Banshee 0.13.2 ... at last!
Only a few months overdue, we've finally released a new stable Banshee. This release includes a slew of important bug fixes and a handful of new features.
Plugins, Addins, Extensions, oh my!
We are hard at work on the next generation of Banshee, and I'll be posting details and juicy screencasts and screenshots soon. What I'm curious about now is what we should call Plugins in our UI. We use Mono.Addins in trunk now, and I have been thinking about renaming Plugins in the UI to something else, such as Extensions. My first thought was, "what does everyone else use?"
Introducing PodSleuth
PodSleuth is a new project I started last May that aims to probe, identify, and expose properties and metadata bound to iPods. It obsoletes libipoddevice, which had the same goals, but due to many reasons ended up being a mess of spaghetti code and hacks due to effectively being obsoleted overnight about a year ago when Apple made a particular firmware release.
Audio profile configuration for the masses
Welcome to the second part of the "Things you may not know about Banshee" series of posts, where I highlight some cool features about Banshee that have been introduced in the 0.11.x series. I'm making up for all the blogging I haven't done in the last 4-5 months.
Just give them pictures
Last night I spent a little time updating the Banshee Wiki with a new home page layout and a new screenshots page - it was time for a little change. The screenshots that had been there since August of last year were showing just the bare functionality of 0.9.2, so it was time to show off all the new things Banshee can do!
More from the Banshee Universe
At around 4 this morning I released Banshee 0.10.9, which encompasses some excellent changes.
Changing process name in Mono
Banshee 0.10.5 supports changing the process name from "mono" to "banshee" using the prctl call. This makes "killall banshee" work. While this is nothing to marvel over, I have been a little taken aback by the amount of inquiry over this feature. In the past few days, a large number of people have asked me, "how did you do this." Here's a brief description of "how."
Banshee 0.9.11.1
My iPods recommend building Banshee 0.9.11.1, which has three major fixes, two of which are iPod fixes that make syncing work without crashing (huh, what a concept). Also some minor UI tweaks to make things look pretty slick.