MusicBrainz Picard 2.4.4

Bugfixes

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

MusicBrainz 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

• PICARD-1935 - Include tests in PyPI sdist tarball

MusicBrainz 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

• PICARD-1860 - New added tag should open field to enter value automatically
• PICARD-1899 - Update help links to go to https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org
• PICARD-1920 - Open documentation in options dialog using the platform's help shortcut (e.g. F1 on Windows or Ctrl+? on macOS)

MusicBrainz Picard 2.4.1

Bugfixes

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

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