10 Jun 2008
Banshee 1.0 Released!
After many months of hard work from dozens of contributors, Banshee 1.0 is finally out in the wild! read about all the great things Banshee has to offer, and of course download it now!



June 10th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Banshee 1.0 Rocks! Keep up the great work!
Does anyone know the GTK theme used in the main screenshot on the new homepage? It looks similar to the one the GIMP site has…
June 10th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Great work! I love Banshee
June 10th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
It looks to me like it is the default OpenSuse GNOME theme.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Oh, whoops. You mean the black one? I’m not quite sure exactly. I would like to know myself.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
The dark theme is called Darkilouche and it’s based on based on Gilouche.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Excellent! congratulations on a great release, I’ve been following the betas / RCs very close and it’s an amazing piece of software. Keep up the good work and kudos to all the team!
June 11th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Congratulations on a great release! I’m new to linux and this player is coming closer and closer to having everything I need.
Will you be porting the internet radio component (ie. not last.fm) from older versions?
June 11th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Hi! great work for this new version, expecially for the new album/artist browse feature. I have only one question for you: is possible to have, in album browsing, the compilation under only one icon?
for example if i have the album “The crow OST” in album browse it result one icon for every artist present in the disc and no only one icon that represent the complete album.
Thanks for your work!
Bye
June 11th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Excelent job! Thank you
June 11th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Where is the UPnP support?
This is what leaves people here at work using Rhythmbox
June 11th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Well done! Thanks for your work!
One small nitpick though: the images in the header on the front page might not be the best. I think the desktop theme used is not the kind that will appeal universally. Furthermore it’s a bit too dark and it’s hard to see anything on the pictures. And it’s not very consistent with the rest of the pictures found on the site.
Anyways, that’s just my 2 cents.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
great stuff!
the only thing missing is internet radsio though
June 11th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Great! I’m looking forward to see it run in windows soon.
June 11th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
The best player Linux has to offer
June 12th, 2008 at 5:00 am
Well finally I have got rid of Itunes and am now M$ free. Banshee is the dogs.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
The application seems very nice and feature rich! Good work on that.
have a suggestion, though. The media library needs to be worked on, it is way to slow and everything in one page is a bad idea.
I dunno your PoV on Amarok, or if you’re trying to make something “not so like it”, but i think you could adopt the libraru feature from there. With the tab on the left hand side, and option to load in albums songs etc in the playlist.
Short version.
Would be better with a more “Amarok like” music library. Otherwise it’s perfect.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Thank you. Thank you so much for the iPod support!
Its the best out there!
Thank you!
Tom–d
June 13th, 2008 at 11:53 am
[...] fetching, Last.fm basic integration and song submission and plenty more. The latest version, 1.0, was released recently and it brought many improvements over the previous releases.To compile it in Debian, make sure to [...]
June 13th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Now it’s getting awesome, banshee looks great, the albums, the queue, the podcast. Everything.
But just a small sugestion, I think that the now playing would be better if it showed my actual playlist, you know. Click on a song at the library and the playlist appear there. This together with the queue will be great.
And… by the way will there ever be global hotkeys on Banshee??
June 15th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Am I the only one who can’t seem to fetch metadeta for cd’s?
June 15th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
[...] ya sé que es una versión vieja, que ya está la 1.0, etc. Pero como me daba fiaca buscarla, instalé directamente la que tenía en los repositorios de [...]
June 16th, 2008 at 4:57 am
When will support be added to import opml podcast feeds? Would help me switch from itunes.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
[...] Linux users everywhere, Banshee 1.0 has been released! At home I run Windows XP, but I also run Ubuntu 8.04. I’ve always loved Linux, and I [...]
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:24 pm
It might help if it came with instructions. I have my music sorted the way I want it on my hard drive but I couldn’t figure out how to play any of it. After about 20 minutes I managed to import everything, but it’s all jumbled together. And it won’t play the videos. They are listed as “Errors”.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Seems great, having just tried it, a lot faster, smoother, better looking, and MORE STABLE! Congrats - it took you some while getting there
My iPod is getting repaired, so I cannot check the transcoding features. Anyone know if it supports automatic on-the-fly FLAC to MP3 transcoding like the old one did?
June 25th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Great work! I love this software. I cannot wait for future versions and the mac version. Its good to see that there will finally be an open source competitor to itunes! you guys rock!
June 30th, 2008 at 1:40 am
W00tness! I just downloaded it and the first thing I noticed was that you had my biggest gripe fixed: Disc Numbers. Previously, Banshee knew nothing about these, but now they WORK!!! Thank you! I’ve always wanted to use banshee as my default player, and now I can.
Thank you
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Banshee is cool, it’s fun to see the cover art etc. popping up. Works well with Frostwire. Thanks guys!
July 6th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Congratulations and thank you for this nice piece of software! The only feature I miss in Banshee 1.0 is support for streaming radiostations. Is that feature planned? Thanks in advance and congratulations again!
July 10th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Is there any schedule yet for the windows version? I’m stuck with windows at work so it would be great to have this fine piece of software on the windows machine too!