Discuss.

• While Scott is working on all sorts of awesome, Gabriel and I are hard at work in mostly bug-fix mode to prepare for Banshee 1.4, to be released on November 10^th.

  Tomorrow we will release Banshee 1.3.2, the third release in the development series leading up to 1.4.

• Currently I am finishing up the new collection indexer API that allows other applications to index or monitor the Banshee library over DBus. Alex Launi is patiently acting as a guinea pig - implementing support in GNOME Do!

• Check out the new Banshee Calendar that we'll try to keep up to date and relevant, with new release information being added hopefully well in advance of actually making releases.

• Mono 2.0 has finally been released - and the web site got a huge, long over due face lift!

• And of course this weekend is the Boston GNOME summit! See you there!

Thanks!

Oh, in related news, I've finally removed all forms of traditional navigation on all my machines. No more main menu or slab. It's all Do, all the time. Try it!

Hopefully this can be addressed.... Until then, I'm going back to top.

They are well supported in at least MonoDevelop trunk right now, and switching your MonoDevelop 1.0 project layout to VisualStudio's layout means you can more easily develop on both Linux and Windows. This is a good thing for us working on Banshee (hint, hint).

MonoDevelop makes the conversion part fairly straight forward. Select your top level solution, right click it, and then Tools->Export. Select either VisualStudio 2005 or 2008. We're sticking with 2005 for now in Banshee since we only care about C# 2.0 at the moment. Choose an export directory, it'll be temporary.

Unfortunately, it gets a little hairy here, and I wish MonoDevelop had some sort of "convert in place" option (hint, hint, MD team). Open a terminal, change to the directory MonoDevelop exported the project hierarchy to, and run this:

PRJ_DIR=$HOME/svn/banshee; for x in $(find . -iregex '.*cs?proj$' \ 
    -o -name '*.sln'); do cp $x $PRJ_DIR/$(dirname $x); done;

Set PRJ_DIR to the directory of your project containing the project or solution file you originally exported.

This will ensure the new VisualStudio project/solution files are overlayed properly. Now you'll have to add them to your version control and remove the old mdp/mds files.

$ find . -iregex .*.cs?proj$ -o -iregex .*.sln$ | xargs svn add
$ find . -iregex .*.mds$ -o -iregex .*.mdp$ | xargs svn delete

Hurray for having both runtime and build time environments cross platform! We're looking forward to having contributors from both camps in the near future. More on this to come!

Update: Lluis points out that MD can in fact convert in place if you set the output directory to be the original directory. This seems too obvious :-).

I shared it with some friends on IRC and everyone seemed to find it the most revolutionary script of 2008, so maybe it's useful to the rest of the world.

In addition to printing the URL on the terminal, it also copies the URL into the primary X clipboard. This allows me to run the command upload foo and then quickly middle click the URL into IRC or a browser.

#!/bin/bash
user=username
host=host.org
[[ $# -lt 1 ]] && { echo "Not sure what to do..." 1>&2; exit 1; }
scp -r $* $user@$host:public_html && {
	URL="http://$host/~$user/$(basename $1)"
	echo "$URL"
	xselection -replace PRIMARY "$URL"
}

It assumes you have your ~/public_html directory on the server being shared over HTTP at /~username. In openSUSE 11.0, the xselection command is provided by, you guessed it, the xselection package.

Enjoy!

Well Internets, it's been two weeks since the last Banshee release - one packed with an impressive array of features and fixes. And so it is with immense pleasure that we present today a follow up release with many notable fixes, some love and polish, and lots of translation updates!

This release is mostly a maintenance update with 25 fixed bugs, lots of updated translations, and a few small enhancements that we're sure will please:

• Drag and drop albums or artists from the browser
• New import source to aid in importing videos from your camera
• Show cover art in Now Playing
• Pressing play will play the first track selected if nothing is loaded
• Pressing o on a track selection behaves the same as pressing enter
• Include never-played tracks when querying against last played (e.g. played>"2 days ago")
• Prefer cover art named cover/folder/front.jpg over other image files

Read the release notes for the full scoop, and download it now!

Packages are of course already available for openSUSE 11.0 and 10.3, and the other distributions will follow shortly, including Foresight, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Mandriva!

We'll blog soon about what's to come next, but expect another point release within the next couple of weeks. A super big thanks to all those who have contributed: translators, patchers, bug hunters, reviewers, testers, and enthusiastic users alike!

Enjoy! For now...

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On Thursday, June 19th at 6 PM, we'll be holding an openSUSE 11.0 launch party at the Novell Cambridge office at 8 Cambridge Center (Kendall Square area). If you're in the area, stop by with your appetite and a laptop. We'll provide the pizza, network, install media, and live CDs!

Please RSVP in a comment on this post as I need a head count for the pizza order.

We hope to see you there!

It is my immense pleasure to formally announce the release of Banshee 1.0. After nearly eight months of vigorous, non-stop work (since the last major Banshee release), it's here - and we couldn't be happier!

I'm not going to highlight much of the release in this post since we have written up some rather dashing release notes, full of pretty pictures and exciting detail.

Do yourself a service today, and try the release for yourself!

Install Banshee 1.0 - Binaries Ready Today

• Immerse yourself in the fun of Banshee 1.0 - Release Notes!
• Download Now

Release Highlights

I would however feel a little disappointed if I didn't at least mention some of the awesomeness that Banshee 1.0 has in store, but really, you should read our release notes. We spent a lot of time on them!

• Artist/Album browser
  Visually filter your collection with album art

• Video playback and management
  Create video playlists, smart playlists, browse, search, and sort your video library -- just like your music library

• Powerful Podcasting
  Supporting video podcasts and stream content before or while you download -- no waiting!

• Rich Last.fm integration
  Create your own radio stations and discover new music

• Play Queue Source
  You be the DJ

• Lots of supported hardware
  MTP/PlaysForSure players, USB mass storage players, iPods, audio CD playback and ripping, CD burning

• Performance improvements
  Better scalability, impressive speed, lower memory footprint

• Compelling framework
  It's easy to bring new features to life in Banshee through its powerful extension framework and rich APIs. In fact, most of the features in Banshee are extensions themselves. Drop into IRC and start hacking on your favorite feature today!

New Web Site -- Finally

Gabriel and I have spent the last four days cranking out the new Banshee web site. We've still got tons of content to organize and migrate from the old wiki, but we think this new web site will become a strong asset to the Banshee Project in due time.

Why are you still reading this?

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