Banshee 1.7.5 released with improved hardware support

By , Published September 2, 2010

Grab your portable gadgets, even your iPhone. Banshee 1.7.5 is here with new hardware support and we need YOU to break it (and file bugs if you succeed naturally).

With 1.7.5 you will not just get all new and improved hardware support but also 47 bug fixes. Most notable of these writing metadata to video files is now supported.

Finally 1.7.5 brings support for the MPRIS protocol which amongst other things is used to power the new Sound Indicator in Maverick.

For the complete list of new features and enhancements the official release notes can be consulted.

To test on your Ubuntu install:

Banshee Active Development PPA or the Banshee Daily Build PPA to keep up with Banshee on a daily basis. Though at the time of writing packages have yet to reach these PPAs.

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  • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

    Great news! :D

  • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

    Great news! :D

  • https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen

    didrocks seems eager to get this into Maverick so Banshee on UNE can get Beta testing. However there are new dependencies which need to clear the NEW queue, some in versions releases as late as this morning.

  • Anonymous

    Am I the only one having problems with Banshee extensions on the newer versions?

  • http://www.martinsmucker.com Michael Martin-Smucker

    The Banshee Community Extensions? Which version of the extensions are you using? 1.6.x extensions won’t work with Banshee 1.7.x . There was a 1.7.x release of the community extensions recently, but I’m not sure whether or not they’ve been packaged for Ubuntu yet.

  • Anonymous

    I’m assuming they haven’t, because I haven’t found them. Do you know where I can grab a download? I miss Ubuntu One Music Store in Banshee.

  • Sarcasmo

    You guys have definitely failed in not impressing me ;)

    • Sarcasmo

      HA! The comment above was for OMG!’s new look btw.

  • http://encephalosponge.com/ Jonathan Blackhall

    Banshee also offers an unstable PPA for odd numbered releases. It’s not as quick to update as the Daily PPA, but at least it’s hopefully more reliable than a daily.
    https://launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/banshee-unstable

  • Anonymous

    banshee (latest versions) seems to hard freeze requiring a force quit every time I run it – on both my PCs – what’s all that about? Spousal acceptance of banshee = zero. Still on amarok 1.4 here.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah I’m missing them too :( The app-indicator and the music store disappeared on the 1.7.4 release. Really annoying, as I go to close Banshee to the tray, but it goes and quits!

    • https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen

      You need the 1.7.4 bce release, also at least on Maverick upstream broke the mono bindings for libubuntuone in a fashion that makes the u1ms extension no longer compile. I have politely asked members of the libu1 team to look at the issue for over a week now without much luck. That one sadly is a bit out of our hands for the time being.

  • http://twitter.com/Notrox Raymond Terrific

    But is it still a ram hog?

  • Anonymous

    It hasn’t been since 1.6.0, in my opinion.

  • http://twitter.com/Notrox Raymond Terrific

    Thank you sir, I shall give it another try.

  • http://twitter.com/lynch_69 lynch_69

    When’s the next series of Big Talk, Mr. Terrific

  • Bertrand Lorentz

    Did you file a bug about that freeze ?
    We’d love to increase Banshee’s spousal acceptance !
    Please follow the instructions at http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs/ so that we get all the information needed

  • Bertrand Lorentz

    Did you file a bug about that freeze ?
    We’d love to increase Banshee’s spousal acceptance !
    Please follow the instructions at http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs/ so that we get all the information needed

  • Anonymous

    i haven’t filed a bug but that page certainly provides all the info – i’ll file one tomorrow when it does it again :)

    • https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen

      Thank you, however this is still 1.7.4, once Hyperair gets the new dependencies needed for the hardware support it would be great if you could retest with 1.7.5. You might also find badgerports.org handy for an update of your Mono installation since you are on Lucid.

      Regardless that is an interesting looking log, thank you for filing it.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/7GXJ4CL5A6A5YPPUO47UQXGP5Y Johan

    Sadly it’s still unusably slow for me.

  • Anonymous

    Right, I’ve installed Banshee, and I clicked on the About section and it’s stated as being version 1.6.1

  • Jonathan

    I’ve spoken to the Banshee Team leader, and he says that the 2 men responsible for the extensions are on vacation.

  • hometoast

    Any word if the latest iPod Shuffles are supported? The only thing that keeps me running to the windows PC to take care of.. syncing my wife’s shuffle for the gym.

  • http://twitter.com/Notrox Raymond Terrific

    @lynch_69 Gathering together my panel of brainiacs. :D

  • Xubin Chen

    another mono, rhythmbox is much much faster and responsive.

  • http://twitter.com/Tahakki Joel Auterson

    Pity it’s rubbish. Archaic interface and album art quite simply does not work.

  • Anonymous

    Still?! They’ve been on holiday for ages! Lucky gits.

  • http://www.powells.com/blog/?author=104 mxyzptlk

    There’s something up with a few of the extensions — if they’re not properly enabled, everything stalls.

