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Picard 2.2 released

The Picard Team is proud to announce the release of MusicBrainz Picard 2.2. This version provides a number of new features and bug fixes. Some of the highlights are:

Files can be moved to sub folders without renaming the actual file (see below for details).
Colors used for highlighting changes in files and metadata can now be configured in options.
A new integrated media player toolbar. This feature is considered beta and is disabled by default, but you can enable the toolbar in the menu with View > Player. Please note that the file formats supported by the player depend on your operating system.
New plugin hooks which trigger when a file was added to a release, a file was removed from a release, a file was saved and a file was loaded.
Improved support for dropping cover art images directly from Google and Bing image search results.
Support for ReplayGain 2.0 tags.

There are a few potentially backward incompatible changes.

Amazon cover art moved to plugin: If you have been using the Amazon cover art you will need to install the Amazon Cover Art plugin in Options > Plugins. The functionality remains the same, we just moved it to a plugin.
Moving files without renaming creates folder structure: Previously Picard would just drop all files into the selected target folder if “Move files” was enabled but “Rename files” was disabled. This was not very useful. Now Picard will generate the folder hierarchy according to your script.
If you want to retain the old functionality use a renaming script that does not generate any folder hierarchy (no slash or backslash characters in the script).
The minimum supported macOS version is now macOS Sierra (10.12) or higher. If you are using macOS 10.10 or 10.11 you can continue using Picard 2.1.3.

Picard 2.2 is available for download on the Picard website.

Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, testing, bug reports and general feedback. This is much appreciated and we are always happy to see new contributors.

Here is the full changelog:

Bug

[PICARD-456] – “Delete empty directories” should not delete special folders such as the desktop
[PICARD-571] – Scripting and renaming font on macOS and Windows not monospace
[PICARD-622] – File Browser resets horizontal scrolling on selection change
[PICARD-765] – Refreshing a release reloads the CAA index.json file from cache, even if it changed online
[PICARD-1025] – An empty destination directory prevents the options from being saved, but doesn’t show an error
[PICARD-1090] – Match quality indicators are blurry
[PICARD-1282] – ⌘W does not close Preferences window
[PICARD-1284] – Can’t quit with preferences open
[PICARD-1446] – Expand/collapse indicator for the release is briefly missing
[PICARD-1483] – Can’t submit fingerprints to non-album recordings
[PICARD-1489] – Crash on start when loading python-discid without libdiscid being available
[PICARD-1490] – Local cover art provider fails on Windows
[PICARD-1491] – Version check when loading Picard plugins too strict
[PICARD-1492] – Can’t save rated tracks when it’s a FLAC file (when Metadata/Ratings is active)
[PICARD-1493] – Crash on pre 1.0 config upgrade
[PICARD-1497] – Saving fails when setting tags with invalid names for the underlying tagging format
[PICARD-1499] – Picard loads embedded cover art with ID3 type “other” as sticker
[PICARD-1501] – Double click in a cover opens it in web browser instead of an image viewer
[PICARD-1503] – Scanning CDROM uses path containing ampersand (&)
[PICARD-1516] – Picard fails to load MP4 without tags
[PICARD-1517] – Functions matchedtracks and is_complete throw exception when run on cluster
[PICARD-1522] – Crash when removing NAT recordings
[PICARD-1527] – Can’t resize options window in 2.1.x (Mac)
[PICARD-1529] – NAT tracks get assigned wrong cover art
[PICARD-1533] – Attribute Qt::AA_EnableHighDpiScaling must be set before QCoreApplication is created
[PICARD-1541] – Closing log views destroys widgets
[PICARD-1543] – v2.1.3 crashes when selecting Preferences in the Apple menu 10.14.5
[PICARD-1547] – Picard doesn’t warn about not updating .wav metadata
[PICARD-1549] – Source distributions are broken on Windows
[PICARD-1551] – “compare_to_track” method considers “score” parameter only if track has releases
[PICARD-1556] – Default File Naming Script produces “00” track number in file name.
[PICARD-1558] – Setting rating on a track does not apply to already matched files
[PICARD-1566] – Cannot drag misidentified song back to the left pane
[PICARD-1567] – Parsing track number from file name modifies original title in metadata
[PICARD-1571] – On macOS multiple option dialogs can be opened
[PICARD-1573] – Crash when loading release with a tag that contains only whitespace.
[PICARD-1575] – Can’t drag and drop a picture from the Google Picture Result Page to Picard.
[PICARD-1580] – Crash when closing options window on “Preferred Releases” page
[PICARD-1582] – “Allow selection of multiple directories” has no effect on Linux with Gtk file chooser
[PICARD-1584] – Crash when disabling script function providing plugin
[PICARD-1585] – On macOS restore default options dialog opens in background
[PICARD-1588] – Metadata box shows tags unsupported by format
[PICARD-1591] – Error when loading Vorbis file with invalid metadata_block_picture
[PICARD-1593] – Picard crashes on plugin install error
[PICARD-1595] – Cursor in tag edit box always jumps to end on input
[PICARD-1598] – Metadata box hidden when album gets updated
[PICARD-1601] – PyPI source tarball misses some test data

