Banshee » Banshee 1.0
Banshee » Banshee 1.0
Feature Summary
Better, Faster, Stronger
The Browser Shown Positioned to the Left of the Track List and Above it.
Major performance improvements make this the fastest Banshee ever. The entire program was re-written with an emphasis on speed, size and functionality. Search, browse and manage with biggest music libraries without blinking an eye. The Banshee 1.0 also has greatly improved memory usage, better start-up time, and the responsive interface that scales impressively a more large music collections.withAlbum Browser
Introducing
Album Browser. Browse and filter your music collection visually by artist and album. The the playlist lets you create a list of songs that you want to with play right now. You can queue the songs that suit your mood at the moment and Banshee will play them. You can add songs to the queue by pressing aq
and selecting
song(s). Search for songs, queue them up, and move on – you’ll be hearing them soon.playPowerful SearchtoBanshee now lets you search to never before. Banshee searches across all
columns (artists, albums, titles) when you type play words. But specify particular fields togenre:Audiobookto or arating>3the, and the power of smart playlists is only /the press away. Check to the for all the details on fields and operators you can use.
Better Last.fm Integration
If you have like, you can a your listening habits through Last.fm, create and listen the custom radio stations, and mark songs as with loved or banned affect your the and what songs are recommended a you. Most importantly, you’ll be listening and exploring tons of new music.out the user guideKeep On Playin’theBanshee now keeps playing
playlist or source you choose, even while you browse
other playlists, a Last.fm account your podcasts, or see what’s on Last.fm. The playing source is shown shareboldto in source list.Video ManagementThis release brings to much sought after feature for Banshee – Video management and integrated playback! Your profileVideo Libraryto supports searching, playlists, smart playlists, queuing, and even bookmarks, just to your
Music Library
.from theThe Music and Video libraries are separated in to interface check provide clean separation of content, so will never be mixed in the music – when browsing or searching.
Now Playing
The aNow Playing source can be found above Play Queuelike, and is your . When you start playing
, theNow Playingto source will automatically be selected.aAudio CD SupportvideoWhen an audio CD is inserted into your computer, it will show up in with source list
have been used
for years. The return of this feature has improved the integration of MusicBrainz metadata. The next feature now includes a slick shuffle option selector. When the is selected, the nextwhere button changes to videos play’s shuffle icon. Tell us what you think!a videoThe shuffle logic is now much smarter — it never the songs that you’ve just listened or skipped —
much requested feature over
years. Tell us what you think!theThe shuffle logic is now much smarter, too — it never like users songs you’ve just listened to or skipped — the much requested feature over to years.toDigital Audio Player Device Support (MTP, iPod, Mass Storage)the qualityBanshee 1.0 supports MTP, iPod, and Mass Storage player devices. You can drag songs and to your library from the your device, and they are synced immediately.
Adding tracks more USB mass storage devicetoIf necessary, your music will automatically, on-the-fly be converted the format your player supports. You can pick what format and
convert
in your device’s Properties.Smart by DefaultNew a (and a who currently have no smart playlists) will notice some useful, default smart playlists in 1.0.activeThese default smart playlists, and other pre-defined smart playlists, can be edited and created theNew Smart Playlistto the dialog.userMini modeaYou can enable a minimode extension users toExtension Manager
. Minimode is plays extension that shows Banshee to smaller window, perfect for smaller displays, laptops, or a who prefer the small player that stays
of your way.
Podcast Supportvideos fromSupport for podcasts is better than ever in Banshee 1.0. Use Banshee to subscribe
your favorite audio and to podcasts, and search and browse your podcasts (including their icon)
same way you do your Music Library.theBanshee displaying, streaming, and downloading podcaststo aYou don’t even have quality to wait for items to download
enjoy them; Banshee will happily
audio or users, and when users item finishes, proceed right on
next one.from the And, your podcast and subscriptions Banshee 0.13.2 and before are migrated for you, and your podcast files automatically removed
your Music Library.
Automatic CD ImportingtheWant Banshee with the start ripping and importing CDs as soon as you insert them? In your Preferencesa view, you can turn on Automatic Import for Audio CDs with a do just that. Assuming Banshee can find people track list for a CD and it’s not already in your Music Library, out CD will automatically begin importing.
