About the Banshee Media Player

Community

Over 50 developers have contributed to Banshee, and over 60 translators have worked to expand its reach. It was created by Aaron Bockover in early 2005. Novell employs Aaron and Gabriel Burt to work on Banshee full-time. Banshee is strongly affiliated with the GNOME project.

Publicity

Many journals and magazines have reviewed Banshee, and its developers have spoken at several conferences. View the full list of reviews and talks.

Technical Summary

Banshee is written in C# on the Mono platform using GNOME technologies (Gtk#, GStreamer, etc). It is free/open source software, released under the MIT/X11 license.