If you have an intel Mac and would like to try out the first test of a PUID enabled Picard on OS X, please download this DMG and post a comment to let me know if it works. This...

Hi! The first episode in my series of "Working with Picard" screencasts has now been recorded, and is available for public consumption :) A YouTube link to the video is available, and a higher resolution Ogg Theora file is also...

Given the number of clueless/negative comments on the TRM announcement, I feel it necessary to clue people in to the fact that Picard QT's interface has been revamped. The workflow has been greatly improved, the user interface is more...

I'm pleased to announce that Lukáš has released Picard QT version 0.9.0 beta1! Picard QT is the port of Picard away from the troublesome wxWidgets toolkit and over to the much more stable QT toolkit. Along the way Lukas...

Wendell from MusicIP just showed me the PUID lookup rate for Picard over the last few months: Looks like more people are using Picard as time goes on. Yay! Now, who is responsible for those two spikes? Bueller?? Technorati...

As the TRM server is getting close to another pruning round it flaked out for a few hours today -- its back up and running now. I had hoped that we would've come along further in moving Classic Tagger...

Lukas finished the final round of bug reports in Picard and prepared the 0.7.0 final release. This is the first non-beta release of Picard with MusicDNS acoustic fingerprinting. The changes are: Automatic identifying of audio files using MusicDNS acoustic...

Picard version 0.7.0 Beta 3 has been just released. Downloads: picard-0.7.0-beta3.tar.gz - source code (290 kB) picard-setup-0.7.0-beta3.exe - Windows installer (5.78 MB) various Linux packages Changes from 0.7.0-beta2: support for GNOME and KDE default browser settings, in addition to the...

Lukas says: Picard version 0.7.0 Beta 2 has been just released. This version contains mostly bug fixes from the previous beta version. See the full list for details. Downloads: picard-0.7.0-beta2.tar.gz Linux tarball (287 kB) picard-setup-0.7.0-beta2.exe Windows installer (5.62 MB)...

Given that my elaborations are not making things more clear, I will try one last time to make things more clear. But before I go on, remember that there are bugs in the system right now. What I am...

There seem to be many questions about Picard at the moment and a lot of people who love the old tagger interface and are frustrated with Picard's UI. So, let me address the feedback we're getting from our users:...

We released the 0.6.0 version of Picard today -- this release fixes many bugs and adds the much anticipated mp4, mpc and wma plugins! Also included in this release are support for generating cuesheets, M3U, PLS and XSPF playlists....

Changes from 0.5.1:

New features:

• New file formats: Musepack (mpc), WMA, MP4
• Support for generating cuesheets and playlists (M3U, PLS and XSPF)
• Setting TDTG frame in ID3 tags
• Confirmation dialog before closing of application with unsaved files.

Fixed bugs:

• #973 - "Force Save" for albums
• #946 - AttributeError: 'SplitterWindow' object has no attribute 'SetSelection'
• #936 - Are You Sure?
• #930 - New files never marked as O.K. /checked
• #902 - Track->Album matching bug with drag&drop
• #108 - flac with special characters in file name give error
• #7 - Refresh directory list manually doesn't work
• #106 - Make delete key a shortcut for the big, red X
• #90 - Converting genres to numbers
• #88 - MB ID for VA albums under single artist is always "Various Artists"

libmusicbrainz and libtunepimp and many of the requirements of Picard are in Debian, but Picard itself has not been packaged up for inclusion into Debian. I would love to find a volunteer to take on the task to package...

To go along with the recently updated server, we released version 0.5.1 of Picard today. The downloads links are: picard-0.5.1.tar.gz (*nix tarball) picard-setup-0.5.1.exe (windows installer -- XP, 2000, NT, Me, 98, 95) To make all the changes happen inside...

Changes for Picard & libtunepimp:

New features:

• Support for album artists (new file naming variables %albumartist, %albumartistvariable)
• New preferences dialog box
• New option to choose the UI language
• Support for TYER (ID3v2.3) and TDRC (ID3v2.4) frames
• Picard now works also on Windows 9x/Me!

Fixed bugs:

• %format doesn't work for files without mb tags
• WMP can't read file tagged in utf16
• Saving tags deletes album art and track number in iTunes
• Opening the wrong files
• Reload album from server" causing save problem
• clearing the existing tags in FLAC and OGG Vorbis plugins
• Overwriting (of X) in ID3 2 tag

After too many months of tinkering the latest stable release of Picard has been released: picard-0.5.0.tar.gz (Linux tarball) picard-setup-0.5.0.exe (Windows installer) Big thanks goes out to Lukas Lalinsky for fixing many bugs and creating the Windows installer. Also, many...

Changes from 0.5.0-pre2:

These bugs have been fixed:

• 1043636 selecting more tracks in the right pane
• 1042891 tagger stops loading album info
• 1238616 loading indefinately on "non-album tracks"
• 1310462 Error in GetResultData1
• 1306106 Picard adding junk ASCII to fields, plus clearing tags
• 1354607 drag item: "Albums" => outside: item frozen in New files
• 1349235 Filenames with DOT in the end!
• 1335314 Problem with directory names that contain periods
• 1329043 Serious FS issue. Picard creates dirs with invalid names!
• 1051940 Picard: Unicode support under Windows is broken still
• 1236964 "Clear existing tags before writing" appears to be ignored
• 1251813 full album time is readded with 'Reload album from server'

For more info on these bugs take a look at our bug tracker, category picard.

Other improvements:

• Internationalization (gettext) + Norwegian, German, French, Russian and Slovak translations.
• Multiple-select in the album panel.