Вышла новая версия музыкального проигрывателя Banshee для GNOME.

- улучшена функция импорта, вся разметка делается через taglib-sharp, улучшена поддержка метаданных ID3, AAC/MP4, добавлено чтение ASF/WMA, метаданные наконец-то можно (по выбору) писать напрямую в файлы, заметно улучшен сам редактор метаданных;
- новый интерфейс к записи CD -- диски можно создавать из любых источников (фонотеки, общего каталога, iPod);
- появились "умные" (динамические) списки воспроизведения, автоматически обновляющиеся при определённых изменениях в фонотеке, редактор этих списков позволяет создавать правила практически любой сложности;
- появилась функция оценки дорожек по пятибалльной (скорее даже пятизвёздочной ) системе одним щелчком мышью;
- переделан диалог параметров программы;
- появились всплывающие уведомления о смене дорожки.

Дополнительно можно скачать и установить расширения, среди которых:

- отображение рекомендаций похожих исполнителей (last.fm);
- прослушиваний подкастов;
- уменьшенная версия GUI;
- доступ к статьям Wikipedia об исполнителях;
- прочие полезности

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Улучшения:

* Улучшена экспериментальная аутентификация на Last.fm;
* Улучшена поддержка устройств на базе Maemo;
* Дополнения в DBus API для показа различных диалогов;
* Поддержка устройств DEXT/CLIQ и Galaxy Portal;
* Множество улучшений и исправлений на платформе MeeGo.

Исправлена 41 ошибка с тех пор, как вышел Banshee 1.6.0

* Доработано воспроизведение видео в новом окне;
* Доработан полноэкранный режим видео под оконным менеджером Mutter;
* Устранены сбои, связанные с подклассами апплетов Gtk;
* Устранены сбои, связанные с a11y;
* Исправления в Индикаторе Оповещения;
* Исправлен коэффициент пропорциональности/масштабирования для альбомных обложек.

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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."

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New Features Since 1.6:

* Integrated AmazonMP3 Store

Browse, search, preview, buy, and download music straight into
your Banshee library from the US, UK, FR, DE, and JP AmazonMP3
stores. See http://abock.org/2010...ore-in-banshee

* Miro Guide Podcast Directory

Browse and subscribe to thousands of audio and video podcasts
listed on the non-profit run MiroGuide.com.

* Improved Apple Device Support

iPhone, iTouch, iPad, and iPod devices are now supported via the
awesome libgpod library.

* Revamped Hardware Backend

Uses the latest Linux hardware stack, a combination of GIO, udev, and
media-player-info files, to provide support for CDs and
digital audio players.

* Keybinding for Switching Sources

Typing 'g' activates the source switcher, where you can type the name
of a source to switch to it. You can type its acronym or a substring
as well. As soon as only one source matches, it will be activated.
For example, you can type 'g' and then 'np' to switch to Now Playing.

* Improved Audiobook Support

The Audiobooks library is now enabled by default, and audiobook
tracks are now better organized into books. The last position in
each book is automatically saved, so you can resume playing a book
right from where you stopped.

* User Manual

Available via Help ТЛ Contents menu and F1. Uses the latest
GNOME documentation technology, Mallard.

* Bulk Metadata Fixer

New extension for bulk metadata fixing to merge artists, albums,
and genres that vary only by case, '&' vs 'and', etc.

* MPRIS v2 support (Ubuntu Sound Menu, etc)

Enhancements:

* Now Playing simplify mode that declutters the UI
* Play Queue shuffle action
* Improve the downloading and visual refreshing of new cover art
* Many MeeGo specific improvements and fixes
* New preference to have the classic album layout instead of the grid view
* Support for reading and writing MusicBrainz IDs
* Show the TrackEditor fields as read-only mode when they are not editable
* Add metadata-saving support for File System Queue (bgo#609411)
* Decrease the latency in changing playback volume
* Overhaul GNOME proxy support (bmc#1920)
* Refresh podcast feeds when network is reconnected
* Miro Guide teaser in Podcasts
* Podcast errors shown to user
* Improved Last.fm authentication experience
* Last.fm streaming can be disabled separately from the other Last.fm
features.
* Play menu item in track context menu
* Wrap long strings in the Now Playing view
* Add visual separators in the source view between categories of sources
* Culturally format the status bar item count (e.g. in en_US 1,000
instead of the old 1000)
* Tweak the grid view album artwork hover effect
* Default smart playlists hidden when empty, for new users
* Begin editing the name of newly added playlists
* "Amazon MP3s" Music smart playlist
* Improved device support:
* Droid X, Galaxy Portal, Xperia X10, and DEXT/CLIQ device support
* Improved Maemo device support
* Better MTP device detection
* Put all videos in the video folder on MTP devices

API Changes:

* DBus API additions for showing various dialogs
* New Banshee.WebBrowser API for creating embedded WebKit web browsers
and sources: used by the new Amazon MP3 store, Miro Guide, and the
Wikipedia context pane
* New Hyena.Downloader API for performing downloads and easy
HTTP operations: HttpFileDownloader, HttpStringDownloader

Notable Bugs Fixed (230 fixed since 1.6.0):

* Fix for fullscreen video under Mutter
* Fix videos playing back in a new window
* Fix crashes related to Gtk.Widget subclassing
* Fix crashes related to a11y
* NotificationArea fixes
* Cover art aspect ratio/scaling fixes
* Fix Youtube playback
* Fix deletion of Podcast metadata during modification
* Fix a crash related to the notification deamon
* Fix fetching cover for albums with several discs
* Several fixes for the N800 device
* Fix various volume-related issues
* bgo#621480: Fix Play Queue when using it with different locales
* bgo#621687: Fix the Internet Archive playback
* bgo#613333: Correct Play Queue track reordering
* bgo#624667: Fix cover art refreshing
* bgo#622826: Fix a slow running query to speed things up
* bgo#602840: Fix importing of compilation albums
* bgo#622028: Fix loading of libbnpx11.so on some distros
* bgo#621955: Wrap instead of elipsize Last.fm titles
* bgo#608382: Escape %20 in filenames for items without embedded metadata
* bgo#624531: Escape Uri value in SQL query
* bgo#588255: Fix notification icon transparency
* bgo#619036: Fix glitchy search entry
* bgo#624569: Fix scrolling Extensions list with keyboard
* bgo#553433: Fix issue that could block song scrobbling
* bgo#600340: Fix subscribing to certain podcasts (eg podbean.com)
* bgo#620826: Fix URIs of tracks synced to iPods
* bmc#1115: Fix a pipeline deadlock evident on MeeGo
* bgo#626786: Prevent crash in search-for-artist when blank
* bgo#628388: Fix overflow bug with MTP playlists
* bgo#625683: Fixup checkboxes now clickable
* bgo#626928: Fetch podcast artwork asap
* bgo#626791: Catch crashes caused by missing extensions
* bgo#528383: Re-enable writing video metadata to file
* bgo#626803: Fix Ogg rating parsing in non-English locales
* bgo#628832: [MTP] Fix MTP-device memory issues breaking Playlists, Albums
* bgo#629095: [MTP] Fix MTP devices being named '???'
* bgo#629373: [MTP] Workaround MTP sigsegv bug

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