New Feature

[PICARD-143] – Add a plugin hook for a file-added-to-a-track event
[PICARD-1130] – Post save plugins
[PICARD-1488] – Built-in media player (beta feature)
[PICARD-1510] – Add a plugin hook for a file-removed-from-a-track event
[PICARD-1512] – Add a plugin hook for an album-removed event
[PICARD-1514] – Replace genre / folksonomy tag blacklist with more comprehensive list
[PICARD-1524] – Replace hardcoded colors by user-configurable ones
[PICARD-1560] – Add a plugin hook for a file loaded event
[PICARD-1594] – Provide $is_video() / $is_audio scripting functions

Task

[PICARD-1353] – Update Travis CI to use newer Xcode
[PICARD-1388] – Document how to uninstall local built version of picard from CLI
[PICARD-1561] – test_file.TestPreserveTimes fails on macOS 10.14
[PICARD-1563] – Add ‘picard.egg-info’ file to .gitignore

Improvement

[PICARD-1235] – Picard is not responding during start while CD is being inserted
[PICARD-1361] – Add “Launch Picard” to Windows installer
[PICARD-1400] – Remove Amazon cover art provider from Picard and place it into a plugin
[PICARD-1468] – Localize Windows installer
[PICARD-1485] – Picard should show the hours of long tracks
[PICARD-1494] – Use Python3.3+ nano seconds resolution stat()/utime() to preserve times on file save
[PICARD-1496] – Display count of Other versions available once known in album’s contextual menu
[PICARD-1502] – qApp.setDesktopFileName (wayland app_ip)
[PICARD-1525] – Log/History views are updated even if not actually visible
[PICARD-1546] – Display in Others submenu is messy for albums with a lot of tracks
[PICARD-1552] – “compare_to_release_parts” considers track count of only first medium
[PICARD-1559] – Allow moving files to subfolders without renaming
[PICARD-1564] – Picard code for parsing response from AcoustID servers ignores tracks
[PICARD-1576] – Open option help context sensitive
[PICARD-1578] – Allow dragging images from Bing image search result
[PICARD-1579] – Dragging cover art from Google image search on Linux drops just preview image
[PICARD-1581] – “Recursively add files and folders” is very technical and hard to understand
[PICARD-1586] – Support for ReplayGain 2.0 tags
[PICARD-1599] – Use fpcalc json output for more robust output parsing

MusicBrainz schema change release, 2019-05-13 (with upgrade instructions)

We’re happy to announce the release of our May 2019 schema change today! Thanks to all who were patient during today’s downtime as we released everything to our production servers.

This is a fairly minor release as far as schema changes go, but please do report any issues that you come across, especially any related to genres and collections.

Visible changes with this release are limited to an indication if a specific artist credit is being edited (MBS-5387). Work on some of the changes to collections and genres is quite advanced, and we’re hoping to release some of the new features onto beta already in a week or so from now, while others might take a while longer.

Now, on to the instructions.

Schema Change Upgrade Instructions

Note: Importing the latest data dump is always a valid alternative to running ./upgrade.sh on an existing database, if you’d prefer to also get new data in one go. Just follow the relevant instructions in INSTALL.md. The git tag is v-2019-05-13-schema-change. The rest of the instructions here assume an in-place upgrade.

Make sure DB_SCHEMA_SEQUENCE is set to 24 in lib/DBDefs.pm.
If you’re using the live data feed (your REPLICATION_TYPE is set to RT_SLAVE), ensure you’ve replicated up to the most recent replication packet available with the old schema. If you’re not sure, run ./admin/replication/LoadReplicationChanges and see what it tells you; if you’re ready to upgrade, it should say “This replication packet matches schema sequence #25, but the database is currently at #24.”
Take down the web server running MusicBrainz, if you’re running a web server.
Turn off cron jobs if you’re automatically updating the database via cron jobs.
Switch to the new code with git fetch origin followed by git checkout v-2019-05-13-schema-change.
Install newer dependencies Yarn and NodeJS 8 or later according to install prerequisites.
Run cpanm --installdeps --notest . (note the dot at the end) to ensure your perl-based dependencies are up to date.
Run ./upgrade.sh (it may take a while to vacuum at the end).
Set DB_SCHEMA_SEQUENCE to 25 in lib/DBDefs.pm as instructed by the output of ./upgrade.sh.
Turn cron jobs back on, if applicable.
Restart the MusicBrainz web server, if applicable. It’s also recommended you restart redis. If you’re accessing your MusicBrainz server in a web browser, run ./script/compile_resources.sh.

