Re: [Banshee-List] ANNOUNCE: Banshee 1.3.1

[Daniel Münch <mailinglists protzkeule de>]

Hi there,

I am somehow missing the option to customize the sorting in the browser, it was said to be included in the next release, is this still on the todo list?

I am talking about this dicussion, there were already mockups postet which I really liked:
http://www.nabble.com/Multi-Artist-albums-to18608481.html

Daniel

Am Montag, den 22.09.2008, 16:13 -0600 schrieb Aaron Bockover:
> Hello,
>
> We've released Banshee 1.3.1. This is the second release in the 1.3 unstable/development series leading up to the 1.4 stable series. We expect the 1.4 series to have a long life cycle since it will be included in SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (SLED).
>
> Major new features for the 1.3 series from the last stable (1.2.1) release:
>
>   * Vastly improved portable media player support:
>     - Real media player synchronization is now supported, along with the
>       classic ability to manually manage portable media players
>     - Playlists and Smart Playlists can now be saved to media players
>     - Cover art now syncs to USB mass storage devices
>
>   * Library rescanning - Banshee can now detect newly added, removed,
>     and relocated files and update its collection
>
>   * Freshly revamped track metadata editor
>
>   * Break the columns context menu into multiple columns
>
>   * Column widths should be much more reasonable
>     - Sensible width ranges set for time, dates, year, etc
>     - Some shorter labels used in column headers
>
>   * Option to rename files and folders when metadata changes
>
>   * Collection indexer service and DBus API - allows third party
>     applications like GNOME Do, Beagle, and Tangerine to create their
>     own queryable indexes of Banshee's collection, or query Banshee's
>     collection in real time
>
>   * Flat-file playlists can now be opened from the command line/nautilus
>   
>   * Podcasting improvements
>   
>   * New flashy Now Playing UI for displaying cover art
>   
>   * ReplayGain support
>
>   * Improved album and podcast browser speed
>
>   * Offline mode - control whether Banshee is able to access the Web
>     for extra metadata and other features
>
>   * Banshee will now ask if it should be the default media player
>
>   * Support for BPM, Grouping, BitRate, Conductor, DiscCount, and
>     IsCompilation reading, writing, columns, and searching.
>
>
> Notable bug fixes:
>
>   * Drag and Drop to Nautilus works again (BGO #535128) 
>   * Improved support for dark themes (BGO #544840)
>   * Improved ASX support (BGO #545646)
>   * Fix performance bug with loading USB Mass Storage DAPs (BGO #548254)
>   * Fix bug with the DAP usage bar being filtered (BGO #537366)
>   * Fix performance issue with album and podcast browsers (BGO #547628)
>   * Fix lots of threading/freezing issues
>   * Fix lots of avoidable crashes
>   * Remember sorting per source (BGO #524656)
>   * Audio CD crasher
>   * Allow editing Audio CDs' track info before ripping (BGO #532467)
>   * Dialogs' translation domain properly set (BGO #536268)
>   * Fix recent regression where the ListView scrolled to the 
>     top when you switched sources.
>   * Allow shrinking selections with shift-click (BGO #535561)
>   * Fix issue with it taking two clicks on the notification icon to
>     get the main window visible, if Banshee was minimized (BGO #551916)
>   * Don't give UI indication that the track list is sortable unless
>     it really is (BGO #551969)
>   * Over 100 bugs were closed since 1.2.1
>
> Download the source code:
> http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.3.1.tar.bz2
> sha1sum: 192ead72fc73a1c3f3e22f82f88608e951e2eb86
>
> Packages/Repository for openSUSE 11.0:
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Banshee:/Unstable/openSUSE_11.0+Banshee/
>
> Packages/Repository for openSUSE 10.3:
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Banshee:/Unstable/openSUSE_10.3+Banshee/
>
> PPA for Ubuntu:
> https://launchpad.net/~banshee-unstable-team/+archive
>
> Enjoy!
>
> --Aaron
>
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