11 months ago 1 like others have said development has ended and cant handle large collections of music, which is a shame cause this was my go to music player when i started using linux several years ago.
1 year ago 1 Development stopped in 2014 and can't handle a large files collection.
1 year ago 2 At one point, it was my go to music player, the interface is really well designed, but its dependence on mono made it unusably, crash-prone, slow and buggy. Now i use gmusicbrowser.
1 year ago 5 keep trust and always good!!
1 year ago 3 The sound-applet got recently updated for me and then banshee didn't showed up anymore. Now I had enough of banshee since it takes to long to load, the volume-button is bugged and probably a lot of other problems I can't remember now, but which frustrated me. With tomahawk I found a good alternative, even if it is lacking some more options and features in my oppinion.
1 year ago 3 tl;dr feature rich & slow. Seemed great for organising my music, fixing erroneous track information and making smart playlists to suit my mood... until my collection grew enough (just a few thousand songs) that it became very slow to use: it takes most of a minute to load, can be over a minute once you load your favourite playlists, and even rating a single track would freeze up the program for several seconds! Its internal database must have messy code. Its playlists are not accessible by other programs nor can they be played via terminal commands, and are a pain to generate & export. Occasionally it crashes when commanded to play, so it cannot be used reliably with alarm-clock. Reference point as YMMV: version 2.6.2 on an old laptop running LM17.3XFCEx32 with Intel Core2 Duo @ 2.26GHz and 4GB DDR2@800MHz.
2 years ago 1 Crashes, Complicated, Obsolete.
2 years ago 4 Works great!
2 years ago 5 Great !!!
2 years ago 1 Eingelegte CDs werden nicht erkannt. Musik läßt sich nur über Ordnerauswahl abspielen. Handhabung recht Kompliziert.
2 years ago 2 You can order the tracks better than RhythmBox, but not accurately. It places 11 before 1. How silly.
2 years ago 2 Keeps crashing after Media scan.
2 years ago 1 Wenn man auf ständige Neustarts steht, ist dies genau das richtige Programm für dich, um deine Nerven zu strapazieren!
3 years ago 3 I have a large collection of songs and it consumes too much RAMwith my library. More than 300 MBs which is quite unacceptable for me.
3 years ago 3 I use a very small HP mini laptop as a music player / juke-box. Banshee is the player I use and it works fine. Although albums from various artists or compilation albums doesn't show good in the application.
3 years ago 4 Es bueno, pero pesado.
3 years ago 5 Works perfect!!!
3 years ago 5 Love it!
3 years ago 1 2 freeze at the first 10 minutes. Editing ID3 tags, sorting the library and importing audio books does not work as intended.
3 years ago 1 Tries to do too much, hate the interface. Prefer DeadBeef by far.
3 years ago 4 Très complet mais plante trop souvent sous LMDE2. L'éditeur de tags n'est pas fiable.
3 years ago 5 Does everything I want. Design's quite good.
3 years ago 1 Just crashes... Replaced it with Rhythmbox for the moment.
3 years ago 2 I don't like it. Audacious is better.
3 years ago 4 Não usei as funções de sync, mas como organizador de biblioteca funciona muito bem.
3 years ago 2 Slow reactions in general.
4 years ago 4 Banshee is the better iTunes. Works perfectly with iPod classic, imports iTunes music library without any problems. Must have. Some minor bugs cost one star.
4 years ago 2 Can't get it to work. Brasero works fine.
4 years ago 3 Интерфейс УГ нужно что нибудь по проще.
4 years ago 5 This is a great player for music and videos. Has ran without a hitch for me.
4 years ago 4 I used to hate this but have grown to really like it over time.
4 years ago 4 i love the program.
4 years ago 5 Страхотен като интерфейс, понякога крашва при свързване със iPod Touch 3!
4 years ago 5 For me (LM 17, MATE) it neer crashes. I love it!
4 years ago 4 crashes sometimes, but on a daily basis is stable enough to be used, full-feature rich.
4 years ago 4 I've used Banshee since Mint11 as it would interface with mu Nokia N900. Recently it has been crashing under Cinnamon so have tried out both Tomahawk and Exaile. Neither have all the features of Banshee. Under XFCE there are no issues at all to report and I have returned to using Banshee as my main Music Player on my main box.
