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WELCOME TO BANSHEE 0.13.0
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 * Banshee is a music management and playback application for GNOME.

   "Import, organize, play, and share your music using Banshee's simple, 
    powerful interface. Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, 
    and burn audio CDs. Most portable music devices are supported. Banshee 
    also has support for podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, 
    and much more."

 * Learn More: http://banshee-project.org/Discover
 * Release Overview Page: http://banshee-project.org/Releases/0.13.0


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 * Welcome
 * Module Notes
 * Get The Goods
   - Sources
   - ChangeLogs
   - Dependencies
 * New Stuff
   - Features
   - Localization
 * Bugzilla Overview
   - Noteworthy bugs fixes/enhancements embraced in this release
   - Show all bugs marked FIXED during this release cycle
   - File Bugs... Be Proactive... Contribute to Open Source!
 * Miscellaneous
   - Contributors for this release
   - Contributors for past releases
   - Thanks!


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MODULE NOTES
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 * The location of the user configuration directory for Banshee changed from
   ~/.gnome2/banshee to and XDG based directory, typically ~/.config/banshee

 * The banshee-official-plugins module has been merged with core, so 
   banshee-official-plugins is now obsolete
 
 * libipoddevice (0.5.3) and ipod-sharp (0.6.3) are required for iPod support

 * Helix support has been removed from core and is now available from
   the Helix Banshee community project. More information regarding Helix
   support can be found at: http://helix-banshee.helixcommunity.org
 

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GET THE GOODS
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Sources
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 * Banshee 0.13.0 Tarballs:
   http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.13.0.tar.bz2
   http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.13.0.tar.gz
 
 * ipod-sharp 0.6.2 Tarball:
   http://banshee-project.org/files/ipod-sharp/ipod-sharp-0.6.3.tar.gz

 * libipoddevice 0.5.2 Tarball:
   http://banshee-project.org/files/libipoddevice/libipoddevice-0.5.3.tar.gz

 * njb-sharp 0.3.0 Tarball:
   http://banshee-project.org/files/njb-sharp/njb-sharp-0.3.0.tar.gz

ChangeLogs
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 * http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.13.0.changes

Dependencies
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 * Mono 1.2.x and full stack
 * gtk-sharp-2.0 2.8 or 2.10
 * GStreamer 0.10.3 or better (0.10.12+ Recommended)
 * sqlite3
 * libmusicbrainz 2.1.1 or better
 * libnautilus-burn 2.12 or better
 * GTK+ 2.8 or better
 * HAL 0.5.2 or better (0.5.6+ Recommended)


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NEW STUFF
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Features
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 * Import and Export playlists in M3U and PLS formats (Trey Ethridge)
 
 * New Bookmarks plugin (Gabriel Burt)
 
 * Share local playlists over DAAP (Daniel Munckton, BGO #407672)

 * Use org.gnome.SettingsDaemon if it is available for multimedia keys
   support in the core, but fall back on legacy multimedia keys plugin 
   if not available (Aaron Bockover, Jan Arne Petersen, BGO #395433)

 * Added a date column to the track view (Pepijn van de Geer, BGO #392232)

 * Embed an interactive rating menu item in the track view menu (Aaron Bockover)

 * New search entry widget and improved searching performance

 * Support importing the libraries of other music players, including
   Rhythmbox and Amarok (Sebastian Dröge, BGO #378430)

 * Simplified track view context and notification area menus (Gabriel Burt)

 * Detect and use XDG_MUSIC_DIR if it is set, otherwise use ~/Music

 * Allow rating the current track from the notification area icon 
   (Pepijn van de Geer, BGO #337157)

 * Reverse menu items in notification area menu depending on the location of
   the panel/tray so that the most common functionality is always closest 
   to the notification area icon (less distance to travel with mouse to 
   access common functions) (Aaron Bockover)

 * Very basic support for the new GStreamer Install Plugins framework if
   built against GStreamer 0.10.12 or better. 

 * Use TagLib# 2.0 (Sebastian Dröge, Aaron Bockover, BGO #436743)

 * Create cdda GStreamer elements by URI and do not hardcode a dependency
   on cdparanoia

Localization
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 * New Translations: Dzongkha (Pema Geyleg), Latvian (Raivis Dejus), 
   Portuguese (Filipe Gomes)

 * Updated Translations: Arabic (Ahmad Farghal), Brazilian Portugese 
   (Vladimir Melo,  Og Maciel, Daniel Abreu), British English (David Lodge), 
   Bulgarian (Vladimir Petkov), Catalan (Jordi Mas), Czech (Jakub Friedl), 
   Danish (Lasse Bang Mikkelsen), Finnish (Ilkka Tuohela), French (Jonathan 
   Ernst, Robert-André Mauchin, Stéphane Raimbault), Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen), 
   Polish (Artur Flinta), Russian (Alexandre Prokoudine), Swedish (Daniel 
   Nylander)
 

