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Banshee » Banshee 1.0

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Feature Summary

Better, Faster, Stronger

Banshee » Banshee 1.0
Artist/Album Browser on Top

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

The play queue lets you queue songs you want to listen to

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

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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

Video Library

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

Playing video

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

Shuffle

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.

Bansheemtp

Podcast Supportvideos fromSupport for podcasts is better than ever in Banshee 1.0. Use Banshee to subscribe

Adding tracks to USB mass storage device

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

Default smart playlists

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.

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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

Podcast new filter

Eject when done importingto and you’ve got to slick CD-importing workflow.videoCD BurningtheBanshee now integrates

Banshee displaying, streaming, and downloading podcasts

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

250px Dap bling

or hit aFullscreenview button)howExtensions can be enabled and disabled in how new videoExtensions

tab within your

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.NET scripting language

  • Improved gstreamer error handling (for missing files, codecs, etc)

  • Shuffle and repeat are automatically disabled while playing Last.fm

  • Genre entry autocompletes in track

  • editortheColumns specific

  • type of source (Music, Video, Podcast)viewAdd File Size column, right-align it and Duration

  • Disable writing metadata for to file

  • avoid 100% CPU bug

  • 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

  • since 0.13.2theDependenciesMono 1.2.2 (.NET 2.0 Profile / gmcs)SQlite 3.4Gtk# 2.10GStreamer 0.10.3

  • NDesk DBus (ndesk-dbus) 0.5scripted using BooNDesk DBus GLib (ndesk-dbus-glib) 0.3aMono.Addins (mono-addins) 0.3.1

  • TagLib# (taglib-sharp) 2.0

  • Required

  • build default feature stack:informationRun-time requirements for default feature stack:

  • Required to build not-enabled-by-default features:

  • boo >= 0.8.1

  • mono-zeroconf >= 0.7.3videos toPlease note that for openSUSE, all of to dependencies above can be found in

  • openSUSE Build Service, and are linked into to the Banshee project. Even if you build

  • source, if you wish a avoid building

  • entire dependency chain above, add

  • your repository list.

  • Historically, Banshee has fostered development of

  • 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

  • allow for distributions

  • ship packages

  • reduce

  • pain of building Banshee.

  • No Conflicts

  • This new release is not backwards compatible

  • previous Banshee releases, however, it

  • will not

  • conflict or cause any problems to any previous release you may have installed. If

  • Banshee library is located

  • previous release, it will be tocopied

    • and

    • migrated

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.

  • Community

    • Contributors For This Releasefrom The following to directly contributed

    • 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 to The following

    • contributed updated translations from this release. Without them, our project's to media would be much

    • 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 BeruAkafrom The screenshots and release notes for this release have been created by: to Aaron Burt, Gabriel Burt - Jorge Castro - Josiah Ritchie
      Paul Cutler, Scott Peterson

  • Contributors In Past Releases

    • 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 Bolsterleefrom Reporting Bugs, Joining to Community

    • If you encounter any from behavior to this release, please do not hesitate !the We welcome new contributors - developers, translators, artists, writers, support gurus - join our community. the user