Re: [Banshee-List] Version 1.6

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:23 AM, James Lewis <james fsck co uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:26 -0500, Gabriel Burt wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:02 AM, precipitous <precipitous media cox net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Now that the March 30 deadline has passed, has a new release date been set
>> > for version 1.6? I am anxiously awaiting any new features it may contain...
>>
>> March 30 was never a "deadline" - it was a very rough estimate of when
>> we thought we might get 1.6 out.  Unfortunately we're not quite ready
>> for 1.6 yet.  It may be a couple months off yet.  But, I think we will
>> have a 1.5.0 release much sooner.  The 1.5.x series of releases will
>> be developer/beta releases preparing for a solid 1.6 stable release.
>> The only thing really blocking a 1.5.0 release is setting up some
>> performance tests to root out regressions.
>>
>> I'm glad you're looking forward to it, though!  If you want to test
>> the many many changes that have already been made since 1.4.3 - and if
>> you want to help get 1.6 out faster by fixing bugs - checkout the code
>> from svn - http://banshee-project.org/download/development
>>
> Speaking of new features... I have one simple one to suggest, make sure
> the OGG tagging for Album Artist will read the tags written by
> Rhythmbox.  Banshee looks really nice, but I'm sure that many people
> like me have hundreds of CD's ripped with Rhythmbox, and although I
> agree after looking at the actual tags, Banshee is "more correct"... it
> would still seem logical to allow people to switch to banshee without
> having to re-tag or re-rip thousands of tracks.

Thanks for bringing it up, James, though since you filed a bug already
it's probably better to keep discussion of it there.  This list
reaches 400+ people.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572020

Gabriel