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WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.9.6 - Released March 24, 2011
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  * Banshee is a multimedia management and playback application for GNOME.

    "Play your music and videos. Stay entertained and up to date with podcasts
    and video podcasts.  Sync your Android, iPod, and other devices. We think
    you'll love the new Banshee!"

  * Learn More: http://banshee.fm/download/archives/1.9.6


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NEW AWESOME FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS
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    Banshee 1.9.6 is a development release, part of the 1.9.x series
    leading up to Banshee 2.0.

    Enhancements:

      * Rename banshee-1 to banshee in preparation for 2.0
      * AmazonMp3.Store: amazon.ca support
      * MiroGuide: Handle Listen links from front page
      * Dap: Add support for Sharp IS01 (bgo#645361)
      * Playlists: Recognize m3u playlists without header (bgo#645351)
      * LibraryWatcher: Guard against watching incorrect dirs (bgo#633309)
      * MassStorage: Support Sirius Alpha Android phone (bgo#643960)
      * WebOSDevice: Support playlists (bgo#641486)
      * Windows: Auto-update functionality (bgo#641960)

    Notable Bugs Fixed (26 fixed since 1.9.5):

      * MiroGuide: Properly escape search query strings
      * AmazonMp3.Store: Fix search query escaping
      * bgo#623183: DatabaseTrackInfo: Fix rating update on current track
      * bgo#637717: audio-profiles: fix duration for CBR lame profile
      * bgo#614192: GStreamer: Fix inappropriate repeating
      * bgo#643782: Mpris: Distinguish between music and video playlists
      * bgo#641515: Workaround X BadMatch crash
      * bgo#619609: Metadata: Do not fetch covers for unknown albums/artists
      * bgo#631012: Audiobook: Fix crash when switch to playlist
      * bgo#628087: Handle setting SearchEntry.Query to nullb
      * bgo#602145: InternetRadio: Clear playback errors when playing
      * bgo#635951: Fix skipping removed/deleted tracks

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SOURCES / PACKAGES
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Sources
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    * Banshee 1.9.6 Tarballs:
      http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/unstable/1.9.6/banshee-1.9.6.tar.bz2
      http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/unstable/1.9.6/banshee-1.9.6.tar.gz
      http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/unstable/1.9.6/banshee-1.9.6.sha256sum

Packages
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    Download and installation information is available here:

    * http://banshee.fm/download/

    Packages for openSUSE 11.3, openSUSE 11.2, 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 10.5 and 10.6:

    * http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/unstable/1.9.6/banshee-1.9.6.macosx.intel.dmg

    Binaries for Windows:

    * http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/unstable/1.9.6/Banshee-1.9.6.msi

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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 0.10.23

    * NDesk DBus (ndesk-dbus) 0.5
    * NDesk DBus GLib (ndesk-dbus-glib) 0.3
    * Mono.Addins (mono-addins) 0.3.1
    * TagLib# (taglib-sharp) >= 2.0.3.7

    * 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.
      * mono-zeroconf >= 0.8.0
      * boo >= 0.8.1
      * GIO support requires glib >= 2.22, gio-sharp and gtk-sharp-beans
      * Library Watcher extension requires Mono >= 2.4.3
      * Accessibilty for ListView and Rating widgets requires Gtk# >= 2.12.10
      * YouTube extension requires gdata-sharp-core and
        gdata-sharp-youtube >= 1.4
      * Amazon MP3 Store, Wikipedia Context Pane, and Miro Guide require
        webkit-1.0 >= 1.2.2
      * GIO/udev-based hardware backend requires glib >= 2.22, gio-sharp,
        gtk-sharp-beans, gudev-sharp and gkeyfile-sharp
      * Apple Devices backend requires libgpod-sharp >= 0.7.95

    * Run-time requirements for default feature stack:
      * GIO/udev
      * 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.fm/contribute/file-bugs
    * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=1.9.6


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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, Alex Willmy, Alexander Kojevnikov,
      Benjamín Valero Espinosa, Bertrand Lorentz, Chow Loong Jin,
      Frank Ziegler, Gabriel Burt, Ján Sokoly, Kentaro KAZUHAMA, Mark Busby,
      Mackenan Grassi, Olivier Dufour, Yuuto Tokunaga, Zhou Ting

