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Banshee for your music playing needs

by Clair on September 10th, 2008

And videos, too!

My boyfriend has been using Banshee while I decided to stick with Rhythmbox simply because it’s a default and I wanted to give it a chance. I’ve used Exaile (and it’s one of the players I really like) and Amarok (which is awesome) before and it’s because I used to not like Rhythmbox for some reason or another. Now that I am more used to Rhythmbox, I like using it. But I thought that I should see Banshee because I am curious. So without installing it, I checked it out last night.

Some things I liked about Banshee:

• Many extensions. Waaai~ You could do a lot of things with Banshee!
• It has an equalizer!
• There is a way for you to view the albums and artists sorted out in such a way that even within the same album, you could still segregate the artists. (For multi-artist albums, that is.)
• When you hover the cover art, it will be magnified. It’s useful when want to see a detailed CD cover.
• You could manage your files’ tags vai Nereid.
• You don’t have to add files into your library to play them.
• It looks really clean and sleek.

Now apparently they added video support, which is a good thing! It could replace VLC or Totem as your all-around media player.

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