Picard Qt
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PicardQt is a new version of PicardTagger, written using Qt as the GUI toolkit. It also includes implementations of a few new ideas, such as IntuitivePicardInterface or TaggerScript.
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- Please remember that this is not a finished application yet and some features might not work correctly, so use it carefully. If you find a bug, please report it.
Latest Testing Release - 0.9.0alpha8
- Windows Installer (6.8M)
- Source Code Tarball (378K)
- Ubuntu package (for 7.04 "Feisty" only):
deb http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/users/luks/ubuntu feisty musicbrainz
Development Source Code
The source code is maintained in a Bazaar branch at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~luks/picard/qt-port. To download it you need to install Bazaar and run:
bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~luks/picard/qt-port picard-qt
If you already have the branch and want to update it, use:
bzr pull
- Ubuntu Feisty: To get the right bazaar version, install package bzr, not bazaar. To build picard-qt from the source, you need to:
sudo apt-get install g++ python-dev libexpat-dev python-qt4 python-mutagen
sudo apt-get install libavformat-dev libofa0-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
(This is from my experience, feel free to add anything else you notice. --Bogdanb)
Installation From Source Code
To run Picard you need at least:
Optionally also:
- libdiscid (and ctypes if you use Python 2.4) for CD lookups
- libofa
- libavformat/libavcodec
Once you have installed the requirements, you can compile the C extensions:
python setup.py config <edit build.cfg if neccessary> python setup.py build_ext -i
And now you can start Picard:
python tagger.py
Mac OS X Installation Notes
A rough installation guide is available here: /MacInstallGuide
The Apple supplied python 2.3 in OSX 10.4.x will not work with picard, and some of the dependencies listed above expect a framework version of python. http://pythonmac.org/packages/ provides a framework python 2.4 which seems to work.
See Also
Changes
Version 0.9.0alpha9 - 2007-05-12
- New Features:
- The tag editor now accepts free-text tag names.
- Load 'DJ-mixed by' AR data to %djmixer% tag.
- Load 'Mixed by' AR data to %mixer% tag.
- Delay the webservice client to do max. 1 request per second.
- Sort files in clusters by disc number, track number and file name. (2547)
- Support for any text frame in special variable %_id3:%.
- Ignore empty ID3 text values.
- Windows installer:
- Removed DirectX-based decoder.
- FFmpeg compiled with AAC (faad2) support.
- Bug Fixes:
- Save XSOP frame to ID3v2.3 tags. (2484)
- Use attributes like 'guest' or 'additional' also from generic performer ARs.
- Fixed capitalization of %releasetype% in file naming preview. (2762)
- Fixed 'python setup.py build_ext' if py2app and setuptools are loaded.
- ID3v2.3 frame TDAT should be written in format DDMM, not MMDD. (2770)
- Don't display an error on Ogg and FLAC files with no tags.
- Remove video files from the list of supported formats.
- Always use musicbrainz.org for PUID submissions. (2764)
- Files/Pending Files count not reset/recalculated after removing files. (2541)
- Removed files still get processed during fingerprinting. (2738)
- Read only text values from APEv2 tags. (2828)
Version 0.9.0alpha8 - 2007-04-15
- Bux Fixes:
- Don't open the file for analyzing twice. (2733, 2734)
- Save ASIN and release country to ID3 tags. (2484, 2456)
- Variable %country% renamed to %releasecountry%.
- Save release country to MP4 and WMA tags.
- Don't take unsupported tags into account when checking if the tags are 'complete' and the file should have 100% match. This fixes problems with showing the green check-marks for file with limited tag formats, like MP4 or WMA.
- Ignore missing tag in $unset().
Version 0.9.0alpha7 - 2007-04-14
- New Features
- Remember location in the file browser. (2618)
- Added FFmpeg support on Windows (MP3, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack and many other audio formats).
- Lowercase the extension on file renaming/moving. (2701)
- TaggerScript function
$copy(new,old)
to copy metadata from variableold
tonew
. The difference between$set(new,%old%)
is that$copy(new,old)
copies multi-value variables without flattening them. - Added special purpose TaggerScript variable
%_id3:%
for direct setting of ID3 frames. Currently it supports only TXXX frames in format%_id3:TXXX:<description>%
, for example:$copy(_id3:TXXX:PERFORMERSORTORDER,artistsort)
. - Support for WAV files. (2537)
- Removed GStreamer-based decoder.
- Implemented
python setup.py install_locales
.
- Bug Fixes:
- Failed PUID submission deactivates the submit button. (2673)
- Unable to specify album art file name mask. (2655)
- Fixed incorrect copying of album metadata to tracks. (2698)
- Added options to un-hide toolbars. (2631)
- Fixed problem with saving extra performer FLAC tags containing non-ASCII characters. (2719)
- Read only the first date from ID3v2.3 tags. (2460)
- If the remembered directory for add dialogs and file browser was removed, try to find an existing directory in the same path.
Version 0.9.0alpha6 - 2007-04-04
- New Features:
- Added option --disable-autoupdate for 'build' and 'install' commands of the setup script. (2551)
- Automatically parse track numbers from file names like 01.flac for better cluster->album matching with untagged files.
- Support for the new sorting tags in MP4 tags from iTunes 7.1.
- Strip white-space from directory names. (2558)
- When replacing characters with their ascii equivalent, 'ß' should be replaced by 'ss'. (2610)
- Track level performer ARs. (2561)
- Remove leading and trailing whitespace from tags on file saving. (892, 2665)
- Support for labels, catalog numbers and barcodes.
- Bug Fixes:
- Artist names from ARs should be translated, too.
- Freeze after answering no to "download the new version" prompt. (2542)
- %musicbrainz_albumid% not working in file renaming. (2543)
- Track time appears to display incorrectly if it's unknown on MusicBrainz. (2548)
- Fixed problem with removing albums/files after submitting PUIDs (2556)
- The user's script should be applied also to album metadata.
- Fixed moving of additional files from paths with "special" characters.
- Internals:
- The browser integration HTTP server rewritten using QTcpServer.
Version 0.9.0alpha5 - 2007-03-18
- New Features:
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed fileId generator (caused problems with drag&drop if files with multiple formats are used).
- Original Metadata not greyed out when no tracks are attached. (2461)
- Better detecting of the default Windows browser, with fallback to Internet Explorer. (2502)
- Better album/track lookup. (2521)
- File browser stays 'hidden' after first time use. (2480)
- Track length changed in Original Metadata after save. (2510)
- "Send PUIDs" button not disabled after albums are removed. (2506)
- The Windows package now includes JPEG loader to show cover art images correctly. (2478)
Version 0.9.0alpha4 - 2007-03-09
Version 0.9.0alpha3 - 2007-03-08
- New Features:
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed file clustering.
- Added %albumartistsort%, %releasetype% and %releasestatus% to the file naming example (2458)
- Sanitize dates from ID3 tags. (2460)
- Fixed page switching in the options window on error. (2455)
- Correct case-insensitive file renaming on Windows (1003, 2457)
- Relative paths in the 'Move files to' option are relative to the current path of the file. (2454)
- Added a .desktop file. (2470)
- Release type and status should be in lower case. (2489)
Version 0.9.0alpha2 - 2007-03-04
- New Features:
- Bug Fixes:
Version 0.9.0alpha1 - 2007-03-03
- First release.