Linux.com looks at Banshee

For all I care xmms is good enough media player though it's been waiting for an interface revamp for quite some time now. The problem with linux audio is not really with players as there are quite a few good ones out there. The problem is that saddly enough the windows audio layers are quite a bit ahead of the linux ones and so are MacOS'. Windows had ASIO and MacOS has it's eqivalence of ASIO ( sorry not really a mac guy and have no idea what it was called ). Linux has Jack. Well regardless of what people might say about jack it is no ASIO and never will be. Yes most people do not out a pro grade 24bit sound card but suppose you were one of those that did pay for one. How mad do you think it would make you that the support for it is not in the OS? Ok to be fair, for some cards there are ways to get things working although it involves quite some effort on the user's side. Other's ( the whole Echo Audio line ) are considered exotic and there is no driver for them. Sorry guys but this is deffinitelly not the way to win market share. Oh and there is a way to legally create a driver. Echo Audio even gives you enough source code to start the thing.

So do I care about Banshee? Not really. Plus as far as the Linux community goes, the only reason why Banshee is gaining any popularity is because Novell is backing it up. Consider the fact that NDL is targeted towards corporations and you will very soon see how much meaning Banshee actually holds for the average Linux user.