Вышла новая версия музыкального проигрывателя Banshee для GNOME.
- улучшена функция импорта, вся разметка делается через taglib-sharp, улучшена поддержка метаданных ID3, AAC/MP4, добавлено чтение ASF/WMA, метаданные наконец-то можно (по выбору) писать напрямую в файлы, заметно улучшен сам редактор метаданных; - новый интерфейс к записи CD -- диски можно создавать из любых источников (фонотеки, общего каталога, iPod); - появились "умные" (динамические) списки воспроизведения, автоматически обновляющиеся при определённых изменениях в фонотеке, редактор этих списков позволяет создавать правила практически любой сложности; - появилась функция оценки дорожек по пятибалльной (скорее даже пятизвёздочной ) системе одним щелчком мышью; - переделан диалог параметров программы; - появились всплывающие уведомления о смене дорожки.
Дополнительно можно скачать и установить расширения, среди которых:
- отображение рекомендаций похожих исполнителей (last.fm); - прослушиваний подкастов; - уменьшенная версия GUI; - доступ к статьям Wikipedia об исполнителях; - прочие полезности Home_http://banshee-project.org/ Downloads (~1,59 Mb)_http://banshee-projec...-0.11.0.tar.gz
22 числа вышла новая версия плеера для GNOME с функциями копирования и прожига компакт дисков, синхронизацией с ipod и njb плеерами и поддержкой плагинов. Среди других возможностей: синхронизация с подкаст-лентами; редактирование мета-данных; умные списки воспроизведения audioscrobbler (last.fm) и многое другое; Плеер активно развивается, в каждой новой версии исправляют ошибки и добавляют новые фичи. Downloads_http://banshee-projec...0.11.5.tar.bz2
Bug Fixes BGO #477392 BGO #451651 - Fixed issue with transcoding failing silently and never finishing (Gabriel Burt) BGO #398278 - Fixed issue with ripping/transcoding with old settings (Gabriel Burt) BGO #336350 BGO #402011 - Added ability to set cover art by dropping images onto Banshee's cover art views. Added abilty to drag out of Banshee too (Pepijn van de Geer) BGO #479237 - Fixed crash when filtering caused by null fields (Sebastian Dröge) BGO #490254 - Fixed bug with writing the Artist metadata in the wrong location, and not writing the year or genre when ripping (Gabriel Burt) BGO #502628 - Fixed metadata writing for OGG BGO #495981 - Fixed ripping OGG to wrong bitrates Downloads (~2,2 Mb)_http://banshee-projec...0.13.2.tar.bz2
* Banshee is a multimedia management and playback application for GNOME.
"Import, organize, and discover new music with Banshee through its simple and powerful interface and wide array of innovative features. Create your own radio stations or listen to a friends' through Last.fm integration; experience automatic cover art fetching as you listen; and easily browse, search, and control your media collection."
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 some 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 an 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.
Missing features include:
* Some hardware support - CD Burning
* Some plugins have not yet been ported to the new 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 more 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.
Please read the full release notes on the Banshee Wiki for more details:
These changes were made to ensure that you can run older Banshee releases in parallel with new Banshee releases:
* The location of the user configuration directory for Banshee 1.x changed from ~/.config/banshee to ~/.config/banshee-1 (where ~/.config is defined by XDG policy)
* The base GConf path used for storing settings via the GNOME backend changed from /apps/banshee to /apps/banshee-1; an XML configuration file will be used if the GNOME backend extension is not installed Downloads (~1,8 Mb)_http://banshee-projec...0.99.1.tar.bz2
ЭЖД, 23.05.2008 - 17:05
Banshee 1.0 Beta 2 (0.99.2)
Genre entry autocompletes in track information editor Columns specific to type of source (Music, Video, Podcast) Fix CPU spike triggered by song transition Fix two fairly common segfault crashes Add File Size column, right-align it and Duration Disable writing metadata for videos to file to avoid 100% CPU bug Add Love/Hate menu items to the Notification Area icon's menu If a Last.fm station is double clicked, it will start playing once it has loaded Allow choosing with checkboxes what songs to import from Audio CD Over 28 bugs fixed since Beta 1. Downloads (~1,8 Mb)_http://banshee-projec...0.99.2.tar.bz2
ЭЖД, 31.05.2008 - 9:30
Banshee 1.0 Beta 3 (0.99.3)
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 since Beta 2. Downloads (~1,9 Mb)_http://banshee-projec...0.99.3.tar.bz2
ЭЖД, 6.06.2008 - 19:18
Banshee 1.0.0
Start playing when artist or album browser is double clicked Bookmarks extension is now available Use XDG_CACHE_HOME directory for cache files Disabled the equalizer temporarily until gstreamer pipeline issues are resolved
The main view now respects your system DPI settings and has seen massive performance improvements. Jump to playing song is now implemented (Ctrl-J) The Last.fm data screen has some visual improvements.