Here’s the list of resolved tickets:

Bug

[MBS-5387] – ACs being edited aren’t marked as having pending edits on the aliases tab
[MBS-9365] – event_meta_fk_id was never created as part of any upgrade script
[MBS-9462] – Standalone databases created before schema 21 are missing some l_event_url triggers
[MBS-10146] – Regression: ISE on Remove DiscID page
[MBS-10149] – Swap track titles with artist credits fails to update both fields properly
[MBS-10150] – Regression: The link to the release group reviews in the release page is broken

Improvement

[MBS-9664] – Add database constraints to disallow loop relationship
[MBS-10044] – Add place area to place lists

Database Schema Change Task

[MBS-10052] – Add new schema for the event art archive
[MBS-10173] – Create a genre table in the DB and populate it with existing genres
[MBS-10174] – Create an addition timestamp in the DB for new collection items
[MBS-10175] – Create a position integer in the DB for collection items
[MBS-10176] – Create a comment text field in the DB for collection items
[MBS-10177] – Create an editor_collection_collaborator table for collaborative collections
[MBS-10178] – Create a genre_alias table
[MBS-10181] – Create filesize for cover art and each thumb in the DB

React Conversion Task

[MBS-9925] – Convert collection pages to React
[MBS-10179] – Convert all entity list components to React

MusicBrainz Server update, 2019-04-26

We finally have a new release! Some large conversions of the MusicBrainz website templates to React happened during the past three months, leading to a long delay between releases – sorry about that! This release also fixes several bugs and adds some small improvements.

Thanks to Cyna, Ge0rg3, and spellew for their contributed code, mostly written during GCI. Also, thanks to alpinetux, amCap1712, chirlu, culinko, cyberskull, derobert, Griomo, hibiscuskazeneko, Jeluang, jessew, kepstin, Kid Devine, ListMyCDs.com, Lotheric, mfmeulenbelt, rafwuk, RavenWorks, samj1912, yindesu, yurim, and everyone who tested beta version, reported issues, or updated website translations.

The git tag is v-2019-04-26.

Bug

[MBS-6895] – Cannot inc=tags when browsing releases
[MBS-8634] – Privileged user accounts page still mentions the style council
[MBS-9013] – Removing specific ordering of relationships doesn’t create an edit
[MBS-9276] – Transient test failure in Edit::Instrument::Merge
[MBS-9297] – “Set track lengths” from Disc ID with no change should not be allowed
[MBS-9309] – Mediums fail to merge when two recording positions are swapped
[MBS-9400] – Tags are missing from artist nodes in /ws/2/release JSON requests
[MBS-9413] – Older “Remove relationship” edits can’t be loaded
[MBS-9669] – UI language menu not available in Spanish and Greek
[MBS-9845] – country.null stats not being collected
[MBS-9893] – Batch voting check boxes disappeared
[MBS-9899] – Recording and recording artist tags/genres missing in JSON WS
[MBS-9943] – Autocomplete.js is pretty much untranslatable
[MBS-9975] – Clicking the “A-a” button (guess sort name) to add a release alias sort name does not work.
[MBS-9983] – Non-group artists statistics does not include characters
[MBS-9985] – “Last updated on Invalid date” on release sidebar
[MBS-9986] – RG types not translated on sidebar
[MBS-9991] – Relationship names are not translatable
[MBS-9993] – MusicBrainz server should allow CORS requests to /oauth/token
[MBS-9995] – Space missing in autoeditor election text
[MBS-10009] – Some sidebar types are not translated
[MBS-10021] – ArtistRoles is not translatable
[MBS-10027] – t::MusicBrainz::Server::Controller::Admin::EditBanner fails randomly
[MBS-10031] – Tooltip says ‘null’ for artist names in ‘writer’ column of ‘work’ search results
[MBS-10033] – Missing space after Wikipedia blurb
[MBS-10045] – Regression: External links to Anison Generation in the sidebar appends https
[MBS-10075] – Release with no mediums disappears from release collection when sorting on format/no. of tracks
[MBS-10081] – Invalid last updated date on search result pages
[MBS-10084] – Unable to add CDBaby URL containing “ï”
[MBS-10085] – Long URL fails to wrap on release page in Chrome
[MBS-10088] – Example search for relationships breaks with cardinality
[MBS-10090] – Loading a doc page containing %3F loads full wikipage html
[MBS-10099] – Lyrics URL relationship uses the wrong link phrase on work edit page

