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Banshee 2.3.1 - 2011-11-02
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    Banshee 2.3.1 is the first release in the 2.3 development series leading up
    to 2.4, scheduled for March 2012.

    New Features:

      * DVD playback support

            You can now watch your DVDs with Banshee. You can navigate in the
            DVD's menus using the mouse or the keyboard.

    Enhancements:

      * Several improvements to Muinshee, our alternative UI:
        - Add a Clear button to the toolbar
        - Make double-click on an album do the same as the Play button
        - Don't close the dialog when pressing Enqueue
        - Make the Esc key close the dialog if there is no search text
        - Use better icons for the Play and Enqueue buttons
      * Add separate options for writing ratings and play counts to files
      * Update values for the Smiley Face equalizer preset
      * Set the PulseAudio media.role property

    Notable Bugs Fixed (36 fixed since 2.2.0):

      * UbuntuOneMusicStore: Ensure u1ms URIs passed at startup get loaded
      * Daap: Fix crash while resolving the address of a DAAP service
      * DatabaseImportManager: Support importing .mka files
      * Notify playlists on rating change through d-bus or command line
      * bgo#661467: AmazonMp3: Handle plain text AMZ files now sent by Amazon
      * bgo#662906: AudiobookLibrarySource: Fix crash when adding tracks
      * bgo#659841: GnomeBackend: Be more robust against GConf failures
      * bgo#656533: Notification: Fix application name used in internal notify#
      * bgo#649277: NotificationArea: Only use supported tags in the notification message
      * bgo#647898: Try to fetch coverart without an internet connection
      * bgo#658803: Prune CoverArtDownloads table when removing tracks

    Packaging Changes:

      * Mono.Addins >= 0.6.2 required

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SOURCES / PACKAGES
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Sources
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    * Banshee 2.3.1 Tarballs:
      http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/banshee/2.3/banshee-2.3.1.tar.bz2
      http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/banshee/2.3/banshee-2.3.1.tar.gz
      http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/banshee/2.3/banshee-2.3.1.sha256sum

Packages
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    Download and installation information is available here:

    * http://banshee.fm/download/

    Binaries:

        Linux  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/linux/banshee/
      Windows  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/banshee/
         OS X  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/mac/banshee/

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REPORT BUGS - HELP THE PROJECT - GROW THE COMMUNITY
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    If you encounter any bad behavior with this release, please do not
    hesitate to file bugs!

    * http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs
    * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=2.3.1


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VALUED BANSHEE CONTRIBUTORS
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Contributors For This Release
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    The following people directly contributed to the release of this version
    of Banshee. Without their help, there would be no release!

     Adam Lofts, Age Bosma, Alex Launi, Alexander Kojevnikov,
     Andrés G. Aragoneses, Bertrand Lorentz, Chow Loong Jin, Kevin Anthony,
     Olivier Dufour, Pacho Ramos, Robin Stocker, Rodney Dawes, Timothy Arceri,
     Travis Glenn Hansen

    The following people contributed updated translations to this release.
    Without them, our project's reach would be much more limited.

     Changwoo Ryu, Cheng-Chia Tseng, Christian Kirbach, Daniel Mustieles,
     Daniel Nylander, Fran Dieguez, Gianvito Cavasoli, Jorge González,
     Kentaro KAZUHAMA, Marek Černocký, Mario Blättermann, Matej Urbančič,
     Mateusz Kacprzak