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Banshee 1.0 Release Candidate 1 (0.99.3)

  • Release Date: May 30, 2008
  • Source Tarball: banshee-1-0.99.3.tar.bz2 (http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-1-0.99.3.tar.bz2)
  • Release Information: NEWS (http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-1-0.99.3.news), sha1sum (http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-1-0.99.3.sha1sum), ChangeLog (http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-1-0.99.3.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

Device Storage Bling

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RC 1 has a new view showing you how full your device is, including how much storage is used for audio, video and other files.

Automatically Grabs all Cover Art

Automatically downloading cover art

This new extension automatically downloads cover art for any songs added to your Library. Your album filter never looked so good!

Other Features, Bug Fixes, Errata

  • Filter for podcasts to only show new items
  • DBus client w/ command line options and lastfm:// and feed:// support
  • File system queue
  • Many drag and drop fixes
  • Improved performance when changing songs
  • Lots of fixes for small but annoying UI gotchas
  • Over 24 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=2008-05-23&chfieldto=2008-05-31) since Beta 2.


Don't miss out on the feature overviews from previous releases!
See what else Banshee 1.0 RC 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
  • Required to build default feature stack:
    • libmtp >= 0.2.0 (0.2.6 recommended)
    • ipod-sharp >= 0.8.0
  • Run-time requirements for default feature stack:
    • podsleuth
    • brasero
  • Required to build not-enabled-by-default features:
    • boo >= 0.8.1
    • mono-zeroconf >= 0.7.3

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

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, Gabriel Burt, James Willcox, Michael Monreal, Sebastian Dröge

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

Claude Paroz (fr), Wouter Bolsterlee (nl)

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

Gabriel Burt

Contributors In Past Releases

Aaron Bockover, Alan McGovern, Alex Kloss, Alexander Hixon, Alexandros Frantzis, Alp Toker, Andy Midgette, 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, Gabriel Burt, 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, Nicholas Parker, Oscar Forero, Patrick van Staveren, Pepijn van de Geer, Ruben Vermeersch, Scott Peterson, 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=0.99.3)!

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

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