Topic: Banshee

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Banshee music player is back from the dead (well, kinda)

A revived Banshee music player is now available on the Snap store, making it possible to use it on modern Linux desktops decades after its last stable release. Packaged by Alan Pope (aka popey), this […]

25 September 2026
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Banshee 2.9.1 Released With New MediaPanel UI

Headphones at the ready; the latest development snapshot of the popular open-source media player ‘Banshee’ has been released.

18 March 2014

Nexus 4, Windows Phone Fixes Debut In Latest Banshee Media Player Release

A new version of the popular open-source media player 'Banshee' has been released.

19 February 2014

Latest Release of Banshee Media Player Adds Symbian Sync

Banshee 2.9.0, the first release of the popular music app in 12 months, brings bug fixes, Symbianc device music sync & GTK3 support.

8 October 2013
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Banshee 2.4 Goes Stable, Adds DVD Playback Support

The latest stable version of desktop music player Banshee has been released. Now on version 2.4, the popular media app adds support for DVD playback, ‘genre’ and ‘years’ filtering of music, and UPnP music and […]

21 March 2012
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Linux Mint Agree Amazon Revenue Share

Linux Mint have agreed to split the revenue generated from Banshee's MP3 Store plugin with 'upstream'.

14 December 2011
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[Quick Tip] Use the Banshee ‘NOT’ Operator for Better Search Results

Hardcore Banshee user Leo McArdle sent in the following handy tip: – “Hey, today I stumbled upon the NOT operator in the search of banshee. For example, if I want to only see tracks without “demo” […]

27 November 2011
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Banshee Adds DVD Playback

It might be getting the ol’ heave-ho from the default application set in Ubuntu 12.04, but Banshee still has a lot to give. For example, the most recent release of Banshee, version 2.3.1, added in […]

6 November 2011
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Banshee, Tomboy, and Mono Dropped from Ubuntu 12.04 CD

Banshee will be replaced by Rhythmbox for Ubuntu 12.04. The news was confirmed during the wrap-up session of the Ubuntu Developer Summit.

4 November 2011
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Rhythmbox to Return As Ubuntu 12.04 Default Music App?

What apps will ship out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 12.04? The 'default apps' discussion has been taking place at the Ubuntu Developer Summit to decide.

2 November 2011

Banshee 2.2 Released with eMusic Store Support

Banshee 2.2 is out with a new eMusic store, equaliser preset and sync support for mobile devices like the Samsung Galaxy Ace and Motorola Atria.

21 September 2011

A roundup of recent Banshee news (in brief)

Banshee contributor David Nielsen fills me in recent developments to the Mono-based music player, including work on GTK3, WebOS and Mac OS X ports.

16 September 2011
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Banshee 2.1.4 Released

Banshee 2.1.4, the third development snapshot leading to Banshee 2.2, has been officially released.

8 September 2011
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Latest Banshee release adds ’emusic’ store, 51 fixes

The Banshee team have announced the release of version 2.1.0, which, amongst 51 bug fixes, 'brings a significant change in dependency policy.' Banshee 2.1.0 comes just 10 days since the last release of Banshee, version 2.0.1, which was made on May 2nd.

13 May 2011

Musings on Banshee 2.1.0 and turning off the daily PPA

The new Banshee development cycle has official begun and within comes a number of big changes. Let's look at what is already in the tree now and which will be in the first development release 2.1.0...

29 April 2011

Banshee 2.1: Small version increase, big change

With the fantastic 2.0 release behind it, the Banshee project announces changes for the future. Banshee Core developer Gabriel Burt announced the much anticipated dependency decision for the upcoming Banshee 2.1. For every release so far the policy for Banshee has been to support distributions going back roughly 1½ years: this is all about to change.

28 April 2011
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[How to] Add a Banshee quicklist for easy music control in Ubuntu Unity

OMG! reader Nico, who earlier this week showed us how to add an unread message count to Pidgin on the Unity Launcher, mailed in a pre-made Banshee Quicklist for Ubuntu 11.04. Once installed a wide selection of handy actions are no-more than a right-click away...

24 April 2011
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A few good Banshee features: New Artist Browser and eMusic integration

Banshee 2.0 is out and default in Natty which is all good and well but.. Banshee has not been resting. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, these new features are presented to you as screenshots.

14 April 2011