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 banshee

Media management and playback application
4MB
http://www.banshee.fm
Categories: Releases: Score:
 137
224 reviews
Description:

Banshee is a media management and playback application for the gnome desktop, allowing users to import audio from cds, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from ipods and other media devices, play and manage video files and burn selections to a cd.

User reviews:
ScoreComment
5 days ago

Voliax
3 It's a simple audio player. I need more :)
1 week ago

rochiare
4 Good! Bom aplicativo!
2 weeks ago

killkenny
3 Médio. Prefiro o Clementine.
2 weeks ago

_krypt
2 Heavyweight music player. I prefer Clementine.
2 weeks ago

hnatyuk
5 Good
1 month ago

Manny7901
5 Simply the best for music collections.
1 month ago

disPPlay
4 It's so easy to manage my music collection with banshee
1 month ago

DzungAh
2 Hate it
1 month ago

shishirvarde
5 works best
1 month ago

rfalke
2 No global play/stop keyboard shortcut. Crashes.
1 month ago

mikaere66
5 This is everything a media player SHOULD be =)
2 months ago

MaxJ
3 Not bad. I use it because it comes preinstalled on Mint. It crashes about once per two played albums, sometimes more often. No weird setup on my computer. I'd expect some weird exception management (some warning level things treated as fatal?).
3 months ago

naarcissus
3 Great player/manager! Terrible stability! Buggy when it comes to writing tags into music files. Especially if playing music while editing tags. While just playing or just editing, it seems pretty stable. Goes for both 2.4 and 2.6.
3 months ago

salvo1118
5 I love it! The equalizer's probably the best that I've seen on Linux (I especially like the "soft" setting, which seems to restore the dynamic range that's usually compressed during the mastering of today's songs) and the interface is great. The only knock I have is that if you want the player to stop after playing a song, it won't remember that setting next time. Annoying!
3 months ago

cqdyer
5 Excellent!
3 months ago

Lemurmur
5 My favorite player! Мій улюблений плеєр!
3 months ago

guv999
5 Just started using Banshee again after approx 18 months away. Really been developed well and is now fulfilling its potential
4 months ago

Warlock
5 Best music player i use
4 months ago

ulysses
2 Not for me ..
5 months ago

jahid_0903014
5 best music player for linux
5 months ago

telcnas
5 Must say its the best music app, atleast for linux mint 13 cinnamon............runs flawlessly....never crashed......consists awesome feature & plugins......
5 months ago

romku
3 Порой сам по себе выключается
5 months ago

Nomad_id
3 не фанат, много ненужных функций. Ну кому как
5 months ago

quake0
5 works great!
5 months ago

AshBaby
2 Bad buggy code.. tried on several mint systems
5 months ago

christopherfgarcia
5 Works well for me.. I'm using this to play my MP3 collection..
5 months ago

buguldur
4 crash, crash, crash... :(
5 months ago

shaboifa
3 Banshee for some reason keeps crashing on me.. Ill will have it be playing a playlist and after about the third song or so it will freeze my whole comp, forcing me to power down.. Any reason to why this happens?
5 months ago

tommycarstensen
1 My favorite app on Fedora 14. Not anymore. It has crashed and freezed on me more times than I would like to count. Now looking for an alternative.
6 months ago

midtowon
4 Ver bad, an unstable player, better songbird!
6 months ago

kchak79
3 no termina por convencerme
6 months ago

rusbeck
2 freezes all the time and sometimes crashes even the DB. Pls fix it!
6 months ago

oe6tkt
2 Leider friert Bunshee regelmäßig ein oder es verabschiedet sich. Für große Musiksammlungen ist es mir zu langsam. Stabilität läßt zu wünschen übrig. Freezes constantly, pls work on stability!
6 months ago

spacekrypsis
5 Banshee is my weapon of choice. It's a pretty sleak music player, i'm not missing a thing after i installed a few plugins.
6 months ago

