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Picard 2.11 released

The Picard team is happy to announce that the final version 2.11 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 brings multiple improvements for the AcoustID fingerprint scan and general improvements to matching files to search results for some specific cases. This final release reverts a change from the recent release candidate which broke loading recording relationships only without release relationships.

Picard 2.11 Release Candidate

The Picard team starts into the year 2024 with a release candidate of MusicBrainz Picard 2.11. 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 brings multiple improvements for the AcoustID fingerprint scan and general improvements to matching files to search results for some specific cases. There are also some minor UI tweaks and general bug fixes.

New MetaBrainz translation platform

MetaBrainz project translation has officially moved from Transifex to Weblate! This is a big step forward, with improvements like single sign-on using your MusicBrainz account, proper attribution to translators, unified handling of glossaries, custom checks for MusicBrainz variable syntax, better integration with our development workflow, and supporting a libre software organization. We also tidied up the documentation and the forums about translation and more generally about internationalization of all aspects of MetaBrainz.

Your central information page for all MetaBrainz internationalization is now: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Internationalization

Your new translation platform is (MusicBrainz login required):
https://translations.metabrainz.org/

This is also a great opportunity to give translating a go if you’ve never done it before. In the second half of this blog post we will walk you through getting started. Don’t worry, you don’t need to be an expert translator!

GSOC ‘23: Automating Area Management in MusicBrainz

Hi, this is Prathamesh (IRC Nick: “Pratha-Fish”), an aspiring Data Engineer based in India with a sheer obsession for data, music, computers, and open-source software.

This year, I had the pleasure of being mentored by bitmap and reosarevok for this project and being guided at every hurdle by the incredible team at the MetaBrainz Foundation throughout this project. This blog summarizes my journey with MetaBrainz over the past 22 weeks.

Picard 2.10 released

The Picard team is happy to announce that the final version 2.10 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 mitigates a critical security issue when loading WebP images, see below for details. In addition there are a several improvements, but mainly this release provides bugfixes and changes behind the scenes such as Python 3.12 compatibility and improved translations.

Picard 2.10 Release Candidate 1

The Picard team is happy to announce that a release candidate for version 2.10 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 brings compatibility with Python 3.12 and improvements to both the translation process and the translations themselves. While the functional changes are relatively small, a lot of code restructuring took place. Hence we want to give this release wider testing before releasing the final version. More details below.

Picard 2.9.2 released

Picard 2.9.2 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 2.9 with fixes for reported issues. In particular this solves an issue where Picard could crash on exit leaving a thread running in the background, which prevented Picard to be started again.

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 2.8 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 2.9 and Picard 2.9.1.

On a special note the Picard website is now also available in Italian. Thanks to salo.rock who did the translation.

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

ListenBrainz App: Feed and UI Revamp (Release 2.3.0)

We are pleased to release the Feed for the ListenBrainz Android app, as well as a new settings page!

Three new feeds now allow app users to keep up with the activity of their ListenBrainz friends, as well as discover new music from listeners with similar music tastes.

My Feed shows the activity of your follows, including what they’ve reviewed, pinned, recommended, and more. Follow Listens displays the listens, chronologically, of all your follows, so you can check on what your friends are jamming right this second. Similar Listens displays, chronologically, the listens of your closest musical ’neighbours’, a great way to discover new music and perhaps even make new friends.

GSoC 2023: Feed Section in ListenBrainz Android

Hello everyone!

I am Jasjeet Singh (also known as jasje on IRC and 07jasjeet on GitHub). I am an undergraduate student pursuing information technology at UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. This year I participated in Google Summer of Code under MetaBrainz and worked on implementing a feed section in the new and upcoming ListenBrainz Android app derived from the ListenBrainz website. Along with the implementation of the original feed section, I have also added new features to the section that are currently available only on the app. My mentor for this project was Akshat Tiwari. (akshaaatt on IRC)

Picard 2.9.1 released

Picard 2.9.1 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 2.9 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations.
This release contains important fixes for a potential data loss on Windows and several crashes. Windows users are highly recommended to upgrade.
Please see below for details.

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 2.8 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 2.9.

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