  • Simplify Unicode Bullet to ASCII Hyphen-minus
  • Optimize format detection logic

2.3.1

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

2.3

  • Save originalfilename to ASF tags

2.2.3

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

2.2.2

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

2.2.1

  • Tests are no longer included in the sdist package

2.1.3

  • Consider the number of AcoustID sources for linked recordings
  • Move Check for Update to the Picard menu
  • Add ellipsis at the end of Check for Update menu item
  • Make warning about Qt locale loading less prominent

2.1.1

  • Fix language label for zh_CN and zh_TW

2.0.3

  • Preferred release type settings are now inclusive instead of exclusive
  • 64-bit Windows installer now installs to Program Files by default instead of Program Files (x86)
Fixed 335

2.13.3

  • libopus fails to read METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE without bit depth set
  • Windows: SSL errors if conflicting libssl is installed system wide

2.13.2

  • Crash when right-clicking on multi-selection of new tag values

2.13.1

  • Endless recursion when reading settings after script editor dialog was opened
  • File naming options inaccessible on permission errors to target path
  • Children's Music is shown as "Children'S Music" in Picard
  • Picard requires charset-normalizer < 3.4.0
  • Poorly formatted date tags crash Picard with uncaught Overflow Exception
  • Wrong disc numbers when submitting release
  • Case only renaming broken on case-insensitive filesystems
  • Sorting on macOS does not sort empty values as expected

2.12.3

  • Hovering over unmatched files no longer shows a tooltip with the PO translation file header for the active locale
  • Replacement for directory separators can now be set to a directory separator

2.12.2

  • Windows: Incorrect sort order in list views and search result

2.12.1

  • macOS crash when opening options with Spanish UI
  • Crash when loading release with genre filters resulting in empty genre list
  • Possible bug with locking in Metadata.__iter__
  • Display length value in AppStream metadata

2.12

  • Fixed unexpected behavior of MP3 comment tags when language isn't set
  • Fixed macOS package incompatibility with macOS 10.12 and 10.13
  • Fixed %_filename% tag displaying as "_mp3" in preview
  • Fixed non-genre tag being added as genre for standalone recording
  • Fixed Picard crash after selecting track search result
  • Fixed crash caused by non-integer rate limit delay
  • Fixed missing tooltip explaining match icon when there are multiple candidates
  • Fixed special file error icons for permission and not found errors not being used
  • Fixed dragging matched files from right pane to clusters not using original metadata
  • Fixed Picard crash on Windows with Deezer plugin enabled
  • Fixed exception raised when pressing Shift+Alt+A (Add tag) with nothing to edit
  • Fixed AttributeError in ScriptEditorDialog when unsaved_changes_confirmation attribute is missing
  • Fixed crash when quitting Picard after saving large number of files
  • Fixed "Unrecognized image data" error when fetching GIF cover art

2.11

  • Track/release relationship settings not being respected as described

2.10

  • Series relationships are not loaded for standalone recordings
  • Error: 255 is not a valid Id3ImageType
  • Track metadata compare ignores video flag check if there is no release

2.9.2

  • Content of series variables gets duplicated on each refresh
  • 00 is always stripped from DATE tag on save
  • Windows version can crash on exit and prevent restart of Picard
  • Crash in track search dialog if artist name translation is enabled
  • Crash when saving files with UI language set to Finnish
  • Windows SSL errors if conflicting libssl is installed system wide

2.9.1

  • Windows installer fails to detect already running instance
  • Windows portable version crashes when launched with -h
  • Windows crashes on startup after upgrade from 2.8 to 2.9
  • Windows installer allows canceling the uninstaller
  • Crash when re-opening options after closing without closing the scripting documentation dialog
  • Crash in script editor when showing tooltips for some Unicode character codes
  • Windows shift dragging files into Picard deletes the files on the filesystem
  • Options Restore Defaults does not restore all defaults
  • Windows permanent high CPU usage
  • Files are not getting loaded on systems with 2 or less CPUs
  • Stand alone instance mode does not work
  • Windows portable installs should run as separate instances
  • File selector for ripping log files does not show *.log files with the All supported log files filter