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BUGZILLA OVERVIEW
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Noteworthy bugs fixes/enhancements embraced in this release
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 GNOME Bugzilla

 * 415138 - Ensure sources that are not CanActivate really can't be
            activated (Scott Peterson)
 * 410498 - Do not forget audio profile setting (Lauri Kotilainen) 
 * 381229 - Prevent recommended cache from corruption (Pepijn van de Geer)
 * 419163 - Fixed crash regarding PSP devices (Jason Conti)
 * 406923 - Fixed crash in DAAP (Eric Butler)
 * 334132 - Make track view popup menu accessible from keyboard (Bill Dawson)
 * 398489 - Sort playlists in "Add to Playlis" menu (Pepijn van de Geer)
 * 416991 - Ensure functions are not aliased twice in Boo Buddy (Scott Peterson)
 * 424951 - Fixed p_help() in Boo Buddy (Ruben Vermeersch)
 * 410183 - Fix string capitalization errors (Igor Guerrero Fonseca)
 * 432200 - Major bug fixes in the recommendations plugin (Aaron Bockover)
 * 433668 - Fixed crash if embedded picture data is null (Dan Wilson)
 * 425247 - Support the 'stop' multimedia key (Bojan Rajkovic)
 * 436741 - Check playbin before pausing (Sebastian Dröge)
 * 398484 - Use 16x16 versions of the playlist icons in places (Michael Monreal)
 * 445770 - Fixed progress reporting in Mass Storage DAP (Pepijn van de Geer)
 * 446037 - Other Mass Storage DAP fixes (Pepijn van de Geer)
 * 443027 - Use SetCurrentFolder instead of SetFilename on FileChooserButton
            to avoid a race condition in GTK+ (Ilya Konstantinov)
 * 443048 - Only call Eject on storage volume if storage.requires_eject is
            not set or is true (Ilya Konstantinov)

 Unfiled Bug Fixes

 * Fixed many issues with the rating widgets (Aaron Bockover)

 * Added ugly hack in GStreamer engine to get around a bug in qtdemux 
   when it encounters DRM-free files from the iTunes Plus store

Show all bugs marked FIXED during this release cycle
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 * http://banshee-project.org/files/closedbugs.php/2007-04-01,2007-08-05

File Bugs... Be Proactive... Contribute to Open Source!
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 * Please do not hesitate to file bugs against Banshee in GNOME Bugzilla.
 * http://bugzilla.gnome.org, component: banshee
 * Banshee Community Forums: http://banshee-project.org/forums
 * Discuss Banshee on the mailing list or in #banshee on irc.gnome.org.
 * Lots of information on the Banshee Wiki: http://banshee-project.org
 * Need to debug Banshee? http://banshee-project.org/Debugging


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MISCELLANEOUS
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Contributors for this release
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   Community makes Open Source work!

   Aaron Bockover, Bill Dawson, Bojan Rajkovic, Brian Nickel, Dan Wilson, 
   Daniel Munckton, Eric Butler, Gabriel Burt, Igor Guerrero Fonseca, 
   Ilya Konstantinov, James Willcox, Jan Arne Petersen, Jason Conti, 
   Lauri Kotilainen, Michael Monreal, Pepijn van de Geer, Ruben Vermeersch, 
   Scott Peterson, Sebastian Dröge, Trey Ethridge

Contributors for past releases [1]
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   Aaron Bockover, Alexandros Frantzis, Alp Toker, Bertrand Lorentz, Bill 
   Dawson, Bob Copeland, Bojan Rajkovic, Brian Nickel, Chris Turchin, 
   Christopher James Halse Rogers, Dan Wilson, Daniel Munkton, Eric Butler, 
   Gabriel Burt, Igor Guerrero Fonseca, Ilya Konstantinov, Jakub Steiner, James 
   Willcox, Jan Arne Petersen, Jason Conti, Juri Pakaste, Lauri Kotilainen, 
   Michael Monreal, Mike Urbanski, Nathan Palmer, Patrick van Staveren, 
   Pepijn van de Geer, Ruben Vermeersch, Sebastian Dröge, Scott Peterson, 
   Tim Yamin, Trey Ethridge

   [1] This list is actually only accurate since 0.11.3. I need to grep the
   ChangeLog to build a complete list. If your name is missing here, feel
   free to let us know, or just wait for it to appear in a later release.

Thanks!
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   Enjoy the release! We appreciate your support and involvement!


