MusicBrainz Picard 2.6

Bugfixes

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

Improvements

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

MusicBrainz Picard 2.6.0b3

Bugfixes

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

Improvements

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

MusicBrainz Picard 2.6.0b2

Bugfixes

• PICARD-2131 - Tagger button reacts slow in Firefox

Improvements

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

MusicBrainz Picard 2.6.0b1

Bugfixes

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

New Features

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

Tasks

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

Improvements

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

MusicBrainz Picard 2.5.6

Bugfixes

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

MusicBrainz Picard 2.5.5

Bugfixes

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

MusicBrainz Picard 2.5.4

Bugfixes

• PICARD-2067 - 2.5.3 crashes on start on Windows

MusicBrainz Picard 2.5.3

Bugfixes

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

Improvements

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

MusicBrainz Picard 2.5.2

Bugfixes

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

Improvements

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

MusicBrainz Picard 2.5.1

Bugfixes

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

Improvements

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