The Picard team is happy to announce that version 2.12 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 focuses on fixing bugs and providing minor improvements with the goal of providing a stable Picard version 2. In the meantime we are focusing on Picard 3, which will provide more significant changes.
What’s new?
Bugfixes
- PICARD-2468 – Unexpected behavior of MP3 comment tags when language isn’t set
- PICARD-2846 – macOS package MusicBrainz-Picard-2.11-macOS-10.12.dmg is not compatible with macOS 10.12 and 10.13
- PICARD-2850 –
%_filename%tag displays as “_mp3” in preview - PICARD-2866 – Non-genre tag added as genre for standalone recording
- PICARD-2868 – Picard crashes after selecting track search result
- PICARD-2880 – Non-integer rate limit delay causes crashes
- PICARD-2883 – Tooltip explaining match icon missing when there are multiple candidates
- PICARD-2885 – Special file error icons for permission and not found errors are not being used
- PICARD-2891 – Dragging matched files from right pane to clusters does not use original metadata
- PICARD-2895 – Picard crashes on Windows with Deezer plugin enabled
- PICARD-2901 – Pressing Shift+Alt+A (Add tag) raises an exception when there’s nothing to edit
- PICARD-2910 – AttributeError: ‘ScriptEditorDialog’ object has no attribute ‘unsaved_changes_confirmation’.
- PICARD-2918 – Crash when quitting Picard after saving large number of files
- PICARD-2919 – “Unrecognized image data” error when fetching GIF Cover Art
Improvements
- PICARD-2935 – Improve results of genre filter options
- PICARD-2716 – Accept encodings other than UTF-8 when opening CD extraction logs
- PICARD-2896 – Support .ogx extension for Ogg container
Download
Picard 2.12 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 Laurent Monin, Philipp Wolfer, Serial-ATA, nullhawk and ShubhamBhut.
Many thanks also to all the translators and everyone who tested the beta releases 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.