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- mazza558, on 08/12/2008, -2/+34Is it just me or are the banshee devs actually high-quality programming machines?
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -2/+19Sounds cool, hopefully the Windows release will happen soon, WinAmp needs to die
- abock, on 08/13/2008, -0/+13As that guy who "gave the original presentation to Novell," I'm wondering what your name is and what classes we had together :)
You are correct, Banshee is about 3.5 years old, and as with any large project, the earlier versions were indeed kind of crappy, or at least limited ;)
The 1.x series is the culmination of hard work over these years, and all who work on the project are proud of the stability and large polished feature set we have and continue to build. - abock, on 08/13/2008, -0/+12I have no plans to add crossfade. We will do gapless based on playbin2 from GStreamer very soon (1.4 series, within the next couple of months). If playbin2 gets crossfade support (and it probably will at some point), we will support it as an optional feature.
- leejarratt, on 08/12/2008, -2/+13I love Banshee, it's just so awesome.
- infernux, on 08/12/2008, -3/+13Another very nice release. I really like the "ability to DnD your albums and artists onto playlists and the play queue" :)
- NTolerance, on 08/13/2008, -0/+10Does it scan music folders yet?
- DivineMonkey, on 08/13/2008, -0/+8Just tried Banshee a few days ago, i liked it but wasn't enough to pull me away from Amarok though. This one should be interesting.
- manacit2, on 08/13/2008, -0/+8foobar.
- zachtib, on 08/13/2008, -1/+8It's in the Banshee PPA Now
https://edge.launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive - abock, on 08/12/2008, -4/+11Oh man, you are SO FUNNY! Have you ever thought about doing standup? Your material is *really* good. +1 for originality man!
- BlueGravity, on 08/12/2008, -1/+8Yet another fantastic release. Loving the new cover art display. I do hope visualisations come back soon though. Keep up the good work.
- geoken, on 08/13/2008, -2/+8It's what happens when your project is run by Novell.
- abock, on 08/13/2008, -0/+6If you read the information at the top of the app, it says: "Rocky Mountain National Park, from Beautiful Places in HD, published 9/17/2007" - it's an HD podcast.
- blueorder, on 08/13/2008, -1/+6I was wondering about this. I currently use Amarok on Gnome.
Can anyone highlight the gains of using Banshee over Amarok? - skunks, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5There's always Songbird, whose latest RC ain't half bad.
- watcht, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5Thanks abock for a killer GNOME alternative to Amarok. You guys are doing an awesome job.
- abbathdoom, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4Not being able to do that always felt like bad GUI to me, glad to see it was just something waiting to be added.
- watcht, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4No KDE dependences, imho, banshee's got a better GUI native to GNOME, but Amarok 2 might change that. One issue though is that whole mono support if your one of those strict oss nitpickers. Other than that they are about the same.
- tretle, on 08/12/2008, -1/+5Really good release, well done.
- nickdot, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4What I find annoying is that when you are playing songs in a large collection that it doesn't scroll the currently played song in the view.
- Fergy, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4Nope Songbird is still horrible for podcast. I would recommend Miro. Much better for podcasts.
- d03boy, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4I had one of the guys in one of my college classes. Very smart guy but he still was a temporary dropout. He's the one that gave the original presentation to Novell. They just spend a lot of time on it I think, now that it's more popular. It's actually a fairly old program and the older versions were kind of crappy.
- katelin, on 08/14/2008, -1/+5Yea, the devs employed by Novell are top-notch, you can see evidence in a lot of the software produced by them.
- rimbaud, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4Banshee used to drive me mad with its locking up when searching lots of files, but has become vastly better recently. I really like it.
- danwallace, on 08/13/2008, -1/+5Any player that has "August Burns Red" as the music in the sample pictures on their main page is cool by me. Downloading.
- manstein01, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4Try using one of the newer releases. I downloaded it for one of my users, and the thing was unrecognizable (haven't used it in years). It's definitely fubar.
- fakeollie, on 08/13/2008, -1/+5My 2ยข... Banshee is near perfect. Some elegant choices like the Fast Foward/Shuffle switch and the Repeat Play control placement are pure UI design genius. That said, it could benefit from adding a few simple features, like:
- monitor music folders for changes and auto-updating the library (like Amarok);
- have a "filesystem" source on the left panel, so people can browse and play files without adding them to the library, drag and drop them to the play queue, and so on;
- full drag and drop from nautilus to banshee, if landing on library, for adding; if on play queue, just for playing;
- cover art support should assume a id3tag, then local file, then internet priority, it makes more sense to trust tags first, and that would fix large (over 21 tracks) albums not having their cover.jpg/folder.jpg being added;
- fix some clunky/non-responsive UI controls, like scrolling the album browser; try selecting all artists, and an album way down your list, now select play queue and back to library, why did the album list reset its view to the top, where's my selected album?
