Re: [Banshee-List] Fetching Metadata

["Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

In my experience, dealing with PPAs is not the most intuitive experience 
and given that indeed you're having problems, why not just upgrade your 
version of Ubuntu, which should bring a much newer version of Banshee 
out of the box?


On 11/01/13 08:43, SUDDENTWIGS wrote:
> I see. Musicbrainz has no problem finding the metadata, so I guess the
> problem is Banshee. When I say I have tried to install 2.6, I mean I have
> been to the software, centre, uninstalled my existing Banshee, and installed
> the one on the Software Centre, which should presumably be the most recent
> version. However the problem is the same and under the About tab it still
> says I am using 1.6.1. I had a look on this site, and it says:
>
> "Banshee is a default app on Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10. Ubuntu has a policy of
> not updating the version of a shipped application, so the version available
> in the default repository might be old. Note that Canonical modifies our
> code to take a 75% cut of our Amazon affiliate revenue. If you use Banshee
> from the community PPA below, 100% of the affiliate revenue will go to
> GNOME.
>
> To add the community-run Banshee Team PPA:
> In a terminal, run sudo add-apt-repository ppa:banshee-team/ppa
> Then install or update Banshee"
>
> I did this, and still I ended up with 1.6.1. If I could just install a 2.6
> deb package, would that possibly do the trick?