Beets v1.3.19 Release Notes
Release Date: 2016-06-26 // almost 8 years ago-
๐ This is primarily a bug fix release: it cleans up a couple of regressions that appeared in the last version. But it also features the triumphant return of the
beatport
and a modernizedbpd
.๐ It's also the first version where beets passes all its tests on Windows! May this herald a new age of cross-platform reliability for beets.
๐ New features:
- ๐
beatport
: This metadata source plugin has arisen from the dead! It now works with Beatport's new OAuth-based API. Thanks to
@jbaiter. #1989 #2067 - ๐
bpd
: The plugin now uses the modern GStreamer 1.0 instead of the old 0.10. Thanks to @philippbeckmann. #2057 #2062 - ๐ A new
--force
option for theremove
command allows removal of items without prompting beforehand. #2042 - A new duplicate_action importer config option controls how duplicate albums or tracks treated in import task. #185
๐ Some fixes for Windows:
- ๐ Queries are now detected as paths when they contain backslashes (in addition to forward slashes). This only applies on Windows.
- ๐
embedart
: Image similarity comparison with ImageMagick should now work on Windows. - ๐
fetchart
: The plugin should work more reliably with non-ASCII paths.
๐ And other fixes:
replaygain
: Thebs1770gain
backend now correctly calculates sample peak instead of true peak. This comes with a major speed increase. #2031- โ
lyrics
: Avoid a crash and a spurious warning introduced in the last version about a Google API key, which appeared even when you hadn't enabled the Google lyrics source. - ๐ Fix a hard-coded path to
bash-completion
to work better with Homebrew installations. Thanks to @bismark. #2038 - ๐ Fix a crash introduced in the previous version when the standard input was connected to a Unix pipe. #2041
- ๐ Fix a crash when specifying non-ASCII format strings on the command line with the
-f
option for many commands. #2063 - โ
fetchart
: Determine the file extension for downloaded images based on the image's magic bytes. The plugin prints a warning if result is not consistent with the server-suppliedContent-Type
header. In previous versions, the plugin would use a.jpg
extension for all images. #2053
- ๐