Banshee has a plugin can import the library from Amarok and Rhythmbox, but does not take into account the new users coming from Windows. Many use Winamp and there is no tool that can easily import your collection without losing data as score or number of reproductions.

This way it would be easier to keep track of podcasts. Especially if you are subscribed to 10 or more podcasts it's almost impossible to know which one you have listened to already. Sure you can delete all the podcasts you have listened to right away, but one might want to keep oder podcasts.

PS: A full iPod integration would be helping as well, means that Banshee recognizes that you have listened to a podcast on your iPod and/or the number of times you have listened to a song, etc.

Banshee should have an optional interface which connects to Hype Machine for free music discovery.

*Pls excuse my english. But I'm not a native speaker.

A complete database managing Media Files.
Used to manage Video, Music, Images.
Every Media Software should be able to build on top of it.
Implemented in the Gnome Virtual Filesystem if possible.
But still be able to go to the specific Folders. And work normally with the media and Music Files.
The Libary should provide the metatag information, and Metatags should be written with the library.
Nautilus should be able to show a nice overview.


Filepath something like media:/// to come to the overview Page.
Data should be located in the Home Folder.

Music, Video, Pictures Folder

The Library should manage the Folderstructure and index the files. It should be possible to add new Files by copying or by dragging into the media:/// place or by dragging it into e.g. /home/user/Music.

The system should be extendable with plugins for new features like loading lyrics and saving them as id3 tag or something else.

If possible it should handle Media Players.

Possible additional features:

* Ipod Support (as Plugin)
Just Drag and Drop Media Files on the IPod and they will be indexed and added to the database.
See the Musik of the Ipod.

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When I rip music to my computer I use the highest quality settings I can and have a large collection of FLAC files as part of my music library. The problem arises when I want to copy these to my iPod which does not accept these files. I end up having to manually convert these files to MP3 and then copy these over. I usually end up deleting these files after the transfer.

Default bluetooth Gnome applet isn't much user friendly, it do not allow to turn off bluetooth radio with a single click saving battery's life and do not integrate with Network Manager. A solution with a better and powerfull GUI would be great.

I have several different computers that I work on (as I assume many people do): a desktop at work, a workstation at home, a multimedia machine at home and a laptop. I listen to music on all of these machines. I also have a fairly extensive music collection that encompasses some 20,000+ songs. I have made a conscious effort to rate all of the songs in my collection as this enables me to use the 'Smart Playlist' feature that Banshee offers and allows for 'More Intelligent' shuffling of my music. Unfortunately, as I listen to, and rate songs at each machine I have no reasonable way of 'synching' my ratings and playlists from one machine to another.

At the moment I simply copy the banshee.db file from ~/.config/banshee from one computer to another. This works well for the two machines at home, but becomes problematic for the others when objects within the library are modified. If I make changes to any of the files in my library I then have to rsync the modified library to all of the other machines.

Also, some of my computers are a bit limited in their resources (e.g. my laptop does not have a large enough harddrive to hold my entire music library) and consequently I am forced to have only a subset of my library available for use on these machines. It would be nice to have a separate database for these machines that defines a subset of my 'master' library as being available, but still 'syncs' with the 'master library'.

I have my entire music library stored on an external drive. However, in order to actually use it in a music player I need to either permanently mount the drive or run smbmount before opening my player - ugh!

After downloading some new episodes of a Podcast I often don't know which ones I've already listened to. It would be useful to have one column which indicates whether an episode is new or not.

Banshee is a great media player. It is easy to use, quick, full of usable features, can play almost any format you can think of, can organize your music at file level with the hierarchy of your preference, etc. There is only one thing that drives the spotlight away from Banshee, but fortunately just a couple of centimeters. Banshee lacks crossfading support, and that makes the changes between different songs sometimes a little abrupt--a little inorganic.