NEWS

.. _release-1.43.0:

1.43.0 - ???
------------

* Python 3.4 is no longer supported


.. _release-1.42.0:

1.42.0 - 2018-12-26
-------------------

* ID3: Always read id3v1 tags and include them when no id3v2 equivalent
  exists. Can be disabled with the new ``load_v1`` option,
  see :meth:`id3.ID3.load`
  :pr:`357` (:user:`Fredrik Strupe <frestr>`)
* ID3: Add a pretty print implementation for SYLT
  :pr:`359` (:user:`Hamid Alaei Varnosfaderani <halaei>`)
* vorbis: Improved error messages when validating keys/values
  :pr:`356` (:user:`Michael Booth <MJuddBooth>`)
* Fix pylint warnings when using the various ``save()`` methods :pr:`364`


.. _release-1.41.1:

1.41.1 - 2018-08-11
-------------------

* MP4: fix rtng, stik, shwm getting saved as 16bit ints instead of 8bit :bug:`349`


.. _release-1.41.0:

1.41.0 - 2018-07-15
-------------------

* Documentation fixes :pr:`342` (:user:`Jakub Wilk <jwilk>`)
* mid3v2: Add support for WXXX frames :bug:`344` :bug:`348`
* Fix decoding of track_peak from MP3 Info Tag :pr:`345`
  (:user:`Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin>`)
* MonkeysAudio: set bits_per_sample for older files :bug:`347`


.. _release-1.40.0:

1.40.0 - 2018-01-25
-------------------

* APEv2: Ensures tags are saved in a deterministic way :pr:`329`
  (:user:`cushy007`)
* Restore WinXP support for the CLI tools :bug:`332`
* easymp4: Fix EasyMP4.add_tags() when no tags exist :bug:`334`
* id3: Fix PyCharm not being able to resolve id3 frame class references
  :bug:`336`
* Support pathlib.Path objects for paths (PEP 519) :bug:`337` :pr:`338`
  (:user:`Andrew Rabert <nvllsvm>`)
* Use semver for versioning


1.39 - 2017-11-05
-----------------

* Tests:

  * Require `hypothesis <https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io>`__
  * Run pycodestyle/pyflakes tests by default. Skip with ``--no-quality`` or
    ``-m no quality`` when using pytest directly.

* Python 3.3 is no longer supported
* MP3: Improved bitrate accuracy for files with XING header :bug:`328`
  (thanks :user:`Michaël Defferrard <mdeff>`)
* ASF: Fix case where some tags resulted in broken ASFUnicodeAttribute
  instances :bug:`324`
* Add support for filesystems which don't support opening files read/write
  (gvfs over fuse for example) :bug:`300`
* mid3v2: Add support for USLT :bug:`306`
* Minor improvements by :user:`Borewit` and
  :user:`Evan Purkhiser <EvanPurkhiser>`


1.38 - 2017-06-01
-----------------

* Note: New release tarballs are now hosted on github:
  https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen/releases
* ID3:

  * Add iTunes grouping frame `id3.GRP1` :bug:`304`
  * Fix exposing text frames where the text can't be encoded with the
    reported encoding due to merging of frames :bug:`307`

* OGG: Fix wrong StreamInfo.length (small negative value) for all
  ogg based formats in rare cases. :bug:`308`


1.37 - 2017.02.24
-----------------

* Relicense "GPLv2" → "GPLv2 or later" :bug:`291`
* DSF: add `mutagen.dsf` module for DSF (DSD Stream File) support
  :pr:`283` (Boris Pruessmann)
* MP3: Add `mp3.MPEGInfo.encoder_settings` containing a guess of the encoder
  settings used, for example ``"-V2"`` for LAME :bug:`66`
* ID3: add iTunes movement related frames `id3.MVIN` and `id3.MVNM`
* MP4: support ``©mvi``, ``©mvc``, ``shwm``, ``stik``, ``rtng``, ``tves``,
  ``tvsn``, ``plID``, ``cnID``, ``geID``, ``atID``, ``sfID``, ``cmID``,
  ``akID`` :bug:`130`


1.36.3 - 2017.02.24
-------------------

* MP3: fix error with xing frames without a frame count :bug:`292`


1.36.2 - 2017.01.25
-------------------

* ID3: Always write little endian utf-16 with BOM.
  Fixes tests on big endian machines :pr:`289`


1.36.1 - 2017.01.22
-------------------

* Support GAE runtime :bug:`286`
* FLAC: Fix crash when loading files with zero samples :bug:`287`
* MP3: Handle broken lame tags written by older lame versions


1.36 - 2016.12.22
-----------------

* ID3: Ignore trailing empty values for v2.3 text frames :bug:`276`
* ID3: Write large APIC frames last :bug:`278`
* EasyID3: support saving as v2.3 :bug:`188`
* FLAC: Add StreamInfo.bitrate :bug:`279`
* mid3cp: Add ``--merge`` option :bug:`277`
* MP4: Allow loading files without audio tracks :bug:`272`


1.35.1 - 2016.11.09
-------------------

* Revert back to distutils :bug:`273`


1.35 - 2016.11.02
-----------------

* Tests: Require pytest
* Tools: Install .exe launchers on Windows
* setup.py: Require setuptools
* ID3:

  * Fix loading files with CRM frames :bug:`239`
  * Fix loading AENC, LINK, GRID frames with no payload
  * Merge duplicate text frames with same key on load :bug:`172`
  * Allow parsing of duplicate APIC frames :bug:`172`
  * Parse utf-16 text fields with missing BOM :bug:`267`
  * Increase max resyncs for the mpeg frame search :bug:`268`


1.34.1 - 2016.08.13
-------------------

* ID3: Expose some internals again to make Picard (mostly) work again.

  * http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/PICARD-833
  * https://github.com/metabrainz/picard/pull/479


1.34 - 2016.07.20
-----------------

* ID3:

  * Add `CTOC <id3.CTOC>` and `CHAP <id3.CHAP>` frames. New classes:
    `ID3Tags <id3.ID3Tags>`, `CTOCFlags <id3.CTOCFlags>`. :bug:`6`
  * Add `TCAT <id3.TCAT>`, `TKWD <id3.TKWD>`, `PCST <id3.PCST>` frames.
    :bug:`249`
  * Validate user provided LNK/LINK frameid. :bug:`242`
  * Add `RVAD <id3.RVAD>`, RVA frames
  * Add TST, TSA, TS2, TSP and TSC frames
  * Fix not writing optional fields when saving to v2.3
  * Add default field values for all frames

* Drop Python 2.6 support
* EasyID3: Fix TXXX frame encoding when setting a non-latin1 encodable
  value after a latin1 one. :bug:`263`


1.33.2 - 2016.07.05
-------------------

* Fix loading of small ogg/apev2 files (1.33 regression)


1.33.1 - 2016.06.29
-------------------

* Fix Overeager deprecation warnings :bug:`261`


1.33 - 2016.06.29
-----------------

* FileType, Metadata: File-like object support :bug:`1`
* mid3v2: Add APIC support. :bug:`47`
* EasyID3: Fix handling of RVA2 frames with non-lowercase description
  :bug:`215`
* mid3v2: Add UFID support. :bug:`234`
* ID3: Include human-readable representation of the picture type in
  APIC._pprint() :bug:`244`
* EasyID3: make albumartist use TPE2 and move performer to TXXX. :bug:`252`
* ID3: id3.ID3TimeStamp comparator: check type :pr:`260`
  (Fabian Peter Hammerle)
* setup.py: follow PEP440 for the development version
* FileType/Metadata.load/save/delete no longer raise IOError or IOError
  subclasses. They only raise subclasses of MutagenError.