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, a .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 information editor Columns specific to type of source (Music, Video, Podcast) Add File Size column, right-align it and Duration Disable writing metadata for videos to file to avoid 100% CPU bug Add Love/Hate menu items to the Notification Area icon's menu If a Last.fm station is double clicked, it will start playing once it has loaded DBus client w/ command line options and lastfm:// and feed:// support File system queue Many drag and drop fixes Over 260 bugs fixed since 0.13.2 Downloads (~2,0 Mb)_http://banshee-projec...-1.0.0.tar.bz2
ЭЖД, 31.07.2008 - 17:20
Banshee 1.2.0
Основные изменения:
10-полосный эквалайзер
Интернет радио
Рекомендация музыки
DAAP клиент
Импортирование плейлистов (.pls, .m3u)
Поддержка альбомов-сборок с несколькими исполнителями
Ручная сортировка плейлиста и очереди воспроизведения
Миграция с амарока (включая рейтинги, счетчики воспроизведения и подкасты)
Banshee 1.2.1 is a maintenance and bug fix release to Banshee 1.2.0. We've polished a few features, fixed a good handful of bugs, and our wonderful translators have contributed some worthy updates! Features & Enhancements
Drag and drop albums or artists from the browser
New import source to aid in importing videos from your camera
Show cover art in Now Playing
Pressing play will play the first track selected if nothing is loaded
Pressing o on a track selection behaves the same as pressing enter
Include never-played tracks when querying against last played (e.g. played>"2 days ago")
Prefer cover art named cover/folder/front.jpg over other image files
Translation updates from 19 translators
Notable Bug Fixes
Fix bug with loading USB Mass Storage Players
Fix ASX and mms:// support
Fix a common crash when quitting Banshee 1.2
Amarok importer now migrates date added and last played
Fix crash when editing smart playlists with date fields
Banshee 1.4.3 is a stable release with some important bug fixes. Support for MTP devices is vastly improved, and a two bugs that occasionally caused freezes have been fixed. Downloads (~2,4 Mb)_http://download.bansh...-1.4.3.tar.bz2
ЭЖД, 7.06.2009 - 14:02
Banshee 1.5.0
Нововведения включают:
автоопределение темпа композиции (BPM, beats per minute);
автоматическое понижение рейтинга композиции, если слушатель пропускает ее (skip);
раздельные библиотеки для музыки, видео и подкастов;
импорт коллекции из Rhythmbox;
улучшенную поддержку Unicode для сортировки и поиска.
