Banshee media player updated for Linux and OS X

Banshee 1.5.3 is out, and includes some brand new features. Choose to sync your device from a given playlist. Use type-ahead find in the track/artist/album lists. Manually select cover art. Keep your library up to date with the library-folder watcher extension. Download and import your eMusic purchases. Click for Release Notes and sshots!

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Banshee 1.5.1 Released

Banshee 1.5.1 is finally here! Banshee is an open source media player which is built using Gtk toolkit. It is a good alternative to media playesrs like

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Use your mobile phone as a remote for linux media players

Remuco is a duplex remote control system for Linux media players and mobile devices equipped with Bluetooth or WiFi. To put it simple you could actually use your mobile phone with bluetooth or Wifi as a remote control for linux media players like Amarok, Banshee, Totem, VLC and more. Sounds cool - it is. Here's how on Ubuntu.

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Cross-platform Development -Lessons Leaned from Banshee/Mono

In a Scott Hanselman interview, Aaron Bockover of Novell talks about the challenges to create Banshee, a cross-platform media player built in C# on Mono for Linux, Max OS X and Windows.

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Netbook UI, photo management coming to Banshee media player

Banshee developer Aaron Bockover has revealed details about the next major version of the popular open source media player. Banshee will gain photo management capabilities and a custom user interface prototype designed specifically for netbooks.

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Disinformation Disinfected, pt. 3: Banshee in Ubuntu

let’s take a look at one of the main things that get’s me going about mono-supporters.There is a strong push to get Banshee in as the default media player in Ubuntu.

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Banshee 1.5.0 (aka 1.6 beta 1) released!

The awesome free-software media player has a new release, full of six months work by more than 30 people. Now supports BPM, Creative Commons info, sort tags, automatic scoring, awesome unicode search and sorting, a Rhythmbox migrator, and a ton of other enhancements, polish, and fixes (over 165!). Click for screenshots & full release notes!

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iTunes alternative on the Mac: Songbird vs Banshee

Can iTunes media player monopoly on the Mac come to an end? There are two noteworthy contenders: Songbird and Banshee. Let’s see if they have a chance at overthrowing iTunes.

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