=============================================================================== WELCOME TO BANSHEE 0.13.2 =============================================================================== * Banshee is a music management and playback application for GNOME. "Import, organize, play, and share your music using Banshee's simple, powerful interface. Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, and burn audio CDs. Most portable music devices are supported. Banshee also has support for podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, and much more." * Learn More: http://banshee-project.org/Discover * Release Overview Page: http://banshee-project.org/Releases/0.13.2 =============================================================================== TABLE OF CONTENTS =============================================================================== * Welcome * Module Notes * Get The Goods - Sources - ChangeLogs - Dependencies * New Stuff - Features - Localization * Bugzilla Overview - Noteworthy bugs fixes/enhancements embraced in this release - Show all bugs marked FIXED during this release cycle - File Bugs... Be Proactive... Contribute to Free Software! * Miscellaneous - Contributors for this release - Contributors for past releases - Thanks! =============================================================================== MODULE NOTES =============================================================================== * Mono.Zeroconf (0.7.2) is now required by the DAAP plugin; avahi/mdns are not at compile time, though at least one is required at runtime. * Podsleuth (0.6.1) and ipod-sharp (0.8.0) are required for iPod support. * libmtp (0.2.1) is required for MTP support (experimental) * The location of the user configuration directory for Banshee changed from ~/.gnome2/banshee to and XDG based directory, typically ~/.config/banshee * The banshee-official-plugins module has been merged with core, so banshee-official-plugins is now obsolete * Helix support has been removed from core and is now available from the Helix Banshee community project. More information regarding Helix support can be found at: http://helix-banshee.helixcommunity.org =============================================================================== GET THE GOODS =============================================================================== Sources ------- * Banshee 0.13.2 Tarballs: http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.13.2.tar.bz2 http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.13.2.tar.gz * ipod-sharp 0.8.0 Tarballs: http://banshee-project.org/files/ipod-sharp/ipod-sharp-0.8.0.tar.bz2 http://banshee-project.org/files/ipod-sharp/ipod-sharp-0.8.0.tar.gz * podsleuth 0.6.2 Tarballs: http://banshee-project.org/files/podsleuth/podsleuth-0.6.1.tar.bz2 http://banshee-project.org/files/podsleuth/podsleuth-0.6.1.tar.gz * Mono.Zeroconf 0.7.3 Tarballs: http://banshee-project.org/files/mono-zeroconf/mono-zeroconf-0.7.3.tar.bz2 http://banshee-project.org/files/mono-zeroconf/mono-zeroconf-0.7.3.tar.gz ChangeLogs ---------- * http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.13.2.changes Dependencies ------------ * Mono 1.2.x and full stack * gtk-sharp-2.0 2.8 or 2.10 * GStreamer 0.10.3 or better (0.10.12+ Recommended) * sqlite3 * libmusicbrainz 2.1.1 or better * libnautilus-burn 2.12 or better * GTK+ 2.8 or better * HAL 0.5.2 or better (0.5.6+ Recommended) =============================================================================== NEW STUFF =============================================================================== Features -------- * Support for new iPod Nano and Classic models (Aaron Bockover, James Willcox) * New Last.fm radio plugin supporting streaming from Last.fm and creating stations based on a number of metrics. (Gabriel Burt) * MTP support (experimental, pass --enable-mtp to configure) through libmtp; we do not recommend distributions package MTP support at this time as it is not fully tested nor stable (Alan McGovern) * Skip song button in the notification popup (Aaron Bockover, Jackson Harper) =============================================================================== BUGZILLA OVERVIEW =============================================================================== Noteworthy bugs fixes/enhancements embraced in this release ----------------------------------------------------------- GNOME Bugzilla * 477392 - Fixed issue with transcoding failing silently and never finishing 451651 (Gabriel Burt) * 398278 - Fixed issue with ripping/transcoding with old settings (Gabriel Burt) * 336350 - Added ability to set cover art by dropping images onto Banshee's 402011 cover art views. Added abilty to drag out of Banshee too (Pepijn van de Geer) * 479237 - Fixed crash when filtering caused by null fields (Sebastian Dröge) * 490254 - Fixed bug with writing the Artist metadata in the wrong location, and not writing the year or genre when ripping (Gabriel Burt) * 502628 - Fixed metadata writing for OGG * 495981 - Fixed ripping OGG to wrong bitrates Show all bugs marked FIXED during this release cycle ---------------------------------------------------- * http://banshee-project.org/files/closedbugs.php/2007-08-20,2008-01-09 File Bugs... Be Proactive... Contribute to Open Source! ------------------------------------------------------- * Please do not hesitate to file bugs against Banshee in GNOME Bugzilla. * http://bugzilla.gnome.org, component: banshee * Banshee Community Forums: http://banshee-project.org/forums * Discuss Banshee on the mailing list or in #banshee on irc.gnome.org. * Lots of information on the Banshee Wiki: http://banshee-project.org * Need to debug Banshee? http://banshee-project.org/Debugging =============================================================================== MISCELLANEOUS =============================================================================== Contributors for this release ----------------------------- Community makes Open Source work! Aaron Bockover, Alan McGovern, Gabriel Burt, Jackson Harper, James Willcox, Michael Monreal, Mike Urbanski Sebastian Dröge, Stephane Loeuillet, Wade Menard Contributors for past releases [1] ---------------------------------- Aaron Bockover, Alexandros Frantzis, Alp Toker, Bertrand Lorentz, Bill Dawson, Bob Copeland, Bojan Rajkovic, Brian Nickel, Chris Turchin, Christian Krause, Christopher James Halse Rogers, Dan Wilson, Daniel Munkton, Eric Butler, Gabriel Burt, Igor Guerrero Fonseca, Ilya Konstantinov, Jakub Steiner, James Willcox, Jan Arne Petersen, Jason Conti, Juri Pakaste, Lauri Kotilainen, Michael Monreal, Mike Urbanski, Nathan Palmer, Patrick van Staveren, Pepijn van de Geer, Ruben Vermeersch, Sebastian Dröge, Scott Peterson, Tim Yamin, Trey Ethridge [1] This list is actually only accurate since 0.11.3. I need to grep the ChangeLog to build a complete list. If your name is missing here, feel free to let us know, or just wait for it to appear in a later release. Thanks! ------- Enjoy the release! We appreciate your support and involvement!