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Banshee
Developer	Novell Inc.
Initial release	February 17, 2005; 20 years ago (2005-02-17)
Stable release	2.6.2[1]  / 18 February 2014
Preview release	2.9.1[2]  / 18 March 2014
Repository	gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/banshee
Written in	C# (Gtk#)
Operating system	Linux,Mac OS X (beta),Windows (alpha)
Type	Media player
License	MIT
Website	www.banshee-project.org

Banshee is a discontinuedcross-platformopen-sourcemedia player, calledSonance until 2005.^[3] Built uponMono andGtk#, it used theGStreamer multimedia platform for encoding, and decoding various media formats, includingOgg Vorbis,MP3 andFLAC. Banshee can play and import audioCDs and supports many portable media players, includingApple'siPod,Androiddevices andCreative'sZEN players.^[4] Other features includeLast.fm integration, album artwork fetching, smart playlists and podcast support. Banshee is released under the terms of theMIT License. Stable versions are available for manyLinuxdistributions, as well as a beta preview forOS X and an alpha preview forWindows.

Banshee was the default music player for a year inUbuntu and for some time inLinux Mint, but was later replaced byRhythmbox in both distributions.^[5][6][7]

Banshee uses theSQLite database library.

Banshee's plugin-capable architecture makes the software extensible and customizable. As of 2012^[update] stable plugins include:

• Audioscrobbler: Adds the capability of reporting played songs to a user'sLast.fm playlist, and play last.fm radio stations (user's library, tags, similar to, etc.).
• DAAP music sharing: Allows sharing of music libraries withiTunes and other DAAP-compatible music software. The current version of Banshee is only partially compatible with iTunes 7, allowing iTunes to open a Banshee library, but not vice versa.
• iPod manager: Allows the transferring of songs, videos, and album art to and from the device.
• Metadata searcher usingMusicBrainz: Automatically retrieves missing and supplementary metadata for library items, including album art.
• Music Recommendations usingLast.fm: Recommends music based on the currently playing song.
• Mini-Mode plugin: Provides a small window with minimal playback controls and song information.
• Multimedia keys support inGNOME: Banshee can be controlled via multimedia keys as configured through GNOME.
• Notification Area Icon: Adds an icon to the notification area in GNOME.
• Podcasting: Enables Banshee to subscribe to podcast feeds, which are updated on a regular basis.
• Radio: Provides support for streaming Internet radio stations.

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^[8]

The first alpha release of Banshee on Windows was Banshee 1.9.4, released on February 23, 2011.^[9][10][11]

Helix Banshee was a version of Banshee, included in older versions ofSUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop andopenSUSE. It was based upon the Banshee core, but with a plug-in to add support for theHelix framework for playback and transcoding, in addition to GStreamer.

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