Отмечено также, что в рамках проекта Google Summer of Code '2009 будет реализована интеграция Banshee и presence-фреймворка Telepathy. Downloads (~2,3 Mb)_http://download.bansh...-1.5.0.tar.bz2
ЭЖД, 14.10.2009 - 18:38
banshee 1.5.1
New Features:
* Play Queue Auto DJ keeps the tunes coming * Shuffle by album and artist * Shuffle by weighted rating and score mode * Add tooltips for ellipsized ListView text * Keep the playing song visible in the track list * Add support for WebOS devices * Add support for the Samsung Galaxy Android Phone
Enhancements:
* When user picks new sort column, default to sort ascending * Drop the " Library" suffix on the Music and Video sources * Add thin highlight to ListView selection for 3D effect * Keyboard shortcut (ESC) to clear the search box (BGO #558938) * Expose LAME's "preset" option (BGO #563303) * Added a --gconf-base-key for running sandboxed (BGO #585546) * Trim URL pasted from clipboard to podcast dialog (BGO #585679) * Allow selection of multiple folders on import (BGO#586946) * Support playlists on Android G1 devices (BGO #583335) * Better support for devices running Rockbox * Set video sync folder for Android and WebOS devices * Made the error message label selectable (BGO #589741) * Save and load the Gtk.AccelMap (BGO #579013) * Added taglib/oga mimetype to the vorbis audio profile (BGO #586999) * Auto-completion for composer, conductor, grouping and copyright (BGO #592129) * Added the 'comment' search filter (BGO #380524) * Selectable song properties (BGO #586106) * Show a tooltip in track editor when the property is truncated (BGO #589782)
Notable bug fixes:
* Fix blank MimeTypes for tracks ripped before 1.4 (BGO #536590) * Fix a Bit Rate column sizing glitch (BGO #584587) * Fix browser positioning when Banshee is maximised (BGO #575834) * Fix compilation metadata reading and writing (BGO #563283) * Work with new notification-daemon (BGO #565876) * Avoid needlessly syncing iPods twice * Deterministically sort sources to avoid fluttering * Look for Rhythmbox db at both new and old paths * Fix bug with scrobbling after skipping a track (BGO #584614) * Fix crash in equalizer (BGO #548912) * Fix an exception on startup when DBus is disabled (BGO #573050) * Fix off-by-one-day date querying bug (BGO #546844) * Fix a UI/spacing glitch in the Smart Playlist Editor (BGO #571288) * Don't hide the track info popup while it has focus (BGO #544592) * Prevent endless "Searching for CD metadata..." (BGO #527788) * Fix Last.fm now-playing for non-decimal track lengths (BGO #586460) * Dispose the SqliteCommand after it's executed (BGO #586498) * Fix notification area popup positioning on multi-monitor systems (BGO #586589) * Fix the playing indicator when song in list more than once (BGO #585798) * Fix crash when opening the profile conf dialog (BGO #587308) * Fix crash stopping jobs on shutdown (BGO #587373) * Fix notification area popup flashing (BGO #587703) * Trim filename dots and spaces to be NTFS compliant (BGO #588350) * Stop playing from audio CD when it's ejected (BGO #475094) * Don't update DateUpdated stamp when transient fields change (BGO #585896) * Fix DAP content page title not changing when device renamed (BGO #589290) * Set the Podcast flag on import based on genre (BGO #589831) * Fix hang when slider dragged to track change (BGO #539395). * Prevent slider jumping around after seeking in stream (BGO #591016) * Fix Last.fm logos on dark themes (BGO #588094) * --query-X option sometimes returned an error (BGO #591291) * Build and runtime fixes for FreeBSD * Fix editor always prompting to save podcasts (BGO #584880) * Fix rounding when updating the track score * Fix initial track score calculation (BGO #594568) * Fix playback buttons' a11y (BGO #595294) * Fix crasher on PPC (BGO #547218)
* The Internet Archive extension * The iTunes importer * Metadata ratings and playcount import and export * Add support for Pulse and Droid phones * Use new Last.fm API
Enhancements:
* Many accessibility enhancements * When sorting by score also sort by playcount (bgo#598431) * Add WICD support (bgo#596918) * Add the USB id for the Palm Pre in developer mode * Improve the import media dialog (bgo#559013) * Allow seeking in DAAP streams * Tooltip for the AutoDJ source combobox (bgo#598504) * Improve recognition of Android devices * Recognize Samsung Galaxy device in debug mode * PlaybackError query field (bgo#590946) * Additional tokens for file system organization (bgo#489861) * Remember direction when sorting the list view (bgo#590869) * Cleaner track change notification popup (bgo#565453) * Move Last.fm settings to the preferences dialog * Double click toggles fullscreen in Now Playing (bgo#577971)
Notable bug fixes:
* Fix the playcount update (bgo#563021) * Correct default button in message dialogs (bgo#599495) * Hide shuffle menu when shuffling is disabled (bgo#599465) * Fix bug with AutoDJ updating LastPlayed erroneously (bgo#594701) * Fix next playback source (bgo#599834) * Fix adding tracks to the play queue (bgo#600498) * Fix up iPod podcast support (bgo#434237) * Fix cover art pick up for multi-disc albums (bgo#591982) * Fix the play queue when StopWhenFinished is on (bgo#563021) * Fix race when saving track metadata (bgo#598321)
Either manually manage what files are added/removed to your device, or choose a playlist to sync from. You can make a size-limited smart playlist to sync just the right amount to your device.
