Tag Archives: mono

Announcing Banshee 1.7.3

We’re very proud to announce the release of Banshee 1.7.3, which brings some much anticipated WebKit goodness: the Amazon MP3 Store and the Miro Podcast Directory integration. Amazon MP3 downloading is fully supported, separate from the integrated store itself. There … Continue reading

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Tarballs – Why?

More and more I begin to wonder why we generate tarballs at all these days. Is it just because it’s easy – a function of “make distcheck”? There’s certainly value in the actual distcheck process to ensure you have a … Continue reading

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | 37 Comments

Amazon MP3 Store in Banshee

I’ve landed a new extension in Banshee — an integrated Amazon MP3 Store source. This source allows you to browse, search, preview, purchase, and download music from the Amazon MP3 web site. Building on last week’s announcement of the Amazon … Continue reading

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 19 Comments

Banshee for MeeGo

After lots of intense work and collaboration, the Netbook profile for MeeGo 1.0 has been released today. As such, I am particularly pleased to announce in conjunction that Banshee is the default and integrated media player for MeeGo. Currently, MeeGo … Continue reading

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Banshee 1.5.3 and the return of OS X support

The Banshee community is proud to announce the availability of Banshee 1.5.3! With a slew of new features and bug fixes, and a fully refreshed Mac OS X build, this is another solid release on the road to 1.6 (due … Continue reading

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 11 Comments

Banshee Grid View

Spread out over a number of hours over the last few weeks I’ve been working on making our high-performance list view in Banshee also handle grid-style layouts. That is, all the benefits of our polished list widget with a new … Continue reading

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , | 25 Comments

Mono 2.6 + MonoDevelop 2.2 on openSUSE 11.2

Fantastic news — Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop 2.2 are out! Be sure to read the detailed Mono 2.6 release notes. If you are running openSUSE 11.2, it’s quite simple to safely update your entire Mono stack and stay up to … Continue reading

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Exciting updates on the road to Banshee 2.0

At the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit last week I demoed my new work-in-progress Netbook-focused interface to Banshee called Cubano. Cubano is designed with the Netbook in mind, but is certainly not limited to such a device. I prefer this clean … Continue reading

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 49 Comments

Mono 2.0 wins developer product of the year award!

Congratulations to the Mono project for winning the Developer.com Product of the Year Award in the .NET Tool/Add-in category! "It is no surprise to see Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) take the prize for technology of the year; however, seeing the … Continue reading

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Cross Platform thoughts through the lense of Banshee

Banshee 1.3.2 on Mac OS X 10.5 A huge amount of thanks goes to Eoin Hennessy for all of his efforts to bring Banshee to the Mac. Eoin singlehandedly fixed cross platform bugs in our core, worked out some kinks … Continue reading

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | 23 Comments