I don't see how Banshee can be simply dropped in to replace Rhythmbox in Ubuntu when it still does not recognise the same albumsort tag as used by rhythmbox. I asked about this on the Banshee list 2 years ago, and was told that Rhythmbox tags are wrong and I just need to retag 10's of thousands of existing files.... this is not practical/acceptable to me and I don't see how it will be to anyone else!
I tested the latest Banshee in Maverick, and I still see 20 or 30 copies of the same album with 1 track in each... exactly the situation I pointed out before and was simply told to "go away".,,., Can someone tell me what has changed? ~J On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 15:57 +0200, Didier Roche wrote: > Hey, some updates on banshee status in UNE as OMGUbuntu is quicker than > I to send an formal email :) > (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/jmfqEwa5bh8/) > > Le mercredi 25 août 2010 à 15:19 +0200, Sebastien Bacher a écrit : > > The desktop team has been revisiting the applications selection changes > > discussed at UDS, this email has a summary of the changes which have > > done or delayed to next cycle > > > > The corresponding blueprints: > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-desktop-application-selection > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-une-app-selection > […] > > > > > * Banshee by default on UNE > > > > It was decided to use banshee by default on UNE this cycle. Didier > > worked on the required change but the promotion is still blocker by the > > switch to udev which didn't land yet. That should be in an upstream > > tarball next week. We would normally postpone that change to next cycle > > on the desktop but we have a bit of extra flexibility on UNE so we will > > still try to get that change in next week when Didier is back. > > > > > After a period of testing the new banshee actively with upstream and > debian coordination, the desktop team decided to not set banshee as > default for the netbook edition : > - we have still some pending issues like integration with the soundmenu > which is not currently working > - the ubuntu one integration isn't as optimal as it could (it was just > fixed some hours ago). That's something the u1 team and desktop team > should work next cycle on. (like activating the mp3 support as in > rhythmbox before buying the first song, having the "bough on u1" entry…) > - it's very very late for this kind of change, we need better testing > time on large scale for a longer period of time. Especially with the hal > -> udev switch, making a new code path to test and supporting those new > devices fully will take more time than few weeks (some issues like > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/591150) can > appears. > - introducing it now as default is also unknown in regard to CD size and > such adjustment are too close to the maverick release. > > Just note that upstream worked very hard and in an active way on that. I > want to particularly thanks Alan McGovern, Alex Launi, and Nathan > McCallum for porting banshee from hal to udev. They did a fantastic job > and are very nice people to work with. I also > want to thank the #debian-cli guys for their wonderful work (in rush > time!) and OMG > Ubuntu for the call for testing. > > So we just deferred banshee by default for this cycle. Natty should see > the release of a complete banshee switch by default and a full testing > cycle > for the netbook edition. > > Banshee will still be available from universe with an up-to-date and > good release for anyone wanting to use it in maverick. > > Didier > > -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop