- Update to version 2.1.0:
* 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
* full changelog available at https://blog.metabrainz.org/2018/12/21/picard-2-1-release/
- Picard has been refactored to org.musicbrainz.Picard
- Add appdata.xml file
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/660682
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/picard?expand=0&rev=64
- Update to version 2.0.4:
* Bug-fix
* [PICARD-803] - tagging "8½ Minutes" with "replace with non-ascii characters" results in a directory being created
* [PICARD-1216] - Does not display version information
* [PICARD-1267] - 2.0.0dev6 crash in debug mode on Windows April Update (1803)
* [PICARD-1281] - Picard has wrong version string
* [PICARD-1294] - Crashes every time Picard connects to MB server.
* [PICARD-1310] - Picard crashes on clearing log
* [PICARD-1318] - RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration
* [PICARD-1321] - CD drive selection not working on Linux
* [PICARD-1322] - Crash in options on "Restore defaults"
* [PICARD-1323] - Restore defaults does not restore CAA types
* [PICARD-1324] - Default locale not working reliable
* [PICARD-1326] - Picard Save Changes 5.1 Mix Type
* [PICARD-1327] - Loading TAK files fails
* [PICARD-1328] - Loading OptimFROG files fails
* [PICARD-1329] - Picard fails saving ID3 tags with iTunNORM tag
* [PICARD-1331] - Picard crashes on error during plugin install
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/633838
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/picard?expand=0&rev=62
- Update to version 2.0.3
* Bug-fix
* [PICARD-1122] - Preffered release type settings are exclusive and should be inclusive
* [PICARD-1207] - Move additional files feature fails when source directory contains non-ascii characters
* [PICARD-1247] - Not all "preserved" tags are preserved
* [PICARD-1305] - Search dialog crashes picard when record doesn't have an album
* [PICARD-1306] - picard crashes when opening the options dialog if the cwd doesn't exist
* New Feature
* [PICARD-1289] - Allow manually running any tagger script
* Improvement
* [PICARD-1302] - Dropping an image from Google image crashes picard
* [PICARD-1303] - picard crashes when matching a cluster with a release with no tracks
* [PICARD-1304] - Info dialog for album crashes because track doesn't have a tracknumber
* Regression
* [PICARD-259] - Make file-specific variables available to tagger script
- Update to version 2.0.2
* Bug-fix
* [PICARD-1212] - Picard 2.0.0dev4 crashing at startup
* [PICARD-1300] - Picard crashes when logging lots of events
- Update to version 2.0.1
* No changes for linux users.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/630702
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/picard?expand=0&rev=60
- Update to version 2.0
Bug-fix
* [PICARD-153] - Non-configuration data is saved in Picard.conf
* [PICARD-173] - ID3 tag TSOP appears to be stored blank
* [PICARD-340] - Cover art embedding will overwrite existing
ones
* [PICARD-405] - Save stopped working
* [PICARD-817] - On high-resolution / high DPI displays,
Picard's GUI is scaled wrong
* [PICARD-1047] - Incompatible plugins are loaded with picard
2.0
* [PICARD-1051] - Searching for similar tracks causes coredumps
* [PICARD-1052] - Not disabled Search for similar tracks can
cause coredumps
* [PICARD-1056] - Crash when viewing file info dialog
* [PICARD-1058] - Saving images as files doesn't work
* [PICARD-1062] - Picard crashes when moving files on release
* [PICARD-1063] - After #689 unit tests fail if astrcmp is not
compiled
* [PICARD-1064] - python setup.py test -v doesn't work
* [PICARD-1065] - python setup.py patch_version doesn't work
* [PICARD-1066] - python setup.py update_constants doesn't work
* [PICARD-1067] - Visual bug after un-checking an installed
plugin
* [PICARD-1073] - "Add New Tag" crashes picard
* [PICARD-1084] - Picard 2 doesn't find DVD drive
* [PICARD-1085] - Multi-Dir Add Folder not working
* [PICARD-1105] - Crashes when using the edit tag dialog
* [PICARD-1106] - cancel plugin installation file dialog
results in crash
* [PICARD-1114] - Cannot submit ratings in Picard 2.0 dev
* [PICARD-1119] - picard sets "Disc Subtitle" to the track
title
* [PICARD-1123] - Multiple work languages are collapsed
* [PICARD-1126] - Unhelpful error message logged on network
request errors
* [PICARD-1135] - Picard is not able to save on MTP devices
* [PICARD-1138] - Search crashes due to AttributeError
* [PICARD-1143] - Wrong amount of songs from added files
* [PICARD-1147] - FYI, Can't load "Alan Parsons" album "On
air" in Picard 1.2
* [PICARD-1153] - "Lookup in Browser" and "Search" fail
silently if artist name contains umlaut
* [PICARD-1156] - Picard fails to start when trying to upgrade
plugin which is a symlink
* [PICARD-1159] - Can't open WAV files
* [PICARD-1161] - Dragging artwork from Chrome pages doesn't
work
* [PICARD-1171] - Text of "About" can't be selected
* [PICARD-1179] - Error while searching for alt. releases
* [PICARD-1181] - In-app search dialog excessive slow down
* [PICARD-1188] - Picard chooses incorrect value for language
tag
* [PICARD-1199] - Crash when right-clicking album
* [PICARD-1202] - Right click on tag listing causes exception
and crash
* [PICARD-1203] - Hide unsupported tags from the tag diff in UI
* [PICARD-1204] - Picard freezes on unchecking show diff tags
first
* [PICARD-1206] - Text is not displaying properly in some
fields.