Improvement

[MBS-6574] – Recursive area tabs
[MBS-7463] – Add redirect from /tag to /tags
[MBS-8782] – Show artist name on “Edit Note” tab of “Edit Release” page
[MBS-8922] – User reporting: Remove “Reveal my email address” option (or default it to on)
[MBS-9340] – Don’t allow more languages if [No lyrics] is selected
[MBS-9656] – [Change release quality] → [Change data quality]
[MBS-9935] – Indicate what to do with annotation reports
[MBS-9936] – Move from CJS style to ES6 (imports, exports)
[MBS-9988] – On /tags page, allow to go back to not showing downvoted tags
[MBS-9989] – Add new “Not applicable” gender option to stats
[MBS-9990] – Make formatUserDate error rather than return wrong date if given object
[MBS-9998] – Improve cleanup of Facebook URLs
[MBS-10008] – Generalize and localize CPDL link’s title in the sidebar
[MBS-10010] – Simplify sidebar_name methods for URLs
[MBS-10029] – When viewing edits by editor X, include editor X in the page title
[MBS-10032] – Detect and clean iTunes “author” URLs for artists
[MBS-10063] – “No linguistic content” → “[No lyrics]” in work edits display
[MBS-10074] – Display – on release search results for format/tracks if no medium exists
[MBS-10094] – Right-justify barcode on release group page
[MBS-10101] – Allow SecondHandSongs performance URLs for Recordings
[MBS-10102] – Use the containing country area of artists and labels for country statistics
[MBS-10103] – Update Bandsintown URL cleanup to strip languages

New Feature

[MBS-10011] – Congratulate/thank users on their birthdays
[MBS-10022] – Event tab for areas

React conversion task

[MBS-9632] – Convert statistics to React
[MBS-9699] – Convert the user account pages to React
[MBS-9904] – Convert the list of privileged users to React
[MBS-9909] – Convert report templates to React
[MBS-9926] – Convert entity subscribers pages to React
[MBS-10005] – Convert “Details” and ”Tags” tabs, for each entity, to React
[MBS-10007] – Convert “Add annotation” edit display to React
[MBS-10014] – Convert “Add area” edit display to React
[MBS-10015] – Convert “Add artist” edit display to React
[MBS-10016] – Convert “Add event” edit display to React
[MBS-10017] – Convert artist/cannot_split.tt to React
[MBS-10018] – Convert artist/special_purpose.tt to React
[MBS-10019] – Convert the artist and place event pages to React
[MBS-10026] – Convert the Labels page for Area to React
[MBS-10042] – Convert “Aliases” tab, for each entity, to React
[MBS-10046] – Convert /admin/banner/edit to React
[MBS-10049] – Convert user/report to React
[MBS-10086] – Convert attributes admin lists to React
[MBS-10091] – Convert root/components/relationships.tt to React

Other task

[MBS-8360] – Show BookBrainz relationships in the sidebar
[MBS-9082] – Standardize SecondHandSongs URLs
[MBS-9932] – Remove or update “Releases with superfluous data tracks” report
[MBS-9999] – Allow setting custom redirect URI while registering applications to be installed
[MBS-10035] – Add text to the “Report editor” page asking for links
[MBS-10036] – Add ccMixter.org to other database whitelist
[MBS-10037] – Send editor reports to MB user admin mailing list
[MBS-10080] – Relabel “MusicBrainz Blog” link as “MetaBrainz Blog” on MusicBrainz frontpage

Picard 2.1.3 released

Picard Team is proud to announce MusicBrainz Picard 2.1.3 is now officially released.

It includes a lot of bug fixes, and few improvements, but no major feature.

Thanks to all developers, translators, testers and users who contributed to this version, and especially Philip Wolfer (phw/outsidecontext).
Here is the complete changelog:

Bug

[PICARD-323] – Only the discid of the first disc in a release is written to tags
[PICARD-455] – Picard setting cover art height, width and depth to 0 for FLAC files –> breaks libFLAC
[PICARD-729] – Tracks get stuck at “[loading track information]” on Bad Gateway errors
[PICARD-938] – Need two left-arrow key presses to go from track with file to album
[PICARD-1178] – Images tagged with extra types that the user has chosen to ignore should not be shown as ‘modified’
[PICARD-1288] – Folskonomy tags / genre fallback on album artists tags not working
[PICARD-1422] – Windows: Uninstall 32 bit Picard before upgrade
[PICARD-1447] – When releasing a new version, appdata should also be updated
[PICARD-1460] – Windows installer does not detect running instance
[PICARD-1461] – Crash when running with Spanish language
[PICARD-1463] – Picard crashes on startup on Windows
[PICARD-1469] – Force close when adding songs to larger albums
[PICARD-1471] – Artist searches do not show begin and end area
[PICARD-1473] – AcoustId lookup fails if fingerprint already in tags
[PICARD-1474] – Windows installer shows outdated version string in file properties
[PICARD-1475] – Cover art sources do not support HTTPS
[PICARD-1476] – Filled up thread pool prevents metadata box updates
[PICARD-1478] – Changing MB server requires a restart
[PICARD-1480] – Search line input clear button icon is too small

