Picard

- Save ASIN to MP4 files.
- Add a `--disable-locales` option to `setup.py build`. (Santiago M. Mola)
- New threading code, should make Picard crash less and be faster.
- Replace initial dot in file and directory names. (3204, Philipp Wolfer)
- Fixed caps in the default cover art image. (3242, Bogdan Butnaru)
- Fixed broken naming preview. (3214, Daniel Bumke)
- Re-enable the drag/drop target indicators. (3106)
- Fix adding files and directories from the command line. (3075)
- Don't show the cover art box by default.
- Lookup files individually for "Unmatched Files", not as a cluster.

- Fixed PUID submissions.
- Fixed drag&drop from Finder to Picard on Mac OS X.
- Don't save files from "Unmatched Files" when saving an album.
- Renamed "Analyze" to "Scan", to avoid confusion with MusicIP Mixer analysis.
- Added plugin API versioning. Plugins now need to define constant
`PLUGIN_API_VERSIONS`, otherwise they won't be loaded.
- Added option to overwrite cover art by default.
- Never wait more than second for the next HTTP request.
- Fixed setting of the "Move Tagged Files To" folder, if the name contains
non-ASCII characters.

Bugfixes
- Fixed drag&drop issue on Windows Vista.
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Changes
- "User directory" location changed:
- On Windows from "%HOMEPATH%\Local Settings\Application Data\MusicBrainz Picard"
to "%HOMEPATH%\Application Data\MusicBrainz\Picard"
- On UNIX from "~/.picard" to "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/MusicBrainz/Picard"
(usually "~/.config/MusicBrainz/Picard")
- Picard no longer logs every action and doesn't saves the logs. To enable
more debug logging, use command line argument "-d" or "--debug" or
environment variable "PICARD_DEBUG".
- For plugins:
- `metadata["~length"]` is now `metadata.length`
- `metadata["~artwork"]` is now `metadata.images`

New Features
- Save embedded images to MP4 files.
- Added option to select release events for albums.
- Added internal log viewer.
- Track and file context menu hooks for plugins.

Bugfixes
- Deleting files from clusters increments total time rather than
decrementing it. (2965)
- Update metadata boxes and cover art for selected items. (2498)
- Display error message for tracks.
- Fixed drag-and-drop bugs on Mac OS X.
- Added `%releasecountry%` to the file renaming preview.
- Cluster multi-disc albums identified by tags, not (disc x). (2555)

New Features
- Added "Edit" button to the tag editor.

Bugfixes
- Fixed initialization of gettext translations.

New Features
- New TaggerScript function `$len(text)`. (2843)
- Don't compress huge ID3 frames. (2850)
- Move "Add Cluster As Release" to a plugin.
- Allow horizontal scrollbar in the file browser panel. (2856)
- Removed "Basic" tab from the "Details" window, "Advanced" tab renamed to "Metadata".
- The tag editor can be used to edit multiple files. (2893)

Bugfixes
- F1 for Help instead of CTRL+H on Windows and Linux. (2485, Nikolai Prokoschenko)
- Tabbing focus transition from search isn't as expected. (2546, Nikolai Prokoschenko)
- Display an error message if launching a web browser failed.
- Fixed web-service error caused PUID submissions.
- Change function `$gt()`, `$gte()`, `$lt()`, `$lte()` to compare numbers, not strings. (2848)
- Fixed kfmclient launching under KDE/Python 2.5.
- Fixed similarity calculation of non-latin texts. (2891)
- Don't try to auto-analyze files with "loading" errors. (2862)