* Type-ahead find in track, artist, and album lists
An alternative to filtering, type-ahead find jumps you to the first track to match your query. Activate with shift+/, cancel with Esc, and jump to next match with F3. In track list it matches against artist, album, or title.
* Optional cover art in lower-left corner
Turn on via View > Show Cover Art
* Cover art editable via drag-and-drop and right-click
Can edit via the cover art in the track editor, lower-left corner, and beside the seek-slider.
* Audiobooks library extension
Rough first version, main benefits are separating your books from your music and defining a different file system organization. In future versions we plan to add intuitive bookmarking and a better browsing experience. Enable in Extensions tab of Preferences.
* Library-folder watcher extension
Watches your libraries' folders for added, renamed, or deleted files, and updates your libraries appropriately. Requires Mono >= 2.4.3. Enable in Extensions tab of Preferences.
* eMusic importer/downloader extension
If you have purchased music from eMusic and have a .emx file, Banshee will download and import the music files for you. Select 'eMusic Files' from the normal Media > Import Media dialog. Enable in Extensions tab of Preferences.
* GIO file backend, supports non-local files
This backend uses the GIO library to support importing local files and network-share files alike. Requires glib >= 2.22 and Gio#.
* Return of the Mac OS X release
OS X 10.5 and 10.6 is now supported again (but still considered beta quality). Additionally, Mono and GTK are now bundled with the binary release, so there are no dependencies for OS X users.
Enhancements:
* Improved Podcast filtering/browsing * Extension preferences tab reworked * Extension names/descriptions translated * Improved sqlite performance * Added --set-rating=RATING command line option * Support for Nexus One devices
Notable bug fixes:
* DAPs (ipods, etc) should work on DeviceKit-using distros * Fix issue with DAAP authenticating * Podcast renaming should work well now * Podcast download cancelling is now fast * Internet Archive results paging off-by-one fixed * Should build with older Mono/Gtk# again (eg on openSUSE 11.0) * Fix issue with MTP devices on 64-bit distros
Under Preferences, you can choose to "Improve Banshee by sending anonymous usage data" back to the Banshee developers. This collects information on what version you're running, what OS, library size, slow SQL queries, and a whitelisted subset of your preferences. This information will help us choose better defaults and see what parts of Banshee are used most and can be improved. All collected data is anonymous!
* Default Equalizer Presets
Banshee now ships with several equalizer presets, and the core of the equalizer management has seen much internal improvement.
* Banshee Community Extensions
A new sub-project named Banshee Community Extensions has been created. Its code is hosted on Gitorious, and its bugs tracked in bugzilla.gnome.org. It already contains 9 extensions, including AlarmClock, Lyrics, and Mirage, and has 15 maintainers. Its releases track Banshee's; for more information, see
Extensions can now add new shuffle modes and PlayQueue fill-by modes. The Mirage extension is the first to take advantage of this, adding a Shuffle/Fill-by Similar mode based on acoustical analysis.