Octoberator
5 Please stop marking this down for being slow. It wasn't made to be lightweight. That's what VLC is for. As a full-featured graphical media player, Banshee is quite possibly the best.
6 months ago

gauravjuvekar
3 not bad, not excellent
7 months ago

fotonix
1 Don't like it for numerous reasons. Remove from default install please.
7 months ago

frisky_mania
1 slower and worst music player interface
7 months ago

stephanwintner
1 they invented "move" for a reason. Duplicated all my files. thanks. removed.
7 months ago

PLAY3R
5 Install 2.6 by adding the PPA, sudo add-apt-repository ppa:banshee-team/ppa then sudo apt-get update , then you should see that its version 2.6 that you can install
7 months ago

macropterous
2 freezes constantly, not a fan
7 months ago

piday
5 This works very well for me.
8 months ago

cpmehl
2 Banshee's inability to remember USB storage for more than a day or two coupled with ridiculously high CPU usage has made this a no-go for me.
8 months ago

239562-93562-9386
2 Superficially it's got a decent UI, but it's painfully slow and freezes frequently. Syncing with USB mass storage is painful because it insists on transcoding files unnecessarily even when the device has support.
8 months ago

camaronqlo
2 se me cuelga el sistema cuando lo uso
8 months ago

Retro_Gamer
2 Not a bad player, but not as good as Clementine for me.
8 months ago

tql1Qu
2 Very sloooow....
9 months ago

Levi21
4 So far my preferred media player for ease of use
9 months ago

stepgr
3 buggy , could not get cd info from net
9 months ago

Jotape
4 Mi reproductor favorito
9 months ago

scott65
2 Cheap Windows Media Player Wannabe. Buggy Crap.
10 months ago

pcdebb
5 Perfect in every way, found all of my music and playlist setup was a snap
10 months ago

pier_IP
1 Not stable. It causes often system freeze
10 months ago

Duff
2 Bugs everywhere, not stable.
10 months ago

michelsaey
3 Simple & clean player that does his work, very good. The bad is that the program have a lot of bugs.
10 months ago

Qruqs
1 What a piece of junk. Couldn't find a single music file from subdirectories.
11 months ago

straylite
2 WOuld not sync albums correctly with tags. does not automatically bookmark where I left off when playing podcasts, either.
11 months ago

ajantrik
3 In my playlists, often title and the playing music do not match. I don't know why. I switched to clementine and no such problem occured.
11 months ago

Spotz15
2 I thought I could like it, but I don't. Not since my last install anyway. For the time span it has been in development it is too buggy and has too little features while it seems to have less and less with every new release. Only a basic player with somewhat extended abilities, which is a shame, because it could rival the larger packages out there. Worst is that it crashes very often. Bad audio quality. Sometimes jumps to the next song unexpectedly or stutters in playback. Automatic playlists don't work well at times. I wish people would take this whole linux business a bit more serious instead of viewing it as finger training exercise like so many of these projects out there that never make it past "0.7b" or the like. Look at windows freeware, or OS-X. You might learn something. Looks like this project is geared to only cosmetic changes. Nope, not for me.
11 months ago

zeke56
5 Does everything I need and more.
11 months ago

306696
2 basic player with no real mgmt features
11 months ago

HartKnight
2 It's like Rhythmbox, but too resource heavy.
11 months ago

BRAAB
1 Hogs, slow, not my thing...
11 months ago

dbum
2 Can it not 'watch' a specified folder for new music files? The only way I can add music to my library is to import every new album I download.. NOPE! I'm out.
11 months ago

zhaozhendong
4 很棒，很好
11 months ago

mdowden
1 Crashes constantly. Hates shared/removable drives and network storage. Get Rythymbox, VLC, or Audacious.
1 year ago

