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Banshee 2.5.1 - 2012-09-13
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Banshee 2.6.0 - 2012-09-29
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Banshee 2.5.1 is part of the 2.5 development series leading up to 2.6,
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scheduled for October 2012.
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Banshee 2.6 is the culmination of six months' work by 15 developers, 30
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translators and dozens of bug reporters and testers. It is a stable release,
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the successor to Banshee 2.4.
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* Lots of improvement on OS X:
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* Hardware support for USB mass storage devices.
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* Handle opening files directly in Finder.
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* Use native file chooser dialogs for importing files.
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* Improve keyboard shortcuts.
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* Fix various volume issues and inconsistencies.
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* Switch to gtk-mac-integration and move to cocoa API.
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* Add debug and logging facility to OS X launcher.
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* LastFM: Add device scrobbling support
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Enable Last.fm scrobbling of recent plays from a connected device.
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Currently only available on devices supported by the AppleDevice
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* File management options are now specific to each source
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The "Copy files when importing" and "Update file and folder names"
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settings can now be set independently for Music and Videos.
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* LargeTrackInfoDisplay: Display track rating in "Now Playing" view
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* MassStorage: Support the Samsung Galaxy Nexus Android phone
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* Re-enable the AAC audio profile
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* ThickClient: Append 'Banshee' to window title
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* MassStorage: Support reading playlists from multiple folders
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* Last.fm: Switch to 2.0 API for scrobbling and improve error handling
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* LastFM: Remove invalid tracks from the queue after a scrobbling error
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* Mpris: Add CanSetFullscreen and Fullscreen properties
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* Replace custom volume widget with gtk's VolumeButton
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* Improved threading in some areas around GUI manipulation
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Notable Bugs Fixed (69 fixed since 2.4.0):
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* Migo.Syndication: Handle feeds with malformed enclosure URLs
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* AmazonMp3.Store: Fix URL redirection for sign out action
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* bgo#577396: AppleDeviceTrackInfo: Fix reading and writing rating values
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* bgo#587756: MassStorage: Save playlists relative to BaseDirectory
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* bgo#615219: Don't increment skip counter when restarting current track
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* bgo#623974: BasicTrackDetailsPage: Blank year spin button when 0
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* bgo#624976: Gui.Canvas.Rect: log invalid values for Width/Height
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* bgo#626659: ServiceManager: check properly if a service is required
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* bgo#634063: FileSystemQueueSource: Reload when tracks are imported
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* bgo#634758: PlaylistSource: Make sure the right tracks are removed
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* bgo#636450: PathPattern: Limit filename length to 200 characters
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* bgo#642830: AppleDevice: Fix device loading if invalid tracks are present
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* bgo#657769: PrimarySource: Make sure AddTrackJob is marked as finished
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* bgo#661112: Gui.Canvas.Size: log invalid values for Width/Height
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* bgo#662909: PlaylistParser: Retry HTTP request after timeout
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* bgo#666696: DapSource: Flush pending changes when quitting
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* bgo#671948: DapSource: Put the playlists below the default sources
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* bgo#672744: UPnPServerSource: Fix crash when getting the root object
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* bgo#673037: libossifer: Fix certificate validation with libsoup 2.38
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* bgo#673416: DbIteratorJob: Abort job after several consecutive failures
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* bgo#676144: PlayQueueSource: Fix high memory usage when shuffling
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* bgo#677288: PrimarySource: Fix pruning of artists from the database
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* bgo#679260: AppleDevice: Postpone invalid tracks drop to the sync cycle
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* bgo#680679: PlayerEngine: Fix reporting of playback errors
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* bgo#682510: Mpris: Only raise PropertiesChanged signal if value changed
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* bgo#682996: Dap.MassStorage: PlaylistPaths to return empty array
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* bgo#683359: SourceView: log errors in SetCellDataFunc to avoid crashing
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* bgo#661112: Gui.Canvas.Size: log invalid values for Width/Height
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* bgo#683498: a11y: Fix a NullReferenceException in ListViewAccessible
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The following people directly contributed to the release of this version
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of Banshee. Without their help, there would be no release!
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Andres G. Aragoneses, Bertrand Lorentz, Kevin Anthony, Roderich Schupp,
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Alexander Kojevnikov, Andres G. Aragoneses, Bertrand Lorentz,
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David Nielsen, Diego Fernandez, Fabrice Bellet, Javon Harper,
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Jensen Somers, Kevin Anthony, Olivier Dufour, Pavol Babincak,
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Phil Trimble, Roderich Schupp, Samuel Gyger, Timo Dörr
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The following people contributed updated translations to this release.
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Without them, our project's reach would be much more limited.
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Alexandre Franke, Cheng-Chia Tseng, Daniel Mustieles, Daniel Winzen,
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Filipe Gomes, Fran Diéguez, Marek Černocký, Matej Urbančič, Piotr Drąg,
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Praveen Illa, Мирослав Николић
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Aurimas Černius, Alexandre Franke, Andika Triwidada, Andreas Nesdal,
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Andrej Žnidaršič, Bruno Brouard, Cheng-Chia Tseng, Chris Leonard,
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Daniel Mustieles, Daniel Nylander, Daniel Winzen, Filipe Gomes,
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Fran Diéguez, Gabor Kelemen, Gianvito Cavasoli, Ioannis Zampoukas,
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Jordi Mas, Joe Hansen, Kentaro KAZUHAMA, Lucas Mezencio, Marek Černocký,
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Martin Srebotnjak, Matej Urbančič, Muhammet Kara, Мирослав Николић,
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Piotr Drąg, Praveen Illa, Rūdolfs Mazurs, Techlive Zheng,