We have released Picard 3 beta 4. The recently released beta 3 did crash on macOS and when running the picard-plugins command line tool, both has been fixed in this. In addition beta 4 fixes display issues in the new log view.
Download links and a detailed list of changes since Picard 3 beta 3 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?
Bugfixes
- PICARD-3300 – Fails to launch on macOS: “Expected an instance of Tagger”
- PICARD-3301 – Visual glitch in log viewer for multi line output
- PICARD-3304 – picard-plugins fails to launch with “Expected an instance of Tagger”
Improvements
- PICARD-3303 – Add syntax highlighting to Log Detail dialog
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.
For anyone wondering if they missed beta 2: We had the version updated for beta 2, but we never released it and instead had further changes that got now released as beta 3.
Acknowledgements
Code contributions by Laurent Monin and Philipp Wolfer. Translations were updated by Nebulain (Chinese (Simplified Han script)).