After visiting the Banshee homepage, you can learn more about its features below.
Your Library
- Music
- Playlists. Search. Sort. Cover art. BPM detection. Automated file organization. *Watcher of folders in libraries.
- Videos
- Take advantage of your video collection in Banshee and also.
- Podcasts
- Join to podcasts, and stream or download the episodes.
- Audiobooks
- Organize audiobooks, lectures, etc.
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Organize
- Search
- Explore through your library or a playlist to find what you are looking for quickly.
- Playlists
- Make playlists of your music Optionally with the option of customizing your order.
- Smart Playlists
- Create playlists that automatically include tracks that match.
- Play Queue
- Create a d-hoc playlist or let the Auto DJ handle the task.
- Shuffle Modes
- Shuffle (or Auto DJ) by artist or album, rating or even songs’ acoustic likeness.
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Hardware
- MP3 Players and Phones
- Transfer your music and videos to your Android, iPod, iPhone or any other device – or import the media. The files are transcoded based on the needs. Select to transfer your entire library or only one playlist.
- CDs
- Listen to and rip Audio CDs.
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Utilities
- Bookmarks
- Create a bookmark for any music, video, or podcast so that you can come back to it in the future.
- *Metadata Fixup
- Repair missing and broken metadata by performing bulk operations
- *Minimode
- Control Banshee through a small window with only playback controls and track information.
- Context Pane
- Check out the Wikipedia page for the performing artist, the similar album and artists, as well as YouTube videos by the artist.
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Other Media
- Internet Radio
- Listen to and create Internet Radio stations.
- DAAP
- Listen and browse to songs that are shared via your network.
- AmazonMp3 Store
- Browse through, search, and purchase music from the Amazon MP3 store.
- Miro Guide
- Browse and join to hundreds of audio and video podcasts.
- Internet Archive
- Explore and search the Internet Archive’s massive media collection.
- *Last.fm Scrobbling
- Last.fm Scrobbling and context pane suggestions.
- *Last.fm Streaming
- Last.fm streaming radio available to paid subscribers.
- *eMusic
- Music download and import purchased from eMusic
- *Migrate to Banshee
- Importers for Amarok, Rhythmbox and iTunes
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For Developers
- *MPRIS 2.0 D-Bus interface
- Control Banshee via the MPRIS D-Bus interface.
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Note: Items that are prefixed with * are not required and turn turned off by default.
