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How do I change the Sound Menu's default music player?

I'm running Maverick at the moment and the default music player is Rhythmbox. It interfaces with the panel through the sound menu, so you can see it playing like this: I know that, in Natty, Banshee ...
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How to download songs from Amazon's Cloud Player?

Using the latest Banshee (1.9.6) and the Amazon MP3 extension, I just bought an album, and it was copied to my Amazon Cloud Drive/Player. How do I download this to my computer? Banshee's Amazon MP3 ...
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Banshee won't connect to Amazon mp3 store

Banshee has stopped connecting to the amazon mp3 store. It used to work fine but now I get the following error message from Banshee: Unable to load page Cannot resolve proxy hostname () This problem ...
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Why was Banshee chosen to be the default for 11.04?

What are the reasons for Banshee replacing Rhythmbox in Ubuntu 11.04? I don't want your opinion on which is best nor why. I want to know what the reasoning was behind the decision.
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Disable notifications on track change?

I've not long been running Banshee on 11.04, and my main problem with it is that when changing tracks a notification is displayed, this is all fine when using hardware buttons on my laptop to change ...
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How do I export banshee library settings to another machine?

I am trying to downgrade my distro. The thing is, I have spent some few hours organising my music library and I do not want to lose my database. I have checked 'write meta data to files'. And so, my ...
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How do I quit Banshee?

When I press the X button in Banshee's title bar, it hides, but the music continues playing. However, from time to time I need to quit Banshee completely. How can I do that? (pressing "close" from the ...
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Why is Rhythmbox becoming the default (again)?

So, it seems with 12.04, they're switching back to Rhythmbox, after switching from Rhythmbox a year ago. I don't get why. They say that it's because of a blocking bug in GTK3# (if I understand that ...
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No Banshee notification area icon in Gnome 3 classic session

After installing Ubuntu 12.04, I have a problem with Banshee: it doesn't have a tray icon. I know about the tray-icon-plugin, but it's not working: I'm using Gnome 3 in classic mode. In gnome-shell ...
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Can Banshee fix music metadata information?

I'd like Banshee to automatically find and fix the correct song title and artist names and album information for my music from the internet. Is this possible with this software? Something like, '...
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How do I make Banshee re-scan for cover art?

I restored my banshee db as per this question. My music and listening history shows up as expected, but the cover art is missing, and Banshee won't scan for it. "Rescan music library" doesn't check ...
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How do I backup my Banshee listening history?

I would like to use sites like last.fm, but because I'm often moving from OS to OS, and mostly listen to music on an mp3 player, most of my listening data gets lost. Is there any way I can backup ...
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Is it possible to import/export radio station as a list into/from Banshee

I have a list of radio stations that I am interested in importing to Banshee. After I add more stations before next upgrade I would like to keep that list somewhere, so it can be imported into Banshee ...
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Manually set track listen count in Banshee?

How can I manually edit the track play count for a track for Banshee?
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Sync Banshee with Ubuntu One music without having the music locally?

Is it possible to set up Banshee to sync with my Ubuntu One music that is stored in the cloud? If I upload all my music to Ubuntu One from my desktop, will I then be able to sync Banshee with that ...
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Banshee is unable to determine audio cd metadata

I tried to add a audio cd to my music pool. When I enable the "Audio CD Support" extension the following output where posted via debug-mode. Now when I take a look to the cd, I realised that banshee ...
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How do I update banshee to 2.4?

I currently have Banshee 2.2.1 and I want 2.4 on Ubuntu 11.10. I have run sudo add-apt-repository ppa:banshee-team/ppa in Terminal, followed by: sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get update But Banshee ...
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After sync, music still cannot be located on iOS 5 device, fix?

First question of many I am sure. I was able to mount my iPhone 4 w/ recently upgraded iOS 5. Tried to sync some music w/ Banshee, it went onto the iPhone, but it won't show up in the 'Music' app ...
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Banshee isn't starting anymore

my banshee doesn't start anymore. i tried to start it over the terminal just to see if something is broken but all the terminal gave me was this: moere@SAMSUNG-NF110:~$ banshee [Info 18:45:29.413] ...
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Can not Install `banshee-extension-lyrics`

I am trying to install banshee-extension-lyrics extension. By sudo apt-get install banshee-extension-lyrics. But the I got this error as below. rashed@rashed-HP-430-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo apt-get ...
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Tell Banshee to add covers inside MP3 tags

I am using Banshee to encode my old CDs into nice MP3. Banshee is able to find CDs information and albums covers but it doesn't add these covers INSIDE the MP3's tag. As a consequence, when using ...
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Banshee won't open

Hello, world. My computer turned off while banshee was updating my music library. Now I can't open it. The error says: "found a fatal error. Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation." ...
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My 'Sync Preferences' are not being saved when I disconnect my Android smartphone from Banshee

When I set up my sync preferences for my Android phone, everything works fine and my media is successfully transferred, but when I unplug the phone (after pressing the eject button and being told it ...
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Banshee and heat rising to shutoff

When I run Banshee why would the temp rise so much that it will shut off the laptop. Toshiba L300D AMD dual core. This happens only when running Banshee.
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How can I detect the BPM (beats per minute) of a song?

