Picard 2.11 Release Candidate

The Picard team starts into the year 2024 with a release candidate of MusicBrainz Picard 2.11. MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with the latest data from MusicBrainz.

This release brings multiple improvements for the AcoustID fingerprint scan and general improvements to matching files to search results for some specific cases. There are also some minor UI tweaks and general bug fixes.

What’s new?

Bugfixes

• [PICARD-2602] – macOS: Spaces not visible between items after comma use
• [PICARD-2780] – Weighting search results does match non-video tracks incorrectly
• [PICARD-2781] – Weighting search results does apply extremely low matching if a release on MB has no release types at all
• [PICARD-2791] – Navigation tree in options dialog can be completely hidden
• [PICARD-2792] – Unlinked AcoustID results are preferred over results with metadata
• [PICARD-2805] – Metadata comparison for recordings raises exception if length is None
• [PICARD-2814] – Error loading files with invalid / unknown ID3 cover art type

Improvements

• [PICARD-2584] – Handle AcoustID missing metadata
• [PICARD-2777] – Options indicate that enabling track relationships automatically includes release relationships
• [PICARD-2795] – Display currently selected verbosity in log view verbosity selection
• [PICARD-2813] – AcoustID lookup on recoverable decoding errors

Download

Please be aware that this is a pre-release we put out for final feedback and as such might contain unexpected bugs. Please use the MetaBrainz community forums and the ticket system to give feedback, suggest new features or report bugs.

Picard 2.11 Release Candidate 1 is available for download from the download page.

Picard is free software and the source code is available on GitHub.

Acknowledgements

This release contains code contributions by Bob Swift and Philipp Wolfer. The translations have been updated by salo.rock, mfmeulenbelt, Vac31, Nerten, Iceman1415 and shuuji3.

Many thanks also to everyone who tested the beta releases and provided feedback on the community forums, IRC and the issue tracker.

Helping out

The easiest way to help us getting a great Picard 2.11 release is using and testing this release candidate. Please report bugs on the Picard issue tracker and provide feedback in the community forums.

You can also help with translations of the software, website and documentation on the recently announced MetaBrainz translation platform. Please see the translation instructions on the Wiki for details.

If you are a software developer you are very welcomed to provide fixes and features. Picard is free software and the source code is available on GitHub. See Developing on the Picard website to get started.