Banshee

Banshee is back. Enjoy the classic Linux music player, revived for today's desktops.

Browse your music collection by artist and album, build playlists and listen to your favourite podcasts, all in a familiar GTK interface with album artwork and desktop playback controls.

- Play and organise your local music collection.
- Subscribe to podcasts, download episodes and listen offline.
- Scrobble your listening to Last.fm and discover related artists, albums and tracks.
- Search the Internet Archive and stream audio, including LibriVox audiobooks.
- Control playback through your desktop's media controls and MPRIS-compatible tools.

On first launch, Banshee suggests your desktop's music folder. You can choose another folder or skip setup until later. Music is imported only when you confirm, and your files stay where they are by default.

This is an unofficial community preservation build of Banshee 2.6.2. It includes compatibility fixes and restores selected online services. It is not an official release from the original Banshee developers, and not every historical feature or service is supported.

For music on USB or other mounted drives, enable removable-media access:

 sudo snap connect banshee:removable-media

The drive must be mounted somewhere the snap can access, with suitable file permissions.