Listen to music with open source Banshee

Perhaps one of the most popular media players for Linux currently is Amarok, a KDE-based music player. While Amarok is certainly good, for GNOME users who prefer something that looks more native, Banshee is a great alternative.

Banshee is a media player that plays music, videos, podcasts, and streaming radio. It even has the capability of playing shared iTunes music, although only for shared libraries from an iTunes 6 or earlier client.

The interface for Banshee is reminiscent of iTunes itself and can even synchronize music to earlier iPod devices (although not the iPod Touch or iPhone) and some other portable media players. It can import audio CDs, converting them to the Ogg Vorbis or FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) formats. Other formats are also supported; because Banshee uses Gstreamer to handle audio formats, ensure you have the appropriate Gstreamer plugin/codec installed to handle other music formats (such as mp3, wma, etc.).

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