Banshee 1.0 Beta 1 (0.99.1)

  • Release Date: May 6, 2008
  • Source Tarball: banshee-1-0.99.1.tar.bz2 (http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-1-0.99.1.tar.bz2)
  • Release Information: NEWS (http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-1-0.99.1.news), sha1sum (http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-1-0.99.1.sha1sum), ChangeLog (http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-1-0.99.1.changes)

  • openSUSE 10.3
1click-install-button.png (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Banshee:/Preview/openSUSE_10.3/banshee.ymp)
  • Foresight 2.0
Install banshee-1 from PackageKit, or in a terminal type, sudo conary update banshee-1
  • Ubuntu
See the Banshee PPA (https://edge.launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive).
  • Fedora
Install via yum: yum install banshee More information here (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1368).

New Features

MTP and iPod Player Support

Banshee Beta 1 marks the return of MTP and iPod device support. You can drag songs and videos from your library to your device, and they are synced immediately. Yes, you read that right: video syncing works! Album art is working as well.

If necessary, your music will automatically, on-the-fly be converted to a format your player supports. You can pick what format and quality to convert to in your device's Properties.
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Support for playlists and podcasts on devices is not yet complete. Look for it soon.

Smart by Default

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New users (and users who currently have no smart playlists) will notice some useful, default smart playlists in Beta 1.

These default smart playlists, and other pre-defined smart playlists, can be edited and created from the New Smart Playlist dialog.

Mini mode

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The minimode extension is now available; you can enable it with the Extension Manager. Minimode is a view extension that shows Banshee with a smaller window, perfect for smaller displays, laptops, or people who prefer a small player that stays out of your way.
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'Now Playing' videos and visualizations will likely be supported by minimode in future releases.

Other Features, Bug Fixes, Errata

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  • Fullscreen video is now supported (go to Now Playing and press f or hit the Fullscreen button)
  • Extensions can be enabled and disabled in the new Mange Extensions tab within your Preferences.
  • Banshee can be scripted using Boo (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/banshee-list/2008-May/msg00000.html), a .NET scripting language
  • Improved gstreamer error handling (for missing files, codecs, etc)
  • A bug with play counts introduced in Alpha 3 has been fixed
  • Writing metadata to file is working properly now
  • Issues with the play queue should all be resolved
  • Limiting smart playlists by file size or duration works
  • Shuffle and repeat are automatically disabled while playing Last.fm
  • Over 30 bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=banshee&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&resolution=FIXED&chfield=resolution&chfieldvalue=FIXED&chfieldfrom=2008-04-11&chfieldto=2008-05-07).


Don't miss out on the feature overviews from previous releases!
See what else Banshee 1.0 Beta 1 has to offer!

Dependencies

  • Mono 1.2.2 (.NET 2.0 Profile / gmcs)
  • SQlite 3.4
  • Gtk# 2.10
  • GStreamer 0.10.3
  • NDesk DBus (ndesk-dbus) 0.5
  • NDesk DBus GLib (ndesk-dbus-glib) 0.3
  • Mono.Addins (mono-addins) 0.3.1
  • TagLib# (taglib-sharp) 2.0

Please note that for openSUSE, all of the dependencies above can be found in the openSUSE Build Service, and are linked into the Banshee:Preview project. Even if you build from source, if you wish to avoid building the entire dependency chain above, add the Banshee:Preview repository (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Banshee:/Preview/) to your repository list.

Historically, Banshee has fostered development of a number of projects and bundled their source code instead of depending on external builds. Many of these dependencies have matured and grown into well maintained projects on their own, and we are now depending on them externally. We waited to remove the bundles long enough to allow for distributions to ship packages to reduce the pain of building Banshee

Beta Release Disclaimer

This is the fourth release in the Banshee 1.0 series. This Beta 1 release does not have feature parity with previous Banshee releases (the last being Banshee 0.13.2). This means there are a number of features in this release that users may have come to know and love in Banshee that are missing for the time being.