Task

[PICARD-1459] – Remove OptionsPage.info method
[PICARD-1472] – macOS code signing on Travis CI fails for xcode7.3 image

Improvement

[PICARD-1242] – Consider the number of AcoustID sources for linked recordings
[PICARD-1457] – “Check for Update” should be in the Picard menu
[PICARD-1458] – “Check for Update” should have an ellipsis at the end
[PICARD-1470] – Make warning about Qt locale loading less prominent

As usual, packages will be available from Picard website and from GitHub release pages

Bugs can be reported on Picard bug tracker.

Ensembling: Clapper MiniVersion or idiophones!

The first sub-section of the gigantic “Ensemble this” version is already done:

This started out as a “create clapper-tree” ticket, created after dealing with the clapper ticket during from let’s get serious:

Ticket that inspired/started this

[INST-621] – Clapper (done in lets get serious)

Much of the initial part of this mini-version was done during let’s get serious. However, after coming back to it later, it became apparent that a more overarching edit and reorganization of idiophones was needed, so the second phase of this work involved linking existing and creating new idiophone instruments and organizing them.

Many of the tickets in this version were created or improved by students during GCI ’18. Many thanks to our students George Omnet and Jayant Dharwadkar, especially!

MiniVersion Clapper tree

[INST-630] – Rearrange idiophone tree (was: Create clapper tree)
- [INST-751] – Boomwhacker
- [INST-752] – Krap
  - [INST-750] – Krap koo
  - [INST-756] – Krap puang
  - [INST-755] – Krap saepa
- [INST-608] – Add “shaken idiophone” and “scraped idiophone”
- [INST-606] – Add concussion and percussion under “struck idiophone”
- [INST-741] – Rearrange idiophone and percussion tree
- [INST-732] – Research if shakers and rattles should be different
- [INST-783] – clapstick
- [INST-602] – Chinese paiban clapper and guban combo
- [INST-566] – Arrabel

Thanks in great part to the new How to Add Instruments guide, we now had a framework to better objectively review inclusions of instruments. Following that, these instruments were found to be either not applicable (noisemakers not intended for music as such, rather than musical instruments) or to be too much of a novelty instrument:

Closed as not applicable / Reopen if/when musical use is demonstrated

[INST-255] – Wooden spoons
[INST-282] – Slapstick
[INST-406] – Drum sticks
[INST-739] – Thundersticks
[INST-753] – Lummi stick

The improvement of the idiophone section isn’t completely done however! Some more work is needed: moving and/or renaming the “tuned percussion” instrument (which is basically equivalent to the “percussion struck idiophones” in Hornbostel-Sachs already anyway) and (possibly) getting rid of “metallophone” (which is almost a duplicate of tuned percussion in function today, and that in meaning is basically just “idiophones made of metal”), which doesn’t seem necessary anymore.

Next, look forward to ~~veena~~ Gamelan!

Picard upcoming release needs translation updates

We expect to release a new stable Picard version in few days.
Very few translatable strings changed since last version, so it would be great if active translators could translate those before the release.
Thanks !

Picard 2.1.2 released

Picard 2.1.2 includes just few changes over Picard 2.1.0, but fixes some annoying bugs, so it is recommended to upgrade:

Bug

[PICARD-1382] – macOS packaging script ignores all errors
[PICARD-1451] – Redirects of authenticated requests fail with 401 error
[PICARD-1454] – Crashes when adding action to toolbar in options

Task

[PICARD-1452] – Appveyor auto-deploy not working
[PICARD-1456] – macOS packaging fails due to PIP bug

Improvement

[PICARD-1450] – Fix language label for zh_CN and zh_TW

As usual, packages will be available from Picard website and from GitHub release pages

Bugs can be reported on Picard bug tracker.

Picard 2.1 release

MusicBrainz Picard 2.1 is finally here. This version includes a lot of fixes and improvements over previous stable version (2.0.4). It is recommended to upgrade of course.

Most notably, it includes following changes:

support for MusicBrainz genres
new convenient script functions: $title and $delete
new command line option (-P, --no-plugins) allowing to skip plugin loading, which may help when a plugin is crashing Picard at start and to identify if an issue is due to a plugin or the main program
improve tags support, better compatibility with other applications, wider range of audio files supported
better stability and performance

I’d like to thank all developers, translators, testers and users who contributed to this version, kudos to Philip Wolfer (phw).

