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Banshee
Developer(s)Aaron Bockover
Initial release2005-02-17[1]
Stable release2.6.2 (February 18, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-02-18)[2]) [±]
Repository
Written inC# (Mono)
Operating systemLinux / Mac OS X
Available inMultilingual
TypeMedia player
LicenseMIT License
Websitehttp://www.banshee-project.org/

Banshee is an open-source media player. Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the Helix and GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play, import and burn audio CDs, and supports many portable media players, including Apple's iPod, T-Mobile G1 and Creative's ZEN players.[3] Other features include Last.fm integration, album artwork fetching, smart playlists and podcast support. Currently in version 1.4.3, Banshee is released under the terms of the MIT License and is available for GNU/Linux as well as Mac OS X operating systems.

Plugins

Using a plugin-capable architecture, Banshee is highly extensible and customizable. Current 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. There is also a "Find new podcasts" feature which utilises Podcast Alley.
  • Radio: Provides support for streaming internet radio stations.

Helix Banshee

Helix Banshee is a version of Banshee, included in SLED and available in openSUSE (non-OSS media). It is based upon the Banshee core, but adds support for the Helix framework for playback and transcoding, in addition to GStreamer. Helix Banshee does not modify the core of Banshee in any way, it simply builds upon it via Banshee's extensible plugin framework.

See also

References

  1. ^ History - Banshee
  2. ^ "October 10, 2012". banshee.fm. October 3, 2012. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
  3. ^ http://banshee-project.org/Discover/Synchronize
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