    I was under the impression that the Amazon extensions were the culprit. However, last night I tried disabling Last FM, the Wikipedia page extension, Internet Archive, Miro podcasts, DAAP, BPM, pretty much everything but Amazon, and it still locked up. But with everything enabled except the Amazon plugins, it’s also locked up on me. I checked out the community extensions from git last week, and most of them were the same as what’s in the Banshee-Stable repo (1.6 versions).

    I haven’t had time to experiment with every combination of extensions to figure out what’s breaking it, but it seems to me the entire infrastructure shouldn’t be dependent upon external extensions. It’s like having a raincoat that won’t keep the rain off you unless you have stripes on the arms. Kinda lame.

    I’d like to just stick with Rhythmbox at this point. I don’t care so much about how it looks, since it’ll be resting peacefully in the system tray/notification area anyway (and I think its tray icon is nicer than Banshee’s, and its controls interface picks up on the icon set more accurately — Banshee’s skip-ahead and skip-back are often different sizes).

    But Rhythmbox can’t manage podcasts nearly as well, and I have a visceral distaste for that damned Missing Files part under Library. It also lacks that nice mouseover feature to show what’s playing — although Banshee’s can be finicky as hell, sometimes popping up info everywhere the mouse goes, and other times it won’t give you anything. But if I could just turn off the Missing Files thing, I’d probably just use Rhythmbox at this point and get used to primitive podcast management again, or use gPodder.

    So far Exaile and Guayadeque have been disappointing in comparison to the competition — they don’t handle podcasts appropriately. Amarok blew it with me with the update that killed everything good about it. What’s left? Clementine? Atunes? Listen always had a wonky interface and I haven’t seen much from it in years. How’s Quod Libet these days? I recall that having a wonky interface too.

    …sigh…

    • Bertrand Lorentz

      Banshee core isn’t dependent on any extension, but a misbehaving extension can drag the whole application down with. Or your problem might be something else entirely.
      Please file a bug for your issue :
      http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TB5HOTH6ANNKLZGCQFN7OB6NQU Deaf Mute

    I compiled and instaled 1.7.5 late last night, but was dissapointed about not being able to get my iPhone to read in banshee. Though I odn’t know if it’s becuase something is missing, or if it’s because of the tethering software I have installed.

    • Alan Mcgovern

      The odds are very high that you didn’t read the output from the “autogen” step where it lists what features are enabled. You need “GIO Hardware” and “AppleDevice” to be enabled. If both of those are definitely enabled and your device does not work, please file a bug. The requirements for AppleDevice/GIO Hardware are listed here: http://banshee.fm/download/development/

  • Anonymous

    they must be politicians or something….

  • Anonymous

    tried gpodder? for podcasts, all i need is an application that downloads podcasts and quickly transfers them to my mp3 player as i’m running out of the office. gpodder does one job and does it well.

  • https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen

    We are all volunteers, so unfortunately we do occasionally go unavailable. E.g. right now lead developer Aaron Bockover is moving so he isn’t active. Hyperair (ppa maintainer) is just home from vacation, most of the developers were at GUADEC which slowed down things and personally on Wednesday I am leaving for Brazil (though I am mainly doing PR and bug work right now so no big slowdown).

    Luckily we are also gathering contributors, though most of these are working on the code. So if anyone has packaging skills I am sure Hyperair (Debian/Ubuntu) and Gabriel Burt (opensuse) would love a helping hand at least during such times as these.

  • http://www.powells.com/blog/?author=104 mxyzptlk

    Yep — and for the most part, I like gPodder quite a bit. But there’s something about having a fully integrated audio environment that I dig; I can listen to my music, audiobooks, podcasts, lectures (I’m a grad student), etc. all in one place, and when I set up my playlist queue I can just set it aside in the tray/notification area (sheesh) and let it run.

    gPodder is even more consistent and stable for adding and downloading podcasts. It’s a great little program, and I may start using gPodder again; one of its killer features right now is syncing your podcast feeds across machines. Man I love that — and if I knew what I was doing, I’d script a similar extension for Banshee. I’ve just been using a unified application for years, and have a hard time breaking that habit. (I wasn’t pleased when Banshee added video support — out of the scope of a unified audio player, I thought.)

    But there are a few things with gPodder that still nag at me. The last time I used it, there wasn’t an easy way to just select all of the podcasts you’ve just downloaded and transfer them in bulk to a device — something Banshee and I think Rhythmbox both do, and Amaork did. So it ends up taking ages to transfer anything to a device. There also wasn’t an easy way to just select four or five programs/feeds and update them. So for all its strengths and stability, I just found it clunkier to use overall.

    Man I’m picky…

  • Anonymous

    Don’t worry, I wasn’t hating on them :) Everyone deserves a break, the Banshee team has been very busy recently!

    Enjoy your trip to Brazil!

  • http://twitter.com/CodingVino Vino Veritas

    At least for me Banshee won’t show up my iPod Touch 2G MC Model. Works fine with Rhythmbox.

  • http://twitter.com/CodingVino Vino Veritas

    At least for me Banshee won’t show up my iPod Touch 2G MC Model. Works fine with Rhythmbox.

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