4 years ago 5 I've been using banshee since Mint14 to Qiana and now using it on Rebecca. Works great & it's simple to use. It only ever crashes when I turn on "Automaticlly detect BPM for all songs". Which I don't use/need.
4 years ago 3 I have a tesco MP3 player I cant get Banshee to regognise my MP£ player.How ca I get it to work????? Help!!!!
4 years ago 4 Good, But I think rhythmbox is better!!!
4 years ago 4 I like it.
4 years ago 2 Streams open in a single thread, the application freezes till the streams respond. If the streams don't repsond, the application crashes.
4 years ago 4 I use Banshee all the time and like it. My only issue has been with getting my audiobooks to be separated from my music. I like that it puts all my media types together in one place. I also like how it organizes everything and makes it easy to change info on the media (artist, etc).
4 years ago 3 Banshee now seems to be the one and only music player available for Linux Mint that is at all capable of accessing music coming from a NAS iTunes media server. The trouble is, it is quirky, if not hopelessly unreliable. Strangely enough I always need to quit Banshee and relaunch it before the NAS share becomes available. If I stop playing music to do something else and the computer goes into sleep mode, Banshee will lose sight the share and the computer needs to be rebooted before it sees it again. However, rebooting the computer is not always guaranteed to straighten out the problem. On such occasions Banshee might decide that the share is now being hosted by iTunes 7, which is too advanced for it to understand. The truth is the share is coming from a Synology NAS, not from iTunes on an Apple or Windows computer. When this glitch occurs I can fix it by renaming the share from within the NAS control interface, which of course is an added hassle. I can't see any logical reason why this should be. I recently installed Rhythmbox 2.99 from the Linux Mint software manager. Bizarrely, this updated version is now incapable of accessing any shares on the network unlike its earlier versions that could. Sad really.
4 years ago 2 Very buggy and crashy, if I get it running it usually doesn't work properly. I've tried many things via different Linux forums to solve the different problems and it still doesn't work properly. At least now it works if I start it with command line. Was much more stable with Mint 16, now I'm using Mint 17 (both are 64-bit Cinnamon), and somehow Banshee doesn't run very well with Mint 17, I've heard that this is due to some changes made in Ubuntu 14.04. Please fix it. It is good player otherwise and it has good potential, but it is currently unusable. If it would be more stable, I would probably give it 4 stars. Because of this crashing I've moved to Audacious and Amarok, at least until Banshee is usable again.
4 years ago 5 Simple app but connects to my iPod 160gb without any problems. Can't say the same for iTunes.
4 years ago 5 I just moved from win-xp/itunes to mint maya, imported all media files into banshee. Everything works fine after setting the correct video-card settings in gstreamer (sis mirage 3). It even picked up my old Ipod just fine.
4 years ago 2 Kept on freezing when starting the application. Had to switch to Rhythmbox.
4 years ago 4 This works good to handle a music collection; it's easy to edit music files (title, album, ...). Playing ape files gives a stutter in the beginning.
4 years ago 3 works, but clementine is much better!
5 years ago 4 Not bad at all. I am perfectly OK with it.
5 years ago 3 Works fine, but the integration with gtk3 isn't perfect, and that's the mainly reason I droped it to Rhythmbox!
5 years ago 4 It is like ITunes, except it doesn't toss all of your music into a DB. Ripper doesn't do a good job- lacks error correction, track selection, and like making its own decisions about what is an "album"; prefer Asunder or Grip for cd ripping.
5 years ago 4 Decent and smooth media player for huge media libraries, not too customizable though.
5 years ago 4 Gets the job done well.
5 years ago 2 Terrible. Things like close button sending the window to the systray, defaulting to play videos when cannot even play properly, playing the first track of the queue and ignoring the rest or skipping to the all the music list apparently at random.
5 years ago 2 Changing my review. The latest version gives you the option to hide sorting columns, but not option to restore or unhide them. Plus, the stop playing after this song option isn't permanent (a toggle) which is a must for me because I like to pick every song I listen to manually rather than just have them play continuously.
5 years ago 5 Nice app.
5 years ago 1 Crashes the system too often.
5 years ago 4 Very good!
5 years ago 2 I much prefer songbird. I always remove banshee.
5 years ago 4 ottimo, fa bene il suo lavoro. si può tranquillamente utilizzare come predefinito.
5 years ago 3 I really like it. I can Sync to my MP3-player and I like the smart playlist. It is however a bit unstable when it comess to some plugins and the DLNA-sharing. Crashes very rarely.
