http://abock.org Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:50:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two weeks to the day after the fantastic Alpha 2 release, I'm pleased to announce our third and most spectacular release, quickly leading up to the final Banshee 1.0. View the release notes Banshee 1.0 Alpha 3 Source openSUSE 10.3 users: Foresight 2.0 users: Use PackageKit or Conary to install banshee-1 Introducing Hardware Support I landed ... http://abock.org/2008/04/10/banshee-10-alpha-3/ You simply must attend LRL USA this year. It's going to be awesome. Gabriel and I will be demoing the latest Banshee goodies, there is an impressive speaker and exhibitor list that's sure to please, and I'm betting the evening social gatherings to be worth it all. So stop thinking of ... http://abock.org/2008/03/27/banshee-at-lugradio-live-usa/ After just under two weeks of hard work, I hereby present Banshee 1.0 Alpha 2! View the release notes Banshee 1.0 Alpha 2 Source openSUSE 10.3 users: Foresight 2.0 users: Use PackageKit or Conary to install banshee-1 We're going to be cranking out the releases leading up to the final 1.0 release every one ... http://abock.org/2008/03/26/banshee-and-the-second-alpha-rolls-along/ 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. http://abock.org/2008/03/20/banshee-is-friggin-awesome/ It is my immense pleasure to announce the first preview release of the next generation of Banshee. This Banshee 1.0 Alpha 1 release is a culmination of so much work by so many awesome contributors. Now, first things first. This is going to be a long post, so let me ... http://abock.org/2008/03/13/banshee-10-alpha-1/ I'm giving a demo tomorrow remotely and wanted to see how much VNC could take. Enable VNC server, run vncviewer against yourself, and play with Compiz -- or just move some windows around. The infinite mirror effect is always good for hours of entertainment, now in 3D. http://abock.org/2008/01/27/recursive-vnc-cubes/ A wonderful patch just landed in Banshee trunk, revived by Alexander Hixon that adds software equalization support -- the typical 10-band deal with a pre-amp. We had added most of what was necessary for this about 1.5 years ago, but never got around to finishing it. Ivan Zlatev did much ... http://abock.org/2008/01/25/software-eq-in-banshee/ I had the privilege this morning of being the guest "speaker" for the multimedia-themed openSUSE GNOME community meeting where I discussed some of the high level plans for the future of Banshee and what that may mean for openSUSE 11. I discussed the incredible performance and memory usage improvements, the ... http://abock.org/2008/01/24/banshee-and-opensuse-11/ I released Mono.Zeroconf 0.7.4 last night which is a minor bug fix release. Packages are available for openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, and Fedora. Sources and binaries are available for Linux, Windows and OS X. What I have found interesting about Mono.Zeroconf is a growing adoption by the Windows crowd. I have ... http://abock.org/2008/01/23/monozeroconf-074-and-cross-platform-glory/ I am building nightly, or semi-nightly, packages from the inkscape-current tarballs in the openSUSE Build Service. If you follow Inkscape and are running openSUSE 10.3, you may wish to subscribe to my home project repository and update your inkscape package from there: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/aaronbockover/openSUSE_10.3 Enjoy! The latest builds have been very awesome, I'm ... http://abock.org/2008/01/18/nightly-inkscape-packages/