Picard 3 beta 1 released – MetaBrainz Blog

Today, we’re making available another pre-release version for the upcoming MusicBrainz Picard 3. Beta 1 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 4 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.

While we have all the major features implemented and with the latest bug fixes we are confident in the current code, this is still a pre-release and there might 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 beta version. You can do so in Picard’s Options under Advanced > Maintenance.

What’s new?

Bug fixes

[PICARD-3236] – PyJWT~=2.12 requirement too strict and impacts distro packaging
[PICARD-3237] – AppStream metadata validation fails due to changed FAQ URL
[PICARD-3238] – No longer able to paste text value into multiple tracks
[PICARD-3239] – Picard can’t remove plugin data on Windows
[PICARD-3246] – Genre tag changes on every reload when multiple genres have equal vote counts
[PICARD-3249] – Tags not suggested in Edit Tag dialog

New Features

[PICARD-2982] – Submit Listens to ListenBrainz using Picard
[PICARD-3250] – Support Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese plugin in official builds

Improvements

[PICARD-3254] – Plugins v3 MANIFEST: add support for report_bugs_to field
[PICARD-292] – Wizard/configuration tutorial on first run
[PICARD-3199] – Detect FLAC unsyncedlyrics tag
[PICARD-3240] – Map syncedlyrics to WM/Lyrics_Synchronised for ASF
[PICARD-3244] – Fix word-wrap issue regarding the network cache size option setting

Tasks

[PICARD-3243] – Documentation: Add note about unnecessary spaces in script functions
[PICARD-3247] – Update snap build for Picard 3 with Qt6

Download

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.

For Windows and macOS you can download the beta version from the Picard download page. Linux users can run from source or try the beta channel of the Picard snap package.

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

Acknowledgements

Code contributions by Bob Swift, Deepak Kumar, Laurent Monin and Philipp Wolfer.
Translations were updated by bababasti (German), coldified_ (Korean), cristian_emanuel (Portuguese (Brazil)) and Marc Riera (Catalan).

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