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Banshee 0.13.2 (January 8, 2008)

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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)

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

Release Notes

  • 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)

Bug Fixes

  • BGO #477392 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477392) BGO #451651 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451651) - Fixed issue with transcoding failing silently and never finishing (Gabriel Burt)
  • BGO #398278 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398278) - Fixed issue with ripping/transcoding with old settings (Gabriel Burt)
  • BGO #336350 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336350) BGO #402011 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402011) - Added ability to set cover art by dropping images onto Banshee's cover art views. Added abilty to drag out of Banshee too (Pepijn van de Geer)
  • BGO #479237 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479237) - Fixed crash when filtering caused by null fields (Sebastian Dröge)
  • BGO #490254 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490254) - Fixed bug with writing the Artist metadata in the wrong location, and not writing the year or genre when ripping (Gabriel Burt)
  • BGO #502628 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502628) - Fixed metadata writing for OGG
  • BGO #495981 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495981) - Fixed ripping OGG to wrong bitrates

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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!

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