CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

v0.14.1 - 2026-04-12

• Ensure tests pass with beets v2.9

v0.14.0 - 2025-11-16

• Added album_art_copy option which copies album art to alternative collections (@maxaudron)
• Added options to resize and reformat embedded or copied album art (@maxaudron)
• Require beets >= 2.1

v0.13.4 - 2025-09-13

• Promote typing-extensions to runtime dependency
• Improved disk write performance when encoding items
• You can now hook into collection updates and run your own logic using the alternatives.item_updated event.

v0.13.3 - 2025-05-12

• Add support for beets v2.3.x

v0.13.2 - 2025-02-28

• Make builds more reliable for packagers

v0.13.1 - 2024-11-17

• Resize embedded art in alternative files with albumart_maxwidth option.

v0.13.0 - 2024-08-17

• Consistently use Unicode paths to alternative items. This may result and collection updates and orphaned files in alternatives. It may also improve usability on non-standard file systems (see #74).
• Require Python >= 3.10

v0.12.0 - 2024-06-25

• Fix an issue where items in a symlink collection with relative links were always unnecessarily updated.
• Support Beets v2

v0.11.1 - 2024-04-24

• Add --all flag to update command which will update all configured collections.

v0.11.0 - 2023-06-06

• Use the convert’s plugin thread configuration when transcoding files. (@johnyerhot)
• Drop support for Python 2. Require Python >= 3.8
• Require beets >= 1.6.0

v0.10.2 - 2020-07-15

• Add beet alt list-tracks command
• SymlinkView: Fix stale symlinks not being removed when files are moved in the main library #47

v0.10.1 - 2019-09-18

• Running beet completion does not crash anymore #38

v0.10.0 - 2019-08-25

• Symlink views now support relative symlinks (@daviddavo)
• Running just beet alt does not throw an error anymore (@daviddavo)

v0.9.0 - 2018-11-24

• The package is now on PyPI
• Require at least beets v1.4.7
• Update album art in alternatives when it changes
• Python 3 support (Python 2.7 continuous to be supported)
• Support the format aliases defined by the convert plugin ('wma' and 'vorbis' with current beets)
• Bugfix: Explicitly write tags after encoding instead of relying on the encoder to do so
• Bugfix: If the formats config option is modified, don't move files if the extension would change, but re-encode

v0.8.2 - 2015-05-31

• Fix a bug that made the plugin crash when reading unicode strings from the configuration

v0.8.1 - 2015-05-30

• Require beets v1.3.13 and drop support for all older versions.
• Embed cover art when converting items

v0.8.0 - 2015-04-14

First proper release