1.32 - 2016.05.02
-----------------

* Add basic SMF (Standard MIDI File) support (:mod:`mutagen.smf`)
* FLAC: add ``audio/flac`` mime type. :bug:`235`
* ASF: Fixed crash when object size is longer than the header and file length
  (Ben Ockmore)
* ID3: Validate attributes set after frame creation :commit:`69368c31e00`
  (:user:`Daniel Plachotich <danpla>`)
* MP4: validate values in ``__setitem__`` so things don't fail in save()
  :bug:`236`
* tests: Fix SynchronizedTextSpec test on big-endian machines :bug:`247`
  (Daniel Plachotich)
* ID3: do type checking in ``__setitem__`` :bug:`251`
* Building the documentation now requires sphinx >= 1.3
* New :class:`mutagen.Tags` base class for tags
* Moved from Bitbucket to GitHub


1.31 - 2015.09.10
-----------------

* New padding control API for flac/id3/mp4/asf/ogg/aiff and everything
  based on it, except oggflac :bug:`229`
* Mutagen will now reduce padding on save if there is lots of it.
* delete() will remove padding in addition to tags.

* ASF:

  * Padding support :bug:`201`
  * Don't report negative lengths for some broken files
  * New :class:`asf.ASFInfo`.codec_type/codec_name/codec_description
  * Implement ASF.delete()

* OGG: Padding support for Opus/Vorbis/Theora/Speex
* M4A: Implementation removed. Every operation will raise. Use mp4 instead.
* Tools: Support Unicode output under Windows :bug:`232`


1.30 - 2015.08.22
-----------------

* FLAC:

  * Fix :meth:`flac.FLAC.save` in case the source contained a too large
    (invalid but recovered) image block :bug:`226`

* MP3:

  * Improved length and bitrate accuracy:

    * Read lame "Info" tags for improved bitrate/length accuracy
    * Use bytes info of VBRI headers for improved bitrate accuracy
    * Subtract encoder delay/padding from length for improved length accuracy
      (especially for short tracks)
    * Fix rare false identification of Xing headers :bug:`182`

  * New :class:`mp3.MPEGInfo`.encoder_info attribute containing the encoder
    name and version :bug:`66`
  * New :class:`mp3.MPEGInfo`.bitrate_mode attribute exposing if the file is
    VBR, ABR or CBR :bug:`24` :bug:`66`
  * New :class:`mp3.MPEGInfo`.channels attribute providing the channel count
  * New :class:`mp3.MPEGInfo`.track_gain/track_peak/album_gain values exposing
    the replaygain info provided by the lame header :bug:`36`

* ID3:

  * New :class:`id3.PictureType` enum for the picture type used in APIC frames :bug:`222`

* MP4:

  * Fix MP4FreeForm.__eq__ and MP4Cover.__eq__ when comparing with bytes
    :bug:`218`

* Don't raise on :meth:`FileType.save` if there are no tags. :bug:`227`
* Minor fixes: :bug:`228`


1.29 - 2015.05.09
-----------------

* mid3v2: Fix an error under Python 3 with files without tags :bug:`219`
* mid3v2: Various Windows+Python2+Unicode fixes :bug:`214`
* Don't emit warnings during loading (ID3Warning) :bug:`223`
* py.test support


1.28 - 2015.03.06
-----------------

* Various minor fixes to make mutagen behave the same under Python3 as under
  Python2.
* Update gpl text :bug:`205`
* Documentation: Add example for how to create a new flac.Picture :bug:`209`

* ID3:

  * Various error handling fixes (:bug:`110`, :bug:`211`, ...)
  * Don't hide ID3 loading errors with ID3FileType.
  * In case a synch safe marked frame isn't sync safe, only warn :bug:`210`
  * Removed PEDANTIC mode

* Tools:

  * Add signal handling :bug:`170`
  * mid3cp: Make it work under Windows.
  * mutagen-inspect: Make it work under Windows+Python3 :bug:`216`
  * Support unicode file paths under Windows+Python2 :bug:`214`
  * Support file paths with invalid encoding under Unix+Python3.