Binary packages from OSx and Windows are available from Picard Github releases page and from Picard website.

Here is the complete change log:

[PICARD-105] – Picard won’t load non-album tracks from fingerprints
[PICARD-421] – Releases in private collections are not shown as being in them
[PICARD-518] – Sliders without labels in “Options – Metadata – Preferred Releases”
[PICARD-637] – $matchedtracks is broken
[PICARD-875] – AIFF does not support any of the compatid3 tags
[PICARD-949] – Track can be placed in the incorrect spot on the release after using Scan
[PICARD-1013] – False file save error in specific circumstances
[PICARD-1060] – Collections menu not displayed correctly anymore
[PICARD-1112] – Cannot save tags that were previously deleted from file
[PICARD-1133] – Plugins list doesn’t load automatically after setting proxy
[PICARD-1162] – Solo vocals are tagged wrong
[PICARD-1219] – Picard creating empty ID3 TIPL / TMCL / IPLS frames
[PICARD-1245] – Set field “Grouping” doesn’t work as expected
[PICARD-1275] – After uninstalling a plugin Picard needs to be restarted for it to be reinstalled
[PICARD-1281] – Picard has wrong version string on macOS
[PICARD-1320] – Black text on a dark theme
[PICARD-1332] – Deleted tags for matched files stay deleted
[PICARD-1336] – MP4 reports “bpm” as unsupported tag
[PICARD-1339] – Removing unclustered files can be very slow
[PICARD-1340] – File info doesn’t display Mono / Stereo in Channels field anymore
[PICARD-1341] – Cluster track order misinterprets disc/track numbers
[PICARD-1346] – Move additional files fails if multiple patterns match
[PICARD-1348] – Keyboard shortcuts broken due to localization
[PICARD-1350] – Drag and drop on cover image box does not always work as expected
[PICARD-1355] – Setting or unsetting album for non-album tracks does not work
[PICARD-1359] – Crash with tagger integration when using DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
[PICARD-1364] – picard.exe has no version tag
[PICARD-1368] – Info messages are not shown on logging level Info
[PICARD-1369] – Crash on Python 3.7.0 opening URLs
[PICARD-1370] – Windows installer to add “Quick Launch” icon no longer supported on Win10
[PICARD-1371] – Windows installer does not warn when installing on 32 bit system
[PICARD-1373] – Source distributions are unusable
[PICARD-1374] – Picard crashes while typing a regular expression in some cases
[PICARD-1375] – Metadata sanitation before move-script execution fails
[PICARD-1376] – Error saving Ape files with tag marked for deletion that does not exist
[PICARD-1381] – Test results depend on execution order of tests
[PICARD-1397] – Do not save tags marked as unsupported
[PICARD-1398] – Snap package is missing locale files
[PICARD-1405] – Pasting formatted text into scripting window shows formatting
[PICARD-1410] – Loading Vorbis file with invalid rating value fails
[PICARD-1412] – Deleting tag counts not as important metadata change
[PICARD-1414] – Image errors lead to crash in info dialog
[PICARD-1415] – Open Containing Folder and Open with MusicPlayer does nothing for UNC paths
[PICARD-1418] – Display localized default dialogs and keyboard shortcut hints
[PICARD-1420] – Can not save wma file. TypeError: sequence item 0
[PICARD-1428] – Removing tags which are only in original file metadata not possible
[PICARD-1430] – “Authentication required” dialog does not trigger authentication
[PICARD-1431] – Some ID3 frames gets deleted even if the corresponding tags are shown as unchanged
[PICARD-1434] – Tag acoustid_id can not be removed or deleted in script
[PICARD-1436] – Text extraction of “title” and “label” for translation.
[PICARD-1437] – After reload file is being shown as changed
[PICARD-1438] – Message box buttons Yes/No aren’t translated
[PICARD-1439] – Newline character in cover art naming script causes exception on saving

New Feature

[PICARD-490] – Allow tagging AAC/ADTS files with APEv2 tags
[PICARD-1043] – Support reading & writing iTunes Classical tags
[PICARD-1045] – Check for new version
[PICARD-1268] – Support concertmaster recording relationships as performer:concertmaster
[PICARD-1273] – Add an option to exclude new cover art type “Raw / Unedited”
[PICARD-1319] – Provide cover art metadata to cover image naming script
[PICARD-1344] – Add $delete function
[PICARD-1352] – Add a command-line option to skip plugin loading
[PICARD-1354] – Allow using vocals and instruments as credited
[PICARD-1367] – Allow opening searches in browser when using search dialogs
[PICARD-1384] – Add AppStream data
[PICARD-1386] – Add $title function
[PICARD-1395] – Support genres from MusicBrainz
[PICARD-1440] – Support loading and renaming Standard MIDI Files (SMF)

