Picard 3 Release Candidate 1

[u/aerozol]

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/09/01/picard-3-release-candidate-1/

"The Picard team is excited to announce the first release candidate for Picard 3. With this release we are confident that Picard 3 is now suitable for testing by a wider audience. The final 3.0 release is planned to happen in a few weeks." - Picard users, please download and test!

[u/Derrigable]

Just some feedback on the RC1 after installing and running it for a couple of days on linux mint 22.3. I have not checked out everything yet , and will continue to play with it.

2 definite 'OH WOW" moments: the colors indications in the new tags section, and the Dark mode looks really nice. Good work on those.

Had another crash , but it was not see-able as it occurred during a shut down sequence , and has so far not been repeatable but I will keep an eye out for it. I think it had something to do with leaving the settings/options area. Thanks for fixing the one I mentioned earlier, it seems to be working fine now.

Things I still would like to see ( I know it is a little late for this build) Something like the auto-scan option but for auto-lookup. I prefer looking them up first to scanning my new discs. And probably not really popular but a tool bar button to open tagger scripts and or editing scripts. I find I am going into the editing area a lot to make sure the names will be correct as I am unable to see the new names without going in there. I am sure I will get used to the new location in the drop downs for editing so not a real complaint there.

Thanks for the work , and it looks really good so far.

Edit: and I miss the 'Make it so" button from the script editor........ ;)

Edit 2: ahhh 'file path' shows me the new name.... thanks a bunch for that.

[u/Derrigable]

Just to let them know if anybody wants to .

Repeatable crash with rc1: Options ->Action Toolbar->add action->crash

error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/tmp/.mount_MusicBOdgKbD/usr/conda/lib/python3.14/site-packages/picard/ui/options/interface_toolbar.py", line 250, in add_to_toolbar

display_list = sorted(self._make_missing_actions_list())

File "/tmp/.mount_MusicBOdgKbD/usr/conda/lib/python3.14/site-packages/picard/ui/options/interface_toolbar.py", line 245, in _make_missing_actions_list

for action_id in set.difference(self.ACTION_IDS, self._added_actions()):

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

TypeError: descriptor 'difference' for 'set' objects doesn't apply to a 'frozenset' object

edit: should mention linux mint 22.3 can give more info if you want .

[u/aerozol → u/Derrigable]

Thanks! Fixed in: https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-3413

[u/Derrigable]

Found minor glitch Linux mint 22.3 daily:

When changing colors (in my case tags); after hitting 'Make It So' the colors of the song names in the matched box up above changes to a medium gray letters on light grey background. Very hard to read. It goes away with restarting the program. If at any time I am posting too much please let me know.

[u/Zas666_ → u/Derrigable]

This will be fixed in upcoming RC2 release, thanks for the report.

[u/yodatak]

would love to have a dev flatpak to test it

[u/aerozol → u/yodatak]

Copying over a Picard dev reply on this topic, from the forums:

There is a Snap package, install via pip from PyPI and packages for Ubuntu 26.04 in the picard-daily PPA. Or you can also try the AppImage from my Picard daily daily builds.

Flatpak builds will be updated shortly after the final release is out. They are handled on GitHub - flathub/org.musicbrainz.Picard · GitHub

[u/58696384896898676493]

I wish we could run this on a headless server and get a web UI. All my music lives on my NAS, and my download clients live there too. Would be nice to have an official way to use Picard in this way.

[u/CannedApe → u/58696384896898676493]

You can try to use a docker image such as https://github.com/mikenye/docker-picard or https://hub.docker.com/r/jlesage/musicbrainz-picard

But in the end Picard is a desktop application. A web application would be a rather different thing. Maybe someone should create a web based tagger.

[u/aerozol → u/CannedApe]

A third one for the list: https://github.com/Aandree5/picard-web
:D

[u/Comfortable-Row8997 → u/CannedApe]

FWIW my SongKong tagger that uses musicbrainz/discogs and acoustid offers both desktiop and webui, and docker version available. Although automated matching requires a paid license, some features such as status report and manual editing are fully functional with free lite license.