Ubuntu – How to help improve Banshee

bansheebug-reporting

I have had some problems running Banshee. It crashes quite often after finishing playing a song. It also jumps all over the place when playing back albums – sometimes it plays the first song twice – other times it jumps from the first song to the fourth.

How can I help pinpoint the cause of these problems? What would I need to do to be able to at least provide crash report information? I would love to help make the application better in whatever way I can.

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In case of crashes you have to set Banshee up to create a debug log. Short version from the link:

killall banshee

cd ~; banshee --debug 2>&1 | tee banshee-debug-log.txt

Reproduce your problem and exit banshee and attach the resulting banshee-debug-log.txt to your bug report.

There is also a faq on performance issues _{I wonder why there is a faq about this? Isn't this admitting it is not so good?)}

And finally Banshee also uses bugzilla.

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Ubuntu – Banshee isn’t starting anymore

What Monton0815 did worked for me:

Log on as the Guest user
Start Banshee
Log out
Log in to the user account where Banshee isn't working
Start Banshee
Happy Days

Ubuntu – How to update banshee to 2.4

You've run the commands the wrong way around. apt-get update should be first (it updates your computer's list of what software is available) and then apt-get upgrade (upgrades the packages installed).

In short, just run sudo apt-get upgrade again, or open Update Manager.

Edit I've just noticed that I'm not using this PPA, I'm using the daily-builds version ppa:banshee-team/banshee-daily. There is an inherently higher chance that there'll be a significant bug one day but it has worked for me so far:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:banshee-team/banshee-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Or you can stick with the release PPA and wait for somebody to fix the libmono-upnp-cil-dev dependency issue (that fossfreedom points out).

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