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Picard 3.0.5 released

Picard 3.0.5 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 3.0 with fixes for reported issues. This release fixes issues with saving the order of cover art providers, manually set artwork for multiple files not being saved, a potential crash when logging out of your MusicBrainz account and many more.

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 2.13 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 3.0.

Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback and reported issues.

Picard 3.0.4 released

Picard 3.0.4 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 3.0 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations. This release fixes crashes on macOS with some language settings as well as a potential crash when updating the plugin list. It also addresses a regression where the match indicator for files would indicate a low score for newly tagged files and an issue where Picard would detect a WebP file as a WAVE audio file.

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 2.13 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 3.0.

Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback and reported issues.

Picard 3.0.3 released

Picard 3.0.3 is a maintenance release for Picard 3.0 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations.
This release fixes a crash when switching color themes, a crash when loading a release from an ISRC lookup, metadata issues in the Album Pane when multiple files match a track, and problems saving tags to WAV files with invalid chunk sizes, along with several plugin, cover art, and sorting fixes.
It also brings a few small improvements, including Enter-key navigation in the scripting documentation search, better recording-match scoring to avoid false positives on gross track-length mismatches, and normalization of lowercase or unhyphenated ISRCs.

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 2.13 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 3.0.

Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback and reported issues.

MetaBrainz Summit 2026

Hi everyone! Sorry if we react slowly this week, that’s because our brains are all slowed down digesting all of the chocolate! Which long term readers will know means we are in Barcelona at our yearly summit all week.

Picard 3.0.2 released

Picard 3.0.2 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 3.0 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations. This releases fixes a crash in the Setup Wizard if Picard was packaged with the automatic update check disabled and several color theme related fixes.

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 2.13 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 3.0.

Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback and reported issues.

Picard 3.0.1 released

Picard 3.0.1 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 3.0 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations. In particular this release fixes issues on newer macOS Tahoe and Golden Gate, a possible crash when updating from Picard 2.x and the picard-cli utility in the Windows package.

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 2.13 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 3.0.

Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback and reported issues.

Happening NOW: AMA with Silona Bonewald, MetaBrainz Foundation Executive Director

Silona Bonewald, our new Executive Director, is NOW hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) in this forum thread.

Please respect the code of conduct, as you always do!

You are welcome to post questions in the thread later, and Silona will do her best to answer them when she has the time. We will close the thread after a couple of days – though of course the door remains open to chat with the MetaBrainz team any time in the future!

You can find more information about Silona on our Executive Director announcement post.

Picard 3.0 released

The Picard team is happy to announce the new major version 3.0 of MusicBrainz Picard, now available to download. MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with data from MusicBrainz.

An image of a mock software cardboard box, showing "MusicBrainz Picard" as the title. There are two worn-out looking stickers visible on the box, one saying "Complete Tagging Solution", one "Community Support".

Beside the box there is a pink / orange circle with the text "Version 3".

This release brings many changes, including an upgrade to Qt6, a completely new plugin system, several improvements to the user interface, cover art processing, ISRC submission and many more. More details below.

Our editors: vzell

This is part of a series where we talk to some of the amazing editors that have cracked one million MusicBrainz edits and qualified for super special (lousy) shirt plan.*

These users have donated substantial amounts of their time to improve open music data, enriching open-source knowledge and culture for billions of people. Let’s find out what makes vzell click. And click and click and click!

Save the date: AMA with Silona Bonewald, MetaBrainz Foundation Executive Director

Silona Bonewald, our new Executive Director, will be hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on our forums at:

5th October 2026
17:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST)
In this forum thread

Please respect the code of conduct, as you always do!

We are aware that this time will not suit everyone’s timezone, so we will open the thread a day or so before the AMA, for early questions. We will also leave the thread open for a couple of days – but don’t wait too long!

You can find more information about Silona on our Executive Director announcement post.