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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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Sync music library between several Ubuntu installations

I found some threads about similar topics but not really the same and neither with a solution. Is there any way to get a music player (Banshee, Rhythmbox) to synchronize their music library with ...
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How to sort Banshee by track order?

I have several playlists containing only one artist, but multiple albums by that artist. I would like to sort these playlists so that the albums are grouped together and ordered by track number. For ...
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Banshee music file copy to Mac iPhone 4s ios5.1 not permanent

In Ubuntu 12.04, when I drag .mp3 files from Banshee 2.6 to my Mac-formatted iPhone 4s ios5.1: Banshee says it's syncing with the phone, updating the media database, and the file count on the phone ...
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Importing RadioTray radio stations into Banshee

I read this question and would like to know whether it was possible in a similar way for Banshee also? Can I import radio stations I listen to in RadioTray to Banshee without adding them by hand (...
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banshee freezes the whole system

There is a problem after playing a .mkv file . After a couple of minutes it freezes the whole system, even you can't move the mouse. And the only way you can use the system again, is to turn off the ...
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Ubuntu with Ipod Touch 6th Gen - Copied songs don't show on device

My wife bought both of my daughters iPod Touch 6th Gens for Christmas. I am able to see the Ipods - they show up in Thunar, Clementine, Rhythmbox, and Banshee. I used Banshee to send 50 songs to ...
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Banshee play queue won't add songs and switches to play library

(This might not be the most appropriate place to ask these questions, but I can't find any relevant information on my problem anywhere and the primary mean of communicating among Banshee-users is a ...
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Music lags/ hiccups when I seek using any Banshee or Rhthmbox

I have been using Linux for years now and this has never been a problem. but on my latest system [Ubuntu 12.10 with Gnome Classic Session] It has been.. hiccuping is the best I can describe it. It ...
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How to make Banshee/other players recognize a folder as a music player for seamless music synchronization?

I use Webupd8's Go-mtpfs to mount Nexus 4 on Ubuntu 12.10. It mounts the folder in home directory. I use Banshee to manage my music and playlists. Banshee can't recognize the mounted folder as a music ...
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Mediamonkey ratings imported into Rhythmbox/Banshee/Quod Libet

I recently made a complete shift from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 12.04. Everything went smoothly until I scanned my music files in some of the Ubuntu players... All of my ratings added in Windows, using ...
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How to transfer podcasts from one computer to another?

I have 6 GB worth Podcasts on my Old computer and I wish to transfer to to my new computer? I know where my podcasts files are stored. How do I copy it to my new computer such that the old podcasts ...
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Banshee will not import media since 12.04 upgrade

Installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my AMD64 Desktop which has been happily importing media from my iPod 5th gen into Banshee with no problem all year. After installing 12.04 all Banshee does is remember ipod ...
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Banshee Player Cannot Re-open Files After Restart

I am not sure whether this is specifically related to Ubuntu. However, I am using the Banshee Media Player on Ubuntu 16.01 and am experiencing a problem. The player works fine. I am able to add music ...
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Banshee wont Start after Installing Last.fm Fingerprint Extension

Banshee was working on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS machine. I installed the Last.fm Finger Print Extension, and then Banshee would no longer start. The mouse icon changes to busy for a few seconds, and then ...
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Ubuntu 16.04LTS USB stick not showing up as a device in Clementine or Banshee

After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04LTS I have found that any USB Stick that I insert into the computer no longer appears as a device in Clementine or Banshee to enable me to transfer music over to the ...
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iPod touch 6g 9.3.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

A friend of mine bought an iPod Touch 6G (now with upgraded iOS 9.3.4), thinking it would work with his 6-year old Macbook running Mac OS X 10.6.8. Since they're both Apple products, compatibility ...
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ubuntu 16 iphone 5s sync

Hi I'm having issues while trying to sync iphone 5s with ubuntu 16. The thing is that ubuntu sees the iphone in the filesystem, but neither rhytmbox nor banshee can even see it. I tried to plug in ...
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How do I change the queue behaviour in Banshee?

I've got a weird problem when I listen to one album and I shuffle through the other one (not activating its songs, just looking at track list etc.) and the track I listen to ends, banshee goes not to ...
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Banshee Compiling on Ubuntu 16.04 fails

At the moment, I am trying to compile banshee from git: http://banshee.fm/download/development/, but it fails. I am doing this because I plan to fix something in the Banshee's source code. Here is ...
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Sync iPhone Music with Rythmbox or Banshee

When I sync my iPhone 5s, it shows it has successfully synced in the program, but when I disconnect the device, the content does not show in my music. The software appear to sync fine and finish ...
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Sync Android with Banshee on Ubuntu 14.04

I'm having a lot of trouble syncing my device (Motorola XT1080) with Banshee on Ubuntu 14.04 I've tried different ways of altering MTP options (here, here, and here) but nothing seems to work. The ...
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Banshee - Can't delete album artwork

Banshee 2.6.2 Xubuntu 14.04 I can't delete some album cover pictures/artworks for some reason. After I right-click on a track, then right-click on the picture and click on Delete this cover it ...
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All Ubuntu media players crash upon connecting iPod. How to fix?

So I just downloaded the latest Ubuntu (14.10) today. I've fiddled with it somewhat and everything is running fine except that every time I try to use my iPod with a media player, it crashes the ...
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Upgrade to 14.04, Banshee behaves differently with podcasts on iPod

I upgraded to 14.04 recently, and when I used Banshee to add a podcast I had downloaded to my iPod, it added it to the "podcasts" section. Before I had upgraded, the podcasts I had added to my iPod ...
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How to open two Banshee players at once

I want to play more .mp3 files at once, but Banshee/Rhythmbox players seems to allow only one file to be played at a time. I wanted to solve this by opening multiple Banshee players, but I can't get ...
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Can I share my Banshee playlists between two computers using Dropbox?

