[banshee] NEWS almost ready to go for 1.5.0

[Gabriel Burt <gburt src gnome org>]

commit aeb1bc70c8ecdd7ce4c87b739983729ba743987c
Author: Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>
Date:   Thu May 21 18:30:17 2009 -0500

    NEWS almost ready to go for 1.5.0
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 NEWS |  103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 1 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9a0f6b6..2b7a206 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -17,47 +17,70 @@ WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.5.0 - Released May 22, 2009 - "The Keyboard Cat Release"
 NEW AWESOME FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS
 ===============================================================================
 
-    Banshee 1.5.0 is an unstable, beta release.  It brings many big changes and
-    new features, and is the first release in what will become 1.6.0.
+    Banshee 1.5.0 is an unstable, beta release.  It brings many big changes,
+    new features, and fixes, and is the first release in what will become 1.6.0.
     
-    Improvements:
-
-      * Add support for itms:// podcast links (BNC #465149)
-      * Audio CDs appear in the Import Media dropdown (BNC #457918)
-      * Right align track #, disc #, bpm, play/skip count columns (BGO #553322)
+    New Features:
+
+      * Powerful unicode-aware case-insensitive search; i.e. n matches Ã? and vice-versa
+      * Locale-specific, case-insensitive, unicode-aware sorting
+      * Artist/album/track sort fields support; i.e. can set artist sort to "Beatles, The"
+      * Separate library locations for Music, Video, and Podcast
+      * Creative Commons-aware license column/field
+      * Score column/field, automatically updated when played/skipped
+      * Beats per minute (BPM) support: column/field, preference to autodetect library-wide
+      * Rhythmbox library/metadata importer
+
+    Enhancements:
+
+      * Support importing/exporting XSPF playlists
+      * Support loading ASF playlists
+      * Whitelist .spx, 669, it, med, mod, mol, mtm, nst, s3m, stm, ult, wow, xm, and xnm
+      * Source-specific preferences, accessible via Preferences dialog and via sources' context menu
+      * Much improved child source sorting - live, persistent, with group-by-type option
+      * Priorty and resource-ware job scheduler; i.e. pauses BPM detection while importing
+      * Podcast espisode details tabs in track information/editor
+      * Can rename podcasts
+      * Can unsubscribe/download/refresh multiple podcasts at a time
+      * New 'Creative Commons' default Last.fm station
+      * New Refresh button for Last.fm stations
+      * More accurate seeking with click/DnD, can use mouse scrollwheel
+      * Make it easier to edit and reset ratings
+      * Compatibile with new actionless notification systems
+      * Only scale cover art for notification-daemon system
+      * Add mnemonics to track editor fields and import dialog
+      * Show device sync summary; how items sync would add/remove
+      * Make previous button go back if less than 4 seconds into a song
 
     Notable bug fixes:
 
-      * Handle parsing non-UTF8 RSS feeds (BGO #538224)
-      * Fix bug with Rescan UI being glitchy, CPU heavy (BGO #552561)
-      * Don't import podcast episodes during Rescan (BGO #552976)
-      * Fix localization issue with audio profiles (BNC #449788)
-      * Fix duplicating and clearing File System Queue playlists
-      * Set the mimetype on ripped tracks (BGO #558526)
-      * Fix opening to a specific device/cd (BNC #461677)
-      * Fix support for playing m3u's etc passed in from Firefox (BNC #456120)
-      * Fixed Rio Karma support (BGO #566205)
-      * Escape closes the equalizer dialog (BGO #552818).
-      * Fix crash that occured near the end of syncing a DAP (BGO #558662)
-      * Fix audio cd crash when running in certain languages (BGO #565059)
-      * Deleting last track in a folder on MassStorage works (BGO #560550) 
-      * Support passing filenames with spaces to banshee-1 (BNC #440883) 
-      * Prevent browser panes from being made zero height (BGO #560675)
-      * Prevent DAAP-related freeze by delaying initialization (BNC #450125)
-      * Fix unsubscribing from the last podcast (BGO #560210)
-      * Fix issue with first track's TrackCount in editor (BGO #561083)
-      * Fix albums sometimes listed twice, as compilation and not (BGO #557313)
-      * Fix podcast episodes' published date when playing (BGO #565863)
-      * Fix bug with encoding/scrobbling non-ASCII info (BGO #539963)
-      * Fix case-sensitivity bug with genre smart playlists (BGO #555120)
-      * Support parsing dates for some invalid RSS feeds (BGO #561381)
-      * Files with uppercase extensions show in import dialog (BGO #566224)
-      * 62 bugs were FIXED since 1.4.1
-
-    OS X specific:
-
-      * Fix support for mp3 playback on OS X
-      * Updated to latest GStreamer release (0.10.22 core, 0.10.22 base)
+      * Fix problems with subscribing and downloading some podcasts
+      * Unescape URLs received from Last.fm so can open in browser
+      * Don't show Skip button in now-playing notification for radio tracks
+      * Fixed notification area popup position on multi-monitor systems
+      * Support and default to using %album_artist% in folder organization preference
+      * Revamped illegal filename characters code to not be overly strict
+      * Trim periods and spaces appropriately for NTFS compatibility
+      * Make the source list accessible
+      * Visibly disable repeat/shuffle when in Play Queue
+      * Update UI when changing repeat/shuffle via dbus
+      * Better feedback while waiting for network streams to connect
+      * Fix bugs with device playlist sync
+      * Fix bugs with MTP device track transfer
+      * Fix bug with device sync where it would repeatedly remove/add the same tracks
+      * Fix mass storage device support to respect folder_depth (like it used to)
+      * Fix bug with transferring ratings to iPods
+      * Focus the track list on jump-to-playing item
+      * Fix several relatively minor ListView rendering and interaction issues
+      * Right-align the header text of right-aligned columns
+      * Fix size/position restoration on startup/notification-area toggle
+      * Fix the track editor forward/back buttons to focus/select the current field
+      * Disable track editor field-sync for Track Artist when is compilation checked
+      * Fix bug with reading bitrate on VBR tracks
+      * Fix bug with getting the release year from MusicBrainz
+      * Improve the rating rendering, including fixing it for dark themes
+
+      * 165 bugs were FIXED since 1.4.4
 
 
 ===============================================================================
@@ -98,7 +121,7 @@ ChangeLogs & Checksums
 DEPENDENCIES
 ===============================================================================
 
-    * Mono 1.2.6 (.NET 2.0 Profile / gmcs)
+    * Mono 1.9.1 (.NET 2.0 Profile / gmcs)
     * SQlite 3.4
     * Gtk# 2.10
     * GStreamer 0.10.3
@@ -106,14 +129,14 @@ DEPENDENCIES
     * NDesk DBus (ndesk-dbus) 0.5
     * NDesk DBus GLib (ndesk-dbus-glib) 0.3
     * Mono.Addins (mono-addins) 0.3.1
-    * TagLib# (taglib-sharp) 2.0.3.1
+    * TagLib# (taglib-sharp) 2.0.3.1 (2.0.3.2 recommended)
 
     * Required to build default feature stack:
       * libmtp >= 0.2.0 
         * Note to packagers: since libmtp has different .so files for
           different versions, you need to require in your package the same
           version of libmtp you used to build Banshee.
-      * ipod-sharp >= 0.8.1
+      * ipod-sharp >= 0.8.1 (0.8.2 recommended)
       * mono-zeroconf >= 0.8.0
       * boo >= 0.8.1