Banshee (media player)

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Banshee
Initial releaseFebruary 17, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-02-17)
Stable release
2.6.2[1] Edit this on Wikidata
/ 18 February 2014
Preview release
2.9.1[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 18 March 2014
Repository
Written in
Media player
LicenseMIT
Websitewww.banshee-project.org Edit this on Wikidata

Banshee was a

Windows
.

Banshee was the default music player for a year in

Ubuntu and for some time in Linux Mint, but was later replaced by Rhythmbox in both distributions.[5][6][7]

Banshee uses the SQLite database library.

Plugins

Banshee's plugin-capable architecture makes the software extensible and customizable. As of 2012 stable plugins include:

  • Audioscrobbler: Adds the capability of reporting played songs to a user's Last.fm playlist, and play last.fm radio stations (user's library, tags, similar to, etc.).
  • DAAP music sharing: Allows sharing of music libraries with iTunes and other DAAP-compatible music software. The current version of Banshee is only partially compatible with iTunes 7, allowing iTunes to open a Banshee library, but not vice versa.
  • iPod manager: Allows the transferring of songs, videos, and album art to and from the device.
  • Metadata searcher using MusicBrainz: Automatically retrieves missing and supplementary metadata for library items, including album art.
  • Music Recommendations using Last.fm: Recommends music based on the currently playing song.
  • Mini-Mode plugin: Provides a small window with minimal playback controls and song information.
  • Multimedia keys support in GNOME: Banshee can be controlled via multimedia keys as configured through GNOME.
  • Notification Area Icon: Adds an icon to the notification area in GNOME.
  • Podcasting: Enables Banshee to subscribe to podcast feeds, which are updated on a regular basis.
  • Radio: Provides support for streaming Internet radio stations.

Cross-platform support

Compared to the Linux builds, which have stable releases, the Mac OS X builds are considered beta quality, and Windows builds are alpha quality (and, as of April 2013, two versions behind the other platforms). During Google Summer of Code 2012 Banshee has seen substantial improvements to its OS X support[8]

The first alpha release of Banshee on Windows was Banshee 1.9.4, released on February 23, 2011.[9][10][11]

Helix Banshee

Helix Banshee was a version of Banshee, included in older versions of

Helix framework
for playback and transcoding, in addition to GStreamer.

See also

  • Software audio players (free and open-source)

References

  1. ^ "Banshee 2.6.2". 18 February 2014. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Banshee 2.9.1". 18 March 2014. Archived from the original on 23 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Banshee rename git commit". Git.gnome.org. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
  4. ^ "Sync". Library.gnome.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
  5. ^ Banshee, Tomboy And Mono Dropped from Ubuntu 12.04 CD
  6. ^ Mint 18.1 review: Forget about Wayland and get comfy with the command line
  7. ^ "New features in Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon". Archived from the original on 2020-07-26. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
  8. ^ "GSoC 2012: Improve Banshee's Mac OS X port". Timo Dörr.
  9. ^ "bgo#641690 Comment #4". Gnome Bugzilla.
  10. ^ "Gabriel Burt, Twitter". Twitter.
  11. ^ "OMG!Ubuntu! Article". OMG!Ubuntu!. 21 February 2011.