Banshee (media player)
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| Developer(s) | Novell Inc. |
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| Initial release | February 17, 2005 |
| Stable release | 2.6.2 (February 18, 2014) |
| Preview release | 2.9.1 (March 18, 2014) |
| Repository | git |
| Written in | C# (Gtk#) |
| Operating system | Linux, Mac OS X (beta), Windows (alpha) |
| Type | Media player |
| License | MIT |
| Website | banshee |
Banshee is a cross-platform open-source media player, called Sonance until 2005. Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses 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. 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.
Banshee uses the SQLite database library.
Banshee's plugin-capable architecture makes the software extensible and customizable. As of 2012[update] stable plugins include:
Compared to the Linux builds, which have stable releases, the Mac OS X builds are considered beta quality, and Windows builds are alpha quality (and, as of April 2013, two versions behind the other platforms). During Google Summer of Code 2012 Banshee has seen substantial improvements to its OS X support
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