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Import, organize, play, and share your music and videos using Banshee's simple but powerful interface.

Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, and burn audio and MP3 CDs. Most portable media devices are supported (iPods, MTP, and Mass Storage) - including video and album art support!

Stream or download your podcasts and video podcasts. Discover new music with Last.fm streaming radio.

» See Banshee in action...

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About Banshee

The latest version of Banshee is 1.2.1, released on August 12, 2008. Banshee is free/open source software, released under the MIT/X11 license.

Visit the Getting Started page for instructions on how to get Banshee up and running on your system. Binary packages are available for most popular distributions, as well as source build instructions.

The Plugins page also has details about how to extend Banshee's functionality through plugins.

Reporting Bugs

Before you report a bug, please check the Troubleshooting section, Debugging Banshee and the bugs already reported (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=banshee&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=anywords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=) to see if you are seeing a known problem. If not, please report the bug (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee).

News

Banshee developers will be attending GUADEC 2008 (http://2008.guadec.org/) in Istanbul, Turkey July 7 - 12th. There will be a Banshee talk (http://guadec.expectnation.com/guadec08/public/schedule/detail/106), Birds of a Feather meeting (http://guadec.expectnation.com/guadec08/public/schedule/detail/104), and 5-minute lightening talk (http://guadec.expectnation.com/guadec08/public/schedule/detail/105).

Banshee 1.0 was recently reviewed in Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080527-rock-out-on-linux-with-the-banshee-1-0-beta-2-media-player.html) and Linux Magazine (http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6027). More press »

Banshee maintainers Aaron Bockover and Gabriel Burt gave a talk at LugRadio Live on April 12, 2008 in San Francisco. Banshee 1.0 Alpha 3 is demoed.
Download Video (114MB) (http://banshee-project.org/files/lrl_2008_banshee.ogg) • Watch on Google Video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=629829973972985803&hl=en)

Talk to Us!

We use a mailing list (http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/banshee-list) for discussing Banshee, getting help from each other, etc.
View the Archives (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/banshee-list/) •View or Post to List via Forum Interface (http://www.nabble.com/Banshee-f33893.html)

We also use an IRC chat room for real-time discussions. Join us in #banshee (irc://irc.gnome.org/#banshee) on irc.gnome.org. If you have a question, ask straight away, and if somebody is available they will answer.

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