Banshee (media player)
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Banshee was a cross-platform open-source media player, called Sonance until 2005.[3] Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it used the GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding, and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players, including Apple's iPod, Android devices and Creative's ZEN players.[4] Other features include Last.fm integration, album artwork fetching, smart playlists and podcast support. Banshee is released under the terms of the MIT License. Stable versions are available for many Linux distributions, as well as a beta preview for OS X and an alpha preview for Windows.
Developer(s) | Novell Inc. |
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Initial release | February 17, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-02-17) |
Stable release | |
Preview release | |
Repository | |
Written in | C# (Gtk#) |
Operating system | Linux, Mac OS X (beta), Windows (alpha) |
Type | Media player |
License | MIT |
Website | www |
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.