Enhancements:
* Wikipedia context pane extension enabled by default * Add support for Nokia N900 phones * Add tooltip to playback error column * On close Internet Archive item, return to Search * Notify user if trying to sync missing file to DAP * Popup explanation of manual playlist ordering when appropriate * Simplify the default set of columns in Podcasts * Enable 'Delete From Drive' action in File System Queue * Make debuggable from within MonoDevelop * Coverart for unicode artist/albums now supported * Dropped glade-sharp dep; GNOME 3.0 ready * Add columns showing track sample rate and bits per sample * Option to sort an artist's albums by year, not title * If starting Banshee hidden (--hide), up to half a second of startup time is saved; this is particularly useful in Moblin
Notable bug fixes:
* Fixes to GIO backend * Many crash/startup fixes for OS X build * Strange input bug on OS X fixed - you can now type/search as expected * Enable LibraryWatcher only for Music and Video libraries * Do better job preserving IsCompilation metadata * Store some PlayQueue settings in the db (not GConf) * Update to Last.fm's API change for scrobbling/recs * Bring back static FileNamePattern API used by some scripts * Fix several memory leaks
Banshee 1.5.5 was just released, including gapless playback, a grid album browser, and a YouTube extension! It contains lots of good bug fixes as well - those of you burned by the 1.5.4 SQL crash will be pleased with the additional QA given to this release. Downloads (~3,1 Mb)_http://download.bansh...-1.5.5.tar.bz2
ЭЖД, 21.03.2010 - 10:25
banshee 1.5.6
Notable bug fixes:
* Fix rendering and interaction bugs in the grid view * Fix issue with volume getting reset on every song change * Handle volume changes from outside Banshee (eg PulseAudio) * Fix issue parsing some RSS feeds * Fix library importing and rescanning on all IO backends * Support coverart for albums without an artist (bgo#612626) * Don't capture 's' presses if keybindings disabled * Fix typing in the Wikipedia webkit view * Fix equalizer settings migration (bgo#612669) * Redraw the entire ListView when dragging columns * Increase podcast download timeout
* Fix bad startup crash in PlayQueue on old Mono * Fix "Too many open files" bug with GIO backend * [Banshee.Hardware] Handle exceptions (bgo#613173) * [PodcastActions] Unsubscribe from an event on dispose * [ContextPane] Fix crash if active removed (bgo#613277) * [LastfmSource] Fix crash (bgo#612824) * [Lastfm] Fix crash using auth Refresh button (bgo#610911) * [Lastfm] Fix crash (bgo#613276)
* Fix compilation error with older Mono * Fix compilation error with bundled notify-sharp * Fix --disable-youtube flag * Set YouTube install dir to Extensions/ * Fix building with older GStreamer (bgo#613339)
* Banshee is a multimedia management and playback application for GNOME.
"Import, organize, and discover new music with Banshee through its simple and powerful interface and wide array of innovative features. Create your own radio stations or listen to a friends' through Last.fm integration; experience automatic cover art fetching as you listen; and easily browse, search, and control your media collection."
* Gapless Playback * Optional cover art in lower-left corner * Cover art editable via drag-and-drop and right-click * Playing song kept visible in the track list * Separate library locations for Music, Video, and Podcast * iTunes and Rhythmbox library/metadata importers * More devices supported: Android: Nexus One, Desire, Galaxy, Droid, Pulse Other: Palm Pre, Nokia N900 * Improve search responsiveness on large libraries * Play Queue item count, size, duration now ignores old tracks * Muinshee fixes: disable Auto-DJ, allow reordering, hide previous song * Wikipedia context pane extension enabled by default * Add tooltip to playback error column * Enable 'Delete From Drive' action in File System Queue * Cover art for unicode artist/albums now supported * Dropped glade-sharp dep; GNOME 3.0 ready * Add columns showing track sample rate and bits per sample * Option to sort an artist's albums by year, not title * Allow seeking in DAAP streams * Additional tokens for file system organization (bgo#489861) * Cleaner track change notification popup (bgo#565453) * Move Last.fm settings to the preferences dialog * Keyboard shortcut (ESC) to clear the search box (BGO #558938) * Expose LAME's "preset" option (BGO #563303) * Better support for devices running Rockbox * Set video sync folder for Android and WebOS devices * Auto-completion for composer, conductor, grouping and copyright (BGO #592129) * Added the 'comment' search filter (BGO #380524) * Selectable song properties (BGO #586106) * Show a tooltip in track editor when the property is truncated (BGO #589782) * Support importing/exporting XSPF playlists * Support loading ASF playlists (BGO #545646) * Whitelist .spx, 669, it, med, mod, mol, mtm, nst, s3m, stm, ult, wow, xm, and xnm (BGO #580014) * Source-specific preferences, accessible via Preferences dialog and via sources' context menu * Much improved child source sorting - live, persistent, with group-by-type option * Podcast espisode details tabs in track information/editor * Can rename podcasts * Can unsubscribe/download/refresh multiple podcasts at a time * New 'Creative Commons' default Last.fm station * New Refresh button for Last.fm stations * More accurate seeking with click/DnD, can use mouse scrollwheel * Make it easier to edit and reset ratings * Add mnemonics to track editor fields and import dialog * Make previous button go back if less than 4 seconds into a song
Notable Bug Fixes 265 bugs were fixed since 1.5.1!