* [PICARD-1210] - Long lines in the option dialogue don’t wrap
* [PICARD-1213] - Wrong Movement of coverart providers
* [PICARD-1215] - Does not use config / ini file specified on
command line
* [PICARD-1221] - Picard 2.0 won't start on Windows 10
* [PICARD-1226] - Different fonts in the plugins dialog
* [PICARD-1230] - Looking up CD crashes Picard
* [PICARD-1234] - Crash when loading plugin from local
directory
* [PICARD-1252] - Crash on pasting invalid naming script
* [PICARD-1253] - Crash on image saving
* [PICARD-1255] - Crash on startup - no GUI
* [PICARD-1265] - Can't "Lookup in Browser":
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in
position 0-7: ordinal not in range(256)
* [PICARD-1270] - Corruption of saved audio files located on a
network share
* [PICARD-1271] - Artist credit saved in tags sometimes loses
closing parenthesis
* [PICARD-1277] - Picard crashes on unknown cover art types
New Feature
* [PICARD-1187] - Add DSF file support
* [PICARD-1220] - Add keyboard shortcut for deleting scripts
from options > scripting page
Task
* [PICARD-960] - Migrate to PyQt5
* [PICARD-1186] - Support only 64 bit Picard builds from 2.0
Improvement
* [PICARD-259] - Make file-specific variables available to
tagger script
* [PICARD-581] - Picard XML processing should use lxml module
rather than QXmlStreamReader
* [PICARD-588] - Picard 2.0 based on Python 3
* [PICARD-807] - Retry release fetch on MB server overload
* [PICARD-922] - Make multi-value script functions work
correctly
* [PICARD-976] - Reimplement the picard WS code to accommodate
future versions of MBWS
* [PICARD-978] - Distinguish in UI between unclustered and
release unmatched files
* [PICARD-1075] - Add unit tests for Metadata object variables
* [PICARD-1087] - Improvements to UI for Lookup CD
* [PICARD-1100] - Error when running confined in a snap
because of gconf
* [PICARD-1174] - Option to tolerate differences in track times
* [PICARD-1200] - In Options dialog, tree pane on the left
cannot be resized
* [PICARD-1201] - Add a command-line option to not restore
persisted UI sizes or positions
* [PICARD-1211] - The “X” close button doesn’t work on the
options dialogue
- Switched to python3 and Qt5
- Dropped SearchAmazon3.py,SearchAMG.py,SearchCastAlbums3.py,
SearchDiscogs3.py,SearchFilmMusziek3.py,SearchGMR.py,
SearchGoogle3.py,SearchLortelArchives3.py,
SearchSoundtrackCollector3.py and SearchSoundtrackINFO3.py (not
compatible with API v2.0)
- Spec cleanup
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/624122
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/picard?expand=0&rev=57
- Update to version 1.4.2:
* Bugfix: Picard does not stop analyzer while moving (PICARD-1053)
* Bugfix: Picard hangs with: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp (PICARD-1055)
* Bugfix: The "Convert Unicode punctuation characters to ASCII" function only works in certain tags (PICARD-1070)
* Bugfix: ID3v2.4 text encoding settings are not saved correctly (PICARD-1077)
* Improvement: Search dialog webservices get queued behind matched album requests (PICARD-969)
* Improvement: Picard not seeing TOPE and TOAL (PICARD-1034)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/494324
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/picard?expand=0&rev=55
- Update to version 1.4.1:
* Bugfix: Album shown matched even if extra unmatched files (PICARD-953)
* Bugfix: Removing album with saves pending does not remove pending saves (PICARD-972)
* Bugfix: Pending log messages not flushed to stderr on quit (PICARD-973)
* Bugfix: Drag & Drop not working (PICARD-988)
* Bugfix: Picard violating ID3 standard for TXXX frames (PICARD-990)
* Bugfix: Disabling the cover art box and enabling it again doesn't bring it back (PICARD-996)
* Bugfix: Disabling the action toolbar sometimes doesn't work (PICARD-998)
* Bugfix: If a cluster is moved to the album side of the main window it gets moved to unmatched files (PICARD-1005)
* Bugfix: Drag and drop for cover arts doesnt work on OSX (PICARD-1006)
* Bugfix: Unsetting View/Cover Art doesn't work permanently (PICARD-1010)
* Bugfix: Toolbar tab order incorrect after PICARD-908 (PICARD-1011)
* Bugfix: Number of images in release info is calculated incorrectly (PICARD-1014)