Task

[PICARD-1333] – Run CI tests agaist oldest supported mutagen
[PICARD-1347] – Refactor script.py to avoid code duplication
[PICARD-1365] – Allow building with PyQt 5.11 or later
[PICARD-1442] – Support new Audio Play secondary type

Sub-task

[PICARD-1407] – Save originalalbum / originalartist to ASF/WMA
[PICARD-1408] – Save originalalbum / originalartist to APE

Improvement

[PICARD-664] – When dragging a recording, show the actual file name instead of the path
[PICARD-792] – Package a start menu tile for Windows 10 on the windows version
[PICARD-1039] – Use forward delete instead of delete button on macOS
[PICARD-1049] – Picard should use TXXX:WORK rather than TXXX:Work
[PICARD-1244] – Refresh list of plugins after uninstalling or installing a local plugin
[PICARD-1285] – There is no Close menu item in Picard 2.0 on macOS
[PICARD-1313] – Refactor plugin UI
[PICARD-1325] – Allow disabling new version update checking for packagers
[PICARD-1338] – Picard should be more resilient if it gets invalid responses from servers
[PICARD-1358] – Use macOS style widgets in the user interface of the macOS version of Picard
[PICARD-1363] – AcoustId submission for matched files is impossible when musicbrainz_recordingid is unset
[PICARD-1366] – Show Python version in about
[PICARD-1379] – Port astrcmp to new Python C Unicode API
[PICARD-1383] – Use MCN / barcode read from disc to improve DiscId lookup
[PICARD-1393] – Change the application ID
[PICARD-1416] – Should store ID3 Artists field as TXXX:ARTISTS not TXXX:Artists
[PICARD-1417] – Only show plugins with compatible API version
[PICARD-1424] – Translate AppStream data
[PICARD-1425] – Support all movement tags for APE, Vorbis and MP3
[PICARD-1426] – Map musicbrainz_originalalbumid and musicbrainz_originalartistid to MP4 and WMA
[PICARD-1443] – Sort secondary release types in UI alphabetically

Picard 2.1.0dev2 release

Picard team is working hard on the upcoming 2.1.0 version, we decided to release a preliminary version for all to test and to let time for translators to work.

We’ll accept patches that actually fix current features until the final release which is planned in 2 weeks.

Translators can update translations on transifex as usual, strings shouldn’t change (but if we can’t avoid it) anymore until the final release.
It should be noted a new resource picard_appstream was added for the translation of appdata.xml file (PICARD-1424).

This version includes a lot of fixes related mostly to features added in 2.0.x, plus new features related to MusicBrainz changes (like genres support), tag compatibility with other apps, and file formats.

Here is the change log:

Sub-task

[PICARD-1407] – Save originalalbum / originalartist to ASF/WMA
[PICARD-1408] – Save originalalbum / originalartist to APE

Bug

[PICARD-105] – Picard won’t load non-album tracks from fingerprints
[PICARD-421] – Releases in private collections are not shown as being in them
[PICARD-518] – Sliders without labels in “Options – Metadata – Preferred Releases”
[PICARD-637] – $matchedtracks is broken
[PICARD-875] – AIFF does not support any of the compatid3 tags
[PICARD-949] – Track can be placed in the incorrect spot on the release after using Scan
[PICARD-1013] – False file save error in specific circumstances
[PICARD-1060] – Collections menu not displayed correctly anymore
[PICARD-1112] – Cannot save tags that were previously deleted from file
[PICARD-1133] – Plugins list doesn’t load automatically after setting proxy
[PICARD-1162] – Solo vocals are tagged wrong
[PICARD-1219] – Picard creating empty ID3 TIPL / TMCL / IPLS frames
[PICARD-1245] – Set field “Grouping” doesn’t work as expected
[PICARD-1275] – After uninstalling a plugin Picard needs to be restarted for it to be reinstalled
[PICARD-1281] – Picard has wrong version string on macOS
[PICARD-1320] – Black text on a dark theme
[PICARD-1332] – Deleted tags for matched files stay deleted
[PICARD-1336] – MP4 reports “bpm” as unsupported tag
[PICARD-1339] – Removing unclustered files can be very slow
[PICARD-1340] – File info doesn’t display Mono / Stereo in Channels field anymore
[PICARD-1341] – Cluster track order misinterprets disc/track numbers
[PICARD-1346] – Move additional files fails if multiple patterns match
[PICARD-1348] – Keyboard shortcuts broken due to localization
[PICARD-1350] – Drag and drop on cover image box does not always work as expected
[PICARD-1355] – Setting or unsetting album for non-album tracks does not work
[PICARD-1359] – Crash with tagger integration when using DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
[PICARD-1364] – picard.exe has no version tag
[PICARD-1368] – Info messages are not shown on logging level Info
[PICARD-1369] – Crash on Python 3.7.0 opening URLs
[PICARD-1370] – Windows installer to add “Quick Launch” icon no longer supported on Win10
[PICARD-1371] – Windows installer does not warn when installing on 32 bit system
[PICARD-1373] – Source distributions are unusable
[PICARD-1374] – Picard crashes while typing a regular expression in some cases
[PICARD-1375] – Metadata sanitation before move-script execution fails
[PICARD-1376] – Error saving Ape files with tag marked for deletion that does not exist
[PICARD-1381] – Test results depend on execution order of tests
[PICARD-1397] – Do not save tags marked as unsupported
[PICARD-1398] – Snap package is missing locale files
[PICARD-1405] – Pasting formatted text into scripting window shows formatting
[PICARD-1410] – Loading Vorbis file with invalid rating value fails
[PICARD-1412] – Deleting tag counts not as important metadata change
[PICARD-1414] – Image errors lead to crash in info dialog
[PICARD-1415] – Open Containing Folder and Open with MusicPlayer does nothing for UNC paths
[PICARD-1418] – Display localized default dialogs and keyboard shortcut hints
[PICARD-1420] – Can not save wma file. TypeError: sequence item 0
[PICARD-1428] – Removing tags which are only in original file metadata not possible
[PICARD-1430] – “Authentication required” dialog does not trigger authentication
[PICARD-1431] – Some ID3 frames gets deleted even if the corresponding tags are shown as unchanged

