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Increase Sound Menu functionality: song progress slider  
Written by Lionthinker the 29 Jan 12 at 18:44. New
The sound menu at the top right only has volume control.

I listen to a lot of podcasts and need to repeat sections.
Also it would be nice to repeat parts of songs without having to open the music player.
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Solution #1: Sound Progress slider
Written by Lionthinker the 29 Jan 12 at 18:44.
In the Sound Menu bar below or above the volume scroller, place a progress slider.

Simple as that.

See the 3 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 12 Apr 12 at 07:57) >>

Album playlists in banshee  
Written by abo the 28 Jul 09 at 09:33. New
I need a criteria to select a whole album.
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Solution #1: Album rating for banshee
Written by abo the 28 Jul 09 at 09:33.
Add an album rating for banshee. It can be initially based on song ratings. It helps to create playlists with the whole album.

See the 1 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 9 Jun 11 at 01:46) >>

Banshee LIbrary handling ideas.  
Written by Rodrigo the 13 Aug 09 at 20:20. New
When I add a new song to the media directory in banshee I have to rescan the whole library, something that can take a while if I have a few songs.
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Solution #1: Add auto rescan
Written by Rodrigo the 13 Aug 09 at 20:20.
Banshee should be able to know when new files are added to the library directory and add them right away.
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Solution #2: Use tracker to keep the library up to date
Written by Rodrigo the 13 Aug 09 at 20:22.
Gnome and Ubuntu use Tracker as a file searcher, so why don't other programs use it as well?
Banshee could use it.
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Solution #3: Enable "LibraryWatcher" extension by default
Written by knocte the 13 May 11 at 19:28.
There is already a working solution to this: the LibraryWatcher extension.

But I guess that somehow it was bundled disabled.

See the 4 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 16 May 11 at 19:11) >>

Playing music - save power  
Written by Anjar the 16 Mar 11 at 18:56. New
When I'm traveling, I sometimes want to listen to music and just that. The computer is turned on and use a lot of power, when the only thing I do is listening to music.
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Solution #1: Music-mode
Written by Anjar the 16 Mar 11 at 18:56.
Click a button, and all other applications, daemons etc. shut down, just the musicplayer is open. Click another and the screen is turned off until another key is pressed.
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Solution #2: One-thing-to-do mode for some popular tasks
Written by DdOo the 19 Mar 11 at 15:43.
I don't know if it's technicaly possible, but One-thing-to-do mode for some popular tasks would be very useful.

For instance :

* music-mode
* film-mode
* internet-mode
* one-game-mode
* …
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Solution #3: Ubuntu should be as energy efficient as possible by default
Written by Chronos the 10 Apr 11 at 15:14.
There is no need to have music mode, the kernel should keep everything as energy efficient as possible, at every time.

See the 5 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 27 Mar 11 at 11:34) >>

Banshee should have a GUI to connect to Grooveshark   forum
Written by komputes the 14 Mar 11 at 20:50. New
Banshee should have an optional interface which connects to Grooveshark for free music streaming.
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Solution #1: Develop a Grooveshark extension for Banshee
Written by komputes the 14 Mar 11 at 20:50.
Develop a Grooveshark extension for Banshee.

API described here:
http://developers.grooveshark.com/

Current Banshee extensions:
http://banshee.fm/download/extensions/

See the 2 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 22 Mar 11 at 07:59) >>

iTunes cannot identify flac correctly under DAAP  
Written by jamesisin the 14 Apr 09 at 01:14. New
I am able to convince iTunes to play flacs/oggs locally, albeit it's a pain. Well, not that painful. Two components have to be added into separate system folders.

http://www.soundunreason.com/InkWell/?p=928

However, when iTunes connects to a DAAP share from my Ubuntu/Rhythmbox machine, flacs or oggs are seen but misunderstood.

The playback solution from my disorganized post above gives QuickTime the ability to play flacs and oggs. The problem is that iTunes won't use QT for flac/ogg playback unless you add some metadata to the resource fork for an individual file. Never will happen for a non-local file.

DAAP, being non-local by nature, cannot participate in this slight of hand. Unless...

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Solution #1: Create new DAAP share plugin which dupes iTunes
Written by jamesisin the 14 Apr 09 at 01:14.
If the DAAP share were to lie to iTunes about which MIME type it was sending (masking a flacs and oggs as QT movie files), the aforementioned local solution would allow playback of flacs and oggs across DAAP through iTunes.

