Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Banshee Momentum

We're planning a Banshee 1.2 release for early July, before GUADEC. It should be a really great release, including multi-artist album fixes, internet radio, library directory watching, recommendations, and probably a couple other big items. You can grab Banshee from svn trunk to test the latest changes - internet radio and multi-artist support are already committed - and to contribute by reporting and fixing bugs, translating Banshee, or writing some new code. If you haven't tried Banshee 1.0 yet, you should!

22 comments:

  1. I would like to test 1.0 (using 0.13 right now), but no package is available for my distribution (Ubuntu) so it'll be another 4 months before I finally get a new version. Do you have unofficial packages on a ppa somewhere?

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  2. @papperskorg: Not sure how you missed it - we definitely have Ubuntu packages - see https://banshee-project.org/download/

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  3. good stuff.... keep up the good work :)

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  4. internet radio!
    can i checks this out from svn and use it in the 1.0 release?

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  5. Multi-artist as in merging "Various Artist" albums into a single album entry? That's the single feature that's keeping me from using banshee 1.0.

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  6. can we please have support for subtitles when watching videos in banshee?

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  7. @Manuel: Subtitles aren't a huge priority - so if you want them really soon, you're more than welcome to work on them. See https://banshee-project.org/contribute/write-code/ for more info on contributing.

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  8. Hotness. FWIW, I applied the patch to 1.0 and rebuilt the debian package, and it works quite dandy.

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  9. A new release so soon? That's awesome! :)

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  10. Great work with Banshee 1.0 - now my favourite app for Linux! Keep up the good work!!!

    Looking forward to the next release. Applications like these are very rare!

    Cheers,
    John.

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  11. is ipod sync coming?

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  12. Man, you guys are really fast. Any chance the equalizer will return? Or did it get dropped completely? Great job on the 1.0 release and keep it up!

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  13. I downloaded and tried out 1.0 on Ubuntu Hardy last night and was impressed. I did miss two things - support for compilations and folder watching. Seems like the wait won't be long. :)

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  14. I just tried the SVN trunk and while it seems to work I couldn't find a way to make the compilations/various artist albums appear as single albums. It also didn't parse the UTF-8 tags in my MP3s, showing garbage instead of latin characters and kanji.

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  15. Gabriel, I want to congratulate you on the incredible work your team is doing on Banshee. What a delight it is to use this program.

    Sadly, it still has a few issues that prevents it from being my current default music management application, which leads me to ask: what is the proper channel for Banshee discussion and specifically feature requests? I've perused the official site and found nothing of the sort. Once again, congratulations on a continuous string of remarkable achievements.

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  16. @ollie: Thanks for the kind words. See https://banshee-project.org/about/contact/ for info on our project communication channels.

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  17. greetings stranger ...

    i am really happy about the upcoming lastfm-recommendations and defntl the folder-watching is a good move and i am loving the SVN-Version from 1 Week ago.

    Unfortunately nobody (Planet, mailinglist) seems to know or even talk about the banshee-1.2 release.

    Did you all get killed at GUADEC or what is happening here? :)

    A Statement would be really appreciated.

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  18. I compiled the trunk and all seemed to go well. How do I *run* the new version? The command banshee-1 or the application menu choice each run the previous 1.0.1 I installed.

    Thanks!

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  19. @jer.eps if you make && make install, you should be able to run it w/ banshee-1. But you shouldn't make install it from svn/source if you have it installed from a package. You can run it from source/svn with make run, too.

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  21. @g.b.:
    "you shouldn't make install it from svn/source if you have it installed from a package"

    But I did . . . .

    What should I do now? I want to try the new 1.2 version! make run starts the 1.0.1 version too.

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