* Fix device support on upcoming distros with DeviceKit rename * Restore equalizer preset correctly (bgo#614313) * Handle broken symlinks correctly (bgo#614065) * Allow overriding Android, Maemo, WebOS default settings (bgo#611991) * Fix crash deleting playlist on mass storage device (bgo#613734) * Fix issue with iTunes importer dialog sizing (bgo#613607) * Fix play count calculation with gapless enabled (bgo#613418) * Handle exceptions thrown by old plugins (Mirage, etc) * Use panel-specific (eg monochrome) icon in notification area * OS X build/bundle improvements * Fix Windows compilation issues * Fix gettext locale selection on Windows Downloads (~3,0 Mb)_http://download.bansh...-1.6.0.tar.bz2
ЭЖД, 7.05.2010 - 20:19
Banshee 1.7.0
Улучшения:
* Улучшена экспериментальная аутентификация на Last.fm; * Улучшена поддержка устройств на базе Maemo; * Дополнения в DBus API для показа различных диалогов; * Поддержка устройств DEXT/CLIQ и Galaxy Portal; * Множество улучшений и исправлений на платформе MeeGo.
Исправлена 41 ошибка с тех пор, как вышел Banshee 1.6.0
* Доработано воспроизведение видео в новом окне; * Доработан полноэкранный режим видео под оконным менеджером Mutter; * Устранены сбои, связанные с подклассами апплетов Gtk; * Устранены сбои, связанные с a11y; * Исправления в Индикаторе Оповещения; * Исправлен коэффициент пропорциональности/масштабирования для альбомных обложек. Downloads (~3,0 Mb)_http://download.bansh...-1.7.0.tar.bz2
ЭЖД, 8.05.2010 - 10:23
banshee 1.6.1
* Banshee is a multimedia management and playback application for GNOME.
"Import, organize, and discover new music with Banshee through its simple and powerful interface and wide array of innovative features. Create your own radio stations or listen to a friends' through Last.fm integration; experience automatic cover art fetching as you listen; and easily browse, search, and control your media collection." Downloads (~3,0 Mb)_http://download.bansh...-1.6.1.tar.bz2
ЭЖД, 30.09.2010 - 17:39
banshee 1.8.0
New Features Since 1.6:
* Integrated AmazonMP3 Store
Browse, search, preview, buy, and download music straight into your Banshee library from the US, UK, FR, DE, and JP AmazonMP3 stores. See http://abock.org/2010...ore-in-banshee
* Miro Guide Podcast Directory
Browse and subscribe to thousands of audio and video podcasts listed on the non-profit run MiroGuide.com.
* Improved Apple Device Support
iPhone, iTouch, iPad, and iPod devices are now supported via the awesome libgpod library.
* Revamped Hardware Backend
Uses the latest Linux hardware stack, a combination of GIO, udev, and media-player-info files, to provide support for CDs and digital audio players.
* Keybinding for Switching Sources
Typing 'g' activates the source switcher, where you can type the name of a source to switch to it. You can type its acronym or a substring as well. As soon as only one source matches, it will be activated. For example, you can type 'g' and then 'np' to switch to Now Playing.
* Improved Audiobook Support
The Audiobooks library is now enabled by default, and audiobook tracks are now better organized into books. The last position in each book is automatically saved, so you can resume playing a book right from where you stopped.