New Feature

[PICARD-1043] – Support reading & writing iTunes Classical tags
[PICARD-1045] – Check for new version
[PICARD-1268] – Support concertmaster recording relationships as performer:concertmaster
[PICARD-1273] – Add an option to exclude new cover art type “Raw / Unedited”
[PICARD-1319] – Provide cover art metadata to cover image naming script
[PICARD-1344] – Add $delete function
[PICARD-1352] – Add a command-line option to skip plugin loading
[PICARD-1354] – Allow using vocals and instruments as credited
[PICARD-1367] – Allow opening searches in browser when using search dialogs
[PICARD-1384] – Add AppStream data
[PICARD-1386] – Add $title function
[PICARD-1395] – Support genres from MusicBrainz

Task

[PICARD-1333] – Run CI tests against oldest supported mutagen
[PICARD-1347] – Refactor script.py to avoid code duplication
[PICARD-1365] – Allow building with PyQt 5.11 or later

Improvement

[PICARD-664] – When dragging a recording, show the actual file name instead of the path
[PICARD-792] – Package a start menu tile for Windows 10 on the windows version
[PICARD-1039] – Use forward delete instead of delete button on macOS
[PICARD-1049] – Picard should use TXXX:WORK rather than TXXX:Work
[PICARD-1244] – Refresh list of plugins after uninstalling or installing a local plugin
[PICARD-1285] – There is no Close menu item in Picard 2.0 on macOS
[PICARD-1313] – Refactor plugin UI
[PICARD-1325] – Allow disabling new version update checking for packagers
[PICARD-1338] – Picard should be more resilient if it gets invalid responses from servers
[PICARD-1358] – Use macOS style widgets in the user interface of the macOS version of Picard
[PICARD-1363] – AcoustId submission for matched files is impossible when musicbrainz_recordingid is unset
[PICARD-1366] – Show Python version in about
[PICARD-1379] – Port astrcmp to new Python C Unicode API
[PICARD-1383] – Use MCN / barcode read from disc to improve DiscId lookup
[PICARD-1393] – Change the application ID
[PICARD-1416] – Should store ID3 Artists field as TXXX:ARTISTS not TXXX:Artists
[PICARD-1417] – Only show plugins with compatible API version
[PICARD-1424] – Translate AppStream data
[PICARD-1425] – Support all movement tags for APE, Vorbis and MP3
[PICARD-1426] – Map musicbrainz_originalalbumid and musicbrainz_originalartistid to MP4 and WMA

Philip Wolfer (outsidecontext/phw) did (again) a fantastic job on this release. Thanks also to Mineo and all contributors, bug reporters, testers, translators and, of course, users !

We’ll update Picard website soon, in the meantime you can download OSX and Windows packages on GitHub release page.

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Making graphs is easy. Making intuitive, easy-to-understand graphs? It’s harder than most people think. At the Rochester Institute of Technology, the ISTE-260 (Designing the User Experience) course teaches the language of design to IT students. For an introductory exercise in the class, students are tasked to visualize any set of data they desire. Students David Kim, Jathan Anandham, Justin W. Flory, and Scott Tinker used the MusicBrainz database to look at how five different Queen songs went mainstream in different ways. Continue reading