Banshee Changelog

What's new in Banshee 2.9.1

• Banshee 2.9.1 is the culmination of five months' work by 17 developers, 21 translators and dozens of bug reporters and testers. It is a development release, the second of the 2.9.x releases leading up to our future stable release Banshee 3.0.
• New Features:
• GStreamer 1.x compatibility. This is the first official upstream release compatible with versions of GStreamer 1.0 or newer.
• Production-ready GStreamerSharp playback-engine backend, now default. Our managed backend (that already allowed us to have playback working in the Windows platform) has been migrated to work with the revamped GStreamerSharp bindings (GObject-Introspection based, and capable of binding GStreamer 1.0 or newer) and is now the default one for all platforms.. This paves the way to finish the long-standing goal of completely removing lower-level languages like C from our codebase, to lower the barrier of entry to new contributors, reduce complexity and increase stability.. You can still use the optional unmanaged GStreamer backend, but before doing so we encourage you to provide us any feedback that you may have about the managed one (reporting bugs or writing to our forums or mailing lists), because we will deprecate this one very soon.
• New "MediaPanel" UI, formerly called "MeeGo MediaPanel". The MeeGo specific UI has been now been renamed to MediaPanel and you can use it in your desktop environment now, just by clicking in the Media Panel option under the View menu (this extension is now enabled by default).
• Enhancements:
• Notifications: use notify-sharp-3.0 in the system if availablebgo#690010: enable tests by default if NUnit dependency is foundWebBrowser: drop dependency on 'libsoup-gnome', which was deprecatedVideo: default smart playlists are now invisible when empty, like Music ones
• Notable Bugs Fixed (35 fixed since 2.9.0):
• bgo#692374: require dbus-glib-1 to make sure to avoid GConf crashesbgo#725870: avoid hang when disconnecting Nexus 5bgo#724635: don't crash at iPod syncbgo#726336: avoid redundancy in submenu label textbgo#725185: avoid importing non-readable filesbgo#696520: avoid pointless long->int runtime castsDBus: don't try to connect in GrabDefaultName() if dbus is disabledbgo#724730: avoid aborting MTP access when busybgo#724678: tracks which were in nested folders under Music/ not shownbgo#724656: fix potential crashers when ejecting DAP sourcebgo#724645: fix crash at shutdown if MTP was mountedbgo#627391: [gapless] fix smooth transition for Repeat-Single modebgo#671221: fix Repeat-All mode if there are less than 3 tracks and Shuffle is ONbgo#724515: fix Repeat-OFF mode when Shuffle is ONbgo#723889: avoid notifications-related warning printed in the logbgo#723040: DapService: avoid freezing Banshee when unmapping devicebgo#679938: [gapless] Repeat always onbgo#674293: [gapless] Banshee ignores "stop when finished"bgo#621222: [gapless] Playcount shouldn't be incremented as soon as song playsbgo#723005: fix path of image referenced in Helpbgo#722731: avoid highlighting wrong track after invalid track was playedbgo#636992: avoid misleading [gapless] token in logbgo#722565: advice about nunit-console not available instead of failingbgo#720359: avoid 'URI too large' errors at LastFM scrobblingbgo#722947: prevent a crash when dealing with Nexus4bgo#722209: avoid crash when connecting Nexus4bgo#722219: avoid crash when disconnecting Nexus4bgo#664887: fail faster if --enable-tests used and NUnit was not foundbgo#721203: CD audio source doesn't show up when inserting itbgo#712656: pkg-config files were still pointing to GTK2 instead of GTK3bgo#710266: PlayQueue: fix another GtkCRITICAL at shutdownbgo#710423: Fix build of the SoundMenu extensionbgo#710475: fix build in Osx by avoiding optional parametersbgo#710266: avoid GtkCRITICAL in the console at shutdownbgo#709717: fix ListView scrolling with mouse wheel (regression from GTK2)