MusicBrainz 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)

MusicBrainz Picard 2.4.0b2

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"

MusicBrainz Picard 2.4.0b1

Bug-fix

• 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 Feature

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

Improvement

• 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

MusicBrainz 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

MusicBrainz 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

MusicBrainz 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

• PICARD-1740 - Save originalfilename to ASF tags

MusicBrainz Picard 2.3.0rc1

Bug-fix

• 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

Improvement

• 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

MusicBrainz Picard 2.3.0b1

Please see the release announcement on the MetaBrainz blog for details.

Bug-fix

• 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 Feature

• 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

Improvement

• 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

Task

• PICARD-1406 - Refactor Metadata.set and metadata.setitem
• PICARD-1465 - Add Picard to Windows Store
• PICARD-1596 - Automate PyPI deployment
• PICARD-1653 - macOS: Enable Hardened Runtime
• PICARD-1669 - Build Windows 10 MSIX app package
• PICARD-1703 - Upgrade to PyInstaller 3.6