While our hearts are heavy following Rob’s passing, we remain committed to our mission and carry on, as Rob would have expected from us.
Today, we’re making available another pre-release version for the upcoming MusicBrainz Picard 3. Alpha 3 focuses on fixing issues that were found in the previous releases as well as some minor improvements and updated translations.
Download links and a list of changes since Picard 3 alpha 2 are available below. For a more detailed overview of what is new in Picard 3 please see the previous blog post Picard 3 Alpha Release.
As before this is still an early pre-release. While we have all the major features implemented and we are rather confident in the current code, it is still a development release and it is expected there will be bugs. If you use this, do so with care, backup your files and please report any issues you encounter.
Some of the changes are also backward incompatible, hence we recommend you make a backup of your Picard.ini config file before trying the alpha version. You can do so in Picard’s Options under Advanced > Maintenance.
Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback, reported issues and provided translations.
What’s new?
Bugfixes
- PICARD-3191 – Crash when copying from the first column of the metadata view
- PICARD-3192 – Crash when converting configuration file
- PICARD-3195 – macOS: No Dock icon or menus
- PICARD-3196 – Persisted main view columns settings easily break if default column change
- PICARD-3197 – Fails to launch when there’s a global libssl installed
- PICARD-3198 – Restore defaults on one page restores the defaults on all pages
- PICARD-3202 – Wrong disc ID calculation for SCSI TOCs that contain a trailing data track
New Features
- PICARD-2892 – Support disc ID lookup from
itunes_cddb_1tag
Improvements
- PICARD-2670 – Add filename and directory as pre-defined columns
- PICARD-3203 – Allow adding “Lookup CD log file” action to toolbar
Download
As this is a pre-release and early alpha version, it is not available on all the channels where Picard’s current stable version is available.
We appreciate your interest in trying this new version. Use with care, backup your files and please use the MetaBrainz community forums and the ticket system to give feedback and report bugs.
- MusicBrainz Picard for Windows (installer)
- MusicBrainz Picard for Windows (portable)
- MusicBrainz Picard for macOS (Intel)
- MusicBrainz Picard for macOS (ARM64)
- Source code
Picard is free software and the source code is available on GitHub.