5 years ago 4 Like it a lot. I think this application has a lot of potential. The fact that i can easily import my Amazon buyed music is great. My Suggestions: a easier Online Radio import and a changeable cover size of albumcovers would be great.
5 years ago 3 Ok for normal use with Pulse Audio. Not suitable for audiophiles since I couldn't prevent it from resampling to 48kHz.
5 years ago 4 Does the job.
5 years ago 2 1. Can't organise music by catalogs. 2. It's hard to remove catalog from collection. You have to remove all songs.
5 years ago 2 why using this?
5 years ago 2 Keeps crashing in Linux Mint 15 "olivia"
5 years ago 2 I really wanted to like Banshee but it has a lot of problems. It reads .3gp as music instead of video. It plays one song and then quits. Forget it!
5 years ago 4 Good! Bom aplicativo!
5 years ago 3 Médio. Prefiro o Clementine.
5 years ago 2 Heavyweight music player. I prefer Clementine.
6 years ago 5 Simply the best for music collections.
6 years ago 2 No global play/stop keyboard shortcut. Crashes.
6 years ago 3 Not bad. I use it because it comes preinstalled on Mint. It crashes about once per two played albums, sometimes more often. No weird setup on my computer. I'd expect some weird exception management (some warning level things treated as fatal?).
6 years ago 3 Great player/manager! Terrible stability! Buggy when it comes to writing tags into music files. Especially if playing music while editing tags. While just playing or just editing, it seems pretty stable. Goes for both 2.4 and 2.6.
6 years ago 5 My favorite player! Мій улюблений плеєр!
6 years ago 2 Not for me ..
6 years ago 5 works great!
6 years ago 5 Works well for me.. I'm using this to play my MP3 collection..
6 years ago 3 Banshee for some reason keeps crashing on me.. Ill will have it be playing a playlist and after about the third song or so it will freeze my whole comp, forcing me to power down.. Any reason to why this happens?
6 years ago 1 My favorite app on Fedora 14. Not anymore. It has crashed and freezed on me more times than I would like to count. Now looking for an alternative.
6 years ago 4 Ver bad, an unstable player, better songbird!
6 years ago 2 freezes all the time and sometimes crashes even the DB. Pls fix it!
6 years ago 2 Leider friert Bunshee regelmäßig ein oder es verabschiedet sich. Für große Musiksammlungen ist es mir zu langsam. Stabilität läßt zu wünschen übrig. Freezes constantly, pls work on stability!
6 years ago 5 Banshee is my weapon of choice. It's a pretty sleak music player, i'm not missing a thing after i installed a few plugins.
6 years ago 5 Please stop marking this down for being slow. It wasn't made to be lightweight. That's what VLC is for. As a full-featured graphical media player, Banshee is quite possibly the best.
6 years ago 1 Don't like it for numerous reasons. Remove from default install please.
6 years ago 1 they invented "move" for a reason. Duplicated all my files. thanks. removed.
6 years ago 5 This works very well for me.
6 years ago 2 Banshee's inability to remember USB storage for more than a day or two coupled with ridiculously high CPU usage has made this a no-go for me.
6 years ago 2 Superficially it's got a decent UI, but it's painfully slow and freezes frequently. Syncing with USB mass storage is painful because it insists on transcoding files unnecessarily even when the device has support.
6 years ago 2 Not a bad player, but not as good as Clementine for me.
6 years ago 2 Cheap Windows Media Player Wannabe. Buggy Crap.
6 years ago 2 Bugs everywhere, not stable.
6 years ago 3 Simple & clean player that does his work, very good. The bad is that the program have a lot of bugs.
6 years ago 1 What a piece of junk. Couldn't find a single music file from subdirectories.
6 years ago 2 WOuld not sync albums correctly with tags. does not automatically bookmark where I left off when playing podcasts, either.
6 years ago 3 In my playlists, often title and the playing music do not match. I don't know why. I switched to clementine and no such problem occured.
6 years ago 2 I thought I could like it, but I don't. Not since my last install anyway. For the time span it has been in development it is too buggy and has too little features while it seems to have less and less with every new release. Only a basic player with somewhat extended abilities, which is a shame, because it could rival the larger packages out there. Worst is that it crashes very often. Bad audio quality. Sometimes jumps to the next song unexpectedly or stutters in playback. Automatic playlists don't work well at times. I wish people would take this whole linux business a bit more serious instead of viewing it as finger training exercise like so many of these projects out there that never make it past "0.7b" or the like. Look at windows freeware, or OS-X. You might learn something. Looks like this project is geared to only cosmetic changes. Nope, not for me.
