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WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.5.4 - Released February 24, 2010
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  * Banshee is a multimedia management and playback application for GNOME.

    "Import, organize, and discover new music with Banshee through its simple
    and powerful interface and wide array of innovative features. Create
    your own radio stations or listen to a friends' through Last.fm integration;
    experience automatic cover art fetching as you listen; and easily browse,
    search, and control your media collection."

  * Learn More: http://banshee-project.org/download/archives/1.5.4


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NEW AWESOME FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS
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    Banshee 1.5.4 brings many big changes, new features, and fixes!

    New Features:

      * Opt-In Usage Data Collection

          Under Preferences, you can choose to "Improve Banshee by sending
          anonymous usage data" back to the Banshee developers.  This collects
          information on what version you're running, what OS, library size,
          slow SQL queries, and a whitelisted subset of your preferences. This
          information will help us choose better defaults and see what parts of
          Banshee are used most and can be improved. All collected data is
          anonymous!

      * Default Equalizer Presets

          Banshee now ships with several equalizer presets, and the core of
          the equalizer management has seen much internal improvement.

      * Banshee Community Extensions

          A new sub-project named Banshee Community Extensions has been
          created.  Its code is hosted on Gitorious, and its bugs tracked
          in bugzilla.gnome.org.  It already contains 9 extensions, including
          AlarmClock, Lyrics, and Mirage, and has 15 maintainers.  Its releases
          track Banshee's; for more information, see

            http://banshee-project.org/download/extensions/

      * Extensible Shuffle Modes

          Extensions can now add new shuffle modes and PlayQueue fill-by
          modes.  The Mirage extension is the first to take advantage of this,
          adding a Shuffle/Fill-by Similar mode based on acoustical analysis.

    Enhancements:

      * Wikipedia context pane extension enabled by default
      * Add support for Nokia N900 phones
      * Add tooltip to playback error column
      * On close Internet Archive item, return to Search
      * Notify user if trying to sync missing file to DAP
      * Popup explanation of manual playlist ordering when appropriate
      * Simplify the default set of columns in Podcasts
      * Enable 'Delete From Drive' action in File System Queue
      * Make debuggable from within MonoDevelop
      * Coverart for unicode artist/albums now supported
      * Dropped glade-sharp dep; GNOME 3.0 ready
      * Add columns showing track sample rate and bits per sample
      * Option to sort an artist's albums by year, not title
      * If starting Banshee hidden (--hide), up to half a second of
        startup time is saved; this is particularly useful in Moblin

    Notable bug fixes:

      * Fixes to GIO backend
      * Many crash/startup fixes for OS X build
      * Strange input bug on OS X fixed - you can now type/search as expected
      * Enable LibraryWatcher only for Music and Video libraries
      * Do better job preserving IsCompilation metadata
      * Store some PlayQueue settings in the db (not GConf)
      * Update to Last.fm's API change for scrobbling/recs
      * Bring back static FileNamePattern API used by some scripts
      * Fix several memory leaks

      * 40 bugs were fixed since 1.5.3


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SOURCES / PACKAGES
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Sources
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    * Banshee 1.5.4 Tarballs:
      http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.4/banshee-1-1.5.4.tar.bz2
      http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.4/banshee-1-1.5.4.tar.gz

Packages
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    Download and installation information is available here:

    * http://banshee-project.org/download/

    Packages for openSUSE 11.2, openSUSE 11.1, openSUSE 11.0 and
    openSUSE Factory are available from the openSUSE Build Service in the
    Banshee project.

    * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Banshee/

    Binaries for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6:

    * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.5.4.macosx.intel.dmg

ChangeLogs & Checksums
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    * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.4/banshee-1-1.5.4.changes
    * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.4/banshee-1-1.5.4.sha256sum


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DEPENDENCIES
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    * Mono 1.9.1 (.NET 2.0 Profile / gmcs)
    * SQlite 3.4
    * Gtk# 2.12
    * GStreamer 0.10.12

    * NDesk DBus (ndesk-dbus) 0.5
    * NDesk DBus GLib (ndesk-dbus-glib) 0.3
    * Mono.Addins (mono-addins) 0.3.1
    * TagLib# (taglib-sharp) >= 2.0.3.5

    * 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 >= 0.8.5
      * mono-zeroconf >= 0.8.0
      * boo >= 0.8.1
      * GIO support requires glib >= 2.22, gio-sharp and gtk-sharp-beans
      * Library Watcher extension requires Mono >= 2.4.3
      * Accessibilty for ListView and Rating widgets requires Gtk# >= 2.12.10

    * Run-time requirements for default feature stack:
      * PodSleuth >= 0.6.6
      * Brasero >= 0.8.1
      * Avahi
      * gst-plugins-bad (providing the bpmdetect GStreamer plugin)

    Packagers:
      * --with-vendor-build-id=<foo> should always be set and detail the distro
        name and version (e.g. openSUSE 11.1), and the repository origin, such
        as 'Banshee Team PPA'; for example, the %distribution macro is used in
        the openSUSE Build Service, which expands to something like this:
        'home:gabrielburt:branches:Banshee / openSUSE_Factory'; also the
        build/configure time is stored along with the host OS and CPU

    Please note that for openSUSE, all of the dependencies above can be
    found in the openSUSE Build Service, and are linked into the
    Banshee project. Even if you build from source, if you wish
    to avoid building the entire dependency chain above, add the
    Banshee repository to your repository list.

    Historically, Banshee has fostered development of a number of projects
    and bundled their source code instead of depending on external builds.
    Many of these dependencies have matured and grown into well maintained
    projects on their own, and we are now depending on them externally. We
    waited to remove the bundles long enough to allow for distributions to
    ship packages to reduce the pain of building Banshee.


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REPORT BUGS - HELP THE PROJECT - GROW THE COMMUNITY
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    If you encounter any bad behavior with this release, please do not
    hesitate to file bugs!

    * http://banshee-project.org/contribute/file-bugs
    * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=1.5.4


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VALUED BANSHEE CONTRIBUTORS
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Contributors For This Release
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    The following people directly contributed to the release of this version
    of Banshee. Without their help, there would be no release!

      Aaron Bockover, Alan McGovern, Alexander Kojevnikov, Anders Petersson,
      Andreas Nilsson, Andrés G. Aragoneses, Bertrand Lorentz, Chow Loong Jin,
      Christopher Halse Rogers, Gabriel Burt, Jakub Steiner,
      K. Vishnoo Charan Reddy, Pavel Antonov, Romain Tartière, Sandy Armstrong

    The following people contributed updated translations to this release.
    Without them, our project's reach would be much more limited.

      Andrej Žnidaršič, António Lima, Benjamin Valero Espinosa, Gabor Kelemen,
      Okano Takayoshi, Petr Kovar, Kentaro Kazuhama, Žygimantas Beručka

Contributors In Past Releases
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    Aaron Bockover, Alan McGovern, Alex Bennee, Alex Kloss, Alex Launi,
    Alexander Hixon, Alexander Kojevnikov, Alexandros Frantzis, Alp Toker,
    Anders Petersson, Andrea Cimitan, Andreas Neustifter, Andreas Nilsson,
    Andrew Conkling, Andrés G. Aragoneses, Andy Midgette, Arthur Carli,
    Aydemir Ulaş Şahin, Ben Maurer, Benjamín Valero Espinosa,
    Bertrand Lorentz, Bertrand Lorentz, Bill Dawson, Bob Copeland,
    Bojan Rajkovic, Brad Taylor, Brandon Perry, Brian Lucas, Brian Nickel,
    Brian Teague, Chow Loong Jin, Chris Howie, Chris Jones, Chris Lahey,
    Chris Toshok, Chris Turchin, Christian Krause, Christoph Burgdorf,
    Christopher James Halse Rogers, Cody Russell, Cosmin Banu, Dan Wilson,
    Dan Winship, Daniel Munkton, Daniel Siegel, David Spreen, David Stone,
    Diego E. Pettenò, Eitan Isaacson, Elena Grassi, Eoin Hennessy,
    Eric Butler, Erik Schmidt, Fabian Jost, Felipe Almeida Lessa,
    Florent Thoumie, Fredrik Hedberg, Félix Velasco, Gabriel Burt,
    Garrett LeSage, Götz Waschk, Haitao Feng, Hans Petter Jansson, Iain Lane,
    Igor Guerrero Fonseca, Ilya Konstantinov, Ivan N. Zlatev, Jack Deslippe,
    Jakub Steiner, James Willcox, Jan Arne Petersen, Jason Conti, Jason Taylor,
    Jeff Tickle, Jeff Wheeler, Jensen Somers, Jo Shields, Johannes Kuhn,
    John Millikin, Jorge Castro, Juri Pakaste, Jérémie Laval,
    K. Vishnoo Charan Reddy, Ken Vandine, Larry Ewing, Lauri Kotilainen,
    Lukas Lipka, Matt Enright, Michael Kaiser, Michael Martin-Smucker,
    Michael Monreal, Michael Monreal, Miguel de Icaza, Mike Urbanski,
    Moritz Schallaböck, Nathan Palmer, Neil Loknath, Nicholas Doyle,
    Nicholas Parker, Nicolò Chieffo, Nils Naumann, Oben Sonne, Olivier Duff,
    Oscar Forero, Pacho Ramos, Patrick van Staveren, Paul Lange, Pavel Antonov,
    Pepijn van de Geer, Peter de Kraker, Pratik Patel, Przemysław Grzegorczyk,
    Roderich Schupp, Romain Tartière, Ruben Vermeersch, Ryan Collier,
    Sandy Armstrong, Scott Peterson, Sebastian Dröge, Tim Yamin,
    Tobias Mueller, Todd Berman, Travis Glenn Hansen, Trey Ethridge,
    Valentin Sawadski, Will Farrington, William Pettersson, Wouter Bolsterlee
