Comments on: Banshee 0.10.7 http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:57:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Aaron Bockover http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/comment-page-1#comment-418 Aaron Bockover Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:11:43 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/#comment-418 Please post these kinds of questions to the <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/banshee-list" rel="nofollow">Banshee Mailing List</a> or IRC. My personal blog is not a support forum. Please post these kinds of questions to the Banshee Mailing List or IRC. My personal blog is not a support forum.

]]> By: Abe http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/comment-page-1#comment-417 Abe Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:52:21 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/#comment-417 I need some compile help. I'm getting: ./ImportManager.cs(194,5): error CS0104: `Stat' is an ambiguous reference between `Mono.Unix.Stat' and `Mono.Unix.Native.Stat' Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings Thanks! I need some compile help. I’m getting:

./ImportManager.cs(194,5): error CS0104: `Stat’ is an ambiguous reference between `Mono.Unix.Stat’ and `Mono.Unix.Native.Stat’
Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings

Thanks!

]]> By: Aaron Bockover http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/comment-page-1#comment-414 Aaron Bockover Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:18:01 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/#comment-414 I love it when people scream HIG. Yes, I was unsure of the proper wording for this and meant to confirm it before the release, but it slipped through the cracks. Will fix with whatever is appropriate for the next release. I love it when people scream HIG. Yes, I was unsure of the proper wording for this and meant to confirm it before the release, but it slipped through the cracks. Will fix with whatever is appropriate for the next release.

]]> By: Alan http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/comment-page-1#comment-411 Alan Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:25:10 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/#comment-411 Something about the question "Do not show this dialog again" doesn't feel right. The important issue is not the dialog but the question. If I recall correctly uses a phrase more like "Do not ask again" which is more appropriate. A different workding could also helps avoid well meaning translators who wonder if dialog should be translated into dialogue for British users. (I contend it should not be translated for the same reason we dont translate program except television programme, the implication being "computer program".) The Gnome HI Guidelines recommend against this kind of dialog for several reasons. If you dont want it to keep coming up maybe it might be better to ask the question some other way, and if users do decide they dont want to see it again is there any way for them to change their mind later and reenable the dialog to be shown. If you can think of another way to approach the overall problem you might end up with a much better solution, so if you can spare the time it might be worth thinking about it further. Good luck. Something about the question “Do not show this dialog again” doesn’t feel right. The important issue is not the dialog but the question. If I recall correctly uses a phrase more like “Do not ask again” which is more appropriate.
A different workding could also helps avoid well meaning translators who wonder if dialog should be translated into dialogue for British users. (I contend it should not be translated for the same reason we dont translate program except television programme, the implication being “computer program”.)

The Gnome HI Guidelines recommend against this kind of dialog for several reasons. If you dont want it to keep coming up maybe it might be better to ask the question some other way, and if users do decide they dont want to see it again is there any way for them to change their mind later and reenable the dialog to be shown. If you can think of another way to approach the overall problem you might end up with a much better solution, so if you can spare the time it might be worth thinking about it further.
Good luck.

]]> By: Jon Cooper http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/comment-page-1#comment-366 Jon Cooper Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:43:05 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/#comment-366 "I’m generally more interested in moods [...] Maybe Leaftag could come to the rescue here" "What I’d love to do eventually is implement a tagging system in Banshee, much like F-Spot has. You tag your music to describe it…" "What I really need is a way to associate the language with the songs." I think Leaftag is definitely the way forward for all of the above situations. Banshee could support existing tags in the file system (an mp3 tagged "french" would match an existing "in-Banshee" language tagset, "happy" would match a mood tagset etc. That would rock! Using inotify / other mechanism, when tags are updated via the file manager / other application, Banshee would also be aware, and vice-versa. I “I’m generally more interested in moods [...] Maybe Leaftag could come to the rescue here”

“What I’d love to do eventually is implement a tagging system in Banshee, much like F-Spot has. You tag your music to describe it…”

“What I really need is a way to associate the language with the songs.”