2.9

  • Fix RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration in metadatabox
  • Fix moving files between tracks losing AcoustID fingerprint and ReplayGain tags
  • Fix empty rectangle shown during drag when the first dragged element is not visible

2.8.5

  • Relative paths for cover art file names no longer work
  • Toolbar icon text disappears when saving options
  • Show icons in menus option is applied without saving options

2.8.4

  • Null bytes in tag values can cause crashes when sorting
  • Picard crashes on huge releases if no cover art provider is active
  • Loaded album does not update cover art display
  • Moving tracks between albums shows tracks differ even when they do not
  • Submit AcoustIDs submits even IDs that are in center pane
  • Player popovers for volume and playback speed crash on Wayland and open on wrong position
  • Add New Tag autocomplete list contains value typed so far
  • Floatable toolbars unusable under Wayland
  • Options for Windows compatibility and Replace non-ASCII get incorrectly set to inactive
  • Rules for file name compatibility and max path shortening are not applied when saving cover art
  • $cleanmulti() has no effect for hidden variables
  • Unable to drag tracks from right hand pane to Clusters
  • distutils.errors.DistutilsClassError when building with setup.py
  • QObject::startTimer Timers can only be used with threads started with QThread

2.8.3

  • Random crash on album search

2.8.2

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

2.8.1

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

2.7.3

  • Fixed macOS 10.13 issue where app was reported as damaged on launch

2.7.2

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

2.7.1

  • ID3 v2.3 files no longer show as changed directly after saving
  • Auto analyze and auto cluster now work when files are loaded via methods other than the built-in file browser
  • Fixed crash when dropping an album onto Clusters
  • Settings changed in profile are now always saved

2.7

  • ID3v2.3 files show as changed even if no tags changed and no tag changes are indicated
  • Windows system language detection broken
  • Log view colors are not restored after a clear
  • Post cluster focus regression
  • Removing files while clustering
  • __pycache__ directories make builds unreproducible

2.6.4

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

2.6.3

  • Syntax highlighting now correctly recognizes functions starting with underscore or numbers
  • Fix tab order in option pages
  • Minimizing or maximizing Picard window no longer registers desktop status indicator multiple times
  • Backslash at end of script no longer raises TypeError
  • Empty file naming script no longer causes files to be renamed to _ext
  • Some config changes are now applied without requiring a restart

2.6.2

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

2.6.1

  • Switching dark mode in macOS preferences now properly updates list elements
  • Use original values for a tag on a large selection no longer takes very long with high CPU usage
  • Keyboard shortcut to trigger script editor auto completion now works on macOS
  • Title and track number guessed from filename now show up as changed metadata
  • Search for similar tracks is no longer enabled by default, preventing crash when used without selection
  • Scripting error in file naming options is now displayed properly

2.6

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

2.6.0b3

  • Tags license and website can now be deleted and no longer get duplicated on update for ID3
  • macOS: File browser now uses user's home folder by default
  • macOS: Toolbar style no longer changes after saving options

2.5.6

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

2.5.5

  • Lookup on cluster only moves every other file
  • Track listings sometimes in reverse order

2.5.4

  • Crashes on start on Windows

2.5.3

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

2.5.2

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

2.5.1

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

2.5

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

2.4.4

  • Unmatched Files now appear when release was deleted from MB

2.4.3

  • Picard crashes on older releases of macOS due to theming exceptionalso in2.4.2
  • Saving files fails if there is no front image and "Save only one front image as separate file" is enabled
  • Windows 10: With dark theme inactive checkboxes cannot be distinguished from active ones
  • After clustering fingerprint icon disappears
  • Unmatched Files do not appear when release was deleted from MB

2.4.2

  • No refresh of metadata on "Use Original Value" or remove tags
  • Removing tags does not update list views
  • Changing tags of a track without matched files changes original metadata
  • Editing track metadata edits data of previously linked file
  • An album selected during loading should update the metadata view when loading has finished