1.27 - 2014.11.28
-----------------

* MP4:

  * New ``MP4Info.codec`` for identifying the contained audio codec
    e.g. ``"mp4a"``, ``"alac"``, ``"mp4a.40.2"``, ``"ac-3"`` etc.
    :commit:`b2f22b81c77`
  * New ``MP4Info.codec_description``: name of the audio codec
    e.g. ``"ALAC"``, ``"AAC LC"``, ``"AC-3"``

* OggOpus:

  * Preserve data after vorbis comment (
    See https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-codec-oggopus-05#section-5.2)
    :bug:`202`

* AAC:

  * New AAC FileType. Supports loading ADTS/ADIF AAC files. :bug:`15`


1.26 - 2014.11.10
-----------------

* MP4:

  * Parse channels/sample_rate/bits_per_sample/bitrate for ALAC files
    :bug:`199` :commit:`192cfcaf14` (Adrian Sampson, Christoph Reiter)

* ASF:

  * Support writing multiple values for
    Author/Title/Copyright/Description/Rating :bug:`151`
  * Fix read order for multi value tags
  * Various Python3 fixes

* EasyID3: Add more tag mappings :bug:`136` (Ben Ockmore)

* MPC/SV8: Fix parsing of SH packets with padding :bug:`198`

* docs:

  * New logo :commit:`b728fa75` (:user:`Samuel Messner <obskyr>`)
  * Add examples for handling cover art in vorbiscomment :bug:`200`
  * Add examples for id3v2.3


1.25.1 - 2014.10.13
-------------------

* ID3: Fix parsing of some files with Python 3 :bug:`194`


1.25 - 2014.10.03
-----------------

* Python 3 support (Ben Ockmore et al) :bug:`27`
  Supported: Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 (CPython and PyPy)
* All custom exceptions now have a common mutagen.MutagenError base class
* mutagen.File: prefer theora over vorbis/flac streams in ogg :bug:`184`
* New mid3cp script for copying id3 tags :bug:`178`
  (Marcus Sundman, Ben Ockmore)

* ID3:

  * Parse 2.3/4 frames with 2.2 names :bug:`177`
  * Try to detect apev2 tags when looking for id3v1 tags :bug:`122`
  * New id3.Encoding, id3.ID3v1SaveOptions enums :bug:`190`

* ASF:

  * Raise a proper exception on invalid utf-16 :bug:`127`

* APEv2:

  * Fix UnicodeDecodeError during parsing :bug:`174`

* MP4:

  * Fix struct.error exception during parsing :bug:`119`
  * New AtomDataType enum for MP4FreeForm.dataformat values
  * Read some previously ignored purl/egit atoms
  * Read multi value reverse DNS tags written by foobar2000
  * Read multi value atoms written by MusicBee :bug:`165`
  * Write back unknown atoms and ones that failed to parse.


1.24 - 2014.08.13
-----------------

* Moved to Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/lazka/mutagen
* ID3:

  * Parse utf-16 text frames with wrong termination :bug:`169`
  * Fix parsing of utf-16 SYLT frames :bug:`173`

* WavPack:

  * Fix length calculation if sample count is missing in the header :bug:`180`

* setup.py: Don't install leftover files produced by the test suite :bug:`179`
* tests: Fix error with POSIX locale :bug:`181`

1.23 - 2014.05.14
-----------------

* tools: Don't crash in misconfigured envs, fall back to utf-8.
* mp3: Return correct mimetype for MP2 files. :bug:`163`
* id3: deterministic sorting of frames. :bug:`166`
* AIFF support :bug:`146` (Evan Purkhiser)

1.22 - 2013.09.08
-----------------

* Minimum required Python version is now 2.6
* Online API reference at https://mutagen.readthedocs.org/
* EasyID3:

  * Fix crash with empty TXXX values. :bug:`135`

* ID3:

  * id3v2.3 writing support :bug:`85`
  * Add iTunes podcast frames (TGID, TDES, WFED) :bug:`141`
  * Updated id3v1 genre list

* MP4:

  * add_tags() will not replace existing tags. :bug:`101`
  * Don't ignore tags if parsing unknown atoms fails.
  * Raise on invalid 64bit atom size :bug:`132` (Sidnei da Silva)

* APEv2:

  * Handle invalid tag item count. :bug:`145` (Dawid Zamirski)

* Ogg:

  * Faster parsing of files with large packets.

