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Banshee, the next best thing to Linux iTunes

Submitted by stro on Thu, 2006-05-25 07:57. Gnome Multimedia

I want an audio player that will do everything that Apple's iTunes does..... including working with my iPod ..... and do it natively on Linux. That's a tall order. I've tried many fine Linux programs..... KDE's amaroK, RealPlayer 10 for Linux, Xine, etc. .... but none have scratched my itch.

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banshee, rhythmbox and co

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Mon, 2006-06-05 14:24.

banshee looks nice and has a really good homepage, but it is not able to handle my music. At least on my ubuntu 6 it is not able to handle remote volumes (ftp,webdav,smb etc.) at all. Because all our music is stored on a server, it is not available for banshee.

Rhythmbox is able to get access to remote volumes. At least to smb. ftp and webdav do not work. Which is quite strange because I wrote a small shell script using gstreamer, which is able to play remote directories out of nautilus.

So I had to install an smb service on the server, so I con use rhythmbox. But I have to log in onto the server first with nautilus, otherwise I get 10 or more windows asking me for the keyring password.

So there seams to be an error in the rhythmbox remote handling routines. Or at least in the conecpt using gnome-vfs for remote access.

Listen might look promising but it lacks the same feature as banshee.

Also all players have a problems when removing a external source like mp3-players, usb-harddrives etc.

iTunes (for win32 and mac) are able to handle these type of things perfectly. I don't care if windows media player is not able to handle such cases too. We do not want to play in this pitty league of MS software, do we?

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