Banshee Gets "Digital Library" integration – Browse and watch/listen to free films, concerts, books, audio, etc

By , Published November 9, 2009
If you use the Banshee Daily PPA you may have recently noticed* a new entry in the left hand menu panel: Internet Archive.

Through this you can browse all sorts of royalty free and public domain works – including live performances, concerts, movies and books.

Sadly for me Banshee insisted on crashing whenever i tried to watch a film so i can’t demonstrate it as it should be, but i did manage to stream a (randomly clicked) video as flash. 

Videos can be viewed as various options (depending on the video in question) such as flash, ogg, mpg4, etc.

Everything is done -in- browser so you can search, find, download/stream and watch all from the one interface.

Audio, just like movies, can be streamed in a variety of different formats.

*Disclaimer: I’ve not used Banshee for a day or two so i’m not sure when this feature landed.
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    I’m a huge Exaile fan personally. It does almost everything that my previous favorite audio app (Amarok 1.6, R.I.P.) did, and development is proceeding rapidly in the last year. Banshee has never really stood out for me, and Songbird-like bloat (that crashes) is unlikely to win me over.

  • Mike

    This is useless fluff as far as I am concerned. Why do most of the linux audio players concentrate on trivial stuff like this. When is Banshee going to get gap-less playback? Or fade-out when I push the pause/stop button?

    It’s an audio player for Christsake! Concentrate on the audio features first.

  • Mohan

    Banshee is no good for me until they put back last.fm radio streaming, till then I am going to be using Rhythmbox.

    • Anonymous

      For me, it says it’s only available to subscribers. I know that radio streaming is still available for free in the UK, so I dunno what’s going on there.

      • Mohan

        Mine says it failed to get the songs, and I live in the US which it suppose to be free as Rhythmbox works just fine.

        • Bertrand Lorentz

          The Last.fm support was just updated yesterday.
          I’m not living in the US, UK or Germany, so I can’t test free radio streaming for those lucky countries. I’d love to get more info about the problem :
          http://banshee-project.org/contribute/file-bugs/

          • Mohan

            Awesome, I shall look forward to that update. Thanks.

  • http://www.kombostudio.nl Richard Venneman

    Hot or not? … I think they have greater plans than just an audio player with this whole ‘Banshee as a platform’-thing. Maybe Suse users will see Yast integration one day… http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jul-15.html

  • Anonymous

    whats the point in this? Banshee is becoming bloated. I don’t want it to become “Windows media player” for Linux, I want it to remain an audio player like it should be.

  • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

    banshee team should focus more on presenting music then they can add other features, because its a music player in the first place