Today the Picard team is releasing an early alpha version of the long awaited major update to MusicBrainz Picard. Picard 3 has a lot of changes over the previous versions, and this is the first time we make it available for a larger audience to test.
Please be clear that this is an early alpha release. While we have all the major features implemented and we are rather confident in the current code, it is still a development release and it is expected there will 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 alpha version. You can do so in Picard’s Options under Advanced > Maintenance.
Below is an overview about the most significant changes and new features.
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