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.
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.
We’ve kept Banshee 2.6.2’s familiar interface, with fixes and a few additions:
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.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward.
The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below.
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 9 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 8 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 7 with the following command:
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Adding the optional and extras repositories is also recommended:
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"
sudo yum update
Snap can now be installed as follows:
sudo yum install snapd
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install Banshee, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install banshee
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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