NEWS.md

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

• PICARD-1935 - Include tests in PyPI sdist tarball

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

• PICARD-1860 - New added tag should open field to enter value automatically
• PICARD-1899 - Update help links to go to http://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)

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

• PICARD-1740 - Save originalfilename to ASF tags

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

• 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

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

• PICARD-1456 - macOS packaging fails due to PIP bug

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

• PICARD-1452 - Appveyor auto-deploy not working

Improvements

• PICARD-1450 - Fix language label for zh_CN and zh_TW

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

• PICARD-1296 - Code sign Picard for macOS

Tasks

• PICARD-1301 - Use PyQT 5.10 for macOS

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

• PICARD-960 - Migrate to PyQt5
• PICARD-1186 - Support only 64 bit Picard builds from 2.0

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-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

• Fixed drag&drop issue on Windows Vista. http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?id=693

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.