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Banshee 2.4.0 - 2012-03-21
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    Banshee 2.4 is the culmination of six months' work by 31 developers, 33
    translators and dozens of bug reporters and testers. It is a stable release,
    the successor to Banshee 2.2.

    New Features:

      * DVD playback support

            Watch your DVDs with Banshee. You can navigate in the DVD's menus
            using the mouse or the keyboard.

      * More flexible browsing of your media

            You can now display the genres and years in the browser, in
            addition to the artists and the albums, and use them to filter your
            music library. The artist filter can be hidden, or it can be set to
            only display album artists, instead of all artists in your library.

      * UPnP support

            Browse and play music or videos shared over your local network
            by a UPnP device.

    Enhancements:

      * Several improvements to Muinshee, our alternative UI
      * Add separate options for writing ratings and play counts to files
      * Dap.MassStorage: Add support for the Archos Internet Tablet
      * Dap.MassStorage: Don't sync 'unknown album' metadata
      * Update values for the Smiley Face equalizer preset
      * MusicBrainz: Enable FreeBSD support
      * Set the PulseAudio media.role property
      * StreamPositionLabel: Fix label when loading
      * Preferences: Change wording of Metadata settings
      * Add a Composer filter in the SearchEntry filter menu
      * bgo#548636: Lastfm: Use one single directory for last.fm caching
      * bgo#587964: Dap: Add support for DOS folder separator in playlists
      * bgo#589196: Dap.MassStorage: metadata resync in manual mode.
      * bgo#608389: AudiobookLibrarySource: Accept tracks dragged from playlists
      * bgo#664424: AsxPlaylistFormat: Add support for external ASX playlists
      * bgo#664642: Add support for the NEC LifeTouch Note
      * bgo#666488: Dap.MassStorage: Add and use specific icons for Xperia phones
      * bgo#666493: Emusic.Store: Remove unneeded refresh
      * bgo#665997: Mpris: Add xesam:userRating field in track metadata.

    Notable Bugs Fixed (91 fixed since 2.2.0):

      * UbuntuOneMusicStore: Ensure u1ms URIs passed at startup get loaded
      * Daap: Fix crash while resolving the address of a DAAP service
      * DatabaseImportManager: Support importing .mka files
      * Notify playlists on rating change through d-bus or command line
      * Mpris: Change trackid type from string to DBus object path
      * Mpris: Fix OpenUri method to also support http URIs
      * Gio: Fix encoding of URIs in Directory class and fix values in database
      * LibraryWatcher: Catch and log exception when processing changes
      * bgo#548366: Allow primary sources to marked as temporary
      * bgo#628518: build: Add a --disable-webkit flag to configure
      * bgo#638130: Fix importing of rating and play count when updating track
      * bgo#644145: Fix FileLocation queries for the StartsWith operator
      * bgo#644270: Fix crash on Windows if the log file can't be opened
      * bgo#647898: Try to fetch coverart without an internet connection
      * bgo#648522: Fix race condition when starting multiple instances.
      * bgo#649277: NotificationArea: Only use supported tags in the message
      * bgo#651743: YouTubeTile: Fix construction of the playback URI
      * bgo#656439: Audiobook: Add a button to go back to the list of audiobooks
      * bgo#656533: Notification: Fix application name used in internal notify#
      * bgo#658803: Prune CoverArtDownloads table when removing tracks
      * bgo#659146: Daap: Always send revision-number in update requests
      * bgo#659841: GnomeBackend: Be more robust against GConf failures
      * bgo#661322: PlaybackShuffleActions: Fix crash when setting shuffle mode
      * bgo#661467: AmazonMp3: Handle plain text AMZ files now sent by Amazon
      * bgo#662122: AudioscrobblerConnection: Fix crash during scrobbling
      * bgo#662883: Fix activation of UbuntuOneMusicStore source on startup
      * bgo#662906: AudiobookLibrarySource: Fix crash when adding tracks
      * bgo#663318: GConfProxy: Don't use a proxy if the proxy host is empty
      * bgo#664079: Skip empty files when importing and show error
      * bgo#664381: Dap.MassStorage: Rename Xperia X12 to Xperia arc
      * bgo#666981: LibraryWatcher: avoid importing incomplete files
      * bgo#667355: SourceWatcher: Fix SQL error caused by incorrect escaping.
      * bgo#667478: Fix build with libmtp 1.1.
      * bgo#668417: Fix MusicBrainz dllmap for cross-architecture support
      * bgo#671536: WebBrowser: Implement SSL certificate validation

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SOURCES / PACKAGES
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Sources
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    * Banshee 2.4.0 Tarballs:
      http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/banshee/2.4/banshee-2.4.0.tar.xz
      http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/banshee/2.4/banshee-2.4.0.sha256sum

Packages
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    Download and installation information is available here:

    * http://banshee.fm/download/

    Binaries:

        Linux  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/linux/banshee/
      Windows  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/banshee/
         OS X  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/mac/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=2.4.0


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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!

     Adam Lofts, Age Bosma, Alex Launi, Alexander Kojevnikov, Andre Klapper,
     Andres G. Aragoneses, Arun Raghavan, Bertrand Lorentz, Chow Loong Jin,
     Felipe Castillo, Frank Ziegler, James Otting, Jo Shields, Jordi Mas,
     Kentaro KAZUHAMA, Kevin Anthony, Neil Loknath, Nuno Araujo,
     OKANO Takayoshi, Olivier Dufour, Pacho Ramos, Phil Trimble, Robin Stocker,
     Roderich Schupp, Rodney Dawes, Timothy Arceri, Tobias Arrskog,
     Travis Glenn Hansen, Udesh Liyanaarachchi, Will Thompson, William Witt

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

     Andrej Žnidaršič, António Lima, Benjamín Valero, Bruno Brouard,
     Changwoo Ryu, Cheng-Chia Tseng, Christian Kirbach, Daniel Mustieles,
     Daniel Nylander, Fran Diéguez, Funda Wang, Gabor Kelemen,
     Gianvito Cavasoli, Hajime Taira, Hendrik Knackstedt, Jiro Matsuzawa,
     Jordi Mas, Jorge González, Kentaro KAZUHAMA, Kristjan SCHMIDT,
     Marek Černocký, Mario Blättermann, Matej Urbančič, Mateusz Kacprzak,
     Misha Shnurapet, Muhammet Kara, OKANO Takayoshi, Pavol Klačanský,
     Piotr Drąg, Praveen Illa, Rudolfs Mazurs, Yuri Myasoedov, Мирослав Николић

