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Changelog
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1.3.5 (in development)
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1.3.5 (April 15, 2014)
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This is a short-term release that adds some great new stuff to beets. There's
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support for tracking and calculating musical keys, the ReplayGain plugin was
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expanded to work with more music formats via GStreamer, we can now import
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directly from compressed archives, and the lyrics plugin is more robust.
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One note for upgraders and packagers: this version of beets has a new
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dependency in `enum34`_, which is a backport of the new `enum`_ standard
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library module.
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New stuff:
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The major new features are:
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* Beets can now import `zip`, `tar` and `rar` archives. Just type ``beet
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import music.zip`` to have beets transparently extract the files to import.
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* :doc:`/plugins/replaygain`: Added support for calculating ReplayGain values
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with GStreamer as well the mp3gain programs. This enables ReplayGain
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calculation for any audio format.
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with GStreamer as well the mp3gain program. This enables ReplayGain
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calculation for any audio format. Thanks to Yevgeny Bezman.
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* :doc:`/plugins/lyrics`: Lyrics should now be found for more songs. Searching
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is now sensitive to featured artists and parenthesized title suffixes.
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When a song has multiple titles, lyrics from all the named songs are now
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concatenated. Thanks to Fabrice Laporte and Paul Phillips.
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* Add support for `initial_key` as field in the library and tag for
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media files. When the user sets this field with ``beet modify
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initial_key=Am`` the media files will reflect this in their tags. The
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:doc:`/plugins/echonest` also sets this field if the data is
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In particular, a full complement of features for supporting musical keys are
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new in this release:
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* A new `initial_key` is available in the database and files' tags. You can
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set the field manually using a command like ``beet modify
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initial_key=Am``.
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* The :doc:`/plugins/echonest` sets the `initial_key` field if the data is
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available.
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* There is also a new :doc:`/plugins/keyfinder` that runs a command line
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program to get the key from audio data and store it in the
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`initial_key` field.
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* Beets can now import `zip`, `tar` and `rar` archives.
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* A new :doc:`/plugins/keyfinder` runs a command-line tool to get the key from
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audio data and store it in the `initial_key` field.
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Fixes:
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There are also many bug fixes and little enhancements:
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* :doc:`/plugins/echonest`: Truncate files larger than 50MB before uploading for
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analysis.

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