20Mar/0812
Banshee is friggin awesome
As overheard recently in the #banshee IRC channel:
<woodwizzle> Is there a way I can select all the songs in a directory? ...
<gabaug> woodwizzle: search for path:directoryname
<gabaug> that's path[colon]directoryname
<woodwizzle> ooh, thats cool
<woodwizzle> in fact that is friggin awesome
Our query support is fantastic. Try the alpha.
March 20th, 2008 - 18:39
doesn’t seem to want to add anything to the library in Ubuntu hardy for me
March 20th, 2008 - 20:00
That looks pretty awesome, although why is there no genre field? Believe it or not, this is sometimes useful – for example splitting my musical into classical and not classical.
March 20th, 2008 - 20:47
The new query language is great but it doesn’t seem to be possible to search on arbitrary tags, so I seems pretty limited compared to what is available in some other media players.
For example, how can I do to search for all tracks that have the “version” tag set to ‘instrumental’?
March 20th, 2008 - 21:18
@cryptonic: I suggest filing a bug report instead of using my blog. It’s actually not a support forum.
@Henry: Genre exists, but there is still an unfinished portion of the new list view that doesn’t allow you to see all of the columns. It’ll be addressed in a subsequent alpha release.
@Arthrun: It’s not a limitation of the query support – it searches any column in our database. However, we don’t index _every_ single tag in files. Maybe we should index that one. File a bug.
March 20th, 2008 - 21:19
It’d be nice to have -”dave matthews” hardcoded into *all* searches please. >:)
March 20th, 2008 - 21:23
I thought banshee looked cool but in terms of handling large play lists it doesn’t do very well, and for some reason now when i start it up it goes into a dead state ;(
March 20th, 2008 - 21:49
Aaron, this one was merely an example. The fact is that there are many useful tags that users could want to use and search for. For me, it’s the “version” tag, but maybe for another it would be the “language” tag or the “license” tag (What if I want to search for Italian songs that are licensed under Creative Commons?).
The metadata indexing system should be flexible and allow to search for any metadata present in files.
But enough whining. The job you guys have done is really awesome, keep up the good work
March 21st, 2008 - 08:15
Banshee users go insane :P, who in the world use friggin this days? and what the heck is friggin
March 21st, 2008 - 10:25
Now bring back i18n support please
March 21st, 2008 - 12:35
@Alexandre: i18n never left. There have been a lot of string changes, so I’m sure the coverage isn’t as great is at used to be.
March 21st, 2008 - 12:39
Well, actually it simply doesn’t work in the prerelease. All the messages are in English. Probably it’s because of the executable’s file name change.
BTW, do translators have to be reading the mailing list to be aware of upcoming releases?
March 21st, 2008 - 16:39
@Aaron : in fact the query function might be awesome, but it is hard to translate. That’s why we need to make extensive test for this new release of Banshee.
Respectfully,
Bob (one of your french translators)