Ear Tag 0.4.0

This is a pretty major release, which brings three brand new features:

• Renaming files using a specific pattern
• Identifying files using AcoustID
• The option to set a release date (YYYY-MM-DD) instead of just the year

It also brings many stability improvements; various crashes were fixed, and code quality was improved in a few places. If you previously encountered issues while loading/removing files, where the entire app crashed or the UI went blank - these should be solved now! A few small tweaks were made to the UI as well, mostly in preparation for GNOME Circle inclusion - which, in other news, Ear Tag is now in GNOME Circle! 🎉

For packagers: there is now a new dependency on pyacoustid. Network access is required for the file identification feature, but is otherwise completely optional.

Ear Tag 0.4.0-rc1

(THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE RELEASE, WAITING A WEEK FOR TRANSLATORS TO CATCH UP)

This is a pretty major release, which brings three brand new features:

• the ability to rename files using a specific pattern
• the ability to identify files using AcoustID
• the option to set a year-month-date release date, not just a release year

It also brings many stability improvements; various crashes were fixed, and code quality was improved in a few places. If you previously encountered issues while loading/removing files, where the entire app crashed or the UI went blank - these should be solved now!

Some new strings have been added and need to be translated, cc translators: @phaerrax @flipflop97 @rene-coty @sheeepdev @sabriunal @igor-dyatlov

For packagers: there is now a new dependency on pyacoustid.

Ear Tag 0.3.3

This is a minor bugfix and improvements release, mostly consisting of small changes to the UI in preparation for potential GNOME Circle inclusion. Notable new additions include support of the website/URL field for MP3 files and a new icon by Jakub Steiner.

No major changes for distro packagers.

Ear Tag 0.3.2

This is a minor bugfix release, adding a few quality-of-life improvements and fixing some potential crashes.

Some strings got updated (most notably the app description), some translations may be missing.

Note for package maintaners: the upstream URL has moved from GitHub to GNOME's GitLab at https://gitlab.gnome.org/knuxify/eartag. The appdata file was moved to the metainfo directory. The GitHub repository will continue to be maintained as a mirror, but all changes/packages should point at the new URL instead.

Ear Tag 0.3.2-rc1

(THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE RELEASE, WAITING A WEEK FOR TRANSLATORS TO CATCH UP)

This is a minor bugfix release, adding a few quality-of-life improvements and fixing some potential crashes.

Some new strings have been added and need to be translated, cc translators: @phaerrax @flipflop97 @rene-coty @sheeepdev @sabriunal @igor-dyatlov

No major packaging changes besides appdata being moved from the old legacy appdata folder to the metainfo folder.

(EDIT: Moving repository to GNOME's GitLab (https://gitlab.gnome.org/knuxify/eartag). You can still send pull requests here, and I'll sync them up manually, but I'd prefer if you'd send MRs there instead.)

Ear Tag 0.3.1

This is a minor bugfix release for 0.3.0. For a list of changes between 0.2.1 and 0.3.0, see the 0.3.0 release page.

There are no changes for package maintainers or translators in this release. (If you're upgrading from 0.2.1, 0.3.0 release notes apply.)

Ear Tag 0.3.0

This is a fairly large release, and includes quite a few changes, both under the hood and more user-facing:

• Added additional tag fields (#30) - allows for setting more nonstandard tags.
• Greatly improved performance and squashed some memory leaks. Loading files is noticeably faster now, and so is switching between files.
• Added cover art support for m4a and ALAC files, as well as WAV and WMA. This was done as part of the migration from multiple different tagging libraries to only Mutagen.
• And added many more bugfixes and improvements - see the 0.3.0 milestone for a full list.

For package maintainers: you can drop the dependency on pytaglib and eyed3. Mutagen is now required.

Ear Tag 0.3.0-rc1

DO NOT PACKAGE - RELEASE CANDIDATE VERSION, WAITING FOR TRANSLATORS

Full 0.3.0 release is slated to release next Saturday (earlier if all translations arrive before then), cc translators: @phaerrax @flipflop97 @rene-coty @sheeepdev @sabriunal @igor-dyatlov

This is a fairly large release, and includes quite a few changes, both under the hood and more user-facing:

• Added additional tag fields (#30) - allows for setting more nonstandard tags.
• Greatly improved performance and squashed some memory leaks. Loading files is noticeably faster now, and so is switching between files.
• Added cover art support for m4a and ALAC files, as well as WAV and WMA. This was done as part of the migration from multiple different tagging libraries to only Mutagen.
• And added many more bugfixes and improvements - see the 0.3.0 milestone for a full list.

For package maintainers: you can drop the dependency on pytaglib and eyed3. Mutagen is now required.

Ear Tag 0.2.1

This is a minor release, containing a lot of bugfixes and small improvements. Here are some of the most important ones:

• Fixed typo in desktop file that was preventing it from showing up properly (#19)
• Fixed multiple issues with file backends (#26, #23, ce3d42c, b0f16de)
• Fixed some UI issues (#18, bf917ee, ee677c9, 9cd3430)
• Updated translations

There are no build-related or dependency changes. For package maintainers - this will be a simple version bump (oh, and you can drop your .desktop file patches now - the fix is included in this release).

Ear Tag 0.2.0

Despite the minor version bump, this is a pretty major release! The main highlights include:

• Support for opening multiple files. You can now open multiple files at once and select multiple files to edit. Useful for mass-applying tags to albums, etc.
• Support for OGG/FLAC cover art with mutagen's vorbiscomment support.
• And 6 new translations (...some of which may be out of date considering the aforementioned multiple file support - there will most likely be an additional release to bump those. (Translators - if you'd like to be mentioned before a new release with new translatable strings is released - let me know!))

Package maintainers: this adds a dependency on Python packages mutagen and pillow for OGG/FLAC cover art support. It is theoretically optional, but is highly recommended.

(EDIT: Package maintainers: please include commit 6b50567, without it the .desktop file might fail to appear correctly.)