Banshee 1.5.0 released!
Intro
After six months of work by more than 30 contributors, we have released Banshee 1.5.0 (aka 1.6 beta 1)! We have an astounding 95 people listed in our developer credits now!
As I recently tweeted, we are also lighting up bugzilla. So far in 2009, # bugs: 950 commented on, 501 closed, 428 filed, 171 with new patches attached!
Release Information
This is a beta release, debuting a lot of big underlying changes. It also has tons of fixes, polish, and performance improvements. Some feature highlights:
- BPM Support
With Banshee 1.5.0, you can autodetect the BPM of songs in your library, or you can manually set it by tapping the beat. Then, you can sort, search, or make smart playlists based on BPM. - Automatic Scoring
As you play songs in Banshee 1.5.0, it will automatically assign them scores (0 - 100) based on if/when you press skip.
BPM and Score columns - Rhythmbox Migrator
Banshee 1.5.0 can import your Rhythmbox collection, including ratings, play counts, and playlists. - Separate Library Locations
You can now specify separate library locations for your music, video, and podcast libraries. - Creative Commons Integration
A new column displays Creative Commons licensing info where applicable (and properly tagged). The license can be edited in the track editor (see below). There is also a new default Last.fm station for songs tagged 'Creative Commons'.
Track editor, showing BPM and License URI
See the 1.5.0 release notes to read about and see screenshots of the dozens of enhancements and fixes!
Get It!
Since this is a beta release, we are not distributing this through the same channels as our stable releases. Visit our download page or talk to your distro to see if they have a beta channel for Banshee.
- openSUSE and SLED
- Ubuntu (may not be built yet, be patient)
- Mac OS X
- Source tarball
- Directly from GNOME git
Digg It!
17 comments:
dugg :)
It looks like the ubuntu PPA build failed. This is at 10:30pm on Jun 1st American Central Time.
My God! thanks! autoscoring was the only thing I was missing from amarok, now banshee is complete!
Now I hope there are ubuntu debs anytime soon !
good job!
is there any chance of banshee supporting other streaming radios now that last.fm is no longer free?
When I first read the BPM paragraph I thought I could search for songs with a specific BPM by tapping my mouse in the desired frequency, that doesn't seem to be the case though..?
Still no support for multiple tags and proper display and handling of these like Quod Libet have?
Still no support for gapless playback. That's the only thing that makes me keep rhythmbox.
ubuntu PPA inactive ??
https://launchpad.net/~banshee-unstable-team/+archive/ppa/+builds?build_text=&build_state=building
nothing is currently building :(
Lyrics?
I'm waiting this for years =(
The Banshee Unstable PPA has been inactive for a long while. You should be using the Banshee Team PPA... and wait for them to build 1.5.
Banshee is Awesome. I've been using it since Amarok 2.0 failure and I don't regret.
Nice features were added and I hope to see some other 'till 1.6 final. Keep up a good work ;-)
No rpm yet for openSUSE 11.0? :( (the correct version is not here: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Banshee:/Unstable/openSUSE_11.0+Banshee/i586/ )
Nice with Rythmbox import.
I once wrote a (C#) library to migrate winamp data (rating, playcount) and put it into banshee (http://code.google.com/p/winamp-db-migrator/). If you guys ever want to add support for importing from winamp, the code is there for you to use (it's a lib + command line tool now, so it'll have to be morphed into a plugin i guess)
Anyway, just wanted to let you know. Great work with the release. Banshee is easily the best media player around.
What about playbin2?
how do you import Rhythmbox data? i can't see it in the Import Media To Library option... where is it?
@Rafael: I think it's only looking for your RB library in the old location, not where recent RB puts it; will be fixed in 1.5.1
ohhh!
well, thanks a lot
i'll be looking for 1.5.1
importing rhythmbox data was the only reason i was going to switch from rhythmbox
i suppose i'll have to wait
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