Comments on: Banshee 1.0 Alpha 1

By: Aleksey

Aleksey — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:44:08 +0000

First an official part for Banshee developers: Congrats on the release!)

Now that wished to tell:
I agree with Livio about tree widget… I think should land directly in GTK/

p.s: new banshee logo very nice! ))

By: Livio

Livio — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:16:53 +0000

IMO, that tree widget should land directly in GTK, because it is awesome.
F-Spot is going to use it too, in a great way.

I also have in mind modifications to Totem’s sidebar, using this widget.

By: John Calcote

John Calcote — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:52:37 +0000

Aaron, I’m finally getting truly converted to Linux after all these years. I’ve been developing on linux for several years now, but only on a secondary machine. For personal use, I’ve stayed with Windows because of all it does for me “transparently”. For instance, I can play any type of file using most all players, WMP, QT, iTunes, etc. Whenever I’ve tried in the past to move to Linux for my music needs, I’d run into one brick wall after another regarding formats. Now, I have tunebites, which will let me convert anything to anything on my home Win32 box. What format do you recommend as one that will simply be supported forever by the free software world? –thanks! John

By: Aaron Bockover » Banshee: and the second alpha rolls along

Aaron Bockover » Banshee: and the second alpha rolls along — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:18:31 +0000

[...] video support and other changes since Alpha 1, read the release notes. Also don’t forget to read about the previous release which has lots of new juicy feature overviews if this is your first time reading about the Banshee [...]

By: Brad Jensen

Brad Jensen — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:44:29 +0000

abock,

You mean this tag?
http://eblognuts.org/brad/easytag.jpg

- I already have those tags set, as you can see from that screen shot.. and Winamp on Windows sorts my tracks perfectly. :/

Also, here is what it looks like even though I have the disc number meta data filled in like shown in the easytag screen shot:

http://eblognuts.org/brad/banshee-1.jpg

- now, in the alpha version i can’t get the meta tag editor to work without having banshee crash, if i hit the E key on the keyboard or i right click and go to it, or even if i click it from the menu at the top, banshee alpha always crashes when i try to open it.

So, here is a screen shot of the meta editor in banshee 0.13.2:

http://eblognuts.org/brad/banshee-meta.jpg

- in that window i see nothing in either tab that deals with the disc number meta data like u said in the comment above,,

By: Aaron Bockover

Aaron Bockover — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:34:12 +0000

@Brad: Banshee 1 Alpha 1 sorts by track and disc exactly like you said, however, you need to actually set the disc index tag, not some text in the album field. There is actually a metadata property in all tag formats for disc index. You can set it using the track editor in Banshee.

Here’s proof: http://abock.org/~aaron/banshee-disc-sorting.png

By: Brad Jensen

Brad Jensen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:02:57 +0000

I’ve been using the new Alpha of Banshee and was wondering if this will get fixed..

Say I have one album with more than one disc to the album.
I name the album-tag the same on all discs, not including the stupid (disc 2), (disc 3) and such at the end of the album-tag..

In the “track viewer”, this is what Banshee shows now, and in this order:

track=1 disc=1
track=1 disc=2
track=2 disc=1
track=2 disc=2

This is what Banshee should show:

track=1 disc=1
track=2 disc=1
track=1 disc=2
track=2 disc=2

Thanks again for the great music manager,
Brad Jensen

By: paul cutler’s blog » Blog Archive » Foresight stuff from around the web

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:29:02 +0000

[...] first alpha of the new Banshee is also available for testing in 2-qa, available as [...]

By: jojomonkey

jojomonkey — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:46:03 +0000

aaron & banshee developers,

man…! it’s f’ing beautiful. 1-click didn’t work for me, missing Banshee.Services, but src compiled clean. interface is great, love the new album/cover listing, and the fade in graphics is sweet.

By: Brad Jensen

Brad Jensen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:37:52 +0000

I love Banshee!

You guys are awesome.
Thank you!