Banshee Media Player as we know it is the default media player for Ubuntu 11.04. A new version of Banshee is out now. Banshee 2.2 is the culmination of six months’ work by 35 developers, 38 translators and dozens of bug reporters and testers. It is a stable release, the successor to Banshee 2.0. It will be available in updates or via official PPA i.e ppa:banshee-team/ppa soon enough.

Features

1) eMusic Store

Browse, search, preview, buy, and download music straight into your Banshee library from the eMusic online store.

2) New custom support for the Barnes & Noble Nook

Transfer music between your library and your Nook device, it just works !

3) Support default internet radio stations

At first start, XSPF playlists in $datadir/banshee/stations/ are imported automatically.

4) OtherImprovements

• Add “Stop when finished” option in the notification popup menu
• Hide labels in the source pane when the group is empty.
• New Devices Supported:
  • Motorola Atrix
  • Notion Ink Adam
  • Samsung Galaxy Ace
  • Samsung Galaxy S2
  • Xperia X12
• Add “Smiley Face Curve” default equalizer.
• ArtworkManager: add –fetch-artwork argument.
• Set UserAgent when doing MusicBrainz queries.
• Get info from the database or the file when opening a URI.
• Various bugfixes.

Take a look -

Njoy !