* VComment:

  * Preserve text case for field names added through the dict interface
    :bug:`152`

* mid3v2:

  * New -e,--escape switch to enable interpretation of escape sequences and
    makes escaping of the colon separator possible. :bug:`159`

* mid3iconv:

  * Convert COMM frames :bug:`128`

1.21 - 2013.01.30
-----------------

* Fix Python 2.3 compatibility (broken in 1.19).
* Fix many warnings triggered by -3. :bug:`27`
* mid3v2:

  * Add --TXXX support. :bug:`62` (Tim Phipps)
  * Add --POPM support. :bug:`71`
  * Allow setting multiple COMM or TXXX frames with one command line.

* FLAC:

  * Try to handle corrupt Vorbis comment block sizes. :bug:`52`
  * Try to handle corrupt Picture block sizes :bug:`106` (Christoph Reiter)
  * Don't leak file handle with PyPy :bug:`111` (Marien Zwart)

* ID3:

  * MakeID3v1: Do not generate bad tags when given short dates. :bug:`69`
  * ParseID3v1: Parse short (< 128 byte) tags generated by old Mutagen
    implementations of MakeID3v1, and tags with garbage on the front.
  * pprint: Sort frames by name.
  * Upgrade unknown 2.3 frames :bug:`97` (Christoph Reiter)
  * Fix handling of invalid SYLT frames :bug:`105` (Christoph Reiter)

* MP3:

  * Fix error when loading extremely small MP3s. :bug:`72`
  * Fix rounding error in CBR length calculation :bug:`93` (Christoph Reiter)

* Use 'open' rather than 'file' everywhere. :bug:`74` (Dan Callahan)
* mid3iconv:

  * Accurately copy QL-style frame encoding behavior. :bug:`75`
  * Skip unopenable files. :bug:`79`

* ID3FileType:

  * Remember which tag type load() was called with even if the file
    doesn't yet have any ID3 tags. :bug:`89`

* VComment:

  * Prevent MemoryError when parsing invalid header :bug:`112`
    (Jyrki Pulliainen)

* ASF:

  * Don't corrupt files on the second save() call :bug:`81` (Christoph Reiter)
  * Always store GUID objects in the MetadataLibraryBlock :bug:`81`

* OggTheora: Fix length/bitrate calculation. :bug:`99` (Christoph Reiter)
* MP4:

  * Less strict MP4 covr atom parsing. :bug:`86` (Lukáš Lalinský)
  * Support atoms that extend to the end of the file. :bug:`109`
    (Sidnei da Silva)
  * Preserve freeform format flags :bug:`103` (Christoph Reiter)

* OggOpus support. :bug:`115` (Christoph Reiter)
* Musepack:

  * Fix SV7 bitrate calculation :bug:`7` (Christoph Reiter)
  * Support SV8 :bug:`7` (Christoph Reiter)

1.20 - 2010.08.04
-----------------

* ASF: Don't store blocks over 64K in the MetadataObject block;
  use the MetadataLibraryBlock instead. :bug:`60` (Lukáš Lalinský)
* ID3: Faster parsing of files with lots of padding. :bug:`65`
  (Christoph Reiter)
* FLAC: Correct check for audio data start. :bug:`67`

1.19 - 2010.02.18
-----------------

* ID3:

  * POPM: 'count' is optional; the attribute may not exist. :bug:`33`
  * TimeStampTextFrame: Fix a TypeError in unicode comparisons. :bug:`43`
  * MakeID3v1: Translate TYER into ID3v1 year if TDRC is not present. :bug:`42`

* mid3v2:

  * Allow --delete followed by --frame, and --genre 1 --genre 2. :bug:`37`
  * Add --quiet and --verbose flags. :bug:`40`