2.4.1

  • Picard no longer fails to start on Windows 7 and Windows 8

2.4

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

2.3.2

  • Fix $firstwords function to catch IndexError
  • Fix $datetime crashing when invalid format is specified
  • Fix deleting performer, comment or lyrics tag failing for some cases in ID3, Vorbis, MP4 and Apev2 tags
  • Fix host not found error when downloading PDF artwork
  • Fix $delete(_id3:TXXX:foo) not deleting ID3 frames
  • Fix deleting tag stored in ID3 TIPL frame only removing first occurrence
  • Fix deleting case-insensitive TXXX frames not deleting anything
  • Fix saving ID3 tags marked as case-insensitive causing duplicated TXXX frames
  • Fix crash when selecting plugin that can be updated
  • Fix network access is disabled error under VPN service
  • Fix iTunes tags not removable and reappearing after being deleted
  • Fix list index out of range when saving Vorbis file
  • Fix instrument EWI being rewritten as e w i

2.3.1

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

2.3

  • Update check now handles alpha, beta and rc versions properly
  • Invalid ignore path regex no longer crashes Picard

2.2.3

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

2.2.2

  • Fix crash when opening options with broken plugin
  • Fix trackpad tap not working properly on macOS
  • Fix incorrect LSMinimumSystemVersion on macOS
  • Fix macOS and Windows packages built without C astrcmp
  • Fix lookup CD dropdown not listing additional drives
  • Fix updating default CD device in options not changing default for keyboard shortcut

2.2.1

  • Translations from picard/ui/colors.py now show up in Picard
  • Windows install now uses Qt default translations
  • Upgrading a plugin no longer displays the dialog box multiple times
  • [non-album tracks] can now be directly removed
  • Picard About now shows the actually used Qt version instead of the version PyQt was built against

2.2.0

  • Delete empty directories no longer removes special folders such as the desktop
  • Scripting and renaming font on macOS and Windows is now monospace
  • File Browser no longer resets horizontal scrolling on selection change
  • Refreshing a release now fetches the CAA index.json file from the server instead of always using cache
  • Empty destination directory now shows an error and prevents options from being saved
  • Match quality indicators are no longer blurry
  • Command+W now closes the Preferences window on macOS
  • Picard can now quit with preferences open
  • Expand/collapse indicator for releases no longer briefly disappears
  • Fingerprints can now be submitted to non-album recordings
  • Picard no longer crashes on start when loading python-discid without libdiscid being available
  • Local cover art provider now works on Windows
  • Version check when loading Picard plugins is now less strict
  • Rated tracks can now be saved when the file is FLAC with Metadata/Ratings active
  • Picard no longer crashes on pre-1.0 config upgrade
  • Saving no longer fails when setting tags with invalid names for the underlying tagging format
  • Picard no longer loads embedded cover art with ID3 type other as sticker
  • Double clicking a cover now opens it in an image viewer instead of a web browser
  • Scanning CDROM no longer uses a path containing ampersand
  • Picard can now load MP4 files without tags

2.1.3

  • Only the discid of the first disc in a release is written to tags
  • Picard setting cover art height, width and depth to 0 for FLAC files breaks libFLAC
  • Tracks get stuck at loading track information on Bad Gateway errors
  • Need two left-arrow key presses to go from track with file to album
  • Images tagged with extra types that the user has chosen to ignore should not be shown as modified
  • Folkskonomy tags genre fallback on album artists tags not working
  • Crash when running with Spanish language
  • Picard crashes on startup on Windows
  • Force close when adding songs to larger albums
  • Artist searches do not show begin and end area
  • AcoustId lookup fails if fingerprint already in tags
  • Windows installer shows outdated version string in file properties
  • Cover art sources do not support HTTPS
  • Filled up thread pool prevents metadata box updates
  • Changing MB server requires a restart
  • Search line input clear button icon is too small

