Software Update: MusicBrainz Picard 2.6.1

Version 2.6.1 of MusicBrainz Picard has been released. MusicBrainz is a open contentmusic database, which can be accessed to properly tag music tracks. Picard is the official program to request, edit and submit tags. MusicBrainz Picard is open source and is being developed for Linux, macOS and Windows. The program has support for the most commonly used music formats, Acoustic IDs and Unicode. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• Picard-2161 – Add script function $unique to remove duplicate values ​​from multi-value variables
• Picard-2177 – Add script function $replacemulti to replace entries in multi-value variables

Improvements

• Picard-2157 – Reduce comparison overhead or logging window
• Picard-2162 – Cover art box is slow to update when many files are selected
• Picard-2185 – Remove empty elements from $map() output

Bug fixes

• Picard-2160 – Switching dark mode in macOS preferences does not change list elements leading to mix of light and dark mode
• Picard-2166 – “Use original values” for a tag on a large selection takes very long with a high CPU usage
• Picard-2168 – Keyboard shortcut to trigger script editor auto completion does not work on macOS
• Picard-2170 – Title and track number guessed from filename should show up as changed metadata
• Picard-2173 – “Search for similar tracks” is enabled by default, causes crash if used without selection
• Picard-2187 – Scripting error in file naming options is not displayed properly