* moggsplit: --m3u option to write an M3U playlist of the new files. :bug:`39`
* mid3iconv: Fix crash when processing TCML or TIPL frames. :bug:`41`
* VCommentDict: Correctly normalize key names for .keys() iterator. :bug:`45`
* MP3: Correct length calculation for MPEG-2 files. :bug:`46`
* oggflac: Fix typo in docstring. :bug:`53`
* EasyID3: Force UTF-8 encoding. :bug:`54`
* EasyMP4: Fix 'genre' translation. :bug:`56`

1.18 - 2009.10.22
-----------------

* ASF:

  * Distinguish between empty and absent tag values in
    ContentDescriptionObjects. :bug:`29`

* mid3iconv:

  * Fix a crash when processing empty (invalid) text frames.

* MAJOR API INCOMPATIBILITY!!!!

  * EasyID3FileType is now in mutagen.easyid3, not mutagen.id3. This
    change was necessary to restore API compatibility with 1.16, as
    1.17 accidentally contained a circular import preventing
    mutagen.easyid3 from importing by itself. :bug:`32`

1.17 - 2009.10.07
-----------------

* ID3:

  * Support for the iTunes non-standard TSO2 and TSOC frames.
  * Attempt to recover from bad SYLT frames. :bug:`2`
  * Attempt to recover from faulty extended header flags. :bug:`4` :bug:`21`
  * Fix a bug in ID3v2.4 footer flag detection, :bug:`5`

* MP4:

  * Don't fail or double-encode UTF-8 strings when given a str.
  * Don't corrupt 64 bit atom sizes when resizing atoms. :bug:`17`

* EasyID3:

  * Extension API for defining new "easy" tags at runtime.
  * Support for many, many more tags.

* OggVorbis, OggSpeex: Handle bitrates below 0 as per the spec. :bug:`30`
* EasyMP4: Like EasyID3, but for iTunes MPEG-4 files.
* mutagen.File: New 'easy=True' argument to create new EasyMP3, EasyMP4,
  EasyTrueAudio, and EasyID3FileType instances.

1.16 - 2009.06.15
-----------------

* Website / code repository move.
* Bug Fixes:

  * EasyID3: Invalid keys now raise KeyError (and ValueError).
  * mutagen.File: .flac files with an ID3 tag will be opened as FLAC.

* MAJOR API INCOMPATIBILITY!!!!

  * Python 2.6 has required us to rename the .format attribute of M4A/MP4
    cover atoms, because it conflicts with the new str.format method.
    It has been renamed .imageformat.

1.15 - 2008.12.01
-----------------

* Bug Fixes:

  * mutagen.File: Import order no longer affects what type is returned.
  * mutagen.id3: Compression of frames is now disabled.
  * mutagen.flac.StreamInfo: Fix channel mask (support channels > 2). :bug:`35`
  * mutagen.mp3: Ignore Xing headers if they are obviously wrong.

1.14 - 2008.05.31
-----------------

* Bug Fixes:

  * MP4/M4A: Fixed saving of atoms with 64-bit size on 64-bit platforms.
  * MP4: Conversion of 'gnre' atoms to '\xa9gen' text atoms now correctly
    produces a list of string values, not just a single value.
  * ID3: Broken RVA2 frames are now discarded. (Vladislav Naumov)
  * ID3: Use long integers when appropriate.
  * VCommentDict: Raise UnicodeEncodeErrors when trying to use a Unicode
    key that is not valid ASCII; keys are also normalized to ASCII
    str objects. (Forest Bond)

* Tests:
  * FLAC: Use 2**64 instead of 2**32 to test overflow behavior.

1.13 - 2007.12.03
-----------------

* Bug Fixes:

  * FLAC: Raise IOError, instead of UnboundLocalError, when trying
    to open a non-existent file. (Lukáš Lalinský, Debian #448734)
  * Throw out invalid frames when upgrading from 2.3 to 2.4.
  * Fixed reading of Unicode strings from ASF files on big-endian
    platforms.

