New Banshee Alpha - Awesome!

[kpkeerthi]

I'm happy to know that iPod support has now been added. I'm going to build this from source today (in Archlinux though). When banshee 1.0 final I'll kiss good bye to rhythmbox.

[hyperair]

kpkeerthi: I'd actually encourage you to follow trunk in ArchLinux. Just run "yaourt -S banshee-1-svn" periodically to update =D

[kpkeerthi]

kpkeerthi: I'd actually encourage you to follow trunk in ArchLinux. Just run "yaourt -S banshee-1-svn" periodically to update =D

Absolutely. I'm going to download the PKGBUILD so I can compile-install it with the post_install() and pre_remove() fixes you have suggested in AUR

[fluffman86]

Oh crap. My bad. I think I left out a few dependencies... ipod-sharp and podsleuth if I'm not mistaken. Give me some time, I'll try and sort it out before I go to sleep.

Thanks! It was great waking up to find this update ready!

Banshee now recognizes my iPod, and I can manually drag songs onto it. Next I'm going to try adding video files and subscribing to some video podcasts.

Now I just have one question remaining: should the iPod do an iTunes-like sync? According to the Banshee DAP Guide, the Zen can synchronize. But I don't have (AFAICT) any sync buttons. Should I?

[hyperair]

@fluffman86: I have no Ipod so I really don't know. Why don't you drop by #banshee at irc://irc.gnome.org?

[s_spiff]

he means join the irc channel at irce://irc.gnome.org. Its a place where many banshee users will be, and you can interact with them.

[spanella47]

@Hyperair - if I erase the banshee-1 config folder i get a different error:

An unhandled exception was thrown: table CoreTracks has no column
named PrimarySourceID

 at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.GetNextStatement (IntPtr
pzStart, System.IntPtr& pzTail, System.IntPtr& pStmt) [0x00000]
 at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.ExecuteReader
(CommandBehavior behavior, Boolean want_results, System.Int32&
rows_affected) [0x00000]
 at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.ExecuteNonQuery () [0x00000]
 at Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteCommand.Execute
(Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteConnection hconnection,
Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteConnection connection) [0x00093] in
/build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Libraries/Hyena/Hyena.Data.Sqlite/HyenaSqliteCommand.cs:116
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

 at System.Reflection.MonoMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj,
BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder,
System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
[0x00000]
 at System.Reflection.MethodBase.Invoke (System.Object obj,
System.Object[] parameters) [0x00000]
 at Banshee.Database.BansheeDbFormatMigrator.InnerMigrate ()
[0x000ae] in /build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Core/Banshee.Services/Banshee.Database/BansheeDbFormatMigrator.cs:176
 at Banshee.Database.BansheeDbFormatMigrator.Migrate () [0x00018] in
/build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Core/Banshee.Services/Banshee.Database/BansheeDbFormatMigrator.cs:136
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

 at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj,
BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder,
System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
[0x00000]
 at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (BindingFlags invokeAttr,
System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters,
System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000]
 at System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo.Invoke (System.Object[]
parameters) [0x00000]
 at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type, Boolean
nonPublic) [0x00000]
 at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type) [0x00000]
 at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup () [0x00000] in
/build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Core/Banshee.ThickClient/Banshee.Gui/GtkBaseClient.cs:55
 at Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup.Startup
(Hyena.Gui.StartupInvocationHandler startup) [0x00048] in
/build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Libraries/Hyena.Gui/Hyena.Gui/CleanRoomStartup.cs:54

.NET Version: 2.0.50727.42
OS Version: Unix 2.6.24.17

Assembly Version Information:

System.Transactions (2.0.0.0)
NDesk.DBus.Proxies (0.0.0.0)
NDesk.DBus.GLib (1.0.0.0)
NDesk.DBus (1.0.0.0)
System.Xml (2.0.0.0)
System.Data (2.0.0.0)
Mono.Data.SqliteClient (2.0.0.0)
Mono.Addins (0.3.0.0)
gdk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
atk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
Hyena.Gui (0.99.1.35408)
Mono.Posix (2.0.0.0)
gtk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
glib-sharp (2.12.0.0)
Banshee.Core (0.99.1.35411)
Hyena (0.99.1.35406)
System (2.0.0.0)
Banshee.Services (0.99.1.35412)
Banshee.ThickClient (0.99.1.35415)
Nereid (0.99.1.35416)
mscorlib (2.0.0.0)

Platform Information: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686 unknown GNU/Linux

Disribution Information:

[/etc/lsb-release]
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04"

[/etc/debian_version]
lenny/sid

[fluffman86]

@fluffman86: I have no Ipod so I really don't know. Why don't you drop by #banshee at irc://irc.gnome.org?

shoot...IRC is blocked at work I'll be on tonight then.

