[Banshee-List] Fedora 18 and Banshee - A sad frustrating story

[Philip Gillißen <guerda freenet de>]

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Hi folks!

I usually don't rant that way on a mailing list, as it does not help
very much, but this time, one of my essential applications is not usable
anymore and I want to fix this.

Since I installed Fedora 18, Banshee does not work 10 minutes straight.
It crashes frequently (DBUS misconfiguration it seems [1]), it always
starts with 100% volume ([2], [3]) and sometimes, the next track does
not start playing at all. This is all very frustrating and I'm very
surprised, how unusable banshee is under Fedora 18. On Fedora 17,
Banshee was the perfect music player.
I really don't know, where the bugs come from (it looks like it's in the
DBUS and the volume issue is a Banshee bug), but I got the impression,
that these problems are not recognized as major. I would be glad to help
out fixing the identified bugs (testing, reporting back), as my Banshee
is not usable at the moment.

I really hope, that the bugs get some attention and that I can help to
make Banshee on Fedora awesome again!
This really should not be any finger pointing, I just want to find a
solution!

To be fair: The flat-volume trick helped and also the Ubuntu upstream
patch improved the situation a bit. But nonetheless, if you install
Banshee in a vanilla Fedora 18, it is not usable.

Kind regards,
Philip

[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867133
[2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868077
[3]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908991
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