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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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``warning_treshold `` is no longer supported.
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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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