2.1.2

  • macOS packaging script now properly handles errors instead of ignoring them
  • macOS packaging failure due to PIP bug has been resolved

2.1.1

  • Redirects of authenticated requests fail with 401 error
  • Dropping events don't work in CoverArtBox
  • Crashes when adding action to toolbar in options

2.1.0

  • Picard won't load non-album tracks from fingerprints
  • Releases in private collections are not shown as being in them
  • Sliders without labels in Options - Metadata - Preferred Releases
  • $matchedtracks is broken
  • AIFF does not support any of the compatid3 tags
  • Track can be placed in the incorrect spot on the release after using Scan
  • False file save error in specific circumstances
  • Collections menu not displayed correctly anymore
  • Cannot save tags that were previously deleted from file
  • Plugins list doesn't load automatically after setting proxy
  • Solo vocals are tagged wrong
  • Picard creating empty ID3 TIPL / TMCL / IPLS frames
  • Set field Grouping doesn't work as expected
  • After uninstalling a plugin Picard needs to be restarted for it to be reinstalled
  • Picard has wrong version string on macOS
  • Black text on a dark theme
  • Deleted tags for matched files stay deleted
  • MP4 reports bpm as unsupported tag
  • Removing unclustered files can be very slow
  • File info doesn't display Mono / Stereo in Channels field anymore

2.0.4

  • Tagging with replace non-ascii characters option no longer creates unwanted directories
  • Version information is now displayed correctly
  • Crash in debug mode on Windows April Update (1803) has been resolved
  • Version string is now correct
  • Picard no longer crashes when connecting to MusicBrainz server
  • Picard no longer crashes when clearing log
  • RuntimeError from dictionary changing size during iteration has been fixed
  • CD drive selection now works on Linux
  • Crash in options when clicking Restore defaults has been fixed
  • Restore defaults now restores CAA types
  • Default locale now works reliably
  • Picard now correctly saves 5.1 Mix Type tags
  • Loading TAK files now works correctly
  • Loading OptimFROG files now works correctly
  • Picard can now save ID3 tags with iTunNORM tag without failing
  • Picard no longer crashes on error during plugin install

2.0.3

  • Release type preferences now work correctly when a release has multiple types
  • Move additional files feature now works correctly when source directory contains non-ASCII characters
  • Not all preserved tags are now properly preserved
  • Scripting functionality has been restored
  • UNC paths are now recognized correctly
  • Search dialog no longer crashes when record doesn't have an album
  • Options dialog no longer crashes when current working directory doesn't exist
  • Dropping an image from Google Image no longer crashes Picard
  • Matching a cluster with a release with no tracks no longer crashes Picard
  • Album info dialog no longer crashes when track doesn't have a track number
Removed 1

2.13.1

  • Drop support for Python 3.7
Security 1

2.10

  • Disable Qt WebP plugin for Windows and macOS binary builds to mitigate libwebp vulnerability CVE-2023-4863

3 releases in the range carry no categorized changes yet: 2.0.22.0.12.0.0. Their original notes, where the vendor published any, are below.

Original release notes, newest first

The list above is our reading of these notes; the originals from MetaBrainz are here, one fold per release.

2.13.3MusicBrainz Picard 2.13.3

Please refer to the download page for official download locations.

Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2909 - libopus fails to read METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE without bit depth set
  • PICARD-3034 - Windows: SSL errors if conflicting libssl is installed system wide

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2.13.2MusicBrainz Picard 2.13.2

Please refer to the download page for official download locations.

Bugfixes
  • PICARD-3030 - Crash when right-clicking on multi-selection of new tag values

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2.13.1MusicBrainz Picard 2.13.1

Please refer to the download page for official download locations.

Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2989 - Endless recursion when reading settings after script editor dialog was opened
  • PICARD-2991 - File naming options inaccessible on permission errors to target path
  • PICARD-3000 - Children's Music is shown as "Children'S Music" in Picard
  • PICARD-3001 - Picard requires charset-normalizer < 3.4.0
  • PICARD-3008 - Poorly formatted date tags crash Picard with uncaught Overflow Exception
  • PICARD-3012 - Wrong disc numbers when submitting release
  • PICARD-3013 - Case only renaming broken on case-insensitive filesystems
  • PICARD-3014 - Sorting on macOS does not sort empty values as expected
Tasks
Improvements
  • PICARD-736 - Avoid manual copying of authentication token
  • PICARD-2882 - Support PKCE for OAuth2 authorization
  • PICARD-2886 - OAuth2: Implement token revocation on the server
  • PICARD-3021 - Add context menu action to metadata box to merge original and new values

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2.12.3MusicBrainz Picard 2.12.3

Please refer to the download page for official download locations.

Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2958 - Hovering over unmatched files shows a tooltip with the PO translation file header for the active locale
  • PICARD-2960 - Replacement for directory separators can itself be set to a directory separator

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2.12.2MusicBrainz Picard 2.12.2

Please refer to the download page for official download locations.

Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2953 - Windows: Incorrect sort order in list views and search result

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2.12.1MusicBrainz Picard 2.12.1

Please refer to the download page for official download locations.

Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2914 - macOS: Crash when opening options with Spanish UI
  • PICARD-2939 - Crash when loading release with genre filters resulting in empty genre list
  • PICARD-2940 - Possible bug with locking in Metadata.__iter__
  • PICARD-2946 - Fix display length value in AppStream metadata

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2.12MusicBrainz Picard 2.12

Please refer to the download page for official download locations.

Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2468 - Unexpected behavior of MP3 comment tags when language isn't set
  • PICARD-2846 - macOS package MusicBrainz-Picard-2.11-macOS-10.12.dmg is not compatible with macOS 10.12 and 10.13
  • PICARD-2850 - %_filename% tag displays as "_mp3" in preview
  • PICARD-2866 - Non-genre tag added as genre for standalone recording
  • PICARD-2868 - Picard crashes after selecting track search result
  • PICARD-2880 - Non-integer rate limit delay causes crashes
  • PICARD-2883 - Tooltip explaining match icon missing when there are multiple candidates
  • PICARD-2885 - Special file error icons for permission and not found errors are not being used
  • PICARD-2891 - Dragging matched files from right pane to clusters does not use original metadata
  • PICARD-2895 - Picard crashes on Windows with Deezer plugin enabled
  • PICARD-2901 - Pressing Shift+Alt+A (Add tag) raises an exception when there's nothing to edit
  • PICARD-2910 - AttributeError: 'ScriptEditorDialog' object has no attribute 'unsaved_changes_confirmation'.
  • PICARD-2918 - Crash when quitting Picard after saving large number of files
  • PICARD-2919 - "Unrecognized image data" error when fetching GIF Cover Art
Improvements
  • PICARD-2716 - Accept encodings other than UTF-8 when opening CD extraction logs
  • PICARD-2896 - Support .ogx extension for Ogg container
  • PICARD-2935 - Improve results of genre filter options

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2.11MusicBrainz Picard 2.11

Please refer to the download page for official download locations.

Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2819 - Track/release relationship settings not being respected as described

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2.10MusicBrainz Picard 2.10

Please refer to the download page for official download locations.

Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2768 - Series relationships are not loaded for standalone recordings
  • PICARD-2774 - Error: 255 is not a valid Id3ImageType
  • PICARD-2775 - Disable Qt WebP plugin for Windows and macOS binary builds to mitigate libwebp vulnerability (CVE-2023-4863)
  • PICARD-2776 - Track metadata compare ignores video flag check if there is no release
Improvements
  • PICARD-2769 - If a tag got unset by scripting display a file's original tag value in the columns

