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WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.4.2 - Released January 20, 2009 - "The Obama Release"
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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/1.4.2/


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NEW AWESOME FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS
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    Banshee 1.4.2 is primarily a bug fix release, and is considered stable.
    
    Improvements:

      * Add support for itms:// podcast links (BNC #465149)
      * Audio CDs appear in the Import Media dropdown (BNC #457918)
      * Right align track #, disc #, bpm, play/skip count columns (BGO #553322)

    Notable bug fixes:

      * Handle parsing non-UTF8 RSS feeds (BGO #538224)
      * Fix bug with Rescan UI being glitchy, CPU heavy (BGO #552561)
      * Don't import podcast episodes during Rescan (BGO #552976)
      * Fix localization issue with audio profiles (BNC #449788)
      * Fix duplicating and clearing File System Queue playlists
      * Set the mimetype on ripped tracks (BGO #558526)
      * Fix opening to a specific device/cd (BNC #461677)
      * Fix support for playing m3u's etc passed in from Firefox (BNC #456120)
      * Fixed Rio Karma support (BGO #566205)
      * Escape closes the equalizer dialog (BGO #552818).
      * Fix crash that occured near the end of syncing a DAP (BGO #558662)
      * Fix audio cd crash when running in certain languages (BGO #565059)
      * Deleting last track in a folder on MassStorage works (BGO #560550) 
      * Support passing filenames with spaces to banshee-1 (BNC #440883) 
      * Prevent browser panes from being made zero height (BGO #560675)
      * Prevent DAAP-related freeze by delaying initialization (BNC #450125)
      * Fix unsubscribing from the last podcast (BGO #560210)
      * Fix issue with first track's TrackCount in editor (BGO #561083)
      * Fix albums sometimes listed twice, as compilation and not (BGO #557313)
      * Fix podcast episodes' published date when playing (BGO #565863)
      * Fix bug with encoding/scrobbling non-ASCII info (BGO #539963)
      * Fix case-sensitivity bug with genre smart playlists (BGO #555120)
      * Support parsing dates for some invalid RSS feeds (BGO #561381)
      * Files with uppercase extensions show in import dialog (BGO #566224)
      * 62 bugs were FIXED since 1.4.1

    OS X specific:

      * Fix support for mp3 playback on OS X
      * Updated to latest GStreamer release (0.10.22 core, 0.10.22 base)


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SOURCES / PACKAGES
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Sources
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    * Banshee 1.4.2 Tarballs:
      http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.4.2.tar.bz2
      http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.4.2.tar.gz

Packages
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    Download and installation information is available here:

    * http://banshee-project.org/download/

    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/

    Binaries for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5:

    * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.4.2.macosx.intel.dmg

ChangeLogs & Checksums
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    * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.4.2.changes
    * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.4.2.sha1sum


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DEPENDENCIES
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    * Mono 1.2.6 (.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) 2.0.3.1

    * Required to build default feature stack:
      * libmtp >= 0.2.0 
        * Note to packagers: since libmtp has different .so files for
          different versions, you need to require in your package the same
          version of libmtp you used to build Banshee.
      * ipod-sharp >= 0.8.1
      * mono-zeroconf >= 0.8.0
      * boo >= 0.8.1

    * Run-time requirements for default feature stack:
      * PodSleuth (0.6.4)
      * Brasero   (0.8.1)
      * Avahi

    Packagers:
      * --with-vendor-build-id=<foo> should always be set and detail the distro 
        name and version (e.g. openSUSE 11.1), and the repository origin, such
        as 'Banshee Team PPA'; for example, the %distribution macro is used in
        the openSUSE Build Service, which expands to something like this:
        'home:gabrielburt:branches:Banshee / openSUSE_Factory'; also the
        build/configure time is stored along with the host OS and CPU

    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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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://banshee-project.org/contribute/file-bugs
    * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=1.4.2


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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 Espinos, Bertrand Lorentz,
      Bob Copeland, Brandon Perry, Christoph Burgdorf, Eoin Hennessy,
      Erik Schmidt, Félix Velasco, Gabriel Burt, Ivan N. Zlatev,
      John Millikin, Nicholas Doyle, Wouter Bolsterlee

    The following people contributed updated translations to this release. 
    Without them, our project's reach would be much more limited.
 
      Benjamin Valero, Daniel Nylander, Fábio Nogueir, Gabor Kelemen,
      Gianvito Cavasoli, Gintautas Miliauskas, Lasse Bang Mikkelsen,
      Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Og Maciel, Tomasz Dominikowski, Wouter Bolsterlee

Contributors In Past Releases
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    Aaron Bockover, Alan McGovern, Alexander Hixon, Alexandros Frantzis,
    Alex Kloss, Alex Launi, Alp Toker, Andrés G. Aragoneses, Andy Midgette,
    Arthur Carli, Aydemir Ulaş Şahin, Benjamín Valero Espinosa, Ben Maur
    Bertrand Lorentz, Bill Dawson, Bob Copeland, Bojan Rajkovic, Brad Taylor,
    Brian Nickel, Brian Teague, Chris Howie, Chris Lahey, Christian Krause,
    Christopher Halse Rogers, Chris Toshok, Chris Turchin, Daniel Munkton,
    Dan Wilson, Dan Winship, David Spreen, Eoin Hennessy, Eric Butler, 
    Fabian Jost, Félix Velasco, Fredrik Hedberg, Gabriel Burt, 
    Hans Petter Jansson, Iain Lane, 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, Pacho Ramos, 
    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