The_Loko
5 The best for me :D
1 year ago

arfit138
2 often not work.
1 year ago

abnvolk
3 Banshee runs slowly on my laptop, and looks quite complicated.
1 year ago

sylvan
1 Insanely buggy. Freezes Linux Mint 12 every single time, after which a reboot is necessary.
1 year ago

rjcanto
2 Lacks music filters like genre, album
1 year ago

NetCritic
1 Keeps freezing system up... Lisa, uninstalling....
1 year ago

newpaul
2 Uninstalled.
1 year ago

jeremi360
1 Who make this sh*!
1 year ago

irget
5 Extra
1 year ago

krause
2 mais ou menos
1 year ago

d5500394
2 inconvenient
1 year ago

scearley
2 Constant system freezes when used in LM12. This is multi-media?
1 year ago

niks
2 Everyone said it's great but you can't drag and drop a playlist from folder :(
1 year ago

lukyjay
4 Pretty basic, but does it's job and is light on resources
1 year ago

spensnook
3 incompatible with KDE, freeze gnome 3
1 year ago

dethsco
5 Fabtastic player for music with cover art and good display of library. Just would be good if it could sort my albums by year than by name.
1 year ago

threepercenter
1 Doesn't work very well on my setup for some reason. Very quirky.
1 year ago

daiyi
2 Crashes everything after a few tracks :C
1 year ago

psyckers
4 It is a great player, needs some tweeks in the UI but is workable.
1 year ago

BartonLennox
5 ;D iLike
1 year ago

vella
3 bulky. not many options for customizing.
1 year ago

bluepc
2 not playing well with gnome3
1 year ago

Cello61
4 Like the equalizerfunction which is not common in most players. Technically it works not always perfect but that could be related to my (older) hardware. Little bit heavy so i disabled most extensions, probably also due to my older hardware.
1 year ago

Raistlin84
4 I like it for listening music from media library or radio. If there was present the plugin lyrics from default it would be perfect.
1 year ago

gazoboy
2 causes many problems
1 year ago

rynak
1 its better to use rythmbox
1 year ago

gericom
2 i will use it if they port it to vala ;)
1 year ago

Rumournz
3 prefer VLC for video watching, and good ole XMMS for music i am thinking about a mythtv setup on an old laptop
1 year ago

krustyarmor
2 Can't handle large media libraries. Reports a "fatal error" whenever it tries to scan my 120Gb music folder.
1 year ago

Dimas257
3 folder music-music f-video-video f-soft-soft and eny problem by export
1 year ago

pan1977
4 Easiest player for subscribing to podcasts (with Miro plugin). Just wish I could change the view of my podcasts from Icon to "list view" like in Music. It's great though.
1 year ago

WUAmin
5 Great!
1 year ago

xefiro
4 Puedo reproducir música de mi iPod Directamente
1 year ago

tatuzera
5 The beest one ! really !
1 year ago

yamyam
3 whenever i open banshee it reports theres a fatal error, any ideas on how fix this???
1 year ago

sebibob
4 Ach herje. Einfach gesrickt, funktioniert ge
1 year ago

blueXrider
4 works well
1 year ago

Squirrel
5 This indexes ALL your media files, not just your mp3s. We're talking downloaded youtube videos, m4a, flv, and avi. It's easier than ever to make automatic playlists with this. It also includes all the same features as a standard player, like radio, scrobbling, and linking to other music sources. It even runs on windews!
1 year ago

rolfogodoy
5 nice and easy to use
1 year ago

Anleoje
5 Great music player!
1 year ago

lm4td
4 Simple and easy to use
1 year ago

Twamgrui
5 超级好用！！
1 year ago

Rufus
4 Good music player, good for importing cds as mp3 files. But automatic recognition of artist, album and tracks does not always work.
1 year ago

toto_de_France
3 pas mieux que rhythmbox
1 year ago

MajorGrubert
3 N'atteint pas souvent le scan de ma bibliothèque sans planter, sinon pas mal mais bon...
1 year ago

kimmynz
3 The lack of support for subscribing to password protected podcasts is pushing me back to Rhythmbox. Nice media player otherwise.
1 year ago

nipu011
5 best music player i've seen ....for linux
1 year ago

mparfitt
4 Far better than Rhythmbox
1 year ago

crom
2 I hate programs which try to be jack of all trades. Try Deadbeef if you want to play music. Just add the deadbeef ppa repository.
1 year ago