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2.9.2MusicBrainz Picard 2.9.2
Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2700 - Content of series variables gets duplicated on each refresh
  • PICARD-2712 - "00" is always stripped from DATE tag on save
  • PICARD-2722 - Windows version can crash on exit and prevent restart of Picard
  • PICARD-2724 - Crash in track search dialog if artist name translation is enabled
  • PICARD-2733 - Crash when saving files with UI language set to Finnish
  • PICARD-2736 - Windows: SSL errors if conflicting libssl is installed system wide
Tasks
  • PICARD-2752 - Include resource/images in source archive
Improvements
  • PICARD-2720 - Linux: Allow opening new instance via XDG desktop entry application action

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2.9.1MusicBrainz Picard 2.9.1
Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2186 - Windows installer fails to detect already running instance
  • PICARD-2688 - Windows: Portable version crashes when launched with -h
  • PICARD-2692 - Windows: Crash on startup after upgrade from 2.8 to 2.9
  • PICARD-2693 - Windows installer allows canceling the uninstaller
  • PICARD-2694 - Crash when re-opening options after closing without closing the scripting documentation dialog
  • PICARD-2695 - Crash in script editor when showing tooltips for some Unicode character codes
  • PICARD-2696 - Windows: Shift dragging files into Picard deletes the files on the filesystem
  • PICARD-2697 - Options "Restore Defaults" does not restore all defaults
  • PICARD-2698 - Windows: Permanent high CPU usage
  • PICARD-2710 - Files are not getting loaded on systems with 2 or less CPUs
  • PICARD-2713 - Stand alone instance mode does not work
  • PICARD-2714 - Windows: Portable installs should run as separate instances
  • PICARD-2718 - File selector for ripping log files does not show *.log files with the "All supported log files" filter
New Features
  • PICARD-1815 - Notification on plugin updates available
  • PICARD-2705 - Provide the new audio director relationship as tag
Improvements

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2.9MusicBrainz Picard 2.9
Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2011 - "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration" in metadatabox
  • PICARD-2685 - Moving files between tracks looses AcoustID fingerprint and ReplayGain tags
  • PICARD-2689 - If the first dragged element is not visible an empty rectangle is shown during drag
Improvements
  • PICARD-2680 - Modal first use and file save confirmation dialogs
  • PICARD-2681 - Revise wording of first use and file save confirmation dialogs

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2.8.5MusicBrainz Picard 2.8.5
Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2590 - Relative paths for cover art file names no longer work
  • PICARD-2593 - Toolbar icon text disappears when saving options
  • PICARD-2596 - "Show icons in menus" option is applied without saving options

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2.8.4MusicBrainz Picard 2.8.4
Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2520 - Null bytes in tag values can cause crashes when sorting
  • PICARD-2539 - Picard crashes on huge releases if no cover art provider is active
  • PICARD-2548 - Loaded album does not update cover art display
  • PICARD-2549 - Moving tracks between albums shows tracks differ even when they do not
  • PICARD-2554 - Submit AcoustIDs submits even IDs that are in center pane
  • PICARD-2556 - Player popovers for volume and playback speed crash on Wayland and open on wrong position
  • PICARD-2557 - Add New Tag autocomplete list contains value typed so far
  • PICARD-2558 - Floatable toolbars unusable under Wayland
  • PICARD-2564 - Options for "Windows compatibility" and "Replace non-ASCII" get incorrectly set to inactive
  • PICARD-2565 - Rules for file name compatibility and max. path shortening are not applied when saving cover art
  • PICARD-2568 - $cleanmulti() has no effect for hidden variables
  • PICARD-2570 - Unable to drag tracks from right hand pane to Clusters
  • PICARD-2582 - distutils.errors.DistutilsClassError when building with setup.py
  • PICARD-2588 - QObject::startTimer: Timers can only be used with threads started with QThread
Improvements
  • PICARD-2589 - Support media types "DualDisc (DVD side)" and "Betacam SP"

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2.8.3MusicBrainz Picard 2.8.3
Bugfixes

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2.8.2MusicBrainz Picard 2.8.2
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"

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2.8.1MusicBrainz Picard 2.8.1
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

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2.8MusicBrainz Picard 2.8
Tasks
  • PICARD-2484 - Update bundled PyJWT to 2.4.0 for Windows and macOS builds