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

      António Lima, Aron Xu, Bruce Cowan, Bruno Brouard, Cheng-Chia Tseng,
      Daniel Mustieles, Daniel Nylander, Gabor Kelemen, Gianvito Cavasoli,
      Joe Hansen, Kentaro KAZUHAMA, Lucian Adrian Grijincu, Michael Kotsarinis

Contributors In Past Releases
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    Aaron Bockover, Alan McGovern, Alex Bennee, Alex Kloss, Alex Launi,
    Alex Mauer, Alex Willmy, Alexander Hixon, Alexander Kojevnikov,
    Alexandros Frantzis, Alp Toker, Anders Petersson, Andrea Cimitan,
    Andreas Neustifter, Andreas Nilsson, Andrew Conkling, Andrés G. Aragoneses,
    Andy Midgette, Aran Cox, Arthur Carli, Arun Raghavan, Aurélien Mino,
    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 Hergert, Christian Krause, Christoph Burgdorf,
    Christopher James Halse Rogers, Claude Paroz, Cody Russell, Cosmin Banu,
    Dan Wilson, Dan Winship, Daniel Munkton, Daniel Siegel, David Nielsen,
    David Spreen, David Stone, Diego E. Pettenò, Dougal Stanton,
    Dustin C. Hatch, Eitan Isaacson, Elena Grassi, Eoin Hennessy, Eric Butler,
    Erik Schmidt, Fabian Jost, Felipe Almeida Lessa, Fernando Casanova,
    Florent Thoumie, Frank Ziegler, Fredrik Hedberg, Félix Velasco,
    Gabriel Burt, Garrett LeSage, Ghislain Lacroix, Götz Waschk, Haitao Feng,
    Hans Petter Jansson, Harold Schreckengost, Iain Lane,
    Igor Guerrero Fonseca, Ilya Konstantinov, Ivan N. Zlatev, Jack Deslippe,
    Jakub Steiner, James Willcox, Jan Arne Petersen, Jason Conti, Jason Taylor,
    Jeff Tickle, Jeff Wheeler, Jensen Somers, Jeroen Budts, Jo Shields,
    Johannes Kuhn, John Millikin, Jordi Mas, Jorge Castro, Julien Moutte,
    Juri Pakaste, Ján Sokoly, Jérémie Laval, K. Vishnoo Charan Reddy,
    Ken Vandine, Kentaro KAZUHAMA, Kevin Duffus, Konstantin Oshiyko,
    Larry Ewing, Lauri Kotilainen, Lukas Lipka, Mackenan Grassi, Marijn Ros,
    Mark Busby, Matt Enright, Matt Sturgeon, Michael Kaiser,
    Michael Martin-Smucker, Michael Monreal, Michael Monreal, Michał Sawicz,
    Miguel de Icaza, Mike Gemünde, Mike Urbanski, Moritz Schallaböck,
    Nathan Palmer, Neil Loknath, Nicholas Doyle, Nicholas Parker,
    Nicolò Chieffo, Nils Naumann, Oben Sonne, Olivier Dufour, Oscar Forero,
    Pacho Ramos, Patrick van Staveren, Paul Cutler, Paul Lange, Pavel Antonov,
    Pepijn van de Geer, Pete Johanson, Peter de Kraker, Pratik Patel,
    Przemysław Grzegorczyk, Raimo Radczewski, Robin Stocker, Roderich Schupp,
    Rodney Dawes, Romain Tartière, Ruben Vermeersch, Ryan Collier, Samuel Gyger,
    Sandy Armstrong, Scott Peterson, Sebastian Dröge, Shaun McCance,
    Sjoerd Simons, Tim Fisken, Tim Yamin, Tobias Mueller, Todd Berman,
    Travis Glenn Hansen, Travis Reitter, Trey Ethridge, Valentin Sawadski,
    Will Farrington, William Friesen, William Pettersson, Wouter Bolsterlee,
    Yuuto Tokunaga, Zhou Ting
