Please see the release announcement on the MetaBrainz blog for details.
Bug-fix
- PICARD-239 - Using tag "comment" should behave the same as "comment:" (with colon) in tagger script
- PICARD-965 - Items in tagger scripts list are squished
- PICARD-1054 - Picard swallows values of Qt command line arguments
- PICARD-1218 - Script names aren't truncated properly
- PICARD-1312 - Hotkeys for buttons do not work on macOS
- PICARD-1565 - Picard ignores results in Acoust ID web service response
- PICARD-1592 - APEv2: Read tags case insensitive
- PICARD-1625 - UI unresponsive while matching files to release
- PICARD-1626 - Locales in Options > Metadata are not translated and not sorted
- PICARD-1629 - Duration for AAC files with APEv2 tags is wrong
- PICARD-1658 - macOS: System wide libdiscid is used instead of the bundled one
- PICARD-1662 - Issue saving FLAC with large (~ 16 MiB) embedded images
- PICARD-1664 - Cluster lookup does not use preferred release types
- PICARD-1667 - Some scripting functions are always true
- PICARD-1668 - Read fails if mp4 file has "disk" tag set but empty
- PICARD-1675 - Allow disabling auto update for Windows builds
- PICARD-1678 - Picard crashes if result from search server contains non-integer scores
- PICARD-1693 - Position and size of log view and activity history are not preserved
- PICARD-1699 - On scan asking the user to enable the fingerprinting does always abort the scan
- PICARD-1700 - Crash with PyQt5 when opening cover art context menu
- PICARD-1709 - Saving AIFF files can make them unreadable (requires mutagen >= 1.43)
- PICARD-1711 - Cannot delete lyrics from ASF, ID3, MP4 and APE files
New Feature
- PICARD-34 - Add a fingerprint indicator
- PICARD-118 - Windows: Provide a portable Picard version
- PICARD-125 - Support for AC3
- PICARD-170 - Allow selecting displayed columns
- PICARD-714 - Allow user to reorder fields in the lower pane
- PICARD-991 - Allow calculating AcoustID fingerprints for matched recordings
- PICARD-1098 - MP4: Support custom tags
- PICARD-1521 - Make Picard recognize "TOFN (Original Filename)" ID3 tag
- PICARD-1656 - Allow setting cover art for clusters
- PICARD-1673 - Show progress in Windows taskbar
- PICARD-1674 - Show progress in Linux docks / taskbar supporting the Unity.LauncherEntry DBus interface
- PICARD-1677 - Option to ignore tags for file changed status
- PICARD-1684 - Allow re-ordering multi-value tags
Improvement
- PICARD-115 - Display 'YYYY', 'MM' and 'DD' in date input field when value not available
- PICARD-321 - Backslash support in filenames if Windows compatibility is disabled
- PICARD-1260 - Sort entries in Clusters more "naturally"
- PICARD-1349 - Change the sorting by clicking on a column title so that it switches through three states (sort ascending/descending/not at all)
- PICARD-1401 - CD Lookup dialog does not make it clear how to submit a disc ID
- PICARD-1402 - macOS: Register for supported file types to open with Finder or drag and drop on dock icon
- PICARD-1467 - Provide signed Windows installer
- PICARD-1523 - Make Picard case-agnostic for "Preserve tags from being cleared"
- PICARD-1589 - Support language for ID3 COMM tags with
comment:{language}:{description}syntax (enables support for MediaMonkey's Songs-DB_Custom tags) - PICARD-1628 - Make APEv2 tags with AAC optional
- PICARD-1631 - Notarize macOS app
- PICARD-1646 - Respect preferred release types when scanning tracks
- PICARD-1650 - Select / load multiple items from search results
- PICARD-1652 - Support extended info for TAK files (requires mutagen >= 1.43)
- PICARD-1659 - Natural sorting for search results
- PICARD-1661 - Improve preserved tags autocomplete
- PICARD-1665 - Disable uninstall for globally installed plugins
- PICARD-1666 - Consider video / audio when comparing files to tracks
- PICARD-1671 - Rework Options > Tags page
- PICARD-1672 - MP4: Use hdvd atom to detect videos (requires mutagen >= 1.43)
- PICARD-1680 - Select / load multiple items from CD lookup results
- PICARD-1682 - Multiline editing for lyrics and comments
- PICARD-1683 - Autocompletion when editing media, releasetype, releasecountry and releasestatus tags
- PICARD-1686 - Always keep [non-album tracks] entry on top
- PICARD-1692 - Change sliders to jump to clicked position
- PICARD-1695 - Make script editor UI consistent with other option pages
- PICARD-1712 - Use Ctrl+D as keyboard shortcut to remove albums or files
- PICARD-1714 - Focus search input with Ctrl+F
- PICARD-1715 - Allow changing file extension by manipulating the %_extension% variable in renaming script
Task
- PICARD-1406 - Refactor Metadata.set and metadata.setitem
- PICARD-1465 - Add Picard to Windows Store
- PICARD-1596 - Automate PyPI deployment
- PICARD-1653 - macOS: Enable Hardened Runtime
- PICARD-1669 - Build Windows 10 MSIX app package
- PICARD-1703 - Upgrade to PyInstaller 3.6