libdiscid 0.6.5 released

A new version 0.6.5 of libdiscid is now available. libdiscid is a C library that allows applications to easily calculate MusicBrainz and freedb disc IDs from audio CDs. It also can extract MCN and ISRC information.

This is a maintenance release. There are no changes to the library itself. Version 0.6.5 of libdiscid provides the following changes:

  • CMake: Restore includedir and libdir
  • Code sign Windows and macOS binaries

More details on libdiscid, information on available language bindings, and downloads of the source code and pre-compiled binaries for macOS and Windows can be found on the libdiscid page. See also the API documentation for details on how to use the library.

Picard 2.13.3 released

Picard 2.13.3 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 2.13. This primarily fixes a regression with the Windows package, where a system wide installed libssl would cause SSL failures in Picard’s network requests. This release also includes a workaround for libopus not loading embedded cover art files.

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 2.12 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 2.13.1.

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Picard 2.13.2 released

Picard 2.13.2 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 2.13 which fixes a crash when opening the context menu for multiple selected changed tags.

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 2.12 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 2.13.1.

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Picard 2.13.1 released

The Picard team is happy to announce that the final version 2.13.1 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 bugfixes and some new features. More details below.

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Picard 2.12.2 released

Picard 2.12.2 has been released, fixing an issue with sorting numbers in list views.

Picard 2.12.1 contained a fix for crashes on macOS which were related to language aware sorting. Unfortunately the solution we chose for this caused sorting of numbers to be broken on Windows. With this release this gets solved by using the previous sorting technique on Windows again (which was not affected by the crashes experienced on macOS).

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 2.11 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 2.12.

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Picard 2.12.1 released

Picard 2.12.1 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 2.12 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations.

Most importantly this release fixes a crash when genre filters result in an empty genre list and long standing issues with Picard crashing on macOS when opening the preferences while the UI language is set to Spanish.

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 2.11 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 2.12.

Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback and reported issues. Special thanks to salo.rock, Vaclovas Intas, brtc and ApeKattQuest / MonkeyPython for updating the Italian, Lithuanian, Turkish and Norwegian translations.

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Picard 2.12 released

The Picard team is happy to announce that version 2.12 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 focuses on fixing bugs and providing minor improvements with the goal of providing a stable Picard version 2. In the meantime we are focusing on Picard 3, which will provide more significant changes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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