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1.4.3 (in development)
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Features:
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Happy new year! This new version includes a cornucopia of new features from
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contributors, including new tags related to classical music and a new
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:doc:`/plugins/absubmit` for performing acoustic analysis on your music. The
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:doc:`/plugins/random` has a new mode that lets you generate time-limited
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music---for example, you might generate a random playlist that lasts the
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perfect length for your walk to work. We also access as many Web services as
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possible over secure connections now---HTTPS everywhere!
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The most visible new features are:
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* We now support the composer, lyricist, and arranger tags. The MusicBrainz
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data source will fetch data for these fields when the next version of
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* A new :doc:`/plugins/absubmit` lets you run acoustic analysis software and
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upload the results for others to use. Thanks to :user:`inytar`. :bug:`2253`
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:bug:`2342`
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* :doc:`/plugins/play`: The plugin now provides an importer prompt choice to
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play the music you're about to import. Thanks to :user:`diomekes`.
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:bug:`2008` :bug:`2360`
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* We now use SSL to access Web services whenever possible. That includes
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MusicBrainz itself, several album art sources, some lyrics sources, and
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other servers. Thanks to :user:`tigranl`. :bug:`2307`
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* :doc:`/plugins/random`: A new ``--time`` option lets you generate a random
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playlist that takes a given amount of time. Thanks to :user:`diomekes`.
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:bug:`2305` :bug:`2322`
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* :doc:`/plugins/zero`: Added ``zero`` command to manually trigger the zero
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Some smaller new features:
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* :doc:`/plugins/zero`: A new ``zero`` command manually triggers the zero
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plugin. Thanks to :user:`SJoshBrown`. :bug:`2274` :bug:`2329`
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* :doc:`/plugins/acousticbrainz`: The plugin will avoid re-downloading data
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for files that already have it by default. You can override this behavior
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using a new ``force`` option. Thanks to :user:`SusannaMaria`. :bug:`2347`
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:bug:`2349`
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* :doc:`/plugins/bpm`: Now uses the ``import.write`` configuration option to
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decide whether or not to write tracks after updating their BPM. :bug:`1992`
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* :doc:`/plugins/play`: The plugin now provides an importer prompt choice to
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play the music you're about to import. Thanks to :user:`diomekes`.
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:bug:`2008` :bug:`2360`
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* :doc:`/plugins/bpm`: The ``import.write`` configuration option now
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decides whether or not to write tracks after updating their BPM. :bug:`1992`
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Fixes:
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And the fixes:
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* We now use SSL to access Web services whenever possible. That includes
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MusicBrainz itself, several album art sources, some lyrics sources, and
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other servers. Thanks to :user:`tigranl`. :bug:`2307`
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* :doc:`/plugins/bpd`: Fix a crash on non-ASCII MPD commands. :bug:`2332`
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* :doc:`/plugins/scrub`: Avoid a crash when files cannot be read or written.
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:bug:`2351`
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filesystem. :bug:`2353`
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* :doc:`/plugins/discogs`: Improve the handling of releases that contain
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subtracks. :bug:`2318`
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* :doc:`/plugins/discogs`: Fix a crash when a release did not contain Format
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information, and increased robustness when other fields are missing.
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* :doc:`/plugins/discogs`: Fix a crash when a release does not contain format
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information, and increase robustness when other fields are missing.
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:bug:`2302`
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* :doc:`/plugins/lyrics`: The plugin now reports a beets-specific User-Agent
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header when requesting lyrics. :bug:`2357`
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* :doc:`/plugins/play`: The misspelled configuration option
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For plugin developers: new importer prompt choices (see :ref:`append_prompt_choices`), you can now provide new candidates for the user to consider.
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For plugin developers: when providing new importer prompt choices (see
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:ref:`append_prompt_choices`), you can now provide new candidates for the user
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to consider. For example, you might provide an alternative strategy for
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picking between the available alternatives or for looking up a release on
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MusicBrainz.
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1.4.2 (December 16, 2016)

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