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WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.2.1 - Released August 12, 2008
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  * Banshee is a multimedia management and playback application for GNOME.

    "Import, organize, and discover new music with Banshee through its simple
    and powerful interface and wide array of innovative features. Create 
    your own radio stations or listen to a friends' through Last.fm integration;
    experience automatic cover art fetching as you listen; and easily browse,
    search, and control your media collection."

  * Learn More: http://banshee-project.org/download/archives/1.2.1/


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OTHER NOTES
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    These changes were made to ensure that you can run older Banshee releases
    in parallel with new Banshee releases:

    * The location of the user configuration directory for Banshee 1.x changed
      from ~/.config/banshee to ~/.config/banshee-1 (where ~/.config is defined
      by XDG policy)

    * The base GConf path used for storing settings via the GNOME backend
      changed from /apps/banshee to /apps/banshee-1; an XML configuration file
      will be used if the GNOME backend extension is not installed


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SOURCES / PACKAGES
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Sources
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    * Banshee 1.2.1 Tarballs:
      http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.2.1.tar.bz2
      http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.2.1.tar.gz

Packages
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    Packages for openSUSE 11.0, openSUSE 10.3, and openSUSE Factory are 
	available from the openSUSE Build Service in the Banshee project.

    * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Banshee/

ChangeLogs & Checksums
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    * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.2.1.changes
	* http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.2.1.sha1sum


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DEPENDENCIES
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    * Mono 1.2.2 (.NET 2.0 Profile / gmcs)
    * SQlite 3.4
    * Gtk# 2.10
    * GStreamer 0.10.3

    * NDesk DBus (ndesk-dbus) 0.5
    * NDesk DBus GLib (ndesk-dbus-glib) 0.3
    * Mono.Addins (mono-addins) 0.3.1
    * TagLib# (taglib-sharp) 2.0

    * Required to build default feature stack:
      * libmtp >= 0.2.0 (0.2.6 recommended)
      * ipod-sharp >= 0.8.0
      * mono-zeroconf >= 0.7.3
      * boo >= 0.8.1

    * Run-time requirements for default feature stack:
      * podsleuth 
      * brasero
      * avahi

    Please note that for openSUSE, all of the dependencies above can be 
    found in the openSUSE Build Service, and are linked into the 
    Banshee project. Even if you build from source, if you wish
    to avoid building the entire dependency chain above, add the 
    Banshee repository to your repository list.

    Historically, Banshee has fostered development of a number of projects
    and bundled their source code instead of depending on external builds.
    Many of these dependencies have matured and grown into well maintained
    projects on their own, and we are now depending on them externally. We
    waited to remove the bundles long enough to allow for distributions to
    ship packages to reduce the pain of building Banshee.


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NEW AWESOME FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS
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    Banshee 1.2.1 builds on the successful Banshee 1.2 release, adding better 
    translation coverage, several bug fixes, and a couple new features.

    Big features and bug fixes in this release include:

      * Drag and drop albums or artists from the browser
      * Show cover art in Now Playing
      * Translation updates from 19 translators
      * Fix bug with loading USB Mass Storage Players
      * Fix ASX and mms:// support
      * Fix a common crash when quitting Banshee 1.2

    Other features, bug fixes, and errata:

      * New import source to aid in importing videos from your camera
      * Amarok importer now migrates date added and last played
      * 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 for last played > N
      * Prefer cover art named cover/folder/front.jpg over other image files
      * Fix crash when editing smart playlists with date fields

      * 24 bugs were fixed since 1.2


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REPORT BUGS - HELP THE PROJECT - GROW THE COMMUNITY
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    If you encounter any bad behavior with this release, please do not
    hesitate to file bugs!

    * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=1.2.1


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VALUED BANSHEE CONTRIBUTORS
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Contributors For This Release
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    The following people directly contributed to the release of this version
    of Banshee. Without their help, there would be no release!

      Aaron Bockover, Benjamín Valero Espinosa, Bertrand Lorentz,
      Brian Teague, Félix Velasco, Gabriel Burt, Jo Shields

    The following people contributed updated translations to this release. 
    Without them, our project's reach would be much more limited.

      Ahmad Farghal, Alexandre Franke, Alexandre Prokoudine, Andre Klapper,
      Benjamín Valero Espinosa, Claude Paroz, Daniel Nylander, Fabricio Godoy,
      Gabor Kelemen, Gianvito Cavasoli, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Jochen Skulj,
      Jordi Mas, Mark Krapivner, Og Maciel, Tomasz Dominikowski, Vladimir Melo,
      Wouter Bolsterlee, Žygimantas Beručka

Contributors In Past Releases
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    Aaron Bockover, Alan McGovern, Alexander Hixon, Alexandros Frantzis,
    Alex Kloss, Alex Launi, Alp Toker, Andy Midgette, Arthur Carli,
    Aydemir Ulaş Şahin, Benjamín Valero Espinosa, Ben Maurer,
    Bertrand Lorentz, Bill Dawson, Bob Copeland, Bojan Rajkovic, Brian Nickel,
    Brian Teague, Chris Lahey, Christian Krause, Christopher Halse Rogers,
    Chris Toshok, Chris Turchin, Daniel Munkton, Dan Wilson, Dan Winship,
    Eric Butler, Fabian Jost, Félix Velasco, Fredrik Hedberg, Gabriel Burt,
    Hans Petter Jansson, Igor Guerrero Fonseca, Ilya Konstantinov,
    Ivan N. Zlatev, James Willcox, Jan Arne Petersen, Jason Conti, Jeff Tickle,
    Jorge Castro, Jo Shields, Juri Pakaste, Ken Vandine, Larry Ewing,
    Lauri Kotilainen, Michael Kaiser, Michael Monreal, Miguel de Icaza,
    Mike Urbanski, Nathan Palmer, Nicholas Parker, Oscar Forero,
    Patrick van Staveren, Pepijn van de Geer, Peter de Kraker,
    Ruben Vermeersch, Sandy Armstrong, Scott Peterson, Sebastian Dröge,
    Tim Yamin, Todd Berman, Trey Ethridge, Will Farrington, Wouter Bolsterlee