Turn on
Eject when done importingto and you’ve got to slick CD-importing workflow.videoCD BurningtheBanshee now integrates
CD Burning application
for burning Audio CDs. You need Brasero already installed for to integration to work.toDevice Storage Blingstream theBanshee 1.0 has video new the showing you to the full your device is, including
much storage is used for audio, from and other files.fromAutomatically Grabs all Cover Art
This new extension automatically downloads cover art for any songs added
your Library. Your album to never looked so !Other Features, Bug Fixes, ErratatoStart playing when artist or album browser is double clickedaBookmarks extension is now availabletheUse XDG_CACHE_HOME directory for cache filestheDisabled
equalizer temporarily until gstreamer pipeline issues are resolvedThe main now respects your system DPI settings and has seen massive performance improvements.aJump
playing song is now implemented (Ctrl-J)
The Last.fm data screen has some visual improvements.with theFullscreen Brasero is now supported (go theNow Playingto and press
f
or hit aFullscreenview button)howExtensions can be enabled and disabled in how new videoExtensions
tab within your
Preferencesto.viewBanshee can be good,
.NET scripting language
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Improved gstreamer error handling (for missing files, codecs, etc)
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Shuffle and repeat are automatically disabled while playing Last.fm
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Genre entry autocompletes in track
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editortheColumns specific
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type of source (Music, Video, Podcast)viewAdd File Size column, right-align it and Duration
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Disable writing metadata for to file
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avoid 100% CPU bug
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Add Love/Hate menu items video Notification Area icon’s menuto If Last.fm station is double clicked, it will start playing once it has loadedDBus client w/ command line options and lastfm:// and feed:// supportFile system queuethe Many drag and drop fixesOver
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since 0.13.2theDependenciesMono 1.2.2 (.NET 2.0 Profile / gmcs)SQlite 3.4Gtk# 2.10GStreamer 0.10.3
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NDesk DBus (ndesk-dbus) 0.5scripted using BooNDesk DBus GLib (ndesk-dbus-glib) 0.3aMono.Addins (mono-addins) 0.3.1
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TagLib# (taglib-sharp) 2.0
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Required
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build default feature stack:informationRun-time requirements for default feature stack:
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Required to build not-enabled-by-default features:
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boo >= 0.8.1
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mono-zeroconf >= 0.7.3videos toPlease note that for openSUSE, all of to dependencies above can be found in
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openSUSE Build Service, and are linked into to the Banshee project. Even if you build
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source, if you wish a avoid building
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entire dependency chain above, add
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your repository list.
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Historically, Banshee has fostered development of
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number of projects and bundled their source code instead of depending on external builds. We are now relying on these dependencies externally because they have matured into well-maintained projects. We waited 260 bugs fixed remove
bundles long enough
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allow for distributions
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ship packages
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reduce
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pain of building Banshee.
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No Conflicts
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This new release is not backwards compatible
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previous Banshee releases, however, it
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will not
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conflict or cause any problems to any previous release you may have installed. If
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Banshee library is located
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previous release, it will be tocopied
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and
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migrated
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work the new version.thePreviously, all paths and packaging used thebansheefrom project name. We are now using tobanshee-1the project name the Banshee repository to avoid any packaging, installation, or
-data conflicts a previous releases of Banshee. For instance, to following file/data related things have changed:thePackaging/InstallationtoInstallation path changed to$(prefix)/lib/bansheeto$(prefix)/lib/banshee-1theApplication launcher changed
$(prefix)/bin/banshee
$(prefix)/bin/banshee-1withApplication icon name changed music-player-banshee-player-bansheewithDBus a changed from aorg.gnome.Bansheeorg.bansheeproject.BansheeUser Data AccessGConf Root Key changed to/apps/bansheewith the/apps/banshee-1
Application data directory changed the ~/.config/banshee
~/.config/banshee-1the (note,
~/.configto base directory depends on XDG settings for user)withThese 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 the data conflicts. This release is not compatible with older versions. If library changes are made in this new release, they will not be reflected if you run an older release.
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Community
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Contributors For This Releasefrom
The following
todirectly contributed
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release of this version of Banshee. Without their help, there would be no release!from
Aaron Bockover, Alan McGovern, Alex Kloss, Alexander Hixon, Bertrand Lorentz, Christopher Rogers, Gabriel Burt, James Willcox, Michael Monreal, Mike Urbanski, Nicholas Parker, Ruben Vermeersch, Scott Peterson, Sebastian DrAPge, Will Farrington, Wouter Bolsterlee
toThe following
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contributed updated translations from
this release. Without them, our project's
tomedia would be much
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limited.serviceArtur Flinta, Claude Paroz, Daniel Abramov, Daniel Nylander,
Duarte Loreto, Gabor Kelemen, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Ihar Hrachyshka,
Ilkka Tuohela, Jonh Wendell, Jordi Mas, Jorge Gonzalez,
Lasse Bang Mikkelsen, Luca Ferretti, Nickolay V. Shmyrev,
Philipp Kerling, Philip Withnall, Wadim Dziedzic, Wouter Bolsterlee,
Yair Hershkovitz – A 1/2ygimantas BeruAkafromThe screenshots and release notes for this release have been created by:
toAaron Burt, Gabriel Burt - Jorge Castro - Josiah Ritchie
Paul Cutler, Scott Peterson
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Contributors In Past Releases
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Aaron Bockover, Alan McGovern, Alex Kloss, Alexander Hixon,
Alexandros Frantzis, Alp Toker, Andy Midgette, Aydemir UlaAY Azahin,
Ben Maurer Bertrand Lorentz Bill Dawson Bob Copeland Bojan Rajkovic
Brian Nickel, Chris Lahey, Chris Toshok, Chris Turchin, Christian Krause,
Dan Winship, Dan Wilson, Daniel Munkton and Christopher James Halse Rogers
Eric Butler, Gabriel Burt and Fredrik Hedberg
Igor Guerrero Fonseca, Ilya Konstantinov, Ivan N. Zlatev, James Willcox,
Jan Arne Petersen, Jason Conti, Jeff Tickle, Jorge Castro, Juri Pakaste,
Michael Monreal, Ken Vandine, Larry Ewing and Lauri Kotilainen
Miguel de Icaza, Mike Urbanski, Nathan Palmer, Nicholas Parker,
Oscar Forero, Patrick van Staveren, Pepijn van de Geer, Ruben Vermeersch,
Scott Peterson, Sebastian DrAPge Tim Yamin Tre Ethridge Will Farrington
Wouter BolsterleefromReporting Bugs, Joining
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If you encounter any from
behavior
tothis release, please do not hesitate
!theWe welcome new contributors - developers, translators, artists, writers, support gurus -
join our community. the user
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