More information here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7055287

NOTE:

There is already a working DAAP plugin for Rhythmbox. It just needs to lie to iTunes so that when folks using Macs visit we Ubunut cats they can connect to the DAAP share too. This is a positive inroad for Ubuntu and flac usage. To the point, this is probably more likely to apply pressure to Apple than anything else (it would encourage a consumer demand for flac within their own user base).

Wikipedia points out:

"DAAP has also been implemented in other non-iTunes media applications such as Banshee, Amarok, Exaile (with a plugin), Songbird (with a plugin), Rhythmbox, and WiFiTunes."
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Solution #2: Put some presure on Apple to support FLAC
Written by Darwin Survivor the 14 Apr 09 at 22:09.
Apple, being a OS designed for audio/video/images guys should be able to implement a free, high-quality, lossless audio codec...

See the 5 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 22 Mar 11 at 03:37) >>

Banshee should have a GUI to connect to Hype Machine  
Written by komputes the 14 Mar 11 at 20:55. New
Banshee should have an optional interface which connects to Hype Machine for free music discovery.
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Solution #1: Develop a Hype Machine extension for Banshee
Written by komputes the 14 Mar 11 at 20:55.
Develop a Hype Machine extension for Banshee.

Private API for Hype Machine (perhaps available via contact Anthony Volodkin)

Current Banshee extensions:
http://banshee.fm/download/extensions/

See the 2 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 15 Mar 11 at 15:26) >>

Banshee should have a GUI to connect to SoundCloud  
Written by komputes the 14 Mar 11 at 20:52. New
Banshee should have an optional interface which connects to SoundCloud for music discovery and social networking.
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Solution #1: Develop a SoundCloud extension for Banshee
Written by komputes the 14 Mar 11 at 20:52.
Develop a SoundCloud extension for Banshee.

API described here:
http://soundcloud.com/developers
http://soundcloud.com/developers/console

Current Banshee extensions:
http://banshee.fm/download/extensions/

See the 1 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 15 Mar 11 at 03:22) >>

Volume Still Controlled By One Master Level  
Written by ginjaninja405 the 7 Mar 11 at 01:24. New
Volume, even with it's recent advances, is still System-wide and when changed, it affects all applications. This does not give freedom to mute Music quickly to watch an online video, or turn down any annoyingly distracting sound effects that may come from an instant messenger.
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Solution #1: Allow Volume Changes At Application Level
Written by ginjaninja405 the 7 Mar 11 at 01:24.
Use a backend like PulseAudio and integrate Volume sliders listing vertically into the Sound Menu. This will give users much more control. Only display applications that are creating sound, and link the sliders on the Sound Menu with any volume sliders in the application. By default, have them hidden, but create the capability to click a drop-down box to reveal them.

See the 1 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 7 Mar 11 at 06:12) >>

Sound Menu should add more functionality with Banshee/RhythmBox  
Written by mystro256 the 6 Mar 11 at 22:17. New
Since the interface with Banshee/Rhythmbox have been put completely in the sound menu for Natty/Maverick, it lacks functionality that was in the original notification icon, such as seeking through a song and closing the player without using "file > quit"
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Solution #1: Add the ability to seek and close
Written by mystro256 the 6 Mar 11 at 22:17.
The sound menu should add the ability to seek or fast-forward/rewind, such as the hover-over-notification-icon function banshee had (I'm not sure if Rhythmbox had it because I never used it), along with an option to close the player (such as an X beside the name of the player or text option below the album art)
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Solution #2: Just a close option
Written by mystro256 the 7 Mar 11 at 20:40.
option to close the player, such as an X beside the name of the player or text option below the album art. One may want to close the media player so it doesn't take up resources, but would find it much more convenient to just have the close in the sound menu.
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Solution #3: Add close button and song progress slider
Written by CorvusS the 29 Apr 11 at 18:14.
In addition to a close option described in solution #2, sound menu should have song progress slider, so one can play his favourite part of song again without having to open player.
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Solution #4: Add sound menu customisation options to Banshee preferences
Written by CorvusS the 29 Apr 11 at 18:21.
Let user decide what he wants in Sound menu. Add options to show/hide album cover, song progress slider etc. to Banshee preferences.

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