* User Manual
Available via Help ТЛ Contents menu and F1. Uses the latest GNOME documentation technology, Mallard.
* Bulk Metadata Fixer
New extension for bulk metadata fixing to merge artists, albums, and genres that vary only by case, '&' vs 'and', etc.
* MPRIS v2 support (Ubuntu Sound Menu, etc)
Enhancements:
* Now Playing simplify mode that declutters the UI * Play Queue shuffle action * Improve the downloading and visual refreshing of new cover art * Many MeeGo specific improvements and fixes * New preference to have the classic album layout instead of the grid view * Support for reading and writing MusicBrainz IDs * Show the TrackEditor fields as read-only mode when they are not editable * Add metadata-saving support for File System Queue (bgo#609411) * Decrease the latency in changing playback volume * Overhaul GNOME proxy support (bmc#1920) * Refresh podcast feeds when network is reconnected * Miro Guide teaser in Podcasts * Podcast errors shown to user * Improved Last.fm authentication experience * Last.fm streaming can be disabled separately from the other Last.fm features. * Play menu item in track context menu * Wrap long strings in the Now Playing view * Add visual separators in the source view between categories of sources * Culturally format the status bar item count (e.g. in en_US 1,000 instead of the old 1000) * Tweak the grid view album artwork hover effect * Default smart playlists hidden when empty, for new users * Begin editing the name of newly added playlists * "Amazon MP3s" Music smart playlist * Improved device support: * Droid X, Galaxy Portal, Xperia X10, and DEXT/CLIQ device support * Improved Maemo device support * Better MTP device detection * Put all videos in the video folder on MTP devices
API Changes:
* DBus API additions for showing various dialogs * New Banshee.WebBrowser API for creating embedded WebKit web browsers and sources: used by the new Amazon MP3 store, Miro Guide, and the Wikipedia context pane * New Hyena.Downloader API for performing downloads and easy HTTP operations: HttpFileDownloader, HttpStringDownloader
Notable Bugs Fixed (230 fixed since 1.6.0):
* Fix for fullscreen video under Mutter * Fix videos playing back in a new window * Fix crashes related to Gtk.Widget subclassing * Fix crashes related to a11y * NotificationArea fixes * Cover art aspect ratio/scaling fixes * Fix Youtube playback * Fix deletion of Podcast metadata during modification * Fix a crash related to the notification deamon * Fix fetching cover for albums with several discs * Several fixes for the N800 device * Fix various volume-related issues * bgo#621480: Fix Play Queue when using it with different locales * bgo#621687: Fix the Internet Archive playback * bgo#613333: Correct Play Queue track reordering * bgo#624667: Fix cover art refreshing * bgo#622826: Fix a slow running query to speed things up * bgo#602840: Fix importing of compilation albums * bgo#622028: Fix loading of libbnpx11.so on some distros * bgo#621955: Wrap instead of elipsize Last.fm titles * bgo#608382: Escape %20 in filenames for items without embedded metadata * bgo#624531: Escape Uri value in SQL query * bgo#588255: Fix notification icon transparency * bgo#619036: Fix glitchy search entry * bgo#624569: Fix scrolling Extensions list with keyboard * bgo#553433: Fix issue that could block song scrobbling * bgo#600340: Fix subscribing to certain podcasts (eg podbean.com) * bgo#620826: Fix URIs of tracks synced to iPods * bmc#1115: Fix a pipeline deadlock evident on MeeGo * bgo#626786: Prevent crash in search-for-artist when blank * bgo#628388: Fix overflow bug with MTP playlists * bgo#625683: Fixup checkboxes now clickable * bgo#626928: Fetch podcast artwork asap * bgo#626791: Catch crashes caused by missing extensions * bgo#528383: Re-enable writing video metadata to file * bgo#626803: Fix Ogg rating parsing in non-English locales * bgo#628832: [MTP] Fix MTP-device memory issues breaking Playlists, Albums * bgo#629095: [MTP] Fix MTP devices being named '???' * bgo#629373: [MTP] Workaround MTP sigsegv bug Downloads (~3,1 Mb)_http://download.bansh...-1.8.0.tar.bz2