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WELCOME TO BANSHEE 0.13.1
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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/0.13.1


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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 0.13.1 Tarballs:
   http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.13.1.tar.bz2
   http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.13.1.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-0.13.1.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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 * Added Undo/Redo support to the track editor (BGO #465736)

 * Play Internet Radio playlists from the open location dialog

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

 * 453420 - Fixed CD burning in GNOME 2.19.x+
 * 457711 - Added new managed playlist parsing that eliminates the need for
            totem-plparser (Aaron Bockover)
 * 468216 - Support GZipped compressed HTTP streams from last.fm in the 
            recommendation plugin (Christian Krause)
 * 451457 - Fixed parsing of similarity in recommendation plugin that would
            allow it to surpass 100% in some locales (Aaron Bockover)
 * 461596 - Expand $HOME and ~ in XDG user-dirs.dirs

Show all bugs marked FIXED during this release cycle
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 * http://banshee-project.org/files/closedbugs.php/2007-08-06,2007-08-20

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, Christian Krause

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, 
   Christian Krause, 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!