For some activities such as running it is important to know how many BPM a song has. I know that Banshee can do this but I couldn't figure out how to do this for a selected range of songs. Which tool ...
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Can I use banshee from the command line?

I love Banshee media player in general, and I already have an important library of music, which I've spent a lot of time organizing (labeling, correcting, etc). I also use the command line a lot, so ...
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How to import a radio station list from Rhythmbox to Banshee?

I want to try Banshee on Lucid and have to import all my radio station lists, so I wonder how to do this automatically instead of importing each one by hand. I have several radio stations in ...
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How do I import Amazon MP3s with Banshee and the new Amazon Cloud Player?

Banshee's Amazon MP3 Import extension until recently allowed seamless importing of songs purchased from Amazon MP3. It did this by a)opening .amz files and using them to connect to and download the ...
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Where does Banshee store playlists and podcast metadata?

I'm in the process of doing a system re-install. I've seen: How to backup settings and list of installed packages There are a couple of specific apps I want to double check that all their data/...
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How to set up DAAP sharing in Banshee?

Ok, so I can see and listen to music libraries from other computers on my network via Banshee (They are running Rhythmbox with DAAP enabled) but I cannot see my Banshee library from them. I have ...
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How to register downloaded podcast mp3 in Banshee?

I just upgraded to Natty and trying to start using Banshee instead of Rythmbox. I noticed that Banshee put downloaded podcost under Podcast folder. I have a bunch of previously downloaded podcasts by ...
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How do I find and delete duplicate music tracks?

My issue is that for some reason I have duplicates of some music tracks. However they are not named identically. For instance: Music/Prefuse 73/One Word Extinguisher/07. Detchibe.mp3 & ...
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What does the process 'Main Thread' do?

I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and listening to music using Banshee. At a certain point the graphics interface greys out and the application is unresponsive. If I launch ps, the process list is monopolized ...
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How to convert WMA lossless to FLAC?

I have some CDs that I want to convert to FLAC. Banshee can't find their metadata, but Windows Media Player can. I figured there are two workarounds: Rip all CDs using Windows Media Player WMA-...
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Banshee encountered a Fatal Error (sqlite error 11: database disk image is malformed)

I am running ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, and recently I am helping in testing out indicator-weather using the unstable buids. However there was a bug which caused my system to freeze suddenly (due ...
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Banshee is working very slow

Banshee is working on my PC very slow. My pc should have enough power (2x3Ghz, 4GB-Ram, 7GB-Swap, 1GB-Graphics, 32bit Ubuntu) but the switching between playlists is working very low. default version ...
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Bulk export/embed album art in Banshee

I have a well structured music library in Banshee. I used to just use folders for years so I've always been pretty good at maintaining a strict filing system. I say this not to brag (it did waste a ...
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How do I make a smart playlist of my purchased music?

I buy from both 7digital and Amazon MP3 stores, how can I make a smart playlist of all my purchased songs?
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Banshee is still in the sound menu after unistalling

Using 11.04 I uninstalled Banshee from the Software Center, restarted the system but still it's visible in the sound menu. How can I get rid of it?
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Adding Banshee to the sound indicator

How to put Banshee into sound the indicator?
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How to write audio track information to the file, using Banshee

As the title suggests, when I change audio track information (metadata) in Banshee I want it to be stored to the file and I can't figure out how to do it. Maybe this cannot be achieved in Banshee ...
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I can not control Banshee from the sound menu in Gnome 3 Shell

I am running Gnome 3.2 on Ubuntu 11.10. In Banshee, I have 'Show Banshee in Sound menu' enabled in Edit-Preferences. MPRIS D-Bus Integration and Sound Menu Integration extensions are also enabled. ...
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how to play BBC radios music live on rhythmbox after BBC stops WMA streams (februar 2015)

According to BBC radio stream page: "The way we stream radio is changing so we'll no longer be providing Windows Media Audio streams. Here's all you need to know about the change. ... / ... We have ...
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How to control Banshee playback speed?

Is there a way to control playback speed in Banshee? I want to play some videos and pod-casts faster or some video-tutorials slower - without changing the pitch - but can't find a build-in function or ...
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Mono apps won't start because they can't load certain assemblies

here's the output after trying to run banshee from terminal: jayjay@jayjay-desktop:~$ banshee ** (/usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.exe:7909): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /usr/lib/...
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How to add album art to mp3 using vlc media player in ubuntu?

I want to add Album art to any mp3 song. But I don't know how to do it.My system has VLC media player, UMPlayer, Bashee media player, Movie player. How can I add Album art to mp3 file using at ...
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How can I find the currently playing song in Banshee?

Is there any way to quickly go to the song currently playing in Banshee? Maybe double-clicking something? My library is quite large, and scrolling to the currently playing song after I've scrolled ...
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Music player that supports multiple genres

Is there a music player for Ubuntu that either supports multiple genres or has a plug-in to support them? Say I have a song with the genre "Metal/Instrumental" (the separator isn't really important). ...
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How do I record internet radio stream from banshee?

Maybe present some extension?? I have use banshee 1.9.0
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Banshee and Rhythmbox crash when trying to connect Android device

This happens with both Rythmbox and Banshee, but I'd prefer to solve the problem with Banshee, as that is the player that suits me better. When I run Banshee, and connect my Android device using PTP, ...
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