The Picard team is happy to announce that the final version 2.11 of MusicBrainz Picard is now available for download. 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. This final release reverts a change from the recent release candidate which broke loading recording relationships only without release relationships.
What’s new?
Scan and file matching improvements
Various improvements and corrections to how Picard performs AcoustID fingerprint searches and generally how it compares the existing metadata to find the best match on MusicBrainz have been made.
Most significantly this release works around issues on the AcoustID side where linked recordings can lack metadata, which resulted in Picard loading them as standalone-recordings without release information. Also fingerprint look up could fail on certain files with decoding problems, even if those did not impact the fingerprint calculation.
Also there were issues on certain edge cases when comparing metadata, like recordings not being marked as video being generally ranked lower, releases without any release type being ranked very low and metadata comparison for recordings without a set length failing.
In combination the changes lead to better overall results for scan and lookup.
UI tweaks
On macOS a font rendering issue led to spaces not being visible in some places, most significantly in the metadata view. This has been fixed by updating the Qt5 library.
Also in the log dialog the current log level is now shown directly without the need to click on the log level selection.
And more…
Please see below for a complete list of changes.
Download
Picard 2.11 is available for download from the download page. For Windows 10 users installing from the Windows Store an update will come automatically as soon as the new release has been approved by Microsoft.
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 pre-release and provided feedback on the community forums, IRC and the issue tracker.
Get in touch
Please use the MetaBrainz community forums and the ticket system to give feedback, suggest new features or report bugs.
Changelog
Below is the full list of changes since the last stable release 2.10. A full list of changes in the individual pre-releases can be found in the changelog.
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-2795] – Display currently selected verbosity in log view verbosity selection
- [PICARD-2813] – AcoustID lookup on recoverable decoding errors
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