0.21.0 Drop Python 3.8, improve artist, title parsing, add optional comments truncation

0.21.0 2024-12-14

Removed

• Remove support for Python 3.8.

Added

• artists: split artists properly, both for tracks and albums.

• comments: Add a new configuration option truncate_comments which handles very long
  release descriptions that may crash MPD.

Fixed

• album:

  • Remove string free download from the album name.

• mediums:

  • Fix incorrect mediums count.

• title:

  • Fix formatting of titles where remix is delimited by a dash or an em-dash.
  • For some releases, handle track names where artist and title may be provided in
    reverse order.
  • Address an issue where track names containing - inside parentheses get
    wrongly split into artist and title.
  • Stop stripping dashes from the beginning of track titles.

• year / month / day:

  • Take the timezone into account for the parsed release date.

Updated

• album:

  • Clean up/remove artist such as Various.
  • Only remove artists and label if they are clearly separated out in the album name.
  • Detect artists that may be separated with commas in the album, but with an ampersand
    in the artist field, and vice versa.
  • Remove the original albumartist unless that's the label name.
  • Remove w/ Some Remix reliably.

• artist:

  • Ensure that artists are properly separated when a comma is present in the field.
  • Try to keep artists in the same format as they were found on the release.
  • Extract lead artists from track titles and use them in the albumartist field.
  • Ignore instagram handles in the description.
  • Do not remove the featuring artist unless they are present in one of the track titles.
  • If there is a single albumartist in the release and it's one of the track artists,
    just use it and ignore the rest of track artists.
  • Deduplicate remix artists in the track artist field.

• catalognum:

  • Prevent matches followed by lowercase ep, lp and va.
  • Prevent matches based on label name preceded by of.

• comment:

  • Do not include media description if it duplicates the release description.

• title:

  • Reformat titles such as "Title" by Artist to Artist - Title.
  • Do not move remixes to the end of the title.
  • Remove the need to parenthesize remixes and handle original titles as they are.

Some examples of the updates: