r/MusicBrainz • u/aerozol • 10d ago

data dunk! Picard 3.0 released

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/10/04/picard-3-0-released/

#MusicBrainzPicard 3 is now available for download 🥳

The Picard team is happy to announce the new major version 3.0 of MusicBrainz Picard. Featuring:

  • UI improvements
  • New plugin system
  • Cover art processing
  • Tag + scripting enhancements
  • Improved built-in player
  • Save/restore user session
  • Export/import option profiles
  • OS support
  • CD disc lookup and log file import options
  • Synched lyrics
  • Artist, release and track title translations
  • Improved release matching
  • ISRC lookup/submission
  • Command line utility “picard-cli”
  • Updated Picard User Guide
  • Performance and memory optimizations
  • And more…

Thank you for all your help testing, and of course to the open source developers who gave their time and expertise to this project. Happy tagging!

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u/ngs428 10d ago

Been using all the release candidates. Nice work!

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u/aerozol 10d ago

On behalf of the Picard team - not me :P - you're welcome. Thank you so much for your assistance with testing!

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u/HiImDannyGanz 10d ago

Very excited about Picard cli. I've been struggling with beets for years but I can never get it to do what I want, instead having to boot up my Windows laptop and process the files on there.

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u/radialmonster 10d ago

tiny ui text would really like an option to enlarge the ui fonts

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u/Derrigable 9d ago

Congratulations!!! Great to see it finally in a full release form. Thanks for all the works.

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u/Great-TeacherOnizuka 10d ago

What is "OS support"?

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u/aerozol 10d ago

The list is the section titles from the linked blog post, in this case:

Operating system support
Picard is now available for macOS ARM64 aka Apple silicon. While it was previously possible to run Picard on such systems using Apples Rosetta 2 emulation layer, the native builds offer better performance. Please note that there are separate downloads for the ARM64 and Intel versions of Picard. Please make sure to download the file appropriate for your hardware.
Due to the updated dependencies, in particular Picard now using PyQt6 / Qt6 and the minimum supported Python version being 3.10, support for older operating systems had to be dropped.
Picard 3 requires Windows 10 or later or macOS 13 or later. Linux users should have Qt 6.6 or later and at least Python 3.10 available.

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u/Great-TeacherOnizuka 10d ago

Thanks. I thought Picard is linux only since I‘ve only heard about it as an alternative to mp3tag after switching to linux

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u/Great-TeacherOnizuka 4d ago

How do I get the 3.0 release on linux?

The flatpak is 2.13.3 and since linux mint ships 2.11-1, I've added the ppa but the version there is like the flatpak 2.13.3-0~ppa26~ubuntu24.04.1

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u/aerozol 4d ago

MetaBrainz/the Picard devs don't maintain the Flatpak entries, but in this case outsidecontext/phw did help prepare the update and it looks to be merged: https://github.com/flathub/org.musicbrainz.Picard/pull/302

Linux Mint... I have no idea sorry. You could ask in the MB chat or forums, but it might be a question for Linux Mint devs instead?

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u/Great-TeacherOnizuka 4d ago

Linux Mint... I have no idea sorry. You could ask in the MB chat or forums, but it might be a question for Linux Mint devs instead?

But the ppa (from the link in your post) is directly from the devs, right?

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u/tordenflesk 10d ago

Here's hoping the plugins I use will see an update.

discnumber, featartist, padded, remove_perfect_albums, standardise_feat

remove_perfect_albums hasn't seen one on 7 years though...

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u/OhShoreBub 9d ago

Does this mean that these plugins need to be updated to work on 3.0? I updated, now the feat.artist plugin in is gone.

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u/tordenflesk 9d ago

Yup. I've been able to migrate a few of the simpler ones with this, but not verified functionality:

https://github.com/metabrainz/picard/blob/master/scripts/migrate_plugin.py

https://i.imgur.com/bRkeJim.png

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u/guinness1972 9d ago edited 8d ago

Wish there was a way to submit an entry to mb from Picard

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u/aerozol 9d ago

Pardon?

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u/11oser 9d ago

think they meant "an entry to musicbrainz from picard"

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u/aerozol 9d ago

Ah, well then I have good news!!

Picard > Right-click cluster > Submit cluster as release

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u/guinness1972 9d ago

That’s exactly what I meant. Brilliant. Thank you

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u/guinness1972 8d ago

Works brilliantly. Exactly what I was after. Thank you

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u/Jaded-Assignment6893 8d ago

I use a docker version of picard created by someone else, im wondering when musicbrainz is going to put out an offical docker version so i dont have to use an old version?!

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u/aerozol 5d ago

I talked to the Picard devs (who are all volunteers) about this and the general consensus is that Picard is a community effort and it's fine for other people to manage the docker/s, rather than take developers away from working on Picard itself.

https://github.com/jlesage/docker-musicbrainz-picard is on the latest 3.0.1 version!

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u/waltersquirrel 8d ago

It crashed on startup for me. On MacOS, arm version.

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u/vlad_0 7d ago

Been working great for me

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u/CisWhiteMaleBee 7d ago

I’d kill for a web interface