Comments on: Banshee 0.9.11.1 – My iPods think I’m Hawt http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:57:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Aaron Bockover http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/comment-page-1#comment-104 Aaron Bockover Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:00:18 +0000 http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/#comment-104 Is there a GStreamer plugin for ALAC? Is there a GStreamer plugin for ALAC?

]]> By: Aaron Bockover http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/comment-page-1#comment-103 Aaron Bockover Sat, 12 Nov 2005 18:57:19 +0000 http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/#comment-103 Banshee fetches album covers only for CDs right now. If you play or rip a CD you will get cover art provided MusicBrainz returns an ASIN for the album. It will show up in top-right corner of the interface near the volume button if you play a track which has a cover (ripped track or playing a CD). Hover your mouse over the small thumbnail and a full resolution popup window of the cover will be displayed in the center of your screen. I will add fetching for cover art for all tracks in your library soon. Banshee fetches album covers only for CDs right now. If you play or rip a CD you will get cover art provided MusicBrainz returns an ASIN for the album. It will show up in top-right corner of the interface near the volume button if you play a track which has a cover (ripped track or playing a CD). Hover your mouse over the small thumbnail and a full resolution popup window of the cover will be displayed in the center of your screen. I will add fetching for cover art for all tracks in your library soon.

]]> By: vaskark http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/comment-page-1#comment-102 vaskark Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:31:16 +0000 http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/#comment-102 Banshee fetched the album cover? Where is this displayed? I'm not seeing it :( Banshee fetched the album cover? Where is this displayed? I’m not seeing it :(

]]> By: Michael P http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/comment-page-1#comment-100 Michael P Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:32:53 +0000 http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/#comment-100 Oh, okay, that's hot. I didn't know about that! I was using a seperate script to do the mp3 conversion, then pointing banshee to those mp3s instead of my flacs. How decidedly unproductive of me! Thanks for the tip! Oh, okay, that’s hot. I didn’t know about that! I was using a seperate script to do the mp3 conversion, then pointing banshee to those mp3s instead of my flacs.

How decidedly unproductive of me! Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: Aaron Bockover http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/comment-page-1#comment-99 Aaron Bockover Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:45:43 +0000 http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/#comment-99 Banshee uses GStreamer for transcoding and CD playback/ripping. For regular file playback it also uses GStreamer, but can optionally be changed to use Helix/RealPlayer or VLC engines, depending on how it was configured. Playback engines are loaded at runtime though, are completely dynamic, and can be changed within Banshee. For syncing to an iPod, Banshee automatically transcodes unsupported formats to iPod-supported formats (MP3, probably, because I've yet to see faac work under GStreamer for MP4). Banshee also ships with the Xing MP3 encoder and a GStreamer plugin for it, if you don't have Lame. If you do have Lame, use it, because it's a little better. Banshee uses GStreamer for transcoding and CD playback/ripping. For regular file playback it also uses GStreamer, but can optionally be changed to use Helix/RealPlayer or VLC engines, depending on how it was configured. Playback engines are loaded at runtime though, are completely dynamic, and can be changed within Banshee.

For syncing to an iPod, Banshee automatically transcodes unsupported formats to iPod-supported formats (MP3, probably, because I’ve yet to see faac work under GStreamer for MP4). Banshee also ships with the Xing MP3 encoder and a GStreamer plugin for it, if you don’t have Lame. If you do have Lame, use it, because it’s a little better.

]]> By: Michael P http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/comment-page-1#comment-98 Michael P Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:23:10 +0000 http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/#comment-98 Wait, what do you use for the flac->mp3 conversion? Does Banshee do that automagically? Wait, what do you use for the flac->mp3 conversion? Does Banshee do that automagically?

]]> By: AdamW http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/comment-page-1#comment-96 AdamW Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:20:56 +0000 http://abock.org/2005/11/11/banshee-09111-my-ipods-thinks-im-hawt/#comment-96 Well, that just means you _obviously_ need to implement ripping to ALAC. :) Well, that just means you _obviously_ need to implement ripping to ALAC. :)

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