I have my music collection stored on Drobox, and I use two different computers running Ubuntu and Banshee to access that collection. While the music files themselves are easily accessed using Banshee ...
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How do I get Banshee to work with my Android 4.4.2 device?

I have a new Galaxy S5 (SC-04), with Android 4.4.2. When I plug it in as an MTP media device, it's visible in Nautilus (Gnome Flashback, Ubuntu 14.04) and I can browse and edit files and folders no ...
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How to build the latest version of Banshee on Ubuntu

I am trying to build banshee but I can't get it to compile. I used the banshee Source Tarball, and the banshee github code. Here is a script on what I already did: #!/bin/bash # dependencies sudo ...
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Theme Specific Applications only (In Special Banshee)

There. I have made a custom version of the Ambience Theme, that is in a light green color. Now, I want to darken up the banshee player a bit, that it doesn't blind me at night. I found a file called ...
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How to get "Delete Playlist" confirmation popup back in banshee?

At some point while deleting playlists in Banshee and seeing the confirmation popup that asks if I'm sure I want to delete, I checked the "Don't ask this question again" box. How do I undo this and ...
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Shuffling is not working

The shuffling to form the play queuelist is not working. I use Banshee 2.6.1 Apparently the frequency of songs is independent of their rating. The best rated songs should be more frequent. I've tried ...
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mp3 playback crackles/pops and sometimes squelches in Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit

Same issue in Banshee, Rhythmbox, VLC, and even some (but not all) videos from YouTube, etc. in Chromium. It seems to be strongly related to how many other things are happening on my computer - the ...
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How to define where Banshee stores the music in Android devices?

I recently bought a Samsung S4 Mini instead of a new iPhone, hoping that I'd be able to sync my music to the external SD card using Ubuntu 13.04. I've managed to get banshee to copy a single track at ...
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How get banshee-extension-albumartwriter working?

In a previous question here: Tell Banshee to add covers inside MP3 tags someone told me about the banshee-extension-albumartwriter extension. I am very interested in this extension, but unfortunately ...
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Banshee: Sort playlist by track number

Banshee has an option - sort playlist by track number, which does nothing when clicked. Is it a bug or am I missing something?
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iPod shows more tracks than Library after sync with Banshee

I am running Ubuntu 11.10, Gnome Shell 3.2 and Banshee 2.2. Banshee correctly recognizes my 80GB iPod Classic (Model No MB147LLm, Version 1.1.2 PC). I have set Banshee to sync the entire library for ...
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Banshee can't find my music after changing HD mount options

So, after spending a few days setting up my music library just the way I wanted it... I made the dumb decision to play around with the auto-mount settings in the disks utility which has broken all the ...
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Banshee Errors while loading

I got the following log trace when starting Banshee on Ubuntu 18.04, I don't know when this started to crash, even after re-install ... Can anyone help me ? [Warn 11:21:47.636] DBus support ...
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How to Add Music to iPod nano 7th Generation

I miss my Mac, but prefer Ubuntu. But I still use my iPod and would like to add some new music to it. I am running Ubuntu 18.04. I have a 7th Generation iPod nano. I am not able to add songs to it ...
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Banshee crash when adding folders to the library

Fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04. Just trying to use Banshee now. But I can't add any folder. Here is the terminal output : [Info 21:57:45.086] Running Banshee 2.6.2: [Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (...
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Even after mounting the windows partition Banshee fails to import files

I have successfully mounted a windows NTFS partition by modifying fstab. While trying to import files to media library in Banshee,the file names are shown disabled and clicking on import ubuntu 16.04 ...
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Installing CFW on Ipod using banshee

I haven't been able to install Itunes. So I installed Banshee instead. How would I jail break it or install CFW using it? More specifically WhiteD00r
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Banshee doesn't seem to play any song, but works in audacious?

I've just downloaded Banshee to use as my main audio UI, and when I imported everything over onto the UI it won't seem to play any of my songs. I'm using Lubuntu 14.04 LTS and have looked at the ...
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incorrect mouse pointer in ubuntu 14.04?

My ubuntu is been acting little weired please refer to attached screenshot the pointer is showing on 'in my head' but it get clicked on 'In my remains' this issue is same on firefox. the pointer ...
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Banshee Play Queue running haywire

This is strange. I love Banshee, works perfectly. Since yesterday, this has changed. When I add album manually into the play queue, the track order gets all jumbled up. Take a look at this. 2, 7, ...
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Vlc, banshee doesn't playing song when tuxguitar opened!

I install tuxguitar 1.2 using custom soundfont from package fluid-soundfont-gm and fluid-soundfont-gs. The sound i got from the custom fontsound was great. But when tuxguitar opened: VlC,Banshee, and ...
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Smart playlist changes to normal playlist in banshee while syncing to ipod nano.

When I sync my ipod from banshee, the smart playlist becomes normal playlist in my ipod. Also I can only sync one playlist.
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Banshee Stopped Working

Recently Banshee stopped working. Running it in the terminal gives me Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'dbus-sharp, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=...
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Banshee throws the mtp connection to my phone

When my AquarisE4.5 Ubuntu phone is connected by USB and I fire up Banshee (with MTP support), it throws the phone mount, and I can't remount until Banshee is closed. Syslog said: May 13 05:30:10 ...
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