Banshee 2.9.0 Released, Now It’s based on GTK3

Banshee 2.9.0, the first release of the 2.9 development series has been released. Now it’s based on GTK3.

What’s New in Banshee 2.9:

Banshee 2.9.0 is the first release using the 3.x version of GTK+, thanks to work that has been done in Gtk# to bind this version.

Banshee can now sync media to Symbian devices like Nokia N95. Please help testing this new feature so we can mention more Symbian devices in our release notes for Banshee 3!

Other Enhancements:

Add basic AppData file for inclusion in open source app stores
Add keywords to .desktop entry for easy find in Unity & GNOME Shell (bgo#700524)
Main UI: make Search textbox remember its size (bgo#653819)
Lastfm: avoid unnecessary wait when submitting successful scrobbles
DatabaseImportManager: Add .amr to import whitelist
PlayerEngine: Add support for accurate seek
GSettings: implement new, still unused, SchemaExtractor for GSettings
build: use the gui-thread-check profiler module by default when debugging
configure: better guess for the C# compiler available
AppleDeviceSource: use progressUpdaters for all sync operations

Bugfixes:

SourceManager: avoid warnings when shutting down
prevent wrong inclusion of null artwork_id in cache
libbanshee: Only call volume set callback on Mac
Feed: Avoid loop when podcast has date values in the future
PrimarySource: fix crash if 1st track had a Dap transcoding error
MtpSource: prevent a freeze when dealing with Windows Phone
Handle all values from a rowid database column as long
Gio: prevent a freeze when mounting a LVM volume
InternetRadio: refresh UI after editing station
StatisticsPage: Fix crash when no tracks are selected
DapPropertiesDialog: Make sure progress bar value is valid
PlaylistFileUtil: Only import playlist items that are files
Avoid race when using GConf and DBus with threads
ListView: when initializing a11y, disable instead of hanging
LastFM: display progress for multiple-track scrobbles
build: Improve MSBuild experience without autotools
DatabaseTrackInfo: don’t default to MusicFilePattern when null
Audioscrobbler: avoid 414 Request-URI Too Large
PrimarySource: Allow cancelling track delete job
InternetRadio: Previous should never mean a restart
InternetRadio: UI to correctly update status indicator columns
Dap: better check for the playing track before ejecting
PrimarySource: prevent AddTrackJob respawn if cancelled
LastFm: Avoid crashing if scrobbling response is not JSON
Dap.MassStorage: not import dirs twice for case-insensitive drives
configure: stop using obsolete AutoMake macro
build: test dmcs before gmcs when trying to find the compiler
RescanPipeline: warn about removal of many tracks
Mtp: Fix file type in sync with libmtp > 1.1.0
Dap: Settings of DAP sources are not remembered between sessions
Dap: Use Unicode codes for quotation marks
build: Make gio-hardware be enabled by default
build: make GIO backend be enabled by default
YouTube: advice about –disable-youtube configuration flag
configure: earlier check for glib
LastFm: Null check for scrobble parameters
Add GTK category in .desktop files to comply with spec

Known issue:

Unfortunately the major architectural change to GTK3 caused some problems:

No alternating colors in the ListView
ListView header decoration do not match regular TreeView
Drag and drop crash banshee on gtk3 branch
Ubuntu: No text on the main (left) source switching pad when selecting a source (fixed already in Ubuntu 13.10). To fix this manually in Ubuntu version 13.04 (or older?), do:
```
cd /usr/share/themes &&  wget -O - -o /dev/null http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-art-pkg/ubuntu-themes/trunk/diff/311 | sudo patch -p0
```

Read the release note.

Source Tarball: banshee-2.9.0.tar.xz

How to Build on Linux, Windows & Mac: banshee.fm/download/development/