As for subscribing to video podcasts, banshee crashes when I type in the feed (http://www.podshow.com/feeds/hd.xml) for GeekBrief.tv.

Running from terminal, I get the following error:

[Info  10:30:45.094] Running Banshee 0.99.1
[Info  10:30:48.382] All services are started 2.838866s
[Info  10:30:50.471] nereid Client Started
Exception in Gtk# callback delegate
  Note: Applications can use GLib.ExceptionManager.UnhandledException to handle the exception.
System.InvalidCastException: Cannot cast from source type to destination type.
  at Hyena.Data.Sqlite.SqliteModelProvider`1[Migo.Syndication.Feed].Save (Migo.Syndication.Feed ) [0x00000] in /build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Libraries/Hyena/Hyena.Data.Sqlite/SqliteModelProvider.cs:265 
  at Migo.Syndication.Feed.Save () [0x00000] in /build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Libraries/Migo/Migo/Migo.Syndication/Feed.cs:1090 
  at Migo.Syndication.FeedsManager.CreateFeed (System.String url) [0x0003f] in /build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Libraries/Migo/Migo/Migo.Syndication/FeedsManager.cs:230 
  at Banshee.Podcasting.PodcastCore.SubscribeToPodcast (System.Uri uri, FeedAutoDownload syncPreference) [0x0000d] in /build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Extensions/Banshee.Podcasting/Banshee.Podcasting/PodcastCore.cs:349 
  at Banshee.Podcasting.PodcastCore.RunSubscribeDialog () [0x00084] in /build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Extensions/Banshee.Podcasting/Banshee.Podcasting/PodcastCore_Interface.cs:207 
  at Banshee.Podcasting.PodcastCore.OnPodcastAdd (System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e) [0x00023] in /build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Extensions/Banshee.Podcasting/Banshee.Podcasting/PodcastCore_Interface.cs:316 
  at GLib.Signal.voidObjectCallback (IntPtr handle, IntPtr data) [0x00000] 
   at GLib.ExceptionManager.RaiseUnhandledException(System.Exception e, Boolean is_terminal)
   at GLib.Signal.voidObjectCallback(IntPtr handle, IntPtr data)
   at GLib.Signal.voidObjectCallback(IntPtr , IntPtr )
   at Gtk.Application.gtk_main()
   at Gtk.Application.gtk_main()
   at Gtk.Application.Run()
   at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Run() in /build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Core/Banshee.ThickClient/Banshee.Gui/GtkBaseClient.cs:line 114
   at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup() in /build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Core/Banshee.ThickClient/Banshee.Gui/GtkBaseClient.cs:line 55
   at Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup.Startup(Hyena.Gui.StartupInvocationHandler startup) in /build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Libraries/Hyena.Gui/Hyena.Gui/CleanRoomStartup.cs:line 54
   at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Entry() in /build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Core/Banshee.ThickClient/Banshee.Gui/GtkBaseClient.cs:line 50
   at Nereid.Client.Main() in /build/buildd/banshee-1-0.99.1/src/Clients/Nereid/Nereid/Client.cs:line 47
Real-time signal 1

Edit: same thing happens with audio podcasts, as well.

[hyperair]

@spanella47: Did you remove ~/.config/banshee as well?

[spanella47]

@hyperair: No, didnt want to get rid of my old banshee.db if i could do it another way

wrote the banshee mailing list and turned out running src/nuke-core-tables worked. I'd been compiling from source before the PPA existed so the upgrade wasn't upgrading my db smoothly for whatever reason.

Everythings fine now though, thanks