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Linux.com looks at Banshee

Submitted by Uraeus on Thu, 2006-02-23 06:13. Gnome Multimedia
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Linux.com takes a look at the Banshee music player created by Aaron Bockover and Novell. Banshee is a GTK+ and GNOME music player built using Mono and C# and is quickly gaining popularity. Check out the article for more information and details and then test out this great music player.

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This player is junk by vinci

Audacious

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-02-23 15:23.

Those who (still) find GStreamer and the applications using it unstable and unusable will probably enjoy Audacious (http://audacious-media-player.org/). It continues where Beep Media Player 0.9.x left off and unlike BMP, it's actually stable. If you haven't heard of BMP it was an effort to improve XMMS 1.x with a GTK+ 2.0 user interface and other features. Audacious continues among the same lines.

Why not BMPx? There are by Anonymous George

I am just testing this.

Submitted by vinci on Fri, 2006-02-24 13:37.

I am just testing this. Right now I am using BMP on Fedora (because in FC4 no Mono and no Muine). I agree that this is a good player!


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Rhythmbox suddenly stopped existing??????

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-02-23 14:59.

Hi i dont understand all those fuss about banshee.. sure its a nice player but rhythmbox has improved big time as from 0.9.. and right now at 0.9.3 it has nice features as ipod support, save tag editing, party playlists, audioscrobbler, daap, etc...

So pls.. i know banshee is ooooh so brilliant and oooh so mono ( it seems that writing a software with mono just makes it super important automatically )... but dont forget to take a look at existing good software written with C.. even if its not that popular today... even if its not written at Novell...

Greetings
Waldgeist...

Rhythmbox is a great app by Anonymous George
Monomania by Anonymous George
C might be more hard work by Anonymous George

no you don't have to install

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2006-02-24 13:11.

no you don't have to install java at all, it uses a c# port of lucene, try not to spread FUD next time.

FUD by Anonymous George
fast jukebox written in perl by Anonymous George
Not my music manager by Anonymous George

Reasons to not use Amarok

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-02-23 21:40.

- multiple backend: gstreamer, xine, akode or arts, so it works no matter what audio layer you use.
I have no clue what you mean with that. You put different things on the same level. Gstreamer and xine can output sound to arts, alsa etc. I don't think you know what you are talking about since you intermix different things.

- Browse by author, album, track and filter with a handy spotlight like search bar.
This is a basic feature banshee, rhythmbox and similiar player all more or less support. Nothing that makes amarok special.

- last.fm integration
Again, rhythmbox has that and you can get plugins for many other players.

- Knows about compilations (The only linux music manager that handles that properly).
- Dynamic playlist that learn your taste.
- MusicBrainz intergration
These are nice features I have to admit.

- Has a cool "context" browser which provide info at a glance on the current track and offers access to other tracks.
- Album art support.
- Wikipedia integration (single click wikipedia look up of artist, album or track)
- Multiple lyrics search backends.

Everything and the kitchensink or a lot of stuff that noone needs. There are actually people like me that want their audioplayer to just play the damn music and stay out of the way. No I don't wanna see a osd showing album art every 3 minutes when the song changes, stealing my attention and workspace. And no I don't want to stare at some visualization all the time. No thx, I don't think a audio player should be a chimera of webbrowser, documentviewer and dictionary right from dr. frankenstein's lab.

And the fact that its interface is cute, simple and useful.
Oh my god, I really had to laugh about this joke.

Amarok is fantastic by Anonymous George
not really the problem by Anonymous George

ALSA?

Submitted by lobais on Thu, 2006-02-23 16:22.

What about ALSA?

Internet radio by Anonymous George

re: internet radio

Submitted by segphault on Thu, 2006-02-23 20:38.

I prefer the Banshee interface, but like you I'm sticking with Rhythmbox simply because it provides internet radio support and Banshee doesn't yet. According to the FAQ at the Banshee web site, Banshee has all the architecture required to support streaming net radio, the functionality just hasn't been integrated into the interface yet. It will probably be added at some point in the relatively near future (at least I hope so!)

Mark me down as another who by Anonymous George
After looking at the two by Anonymous George

I agree

Submitted by Sodki on Thu, 2006-02-23 16:01.

I agree with you. Browsing by artist/album is one great advantage of Rhythmbox over Banshee. The interesting bit is that Rhythmbox can easily mimic Banshee's interface with just a few clicks, showing only a big list of files. I would be nice if Banshee could mimic Rhythmbox's artist/album interface.