Picard 3.0.3 released – MetaBrainz Blog

Picard 3.0.3 is a maintenance release for Picard 3.0 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations.
This release fixes a crash when switching color themes, a crash when loading a release from an ISRC lookup, metadata issues in the Album Pane when multiple files match a track, and problems saving tags to WAV files with invalid chunk sizes, along with several plugin, cover art, and sorting fixes.
It also brings a few small improvements, including Enter-key navigation in the scripting documentation search, better recording-match scoring to avoid false positives on gross track-length mismatches, and normalization of lowercase or unhyphenated ISRCs.

The latest release is available for download on the Picard download page.

The detailed changes for this maintenance release are below. For an overview of the new features since Picard 2.13 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 3.0.

Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback and reported issues.

What’s new?

Bugfixes

[PICARD-3477] – Setup Wizard: Checkbox description text not fully shown
[PICARD-3496] – “Grouping” tags cannot be deleted from MP3s
[PICARD-3498] – Disabling plugin purges cover art provider configuration from picard.ini
[PICARD-3499] – Reinstalling local in-place plugin and switching to git fails
[PICARD-3509] – Crash when switching themes
[PICARD-3510] – Newly added custom column renders with solid white background on tracks while built-in columns do not
[PICARD-3511] – Right-pane artwork replacement silently fails to embed in FLAC files
[PICARD-3513] – Blocking album task that is completed forever blocks UI operation
[PICARD-3514] – Cover Art Archive “Exclude” types list does not override the “Include” list
[PICARD-3515] – If many files for a given track are found and additional fields are enabled, metadata is wrong in the Album Pane
[PICARD-3516] – Article-insensitive column sort is non-deterministic (QCollatorSortKey lacks working equality)
[PICARD-3517] – Built-in player prevents file write access
[PICARD-3518] – Cover art saved as external files ignores CAA “front” flag when naming files
[PICARD-3519] – Picard unable to save metadata for WAVE files with data size not matching actual data
[PICARD-3521] – Picard crashes when loading a release from ISRC lookup for files already matched to a track
[PICARD-3527] – Track match indicator is inconsistent
[PICARD-3528] – Uses alias sort name even if artist credits matches artist name

Improvements

[PICARD-3526] – format_isrc does not normalize lowercase or unhyphenated valid ISRCs
[PICARD-3507] – Scripting documentation function/tag search: Enter key to proceed to next match
[PICARD-3508] – Gross track-length mismatch does not prevent a false-positive recording match on Lookup

Download

Picard 3.0.3 is available for download from the download page of the Picard website. For Windows 10 and 11 users installing from the Microsoft Store the update to Picard 3.0.3 is now available and can be installed from the Microsoft Store app. Linux users can get the latest Snap package. The Linux Flatpak package is maintained separately and will be updated soon.

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

Get in touch

Please use the MetaBrainz community forums and the ticket system to give feedback, suggest new features or report bugs.

Acknowledgements

Code contributions by Laurent Monin, Philipp Wolfer and Shubham Prasad.
Translations were updated by “ApeKattQuest, MonkeyPython” (Norwegian Bokmål), pXF (Hungarian) and x150 (German).