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2 Banshee 2.6.0 - 2012-09-29
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5 Banshee 2.6 is the culmination of six months' work by 15 developers, 30
6 translators and dozens of bug reporters and testers. It is a stable release,
7 the successor to Banshee 2.4.
11 * Lots of improvement on OS X:
13 * Hardware support for USB mass storage devices.
14 * Handle opening files directly in Finder.
15 * Use native file chooser dialogs for importing files.
16 * Improve keyboard shortcuts.
17 * Fix various volume issues and inconsistencies.
18 * Switch to gtk-mac-integration and move to cocoa API.
19 * Add debug and logging facility to OS X launcher.
21 * LastFM: Add device scrobbling support
23 Enable Last.fm scrobbling of recent plays from a connected device.
24 Currently only available on devices supported by the AppleDevice
27 * File management options are now specific to each source
29 The "Copy files when importing" and "Update file and folder names"
30 settings can now be set independently for Music and Videos.
35 * LargeTrackInfoDisplay: Display track rating in "Now Playing" view
36 * MassStorage: Support the Samsung Galaxy Nexus Android phone
37 * Re-enable the AAC audio profile
38 * ThickClient: Append 'Banshee' to window title
39 * MassStorage: Support reading playlists from multiple folders
40 * Last.fm: Switch to 2.0 API for scrobbling and improve error handling
41 * LastFM: Remove invalid tracks from the queue after a scrobbling error
42 * Mpris: Add CanSetFullscreen and Fullscreen properties
43 * Replace custom volume widget with gtk's VolumeButton
44 * Improved threading in some areas around GUI manipulation
47 Notable Bugs Fixed (69 fixed since 2.4.0):
49 * Migo.Syndication: Handle feeds with malformed enclosure URLs
50 * AmazonMp3.Store: Fix URL redirection for sign out action
51 * bgo#577396: AppleDeviceTrackInfo: Fix reading and writing rating values
52 * bgo#587756: MassStorage: Save playlists relative to BaseDirectory
53 * bgo#615219: Don't increment skip counter when restarting current track
54 * bgo#623974: BasicTrackDetailsPage: Blank year spin button when 0
55 * bgo#624976: Gui.Canvas.Rect: log invalid values for Width/Height
56 * bgo#626659: ServiceManager: check properly if a service is required
57 * bgo#634063: FileSystemQueueSource: Reload when tracks are imported
58 * bgo#634758: PlaylistSource: Make sure the right tracks are removed
59 * bgo#636450: PathPattern: Limit filename length to 200 characters
60 * bgo#642830: AppleDevice: Fix device loading if invalid tracks are present
61 * bgo#657769: PrimarySource: Make sure AddTrackJob is marked as finished
62 * bgo#661112: Gui.Canvas.Size: log invalid values for Width/Height
63 * bgo#662909: PlaylistParser: Retry HTTP request after timeout
64 * bgo#666696: DapSource: Flush pending changes when quitting
65 * bgo#671948: DapSource: Put the playlists below the default sources
66 * bgo#672744: UPnPServerSource: Fix crash when getting the root object
67 * bgo#673037: libossifer: Fix certificate validation with libsoup 2.38
68 * bgo#673416: DbIteratorJob: Abort job after several consecutive failures
69 * bgo#676144: PlayQueueSource: Fix high memory usage when shuffling
70 * bgo#677288: PrimarySource: Fix pruning of artists from the database
71 * bgo#679260: AppleDevice: Postpone invalid tracks drop to the sync cycle
72 * bgo#680679: PlayerEngine: Fix reporting of playback errors
73 * bgo#682510: Mpris: Only raise PropertiesChanged signal if value changed
74 * bgo#682996: Dap.MassStorage: PlaylistPaths to return empty array
75 * bgo#683359: SourceView: log errors in SetCellDataFunc to avoid crashing
76 * bgo#683498: a11y: Fix a NullReferenceException in ListViewAccessible
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86 * Banshee 2.6.0 Tarballs:
87 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/banshee/2.6/banshee-2.6.0.tar.xz
88 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/banshee/2.6/banshee-2.6.0.sha256sum
93 Download and installation information is available here:
95 * http://banshee.fm/download/
99 Linux http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/linux/banshee/
100 Windows http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/banshee/
101 OS X http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/mac/banshee/
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104 REPORT BUGS - HELP THE PROJECT - GROW THE COMMUNITY
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107 If you encounter any bad behavior with this release, please do not
108 hesitate to file bugs!
110 * http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs
111 * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=2.6.0
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115 VALUED BANSHEE CONTRIBUTORS
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118 Contributors For This Release
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121 The following people directly contributed to the release of this version
122 of Banshee. Without their help, there would be no release!
124 Alexander Kojevnikov, Andres G. Aragoneses, Bertrand Lorentz,
125 David Nielsen, Diego Fernandez, Fabrice Bellet, Javon Harper,
126 Jensen Somers, Kevin Anthony, Olivier Dufour, Pavol Babincak,
127 Phil Trimble, Roderich Schupp, Samuel Gyger, Timo Dörr
129 The following people contributed updated translations to this release.
130 Without them, our project's reach would be much more limited.
132 Aurimas Černius, Alexandre Franke, Andika Triwidada, Andreas Nesdal,
133 Andrej Žnidaršič, Bruno Brouard, Cheng-Chia Tseng, Chris Leonard,
134 Daniel Mustieles, Daniel Nylander, Daniel Winzen, Filipe Gomes,
135 Fran Diéguez, Gabor Kelemen, Gianvito Cavasoli, Ioannis Zampoukas,
136 Jordi Mas, Joe Hansen, Kentaro KAZUHAMA, Lucas Mezencio, Marek Černocký,
137 Martin Srebotnjak, Matej Urbančič, Muhammet Kara, Мирослав Николић,
138 Piotr Drąg, Praveen Illa, Rūdolfs Mazurs, Techlive Zheng,