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2.7.3MusicBrainz Picard 2.7.3
Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2395 - macOS 10.13: On launch app is reported as damaged

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2.7.2MusicBrainz Picard 2.7.2
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)

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2.7.1MusicBrainz Picard 2.7.1
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

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2.7MusicBrainz Picard 2.7
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

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2.6.4MusicBrainz Picard 2.6.4
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

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2.6.3MusicBrainz Picard 2.6.3
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

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2.6.2MusicBrainz Picard 2.6.2
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

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2.6.1MusicBrainz Picard 2.6.1
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

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2.6MusicBrainz Picard 2.6
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"

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2.6.0b3MusicBrainz Picard 2.6.0b3
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

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2.5.6MusicBrainz Picard 2.5.6
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

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2.5.5MusicBrainz Picard 2.5.5
Bugfixes
  • PICARD-2070 - Lookup on cluster only moves every other file
  • PICARD-2071 - Track listings sometimes in reverse order

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2.5.4MusicBrainz Picard 2.5.4
Bugfixes

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2.5.3MusicBrainz Picard 2.5.3
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

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2.5.2MusicBrainz Picard 2.5.2
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

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2.5.1MusicBrainz Picard 2.5.1
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

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2.5MusicBrainz Picard 2.5
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

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2.4.4MusicBrainz Picard 2.4.4
Bugfixes
  • PICARD-1931 - Regression: "Unmatched Files" do not appear when release was deleted from MB

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2.4.3MusicBrainz Picard 2.4.3
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

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2.4.2MusicBrainz Picard 2.4.2
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

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2.4.1MusicBrainz Picard 2.4.1
Bugfixes
  • PICARD-1904 - Picard 2.4 does not start on Windows 7 and Windows 8

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2.4MusicBrainz Picard 2.4
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)

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2.3.2MusicBrainz Picard 2.3.2
Bug-fix
  • 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"
Improvement
  • PICARD-1777 - Support fractional scaling on Windows 10
  • PICARD-1800 - Simplify Unicode 'Bullet' to ASCII 'Hyphen-minus'
  • PICARD-1809 - Optimize format detection logic

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2.3.1MusicBrainz Picard 2.3.1
Bug-fix
  • 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 Feature
  • PICARD-1743 - Add script functions $sortmulti and $reversemulti to sort and reverse multi-value variables
  • PICARD-1751 - Provide a %_releasecountries% variable
Improvement
  • 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

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2.3MusicBrainz Picard 2.3

See the Picard 2.3 release announcement for a summary of changes since the last stable release.

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

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2.2.3MusicBrainz Picard 2.2.3
Bug-fix
  • 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
Improvement
  • PICARD-1630 - Ensure FLAC metadata is visible/editable in Windows Explorer
  • PICARD-1632 - Tooltips for genre filter help hide too quickly

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2.2.2MusicBrainz Picard 2.2.2
Bug-fix
  • 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
Improvement
  • PICARD-1610 - Make the labels in Options > User Interface > Colours wider
  • PICARD-1619 - Grey out cover art providers list when cover art is disabled

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2.2.1MusicBrainz Picard 2.2.1

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2.2.0MusicBrainz Picard 2.2.0
Bug-fix
  • 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 Feature
  • 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
Task
  • 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
Improvement
  • 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

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2.1.3MusicBrainz Picard 2.1.3

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2.1.2MusicBrainz Picard 2.1.2

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2.1.1MusicBrainz Picard 2.1.1

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2.1.0MusicBrainz Picard 2.1.0

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2.0.4MusicBrainz Picard 2.0.4
Fixed Bugs
  • [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

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2.0.3MusicBrainz Picard 2.0.3

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2.0.2MusicBrainz Picard 2.0.2

The vendor published no notes for this release.

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2.0.1MusicBrainz Picard 2.0.1

The vendor published no notes for this release.

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2.0.0MusicBrainz Picard 2.0

https://blog.musicbrainz.org/2018/07/19/picard-2-0-released/

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