However, although this is a Beta release, it is quite stable and has many great new features and performance improvements which will be detailed later. It has also been designed to be both installed and run in parallel with previous Banshee releases, so you can test the release out without breaking your stable Banshee setup.

Currently Missing Features

  • This release contains limited hardware support
    • No CD burning support
  • Additionally, a number of plugins have not yet been ported to the 1.0 architecture
    • Podcasting
    • DAAP/iTunes Music Sharing
    • Internet Radio
    • Recommendations
    • Batch Cover Art Fetching

Do not despair, these features will be added back before the final 1.0 release. Many features are projected to land in the Beta 2 release of Banshee 1.0. We expect releases in quick succession leading up to the final 1.0 release.

No Conflicts

This new release is not backwards compatible with previous Banshee releases, however, it will not conflict or cause any problems with any previous release you may have installed. If a Banshee library is located from a previous release, it will be copied and migrated to work with the new version.

Previously, all paths and packaging used the banshee project name. We are now using the banshee-1 project name to avoid any packaging, installation, or user-data conflicts with previous releases of Banshee. For instance, the following file/data related things have changed:

  • Packaging/Installation
    • Installation path changed from $(prefix)/lib/banshee to $(prefix)/lib/banshee-1
    • Application launcher changed from $(prefix)/bin/banshee to $(prefix)/bin/banshee-1
    • Application icon name changed from music-player-banshee to media-player-banshee
    • DBus service changed from org.gnome.Banshee to org.bansheeproject.Banshee
  • User Data Access
    • GConf Root Key changed from /apps/banshee to /apps/banshee-1
    • Application data directory changed from ~/.config/banshee to ~/.config/banshee-1 (note, the ~/.config base directory depends on XDG settings for the user)

These changes mean you can have installed and use both older Banshee releases (0.13.2 and older) and new Banshee releases (0.98.1 and newer) without worrying about packaging or installation problems or user data conflicts. Keep in mind however, that this release is not backwards compatible with older releases. If library changes are made in this new release, they will not be reflected if you run an older release.

Community

Contributors For This Release

The following people directly contributed to the release of this version of Banshee. Without their help, there would be no release!

Aaron Bockover, Alexander Hixon, Bertrand Lorentz, Christopher Rogers, Gabriel Burt, Scott Peterson, Sebastian Dröge, Wouter Bolsterlee

The following people contributed updated translations to this release. Without them, our project's reach would be much more limited.

Daniel Nylander (sv), Gabor Kelemen (hu), Jordi Mas (ca), Wouter Bolsterlee (nl)

The release notes and screenshots for this release were crafted by:

Gabriel Burt, Jorge Castro

Contributors In Past Releases

Alan McGovern, Alex Kloss, Alexander Hixon, Alexandros Frantzis, Alp Toker, Aydemir Ulaş Şahin, Ben Maurer, Bertrand Lorentz, Bill Dawson, Bob Copeland, Bojan Rajkovic, Brian Nickel, Chris Lahey, Chris Toshok, Chris Turchin, Christian Krause, Christopher James Halse Rogers, Dan Wilson, Dan Winship, Daniel Munkton, Eric Butler, Fredrik Hedberg, Hans Petter Jansson, Igor Guerrero Fonseca, Ilya Konstantinov, Ivan N. Zlatev, James Willcox, Jan Arne Petersen, Jason Conti, Jeff Tickle, Jorge Castro, Juri Pakaste, Ken Vandine, Larry Ewing, Lauri Kotilainen, Michael Monreal, Miguel de Icaza, Mike Urbanski, Nathan Palmer, Oscar Forero, Patrick van Staveren, Pepijn van de Geer, Ruben Vermeersch, Sebastian Dröge, Tim Yamin, Trey Ethridge, Will Farrington, Wouter Bolsterlee

Reporting Bugs, Joining the Community

If you encounter any bad behavior with this release, please do not hesitate to file bugs (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=0.99.1)!

We welcome new contributors - developers, translators, artists, writers, support gurus - to join our community. Join us!

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