* Bugfix: Artwork tab of the Track Info DIalog doesn't show changes anymore (PICARD-1015)
* Bugfix: CoverArtBox doesn't show new/removed images after unmatched files are added/removed to the album (PICARD-1018)
* Bugfix: Directory persistence for Add Directory needs tweaking (PICARD-1023)
* Bugfix: Fix ~artists_sort metadata variable (PICARD-1029)
* Bugfix: Missing import for PICARD_APP_NAME (PICARD-1042)
* New Feature: Visual feedback for changes to artwork in before-after pane. (PICARD-258)
* New Feature: Implement artwork diff for albums (PICARD-1000)
* Task: Remove monkey patching of file write methods in picard formats (PICARD-943)
* Task: Replace Ok button text by Make It So! in Options dialog (PICARD-1041)
* Improvement: Remove should work when Unmatched Files is selected (PICARD-223)
* Improvement: Always use HTTPS for musicbrainz.org (PICARD-951)
* Improvement: Use Cover Art Archive over HTTPS (PICARD-952)
* Improvement: Mention AcoustID on Scan button too (PICARD-961)
* Improvement: Drag&drop cover art doesn't work for images from amazon/google images/https links (PICARD-980)
* Improvement: Buttons on the "User Interface" and "Scripting" pages are smaller than buttons in other places (PICARD-1012)
* Improvement: Multiple images in related tracks confusing (PICARD-1016)
* Improvement: Picard loads all pending files before quitting (PICARD-1021)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/484849
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/picard?expand=0&rev=51
- Update to version 1.4.0
* Bugfix: AcoustID submission fails with code 299 (PICARD-82)
* Bugfix: Ignoring "hip hop rap" folksonomy tags also ignores "rap", "hip hop", etc. (PICARD-335)
* Bugfix: Picard downloads multiple 'front' images instead of just first one. (PICARD-350)
* Bugfix: Saving hidden file with only an extension drops the extension (PICARD-357)
* Bugfix: Add directory opens in "wrong" dir (PICARD-366)
* Bugfix: Picard should de-duplicate work lists (PICARD-375)
* Bugfix: Tree selector in Options window is partially obscured, pane too narrow (PICARD-408)
* Bugfix: tag acoustid_id can not be removed or deleted in script, renaming or plugin (PICARD-419)
* Bugfix: Can't remove value from field (PICARD-546)
* Bugfix: Can't open Options (PICARD-592)
* Bugfix: "Tags from filenames" action stays enabled even if it is unavailable. (PICARD-688)
* Bugfix: Using the first image type as filename changes the name of front images (PICARD-701)
* Bugfix: Fingerprint Submission Failes if AcoustID tags are present and/or invalid (PICARD-706)
* Bugfix: Picard moves into the selected folder (PICARD-726)
* Bugfix: Picard does not support (recording) relationship credits (PICARD-730)
* Bugfix: Picard repeats/duplicates field data (PICARD-748)
* Bugfix: Number of pending web requests is not decremented on exceptions in the handler (PICARD-751)
* Bugfix: Divide by zero error in _convert_folksonomy_tags_to_genre when no tag at the release/release group level ( PICARD-753)
* Bugfix: Directory tree (file browser) not sorted for non-system drives under Windows (PICARD-754)
* Bugfix: Crash when loading release with only zero count tags (PICARD-759)
* Bugfix: No name and no window grouping in gnome-shell Alt-Tab app switcher (PICARD-761)
* Bugfix: Lookup in Browser does not and can not load HTTPS version of musicbrainz.org (PICARD-764)
* Bugfix: Unable to login using oauth via Picard options with Server Port set to 443 (PICARD-766)
* Bugfix: "AttributeError: 'MetadataBox' object has no attribute 'resize_columns'" when enabling the cover art box ( PICARD-775)
* Bugfix: Pre-gap tracks are not counted in absolutetracknumber (PICARD-778)
* Bugfix: CAA cover art provider runs even if cover art has already been loaded (PICARD-780)
* Bugfix: Toggling Embed Cover Art in Tags and restarting doesn't have the expected behavior (PICARD-782)
* Bugfix: XMLWS redirects incorrectly (PICARD-788)
* Bugfix: Handle empty collection-list in web server response (PICARD-798)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/457107
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/picard?expand=0&rev=47
- Picard now requires at least Python 2.6