Labby
5 Love it! I tend to watch a lot of video podcasts, and the ability to play them in fullscreen and still have access to the playback controls by simply moving the mouse, is a win in my books. So much better than Rhythmbox in that regard!
1 year ago

barburo
1 Only plays 1/3 of my mp3 tracks (cos of Mono and OMA) so a huge turn off for those with mature mp3 collections. btw Gnome Mplayer plays all mp3s no problem
1 year ago

linuxpenguin
5 Great player, better than Rhytmbox and Exaile, great interface and fully functional. I don t have any problems while using this player
1 year ago

pcwiz13
2 Not the worst but I think that Rhythmbox is much better. It's not as stable as Rhythmbox.
1 year ago

ali20
4 i test it.it works well.but isnt very beautiful
1 year ago

minorthreat
3 not bad but its not better than amarok and clementine
1 year ago

Bocardi
1 Navigating the GUI was painfully slow with a large music collection
1 year ago

akanashiro
2 full featured music player but it randomly eats system resources. it also depends on Mono
1 year ago

Elisa
3 Not bad but IMHO, mplayer-nogui ran in CLI is cool and effective! :)
1 year ago

trollboy
1 It's better than Rhythmbox in functionality but is a Mono application
1 year ago

DaemonKazoom
2 I'ts not bad but can break a your collections and make a big mess.
1 year ago

chillgates
4 banshee is good
1 year ago

flan_suse
5 Prefer this to Amarok and RhythmBox. Clean, functional, active developers; professional quality.
1 year ago

UncleNinja
1 mono
1 year ago

netean
3 it's ok for music, but IME, slow for syncing with iPod Touch/iPhone and podcast support is not nearly as good, usable, fast or intuitive as other applications. Rhythmbox handles both of these better (and a lot quicker)
1 year ago

a-woozy-fieldmouse
5 My two reasons for loving Banshee: 1) I can edit my music files' (not just aliases of them) ID3 tags in the player and 2) it supports sorting by the "Composer" tag.
1 year ago

client26
4 well done
1 year ago

Althorion
4 Great for organising music, excellent player. Unfortunatelly, it requires Mono.
1 year ago

Steampunk-Nick
4 good app for organising and playing music
1 year ago

nlsthzn
4 A no nonsense music player, growing from strenght to strenght with each release I am happy to use it as my defualt music manager and player.
1 year ago

vendettaboom
5 Muy buen programa
1 year ago

mitanshugamer
4 great..
1 year ago

wrchiu
3 how to close banshee at linux mint 11?
1 year ago

linuxfanatik
5 Banshee (or the Celtic version Bansidhe) is a very good Music Management program. It beats Rhythmnbox and has some elements that go far beyond Amarok for musical power and catalogueing. You won't go far wrong with Banshee!
1 year ago

Elyste-217FR
5 le meilleurs
2 years ago

bulmaro90
4 me gusta por que administra mi biblioteca de musica y videos, lo malo es que aun no reproduce videos .rmvb
2 years ago

turnerguo
5 I have to say: it is really good!
2 years ago

FroyoShark
5 Best music player, syncs flawlessly with my iPod Touch 2G with iOS 4.2.1
2 years ago

madvins
5 Simplemente maravilloso
2 years ago

therobotdave
5 Banshee's my default - Love it
2 years ago

natanael
5 Najlepszy odtwarzacz pod GNOME! (Best for GNOME!)
2 years ago

freec81
2 Nie zachwyca
2 years ago

eldesvarassi
5 Nice :)
2 years ago

galen
3 great @ global ID3 edits fixes, very slow performance, only one DAAP conect, needs improvements
2 years ago

juankvillegas
1 It doesn't plays music from an external drive.
2 years ago

aljazek
5 Best linux music player.
2 years ago

garbawnzo
5 best linux media player
2 years ago

arbitrary-squid
5 better than all the rest by far
2 years ago

alp-arslan
4 will be even better
2 years ago

paddi76
5 the best linux player
2 years ago

Ciprian
3 From my oppinion is just too big, too slow... For just a music player I think is too much... Anyway, on a netbook is just too slow. I install it, try it, and remove it. Good luck ppl.
2 years ago

bAPTIST
4 Good player. With the search function on the data conn playing track in Wikipedia and on Youtube.
2 years ago

Hil002
5 Mejor reproductor de musica para Linux
2 years ago

Fastraxx
5 Very good, works great for syncing my ipod classic 160gb.
2 years ago

jesterofalltrades
3 This is a very polished media application, but it depends on mono, which is not a long-term solution.. We need to move away from mono. Read more here: http://techrights.org/2009/06/02/mono-an-infectious-disease/
2 years ago

rodrigo_uruguay
5 It become my only choice when reproducing music.
2 years ago

terces
5 Best player for linux.
2 years ago

dardevelin
4 very cool software, smillar to Rhythem but with better sound
2 years ago

der_alex
5 Since version 1.8 banshee has become my favourate music player
2 years ago

Proggg
4 Thx Jesus! One good media player on linux! xD
2 years ago

Nimmo
4 I tried Rythmbox for a while, but much prefer Banshee's look and feel.
2 years ago

jay4rest
4 It is one of the best and is better than Rhythmbox, in my opinion at least.
2 years ago

Somnium
4 Performance can sometimes get laggy, but on the whole is very good. Functionality and features make this a definite keeper.
2 years ago

k273
4 The best right now. Works very smoothly for playing music. Do almost everything the way I want. More powerful than Rhythmbox, no confusing menus (gmusicbrowser) and others' general unintuitiveness, and no bugs with playlists and recognizing audio CDs (Exaile).
2 years ago

Townley89
5 Love it! Better than rhythmbox and becoming default anyway
2 years ago

ravenous-dark
5 Of all the linux music players I've tried, this one works best for me. I would highly recommend.
2 years ago

joelburge
3 I love the functionality and just the app overall. The problem - performance can be randomly sucked into a black hole. This seems to be a known issue. Bummer.
2 years ago

grwebguy
4 Smooth, Amazon % goes back to Gnome
2 years ago

jajodo
5 Has replaced Rhythmbox for me. V1.8 syncs my Android phone and Rhythmbox does not identify it. Option to write rating info to the MP3 tag which is nice if your database is lost.
2 years ago

lorenzo6596
5 Easy to manage and simple to use!
2 years ago

Sol_Badguy
4 Good :)
2 years ago

nikhilsinha
4 It has all the capabilities to become the best audio player in linux.
2 years ago

farocker
5 Works great !
2 years ago

avetik
1 Horrible!.. Rhythmbox is 100% better!
2 years ago

jflarm
5 Love Banshee, easy to use and a ton of features
2 years ago

grim
4 I like it, but i prefer Rhythmbox :D
2 years ago

RobLoach
5 Way better than Rhythmbox.
2 years ago

OldMarcus
5 A very good, full featured media player, with good library management features and integration with online services, such as last.fm. For me, the fact that it depends on mono is irrelevant, and shouldnt be relevant to any new Linux user either.
2 years ago

xcbiker
5 Banshee is a fully featured multimedia library manager with some nice additions (e.g. sound equalizer, cover management) and integration with brasero for easier cd creation. Vast catalogue of plugins from community and developers to manage playlists and external devices. One of the best player around, although still a little slow when loading very big libraries on average pc.
2 years ago

ludentico
4 Despite the fact, as most people, that I can't get used to the lack of a genre panel, this is a good music player.
2 years ago