* TCP/TCMP support. (Debian #452231)
* Faster implementation of file-writing when mmap fails, and
  exclusive advisory locking when available.
* Test cases to ensure Mutagen is not vulnerable to CVE-2007-4619.
  It is not now, nor was it ever.
* Use VBRI header to calculate length of VBR MP3 files if the Xing
  header is not found.

1.12 - 2007.08.04
-----------------

* Write important ID3v2 frames near the start. (Lukáš Lalinský)
* Clean up distutils functions.

1.11 - 2007.04.26
-----------------

* New Features:

  * mid3v2 can now set URL frames. (Vladislav Naumov)
  * Musepack: Skip ID3v2 tags. (Lukáš Lalinský)

* Bug Fixes:

  * mid3iconv: Skip all timestamp frames. (Lukáš Lalinský)
  * WavPack: More accurate length calculation. ('ak')
  * PairedTextFrame: Fix typo in documentation. (Lukáš Lalinský)
  * ID3: Fixed incorrect TDAT conversion. The format is DDMM, not
    MMDD. (Lukáš Lalinský)

* API:

  * Metadata no longer inherits from dict.
  * Relatedly, the MRO has changed on several types.
  * More documentation for MP4 atoms. (Lukáš Lalinský)
  * Prefer MP3 for files with unknown extensions and ID3 tags.

1.10.1 - 2007.01.23
-------------------

* Bug Fixes:

  * Documentation mentions ASF support.
  * APEv2 flags and valid keys are fixed.
  * Tests pass on Python 2.3 again.

1.10 - 2007.01.21
-----------------

* New Features:

  * FLAC: Skip ID3 tags. Added option to delete them on save.
  * EncodedTextSpec: Make private members more private.
  * Corrupted Oggs generated by GStreamer (e.g. Sound Juicer) can be read.
  * FileTypes have a .mime attribute which is a list of likely MIME types
    for the file.
  * ASF (WMA/WMV) support.

* Bug Fixes:

  * ID3: Fixed reading of v2.3 tags with unsynchronized data.
  * ID3: The data length indicator for compressed tags is written
    as a synch-safe integer.

1.9 - 2006.12.09
----------------

* New Features:

  * OptimFROG support.
  * New mutagen.mp4 module with support for multiple data fields per atom
    and more compatible tag saving implementation.
  * Support for embedded pictures in FLAC files (new in FLAC 1.1.3).

* mutagen.m4a is deprecated in favor of mutagen.mp4.

1.8 - 2006.10.02
----------------

* New Features:

  * MonkeysAudio support. (#851, Lukáš Lalinský)
  * APEv2 support on Python 2.5; see API-NOTES. (#852)

1.7.1 - 2006.09.24
------------------

* Bug Fixes:

  * Expose full ID3 tag size as .size. (#848)

* New Features:

  * Musepack Replay Gain data is available in SV7 files.

1.7 - 2006.09.15
----------------

* Bug Fixes:

  * Trying to save an empty tag deletes it. (#813)
  * The semi-public API removal mentioned in 1.6's API-NOTES happened.
  * Stricter frame ID validation. (#830, Lukáš Lalinský)
  * Use os.path.devnull on Win32/Mac OS X. (#831, Lukáš Lalinský)

* New Features:

  * FLAC cuesheet and seektable support. (#791, Nuutti Kotivuori)
  * Kwargs can be passed to ID3 constructors. (#824, Lukáš Lalinský)
  * mutagen.musepack: Read/tag Musepack files. (#825, Lukáš Lalinský)

* Tools:

  * mutagen-inspect responds immediately to keyboard interrupts.

1.6 - 2006.08.09
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* Bug Fixes:

  * IOError rather than NameError is raised when File succeeds in
    typefinding but fails in stream parsing.
  * errors= kwarg is correctly interpreted for FLAC tags now.
  * Handle struct.pack API change in Python 2.5b2. (SF #1530559)
  * Metadata 'load' methods always reset in-memory tags.
  * Metadata 'delete' methods always clear in-memory tags.