- Removed support for AmpliFIND/PUIDs
- Add support for the Ogg Opus file format
- It's now possible to download cover images without any plugin.
Cover Art Archive images can be downloaded by image type
- Improved directory scanning performance
- Prefer already-loaded releases of the same RG when matching files
- Allow dropping new files onto specific targets
- Add basic collections management support (PICARD-84)
- Allow adding custom tags in the tag editing dialog (PICARD-349)
- Fix replacing of Windows-incompatible characters (PICARD-393)
- Save both primary and secondary release types (PICARD-240)
- Handle errors from the AcoustID service better (PICARD-391)
- Accept HTTPS URLs on drag-and-drop (PICARD-378)
- Allow adding custom tags in the tag editor (PICARD-349)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/picard?expand=0&rev=32
- Always show basic tags in metadata comparison box, even if empty (title,
artist, album, tracknumber, ~length, date) (PICARD-201)
- Fixed AcoustID submission failure after removing files from Picard (PICARD-82)
- Allow multi-select in new MetaDataBox for delete/remove tags (PICARD-194)
- File browser remembers last directory/no longer crashes on OS X (PICARD-104)
- Refreshing a non-album track correctly clears previous track metadata (PICARD-220)
- Fixed the preserved tags setting for tags with uppercase characters (PICARD-217)
- Added a completion box to the preserved tags setting, and clarified how it works
- Store lyrics language in tags instead of text representation language (PICARD-242)
- Fix various oddities in the metadata comparison box (PICARD-255, PICARD-256)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/picard?expand=0&rev=28
- Update to version 1.0 - 2012-06-02
- New UI: Extended comparison of existing vs. MB metadata & tags (PICARD-43)
- Merged the renaming and moving options pages
- Removed the VA file naming format option (there is now a single format option) (PICARD-159)
- Add %license% tag
- Made %writer% available to tagger scripts and plugins with contents of songwriter (PICARD-21)
- Allow two multi-valued variables to be merged in tagger scripting (PICARD-139)
- Allow multi-valued variables to be transformed in tagger script and then set back in tags as multi-valued (PICARD-147)
- Fix $copy not preserving multi-value variables as documented (PICARD-138)
- Load/save free-text tags for ID3 as TXXX frames (PICARD-148)
- Fix writing of MusicBrainz Work Id / musicbrainz_workid to tags (PICARD-88)
- Handle mimetype for embedding cover art from EXIF jpegs (PICARD-27)
- Change cover art box to open MusicBrainz release rather than Amazon
- Support manual drag-and-drop of cover art onto a release via cover art box
- Only open browser on left-click of cover art box (PICARD-190)
- Fix Lookup in Browser (previously 'tag lookup') for clusters (PICARD-186)
- Lookup in Browser will now not use MBIDs to lookup unmatched files/clusters
- Add Date/Country to CD Lookup results dialog (PICARD-198)
- Fix/reset album folksonomy tag counts while refreshing releases (PICARD-4)
- Plugins actions can now create sub-menus using the MENU class attribute
- New plugin hook register_clusterlist_action
- Display the port Picard is listening on at bottom right status bar (PICARD-191)
- Make album drops from right hand pane to left default to "unmatched files" again (PICARD-33)
- Remove .DS_Store, desktop.ini, and Thumbs.db from otherwise empty directories (PICARD-75)
- Update artist translation to use new alias features (primary flag, sort names) (PICARD-200)
- Deleted tags aren't indicated as changes (PICARD-165)
- Picard log entries have inaccurate timestamp (PICARD-45)
- Interface doesn't allow keyboard only management (PICARD-103)
- Added option to preserve timestamps of tagged files (PICARD-31)
- Added keyboard shortcut to reload release (PICARD-99)
- Medium formats weren't listed in order in the "Other versions" menu (PICARD-91)
- Couldn't select multiple directories in "Add Folder" window on OS X (PICARD-74)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/124381
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/picard?expand=0&rev=26
- Update to version 0.16 - 2011-10-23
- Added AcoustID support.
