Topic: Banshee

Placeholder koala image

An urgent call for testing: Banshee 1.7.5 on Maverick

Given that Ubuntu aims to replace the default mediaplayer on the Ubuntu Netbook Edition with Banshee, Didier Roche has requested that the proud OMG army unleash their unspeakable powers of mass breakage on the newly promoted Banshee 1.7.5 package in Maverick.

7 September 2010
Placeholder koala image

August record month for the GNOME Foundation

The GNOME foundation has set a record profit for the month of August, thanks in part to the Amazon MP3 affiliate scheme which is embedded in Banshee Media Player.

3 September 2010
Placeholder koala image

Banshee 1.7.5 released with improved hardware support

Grab your portable gadgets, even your iPhone. Banshee 1.7.5 is here with new hardware support and we need YOU to break it (and file bugs if you succeed naturally). With 1.7.5 you will not just get all new and improved hardware support but also 47 bug fixes. Most notable of these writing metadata to video files is now supported.

2 September 2010
Placeholder koala image

A Beautiful New Banshee Beckons?

Since this is my first time writing for OMG! Ubuntu! I figured I would start by sharing a little something that excites me. Namely this mockup Mike Beecham presented in the #banshee IRC channel. Personally […]

22 August 2010
Placeholder koala image

Worry ye not: Banshee for Windows is coming

A great many of us have to keep Windows knocking around for gaming, work or through the ball and chain of some proprietary software we were learned in. A media player doesn’t exactly fit this […]

16 August 2010
Placeholder koala image

OMG that’s so 2009! Banshee now plays nice with iPhones, iPod Touch, more!

The first part of the headline above is stolen from Alex Launi’s brilliant surmise on the latest Banshee merge that brings with it improved device detection and (get stoked) iPhone and iPod Touch hardware support out of the box! […]

15 August 2010
Placeholder koala image

Banshee 1.7.4 released, adds user manual,

Banshee 1.7.4 has been released today adding access to a user manual as well as:- Duplicate Genre solver in Metadata Fixup extension Support for Amazon MP3 purchases containing PDFs and videos Improved Metadata Fixup support […]

11 August 2010
Placeholder koala image

Banshee adds initial Meerkat Sound Menu support

Whilst much ado about nothing has been made concerning Ubuntu 10.10’s shiny new Sound Menu one question has been asked time and time again – will Banshee support it? The answer is yes. Bertand Lorentz […]

7 August 2010
Placeholder koala image

Support GNOME by buying music in Banshee

This is a cross post with our sister site OMG! Suse! The founder of the Banshee project, Aaron Bockover just announced on his blog that all the Amazon MP3 Store purchases through Banshee’s integration with […]

2 August 2010
Placeholder koala image

Moovida Core Media player RC2 – Worth getting excited about? Not yet.

With yesterday’s release of Banshee fresh in my mind I decided to take the latest version of the Banshee-derived Moovida Core Media Player for a test drive in Ubuntu. Moovida what? Moovida, known for being […]

22 July 2010
Placeholder koala image

Banshee 1.7.3 released – adds amazon MP3 store, miro podcast integration, new metatag tool

Popular music player Banshee has bumped itself up to version1.7.3 today, rolling out with it a fantastic new in-app Amazon MP3 store, Miro podcast directory integration “allowing users to discover, stream, and subscribe to podcasts […]

21 July 2010
Placeholder koala image

Integrated Amazon MP3 Store comes to Banshee

Banshee developer Aaron Bockover has announced that even greater Amazon MP3 integration is coming to the Banshee media player. A new extension will embed the Amazon MP3 store directly within Banshee itself. Users will then […]

13 July 2010
Placeholder koala image

Lucid Banshee Tray Icon Finally gets fixed

Just a short sharp shot: The daily builds of Banshee (in the Banshee Daily PPA, no less) finally rock out with a ‘fixed’ tray icon – news which will be like fresh morning dew to […]

29 June 2010
Placeholder koala image

Amazon MP3 Download Extension for Banshee coming next week

Is Linux finally about to get a decent Amazon MP3 downloader? You betcha! Aaron Bockover, creator and maintainer of the Banshee project, will be releasing an Amazon MP3 download extension for the popular media player […]

26 June 2010
Placeholder koala image

How To Install the Banshee MeeGo Interface in Ubuntu 10.04

With Banshee heading to default status in Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition the possibility of pre-enabling the very slick MeeGo interface as standard is now under review. As such you may want to try it out […]

22 June 2010
Placeholder koala image

Banshee getting full iPod/iPhone support – could still become Maverick default?

As part of Novell’s annual Hack week event Alan McGovern, of Moonlight and MonoTorrent fame, will be working on the much requested libgpod binding and integration work for Banshee — which has the potential to […]

6 June 2010
Placeholder koala image

Google Summer of Code: Projects for Rhythmbox, UbuntuOne, Banshee, More

With Google’s annual Summer of Code very nearly upon on us the list of accepted projects that developers will spend the summer getting paid to work on are all but out. With that in mind […]

28 April 2010
Placeholder koala image

How To Add The Banshee Indicator Applet in Lucid

An indicator applet extension for Banshee can be easily installed in Ubuntu 10.04, giving the application full panel integration a la Rhythmbox and other indicator applets. By default Banshee displays a notification icon. Whilst this […]

11 April 2010