I think Leaftag is definitely the way forward for all of the above situations. Banshee could support existing tags in the file system (an mp3 tagged “french” would match an existing “in-Banshee” language tagset, “happy” would match a mood tagset etc. That would rock! Using inotify / other mechanism, when tags are updated via the file manager / other application, Banshee would also be aware, and vice-versa.

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]]> By: Kenneth Christiansen http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/comment-page-1#comment-364 Kenneth Christiansen Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:11:11 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/#comment-364 What I really need is a way to associate the language with the songs. I like different languages and cultures like many others and use music to get more aquainted with these. Currently I live in German and as such listens to a lot of German music. As I have a Brazilian girlfriend I also listen to Portuguese music in order to learn the language and the culture better. I currently use the Gender for this, but it would be nicer to have some kind of language tag. Since I am interested in languages many of my "songs" are actually "audio books" and it would be nice to be able to mark them as such. What I really need is a way to associate the language with the songs. I like different languages and cultures like many others and use music to get more aquainted with these.

Currently I live in German and as such listens to a lot of German music. As I have a Brazilian girlfriend I also listen to Portuguese music in order to learn the language and the culture better. I currently use the Gender for this, but it would be nicer to have some kind of language tag.

Since I am interested in languages many of my “songs” are actually “audio books” and it would be nice to be able to mark them as such.

]]> By: RichB http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/comment-page-1#comment-363 RichB Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:20:16 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/#comment-363 Architecturally nice as a Beagle plug-in is, it would be much more user friendly to hide the Beagle plug-in from the UI and simply invoke it from a "search my disk for audio" menu option. Architecturally nice as a Beagle plug-in is, it would be much more user friendly to hide the Beagle plug-in from the UI and simply invoke it from a “search my disk for audio” menu option.

]]> By: Aaron Bockover http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/comment-page-1#comment-362 Aaron Bockover Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:26:15 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/#comment-362 What I'd love to do eventually is implement a tagging system in Banshee, much like F-Spot has. You tag your music to describe it... and then make AND/OR queries to select tagged music to match your mood, among other groupings. In a more confined and closely related set, rating becomes more relevant and on scale. "Show me 30 of the highest rated songs tagged with sunday, rainy, and cold in randomly sorted by rating" What I’d love to do eventually is implement a tagging system in Banshee, much like F-Spot has. You tag your music to describe it… and then make AND/OR queries to select tagged music to match your mood, among other groupings. In a more confined and closely related set, rating becomes more relevant and on scale.

“Show me 30 of the highest rated songs tagged with sunday, rainy, and cold in randomly sorted by rating”

]]> By: Juri Pakaste http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/comment-page-1#comment-361 Juri Pakaste Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:16:00 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/#comment-361 Yeah, the genre concept is pretty silly. I'm generally more interested in moods - is a piece of music something I'd like to listen to while having a long breakfast on a sunny sunday morning? While eating a candle-lit dinner? While getting sloshed with a bunch of friends? While cleaning the house? While coding? Maybe Leaftag could come to the rescue here. The other thing I never got about basically all the modern audio players out there is the rating system - how am I supposed to rate tracks by The White Stripes, Autechre, Miles Davis and Beethoven on the same scale? And actually do something useful with that information? Yeah, the genre concept is pretty silly. I’m generally more interested in moods – is a piece of music something I’d like to listen to while having a long breakfast on a sunny sunday morning? While eating a candle-lit dinner? While getting sloshed with a bunch of friends? While cleaning the house? While coding? Maybe Leaftag could come to the rescue here.

The other thing I never got about basically all the modern audio players out there is the rating system – how am I supposed to rate tracks by The White Stripes, Autechre, Miles Davis and Beethoven on the same scale? And actually do something useful with that information?

]]> By: Marc http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/comment-page-1#comment-360 Marc Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:57:43 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/03/06/banshee-0107/#comment-360 Nevermind Nevermind

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