- Fixed track metadata plugins.
- Added new internal %_totalalbumtracks% tag field. (PICARD-16)
- Track metadata plugins now run also on non-album tracks. (PICARD-7)
- Fixed custom Various Artists name on the %albumartist% field. (PICARD-5)
- Album artist is now correctly "translated". (PICARD-1)
- Unicode punctuation is now converted to ASCII by default.
- WavPack correction files are moved together with the main files. (PICARD-15)
- Unicode filename normalization on OS X.
- Original release date is now saved into %originaldate%.
- Allow tagging with localized artist aliases (PICARD-17)
- Added a quit confirmation dialog. (PICARD-46)
- Standalone recordings can be tagged with relationships now. (PICARD-10)
- Refreshing an album will refresh its "other versions" listing. (PICARD-8)
- "Unicode punctuation to ASCII" now works on album-level metadata. (PICARD-50)
- DJ-mix tags should only be written to the medium where they apply. (PICARD-20)
- Support URL redirects in web service/network request module (PICARD-54)
- Jamendo and Archive.org cover art is displayed on web page, but not loaded by Picard plugin (PICARD-52)
- Edits to metadata in "Details..." menu not reflected in UI (PICARD-13)
- The status bar/new metadata box is updated when a selected file/track is changed. (PICARD-14)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/112103
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/picard?expand=0&rev=22
- Update to version 0.15.1 - 2011-07-31
- "Other versions" menu now displays release labels and catalog numbers.
- Added CD-R, 8cm CD to the format mapping.
- Picard no longer fails to load releases with new or unknown media formats.
- Threading issues that could occasionally cause Picard to stop loading files have been fixed.
- Fixed album metadata processor plugins not working (#5960)
- Fixed loading of standalone recordings (#5961)
- Fixed requests stopping at midnight (#5963)
- Stopped using QDateTime for timing requests (for Qt 4.6 compatibility) (#5967)
- Fixed display of ampersands in the "other versions" menu. (#5969)
- Fixed use of numerical functions in advanced scripting.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/77522
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/picard?expand=0&rev=16
- Update name of dlopen libdiscid object during build
- Update additional python plugins to report compatibility for 0.15
- Run dos2unix on additional python plugins
- Update to version 0.15 - 2011-07-17
- Added options for using standardized track, release, and artist metadata.
- Added preferred release format support.
- Expanded preferred release country support to allow multiple countries.
- Added support for tagging non-album tracks (standalone recordings).
- Plugins can now be installed via drag and drop, or a file browser.
- Added several new tags: %%_originaldate%%, %%_recordingcomment%%, and %%_releasecomment%%
- Changes to request queuing: added separate high and low priority queues for each host.
- Tagger scripts now run after metadata plugins finish (#5850)
- The "compilation" tag can now be $unset or modified via tagger script.
- Added a shortcut (Ctrl+I) for Edit->Details.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes.
- Support for the NGS web service
Version 0.14 - 2011-05-15
- Fixed a problem with network operations hanging after a network error (#5794, #5884)
- ID3v2.3 with UTF-16 is now the default ID3 version
- Option to set preferred release types for improved album matching
- Added support for sorting the album/file lists (#75)
- Fixed OptimFROG tag reading (#5859)
- Fixed colors for a white-on-black color scheme (#5846)
- Added an option to replace non-ASCII punctuation (#5834)
- Support for writing release group and work IDs, currently unused (#5805)
- Fixed saving of the release event format tag (#5250)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/76928
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/picard?expand=0&rev=14
