From a69fd39cb5b280e5e8cf1c5d5f2e37bda5e0b1a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Sampson Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:38:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS note about album art and albums table --- NEWS | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 92bb6b15c..c4e698842 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ 1.0b3 ----- +* Album art. The tagger now, by default, downloads album art from + Amazon that is referenced in the MusicBrainz database. It places the + album art alongside the audio files in a file called (for example) + "cover.jpg". The "import_art" config option controls this behavior, + as do the -r and -R options to the import command. You can set the + name (minus extension) of the album art file with the + "art_filename" config option. * Plugin architecture. Add-on modules can now add new commands to the beets command-line interface. The "bpd" and "dadd" commands were removed from the beets core and turned into plugins; BPD is loaded @@ -17,6 +24,11 @@ so that new columns could be added to old databases--this is a delicate feature, so it would be very wise to make a backup of your database before upgrading to this version. +* As a consequence of adding album art, the database was significantly + refactored to keep track of some information at an album (rather than + item) granularity. Databases created with earlier versions of beets + should work fine, but they won't have any "albums" in them--they'll + just be a bag of items. * Fixed some bugs with encoding paths on Windows. Also, :s are now replaced with -s in path names (instead of _s) for readability.