All in all, those are just sort of a personal wishlist and minor naggings considering how solid Banshee is right now and the potential it has for growth. Congratulations Burt, Bockover, and the whole Banshee team. - skunks, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3You have an excellent point there Fergy. I guess it depends on whether you are podcast user, or not, whether Songbird might work for you. But the iPod support (goodbye iTunes!), library management, and Firefox-style add-on system have sold me.
- makario, on 09/03/2009, -0/+3It's Ctrl+J for me.
- Flinty, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3Is the version number still 1.2.0 in Help>About ?
Cheers - MrTea, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3@blueorder: better equalizer
(clicked on the wrong reply button) - infernux, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3Banshee did this automatically for some time but this was _really_ bad. You can always quickly press j to get to the playing song.
- abock, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3Excellent. ABR is one of my favorites. I always try to include them and related bands in our screenshots. You're the first who's "gotten it" :)
- becominglumberg, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3I have to agree that Banshee is an amazing project. My only wish is that they would integrate some of the cowbell logic for importing a new album in [ie - reading the files, using musicbrainz or amazon to figure out what it is, get the art, and normalize it inside the music library directory].
Also, 1.2 having the Radio features back in made me finally able to delete the other players on my system. Huzzah! - FrizzleyFry, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2Still waiting on them to fix the issue with the corrupted db on ipod classics :(
- makario, on 09/03/2009, -1/+3Nope.
- abock, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2ReplayGain support should be in the next release.
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2the podcast support blows. does it still download all the files or can you actually now tell it now many you want like "the last 3 shows" or whatever?
- katelin, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2I agree that most of the Mono-based apps are leagues ahead of the competition!
I get the feeling that the people who complain about Mono apps secretly hope that Linux on the desktop will fail. There's no other explanation for their hatred. - zwaldowski, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2WTF? Cover art fix? I'm there!
- abock, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2This is all really good feedback, unfortunately, this is a really bad place to file it with the hope of any of it being remembered :)
I would urge you to file enhancement bugs (one for each unrelated bullet point), or if you can't be bothered to go that far, dump this feedback to our mailing list: http://getbanshee.org/about/contact/
As for the "filesystem" source - we have one, but it's not displayed unless you open songs from the file system, say, through Nautilus. If you set Banshee to be your default application for MP3 files and the like, when you open those files in Nautilus, they will be appended to the File System Queue (FSQ) source. I am not keen on adding a file browser in Banshee itself however, since that operation is best left up to your... file browser.
However, once you open files in Banshee from Nautilus (or any browser supporting the Banshee .desktop file, or using the right arguments on the command line, or through the exposed DBus interface...), they will show up in the FSQ source, and from there you can play them (and even create smart and/or static playlists) without adding them to your library. If you decide you want them added to your library, you can import them from the FSQ.
And in fact, files in the FSQ (and any child playlists) can persist across instances without being imported to your library. Right clicking on the FSQ presents an option to "Clear on quit." If the FSQ is populated on the next startup, it will show up in the UI.
Clearly we need to document this better, and perhaps expose it in the UI, but my thinking was that it needn't be displayed unless you invoked it from your file browser anyway. I still feel this way.
The full drag and drop from Nautilus should at least be somewhat supported in 1.2.1 but will be much improved for 1.2.2.
Again, please file your good constructive feedback in an area where it won't be forgotten! It's a great way to become involved in our community and help decide the feature set of an application you use! We'd much appreciate it! - Balla79, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2October 2008 (next Ubuntu release) Add, as zachtib posted, repository from Banshee PPA.
- abock, on 08/13/2008, -4/+6You sound like a scientologist.
- OCPaul, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2Thank you!! finally. I dont see double RSS of the same feed. Best Update yet. heoyea baby no more Miro for me.
- infernux, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2Both waiting for gstreamer's playbin2 element to mature iirc.
- picpak, on 08/13/2008, -1/+3I'm still an Amarok fan, but Banshee's a close second.
- username145, on 08/13/2008, -2/+4The only thing keeping me from switching to Banshee is ReplayGain support; I don't like adjusting volume each time I play a random track. Great work though, new version looks great.
- Oscar58, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2Great.
- canyoodiggit, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Unrecognizable? Fubar? What is this saving private banshee? I havent used winamp until recently either but its basically the same thing from years ago with a few more bells and whistles added on. Im not knockin Banshee nor have i tried it but winamp has been sufficient enough for me. itunes is the f-ed player.
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