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WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.5.2 - Released November 20, 2009
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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/1.5.2


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NEW AWESOME FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS
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    Banshee 1.5.2 brings many big changes, new features, and fixes!

    New Features:

      * The Internet Archive extension
      * The iTunes importer
      * Metadata ratings and playcount import and export
      * Add support for Pulse and Droid phones
      * Use new Last.fm API

    Enhancements:

      * Many accessibility enhancements
      * When sorting by score also sort by playcount (bgo#598431)
      * Add WICD support (bgo#596918)
      * Add the USB id for the Palm Pre in developer mode
      * Improve the import media dialog (bgo#559013)
      * Allow seeking in DAAP streams
      * Tooltip for the AutoDJ source combobox (bgo#598504)
      * Improve recognition of Android devices
      * Recognize Samsung Galaxy device in debug mode
      * PlaybackError query field (bgo#590946)
      * Additional tokens for file system organization (bgo#489861)
      * Remember direction when sorting the list view (bgo#590869)
      * Cleaner track change notification popup (bgo#565453)
      * Move Last.fm settings to the preferences dialog
      * Double click toggles fullscreen in Now Playing (bgo#577971)

    Notable bug fixes:

      * Fix the playcount update (bgo#563021)
      * Correct default button in message dialogs (bgo#599495)
      * Hide shuffle menu when shuffling is disabled (bgo#599465)
      * Fix bug with AutoDJ updating LastPlayed erroneously (bgo#594701)
      * Fix next playback source (bgo#599834)
      * Fix adding tracks to the play queue (bgo#600498)
      * Fix up iPod podcast support (bgo#434237)
      * Fix cover art pick up for multi-disc albums (bgo#591982)
      * Fix the play queue when StopWhenFinished is on (bgo#563021)
      * Fix race when saving track metadata (bgo#598321)

      * 49 bugs were fixed since 1.5.1


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SOURCES / PACKAGES
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Sources
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    * Banshee 1.5.2 Tarballs:
      http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.2/banshee-1-1.5.2.tar.bz2
      http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.2/banshee-1-1.5.2.tar.gz

Packages
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    Download and installation information is available here:

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

    Packages for openSUSE 11.1, openSUSE 11.0, 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:

    * There is no build for OS X for Banshee 1.5.2 due to a time crunch and
      technical difficulties with the latest Mono releases for OS X.  We plan to
      have this resolved in time for the 1.5.3 release.

ChangeLogs & Checksums
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    * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.2/banshee-1-1.5.2.changes
    * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.2/banshee-1-1.5.2.sha1sum


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DEPENDENCIES
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    * Mono 1.9.1 (.NET 2.0 Profile / gmcs)
    * SQlite 3.4
    * Gtk# 2.12
    * 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) 2.0.3.2

    * 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 >= 0.8.5
      * 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
      * gst-plugins-bad (providing the bpmdetect GStreamer plugin)

    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=1.5.2


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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, Alexander Kojevnikov, Benjamín Valero Espinosa,
      Bertrand Lorentz, Chow Loong Jin, Eitan Isaacson, Gabriel Burt,
      Götz Waschk, Jason Taylor, Jérémie Laval, Michael Martin-Smucker,
      Neil Loknath, Nicholas Parker, Pratik Patel, Sandy Armstrong

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

      Andrej Žnidaršič, Benjamín Valero Espinosa, Daniel Nylander,
      Gianvito Cavasoli, Mario Blättermann, Sweta Kothari, Tao Wei

Contributors In Past Releases
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    Aaron Bockover, Gabriel Burt, Alexander Kojevnikov, Bertrand Lorentz,
    John Millikin, Scott Peterson, Alan McGovern, Alex Bennee, Alex Kloss,
    Alex Launi, Alexander Hixon, Alexandros Frantzis, Alp Toker,
    Andrea Cimitan, Andreas Neustifter, Andrew Conkling, Andrés G. Aragoneses,
    Andy Midgette, Arthur Carli, Aydemir Ulaş Şahin, Ben Maurer,
    Benjamín Valero Espinosa, Bertrand Lorentz, Bill Dawson, Bob Copeland,
    Bojan Rajkovic, Brad Taylor, Brandon Perry, Brian Lucas, Brian Nickel,
    Brian Teague, Chow Loong Jin, Chris Howie, Chris Jones, Chris Lahey,
    Chris Toshok, Chris Turchin, Christian Krause, Christoph Burgdorf,
    Christopher James Halse Rogers, Cody Russell, Cosmin Banu, Dan Wilson,
    Dan Winship, Daniel Munkton, Daniel Siegel, David Spreen, David Stone,
    Diego E. Pettenò, Eitan Isaacson, Elena Grassi, Eoin Hennessy,
    Eric Butler, Erik Schmidt, Fabian Jost, Florent Thoumie, Fredrik Hedberg,
    Félix Velasco, Götz Waschk, Haitao Feng, Hans Petter Jansson, Iain Lane,
    Igor Guerrero Fonseca, Ilya Konstantinov, Ivan N. Zlatev, Jack Deslippe,
    James Willcox, Jan Arne Petersen, Jason Conti, Jason Taylor, Jeff Tickle,
    Jeff Wheeler, Jensen Somers, Jérémie Laval, Jo Shields, Johannes Kuhn,
    Jorge Castro, Juri Pakaste, Ken Vandine, Larry Ewing, Lauri Kotilainen,
    Matt Enright, Michael Kaiser, Michael Martin-Smucker, Michael Monreal,
    Miguel de Icaza, Mike Urbanski, Moritz Schallaböck, Nathan Palmer,
    Neil Loknath, Nicholas Doyle, Nicholas Parker, Nicolò Chieffo,
    Nils Naumann, Olivier Duff, Oscar Forero, Pacho Ramos,
    Patrick van Staveren, Paul Lange, Pepijn van de Geer, Peter de Kraker,
    Pratik Patel, Przemysław Grzegorczyk, Roderich Schupp, Romain Tartière,
    Ruben Vermeersch, Sandy Armstrong, Sebastian Dröge, Tim Yamin,
    Tobias Mueller, Todd Berman, Travis Glenn Hansen, Trey Ethridge,
    Valentin Sawadski, Will Farrington, William Pettersson, Wouter Bolsterlee
