Download the Banshee Media Player

Latest Version: 1.7.5 ‒ September 1, 2010

1. Select a Distribution

Banshee is packaged for many Linux distributions, and is even the default media player for several. Here you can learn how to install or update Banshee for your distribution.

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openSUSE

openSUSE 11.3 openSUSE 11.2
1-Click Install for openSUSE 11.3 1-Click Install for openSUSE 11.2

While Banshee 1.6.1 is included by default, subscribing to the Banshee repository will provide automatic major release updates.

Repository

Banshee 1.5.1 is included by default. Subscribing to the Banshee repository is recommended to receive automatic major release updates.

Repository

Make sure your openSUSE installation is fully up to date before installing the latest Banshee!

For other SUSE distributions:

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Ubuntu

  • Banshee is available from the official Ubuntu repositories; click here to install it. Ubuntu has a policy of not updating the version of a shipped application, so the version available might be old.
  • To keep up to date with the latest version, add the Banshee Team PPA repository.
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Foresight

  • Banshee 1.0 is the default media player on Foresight Linux 2.0.
  • Install or update banshee from PackageKit, or in a terminal type, sudo conary update banshee
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Fedora

  • Install via yum: yum install banshee
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Debian

  • Unstable / Lenny: apt-get install banshee
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Mandriva

  • Spring 2008 (latest stable release): Enable the /contrib/backports repository and install the banshee-1 package
  • The banshee package provides the legacy 0.13.x series Banshee
  • Details on enabling /contrib/backports
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Mac OS X

This release is a beta-quality technology preview with no device (iPod etc) support, CD support, or video support. We encourage you to test and report issues. Banshee for OS X is not yet as complete or as stable as our Linux releases.

Banshee for OS X runs on Intel 10.5 and newer. 10.4 and older and the PowerPC architecture are not supported.

Platform Not Detected or Unsupported

  • Your distribution or operating system could not be detected or is not supported at this time.
  • If you are running Linux, please choose a distribution above, or download and build from source (details below).
  • Banshee is available for many Linux distributions and will soon be available for Windows and Mac OS X. Please stay tuned to our blog for details.

Source Releases

Beta Releases

Snapshot/Alpha Releases

Development Version

See getting the development version for more information.