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Banshee music player now works in Windows, supports Amazon MP3 downloads
The most notable new feature is support for the Amazon MP3 store -- you can buy and download music from within Banshee -- but unfortunately it's only available in the Linux build at the moment (OS X and Windows support are planned, however). There have also been some significant improvements to artist, album, and queue interactions -- and yes, you can finally right click a track, album or artist and select 'play after' to insert it into the queue.
Beyond actual playback, the user interface has been tidied up -- it now looks a whole lot smarter -- and the Ubuntu One Music Store and SoundMenu extensions have been made official. For a complete list of changes, additions and bug fixes, check the change log.
When Windows support initially appeared in February, we found it rough around the edges and fraught with stability issues. With version 2, Banshee for Windows is still a bit unstable, but it's shaping up to be a good alternative to Winamp, iTunes, or whatever other music library manager you use. It's almost as attractive as its GNOMEish brother, too!
Download Banshee 2 for Linux and Windows (Mac OS X coming soon)
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Subscribe to commentsHexDSLApr 6th 2011 12:25PM
I usae my PC for music all the time and use Winamp as my media player of choice but i would love a better program to come along but all these alphas and betas and free software things are making me crazy, if some one released a hight quality FAST indexing music player that worked with last FM (without plugin) and i could search i would soooooo pay for that.
Dan LarsonApr 6th 2011 1:04PM
It's definitely an Alpha, but it looks interesting so far. The icons are considerably unpolished, but I like the general layout they're going for. I must admit I've grown quite attached to Foobar2000, but I'm not dead set against alternatives, and I like where this one is going.
My main problem with it at this stage is actually the same problem I have with a lot of the software that originated on Linux: it doesn't respond to the "scroll wheel" on my laptop touchpad under Windows. I prefer keyboard shortcuts in The GIMP and Inkscape, so I can get by there, but I am not mousing over to the scrollbar every time I want to navigate my library - it would drive me insane.
mvpApr 6th 2011 3:28PM
Perhaps this will eventually become my songbird alternative seeing as their development has never really picked up completely. Yes I know they have released their android player, but frankly it's not all that great and the main pc program is still beta quality with numerous missing features and bugs. All I want is a nice, clean, media player. I don't need all the bells and whistles right out of the box, that's what addons should be for. I just want to easily view my library like in iTunes, have the processing power of foobar, and absence of any large corporations like Apple or AOL.
/rant
BayzidApr 6th 2011 4:08PM
How does this stack against Clementine? I've been using Clementine since last year absolutely love it to bits but this seems like it has the potential to be greater.