6 years ago 5 Does everything I need and more.
6 years ago 2 It's like Rhythmbox, but too resource heavy.
6 years ago 2 Can it not 'watch' a specified folder for new music files? The only way I can add music to my library is to import every new album I download.. NOPE! I'm out.
6 years ago 1 Crashes constantly. Hates shared/removable drives and network storage. Get Rythymbox, VLC, or Audacious.
6 years ago 2 often not work.
6 years ago 3 Banshee runs slowly on my laptop, and looks quite complicated.
6 years ago 1 Insanely buggy. Freezes Linux Mint 12 every single time, after which a reboot is necessary.
7 years ago 2 Uninstalled.
7 years ago 1 Who make this sh*!
7 years ago 2 Constant system freezes when used in LM12. This is multi-media?
7 years ago 5 Fabtastic player for music with cover art and good display of library. Just would be good if it could sort my albums by year than by name.
7 years ago 1 Doesn't work very well on my setup for some reason. Very quirky.
7 years ago 4 It is a great player, needs some tweeks in the UI but is workable.
7 years ago 3 bulky. not many options for customizing.
7 years ago 4 Like the equalizerfunction which is not common in most players. Technically it works not always perfect but that could be related to my (older) hardware. Little bit heavy so i disabled most extensions, probably also due to my older hardware.
7 years ago 4 I like it for listening music from media library or radio. If there was present the plugin lyrics from default it would be perfect.
7 years ago 2 Can't handle large media libraries. Reports a "fatal error" whenever it tries to scan my 120Gb music folder.
7 years ago 4 Easiest player for subscribing to podcasts (with Miro plugin). Just wish I could change the view of my podcasts from Icon to "list view" like in Music. It's great though.
7 years ago 5 The beest one ! really !
7 years ago 3 whenever i open banshee it reports theres a fatal error, any ideas on how fix this???
7 years ago 5 This indexes ALL your media files, not just your mp3s. We're talking downloaded youtube videos, m4a, flv, and avi. It's easier than ever to make automatic playlists with this. It also includes all the same features as a standard player, like radio, scrobbling, and linking to other music sources. It even runs on windews!
7 years ago 5 Great music player!
7 years ago 4 Good music player, good for importing cds as mp3 files. But automatic recognition of artist, album and tracks does not always work.
7 years ago 3 The lack of support for subscribing to password protected podcasts is pushing me back to Rhythmbox. Nice media player otherwise.
7 years ago 2 I hate programs which try to be jack of all trades. Try Deadbeef if you want to play music. Just add the deadbeef ppa repository.
7 years ago 5 Love it! I tend to watch a lot of video podcasts, and the ability to play them in fullscreen and still have access to the playback controls by simply moving the mouse, is a win in my books. So much better than Rhythmbox in that regard!
7 years ago 2 Not the worst but I think that Rhythmbox is much better. It's not as stable as Rhythmbox.
7 years ago 2 I'ts not bad but can break a your collections and make a big mess.
7 years ago 5 Prefer this to Amarok and RhythmBox. Clean, functional, active developers; professional quality.
7 years ago 5 My two reasons for loving Banshee: 1) I can edit my music files' (not just aliases of them) ID3 tags in the player and 2) it supports sorting by the "Composer" tag.
7 years ago 4 Great for organising music, excellent player. Unfortunatelly, it requires Mono.
7 years ago 4 A no nonsense music player, growing from strenght to strenght with each release I am happy to use it as my defualt music manager and player.
7 years ago 4 great..
7 years ago 3 how to close banshee at linux mint 11?
7 years ago 5 Banshee (or the Celtic version Bansidhe) is a very good Music Management program. It beats Rhythmnbox and has some elements that go far beyond Amarok for musical power and catalogueing. You won't go far wrong with Banshee!
7 years ago 5 I have to say: it is really good!
7 years ago 1 It doesn't plays music from an external drive.
7 years ago 5 Best linux music player.
7 years ago 3 From my oppinion is just too big, too slow... For just a music player I think is too much... Anyway, on a netbook is just too slow. I install it, try it, and remove it. Good luck ppl.
