Banshee 2.6.0

Today brings another release in what is one of my favorite and most over populated areas on Linux, the music player. Banshee has been around for longer than most, with it's initial release being all the way back in 2005. This new release brings many new features and bug fixes to the popular cross-platform music player.

An important part of this release are the features that have been added for Banshee's newest platform, Mac OS, in 2.6.0 they have added:

•  Hardware support for USB mass storage devices
• Handle opening files directly in Finder.
• Use native file chooser dialogs for importing files.
• Improve keyboard shortcuts.
• Fix various volume issues and inconsistencies.
• Switch to gtk-mac-integration and move to cocoa API.
• Add debug and logging facility to OS X launcher. 

Some other notable features include the addition of Last.fm scrobbling support for recently played songs on iDevices (or compatible).

To install you can either compile from the source provided (ftp), or you can add the Banshee team ppa for Ubuntu compatible systems.

To install via ppa:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:banshee-team/ppa 
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install banshee