fobenavi
4 Better than Rhythmbox
2 years ago

mikefreeman
4 The more I use it, the more I'm starting to really like it.
2 years ago

jahwarrior4179
5 my fave so far
2 years ago

pntp
5 Rock on! It works perfectly on my creative zen 32G. Goood!!!
2 years ago

Fhernd
5 Excellent Media Player!!!
2 years ago

Deadite81
3 I've never had much luck with this one, which is too bad because I would love to have all these freature in one application. The way I hear people rave about it I feel like it must just be me! The core function, music management has always worked well for me though.
2 years ago

mcduarte2000
5 Clearly better than Rhythmbox!
2 years ago

KazuSpara
4 It should have arrangement of artists as Genre and Album Artist. However the best UI among Linux media plyers.
2 years ago

Dinin
3 Useful player with many functions and nice interface, but it comsumes a lot of energy, and depends on mono.
2 years ago

dhadaniel
5 Deberian ponerlo como reproductor por defecto
2 years ago

wanda
2 Zu log und fuer video´s gibt es bessere players und ich mach keine mono.
2 years ago

i-elf
5 amarok can finally Exhaust!
2 years ago

frankeinstein
5 Best music player and library for Gnome. Nice features and plugins. I never use Banshee for video but for music I much prefer it to Rhythmbox.
2 years ago

tamoghna4
4 Very nice media player. I'de put it next to Amarok.
2 years ago

dme3ha
4 nice interface, love the integrated podcast directory, from Miro, and cover art auto download
2 years ago

BAD3R
3 Banshee
2 years ago

arztriper
5 El Amarok de Gnome.
2 years ago

L0r3nz0
5 The best music player for Gnome
2 years ago

kameleen
3 had to switch, because rhythmbox locks up on my pc. But actually prefer it to this. Allthough this isn't bad.
2 years ago

JamesHFox
3 Big, clunky, and requires you to rebuild ipod's library before writing to it?; Rhythmbox does not. Sticking with the latter
2 years ago

eth0
5 its very stable and made på novell , and its the only player which syncs android phones
2 years ago

ivanovnegro
2 Too slow for really large libraries and I dont need video function in a music player.
2 years ago

mtnbiker72
5 My favorite linux music player, should be the default on Linux Mint as it is far better that Rhythmbox
2 years ago

Twiguard
4 A great but little-long-loading media player. Lotsa plugins for it out there.
2 years ago

JSB2010
5 Switched to Banshee from Rhythmbox (after getting fed up with it crashing!). Banshee is stable and easy to use.
2 years ago

ricardojguzman
5 love it
2 years ago

huyngochoang
5 I always play it in the fullscreen mode
2 years ago

ohneA
5 Sehr gutes itunes-Clone.
2 years ago

emilioramone
5 Muy bueno, de los que probe es el que mas se adapta a mis necesidades.
2 years ago

rappelkiste_src
5 Ein sehr gutes Abspielprogramm.
3 years ago

farnaby
5 My choice for GNOME - does everything I need, has a neat user interface and works flawlessly.
3 years ago

kurko
5 tiene todo lo que necesito. Muy buena aplicación y muy recomendable.
3 years ago

CBindahouse
4 Brilliant app, only problem is a white box round the icon on the notification area. It used to crash a lot in Mint 8 as well.
3 years ago

robertochile87
5 indespensable pero inicio lento en comparacion con rythombox
3 years ago

atlanx
5 Sehr zu empfehlen.
3 years ago

white_
4 Better than Exile and good lookin'. What else need ?
3 years ago

caje
3 Works poor with Last.fm
3 years ago

boballen55
5 Pretty solid media player. Inegrates podcasts, audio, video and internet radio quite well. Rips CD's as well.
3 years ago

Mdyter
4 i hope ,with time , developers will add some more functionality , for example drag and drop add media files in play-list. at least, it has a Delete from Drive option, for me is very handily. give it a try

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