7 years ago 4 Good player. With the search function on the data conn playing track in Wikipedia and on Youtube.
8 years ago 5 Very good, works great for syncing my ipod classic 160gb.
8 years ago 5 It become my only choice when reproducing music.
8 years ago 5 Best player for linux.
8 years ago 4 I tried Rythmbox for a while, but much prefer Banshee's look and feel.
8 years ago 4 It is one of the best and is better than Rhythmbox, in my opinion at least.
8 years ago 4 Performance can sometimes get laggy, but on the whole is very good. Functionality and features make this a definite keeper.
8 years ago 4 The best right now. Works very smoothly for playing music. Do almost everything the way I want. More powerful than Rhythmbox, no confusing menus (gmusicbrowser) and others' general unintuitiveness, and no bugs with playlists and recognizing audio CDs (Exaile).
8 years ago 5 Of all the linux music players I've tried, this one works best for me. I would highly recommend.
8 years ago 3 I love the functionality and just the app overall. The problem - performance can be randomly sucked into a black hole. This seems to be a known issue. Bummer.
8 years ago 5 Has replaced Rhythmbox for me. V1.8 syncs my Android phone and Rhythmbox does not identify it. Option to write rating info to the MP3 tag which is nice if your database is lost.
8 years ago 5 Easy to manage and simple to use!
8 years ago 4 It has all the capabilities to become the best audio player in linux.
8 years ago 5 Works great !
8 years ago 1 Horrible!.. Rhythmbox is 100% better!
8 years ago 5 Way better than Rhythmbox.
8 years ago 5 A very good, full featured media player, with good library management features and integration with online services, such as last.fm. For me, the fact that it depends on mono is irrelevant, and shouldnt be relevant to any new Linux user either.
8 years ago 5 Banshee is a fully featured multimedia library manager with some nice additions (e.g. sound equalizer, cover management) and integration with brasero for easier cd creation. Vast catalogue of plugins from community and developers to manage playlists and external devices. One of the best player around, although still a little slow when loading very big libraries on average pc.
8 years ago 4 Despite the fact, as most people, that I can't get used to the lack of a genre panel, this is a good music player.
8 years ago 4 The more I use it, the more I'm starting to really like it.
8 years ago 5 Rock on! It works perfectly on my creative zen 32G. Goood!!!
8 years ago 5 Excellent Media Player!!!
8 years ago 3 I've never had much luck with this one, which is too bad because I would love to have all these freature in one application. The way I hear people rave about it I feel like it must just be me! The core function, music management has always worked well for me though.
8 years ago 5 Clearly better than Rhythmbox!
8 years ago 4 It should have arrangement of artists as Genre and Album Artist. However the best UI among Linux media plyers.
8 years ago 3 Useful player with many functions and nice interface, but it comsumes a lot of energy, and depends on mono.
8 years ago 2 Zu log und fuer video´s gibt es bessere players und ich mach keine mono.
8 years ago 5 amarok can finally Exhaust!
8 years ago 5 Best music player and library for Gnome. Nice features and plugins. I never use Banshee for video but for music I much prefer it to Rhythmbox.
8 years ago 4 Very nice media player. I'de put it next to Amarok.
8 years ago 5 El Amarok de Gnome.
8 years ago 3 had to switch, because rhythmbox locks up on my pc. But actually prefer it to this. Allthough this isn't bad.
8 years ago 2 Too slow for really large libraries and I dont need video function in a music player.
8 years ago 4 A great but little-long-loading media player. Lotsa plugins for it out there.
8 years ago 5 Switched to Banshee from Rhythmbox (after getting fed up with it crashing!). Banshee is stable and easy to use.
8 years ago 5 Sehr gutes itunes-Clone.
8 years ago 5 Muy bueno, de los que probe es el que mas se adapta a mis necesidades.
8 years ago 5 My choice for GNOME - does everything I need, has a neat user interface and works flawlessly.
8 years ago 5 tiene todo lo que necesito. Muy buena aplicación y muy recomendable.
8 years ago 4 Brilliant app, only problem is a white box round the icon on the notification area. It used to crash a lot in Mint 8 as well.
8 years ago 5 Sehr zu empfehlen.
8 years ago 4 Better than Exile and good lookin'. What else need ?
9 years ago 5 Pretty solid media player. Inegrates podcasts, audio, video and internet radio quite well. Rips CD's as well.