* New Features:

  * Vorbis comment vendor strings include the Mutagen version.
  * mutagen.id3: Read ASPI, ETCO, SYTC, MLLT, EQU2, and LINK frames.
  * mutagen.m4a: Read/tag MPEG-4 AAC audio files with iTunes tags. (#681)
  * mutagen.oggspeex: Read/tag Ogg Speex files.
  * mutagen.trueaudio: Read/tag True Audio files.
  * mutagen.wavpack: Read/tag WavPack files.

* Tools:

  * mid3v2: --delete-frames. (#635)

1.5.1 - 2006.06.26
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* Bug Fixes:

  * Handle ENODEV from mmap (e.g. on fuse+sshfs).
  * Reduce test rerun time.

1.5 - 2006.06.20
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* Bug Fixes:

  * APEv2

    * Invalid Lyrics3v2 tags are ignored/overwritten.
    * Binary values are autodetected as documented.

  * OggVorbis, OggFLAC:

    * Write when the setup packet spans multiple pages.
    * Zero granule position for header packets.

* New Features:

  * mutagen.oggtheora: Read/tag Ogg Theora files.
  * Test Ogg formats with ogginfo, if present.

1.4 - 2006.06.03
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* Bug Fixes:

  * EasyID3: Fix tag["key"] = "string" handler. (#693)
  * APEv2:

    * Skip Lyrics3v2 tags. (Miguel Angel Alvarez)
    * Avoid infinite loop on malformed tags at the start of the file.

  * Proper ANSI semantics for file positioning. (#707)

* New Features:

  * VComment: Handle malformed Vorbis comments when errors='ignore' or
    errors='replace' is passed to VComment.load.
    (Bastian Kleineidam, #696)
  * Test running is now controlled through setup.py (./setup.py test).
  * Test coverage data can be generated (./setup.py coverage).
  * Considerably more test coverage.

1.3 - 2006.05.29
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* New Features:

  * mutagen.File: Automatic file type detection.
  * mutagen.ogg: Generic Ogg stream parsing. (#612)
  * mutagen.oggflac: Read/tag Ogg FLAC files.
  * mutagen.oggvorbis no longer depends on pyvorbis.
  * ID3: SYLT support. (#672)

1.2 - 2006.04.23
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* Bug Fixes:

  * MP3: Load files with zeroed Xing headers. (#626)
  * ID3: Upgrade ID3v2.2 PIC tags to ID3v2.4 APIC tags properly.
  * Tests exit with non-zero status if any have failed.
  * Full dict protocol support for VCommentDict, FileType, and APEv2 objects.

* New features:

  * mutagen.oggvorbis gives pyvorbis a Mutagen-like API.
  * mutagen.easyid3 makes simple ID3 tag changes easier.
  * A brief TUTORIAL was added.

* Tools:

  * mid3iconv, a clone of id3iconv, was added by Emfox Zhou. (#605)

1.1 - 2006.04.04
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* ID3:

  * Frame and Spec objects are not hashable.
  * COMM, USER: Accept non-ASCII (completely invalid) language codes.
  * Enable redundant data length bit for compressed frames.

1.0 - 2006.03.13
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* mutagen.FileType, an abstract container for tags and stream information.
* MP3: A new FileType subclass for MPEG audio files.
* FLAC:

  * Add FLAC.delete.
  * Raise correct exception when saving to a non-FLAC file.
  * FLAC.vc is deprecated in favor of FLAC.tags.

* VComment (used by FLAC):

  * VComment.clear to clear all tags.
  * VComment.as_dict to return a dict of the tags.

* ID3:

  * Fix typos in PRIV._pprint, OWNE._pprint, UFID._pprint.

* mutagen-pony: Try finding lengths as well as tags.
* mutagen-inspect: Output stream information with tags.

0.9 - 2006.02.21
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* Initial release.