Also, if your music folders contain cover art with names like cover.jpg, then Banshee will probably use those instead of looking for them. While there currently doesn’t seem to be a way to import Rhythmbox‘s album art easily, you might find many are better than what Rhythmbox found anyway, so you’ll probably only need to replace a few covers, notably those Banshee can’t find either. Note that your covers will no longer be listed in the logical order you’re used to. You’ll probably want to know where your covers will be from now on, so the location is nearby at /home/yourusername/.cache/media-art. If you don’t see a cover, you’ll just have to go to View > Show Cover Art to enable it (currently the default is to have it off, but I imagine that will soon change). Simply locate the desired cover – which is easy, since they are named in alphanumerical order by band, followed by album title – and drag it on the cover you see in the bottom-left while a song is playing. (Note that the period (.) before “ cache” denotes it is a hidden folder, so you will need to enable viewing of hidden files and folders if you haven’t already done so). But if you find some of your old covers are better, or you went to some effort to find better covers than Rhythmbox offered (or couldn’t find at all), and don’t want to waste those, you will find all your covers in /home/yourusername/.cache/rhythmbox/covers. For many, it won’t matter at all, as the covers Banshee fetches are quite adequate. Your Rhythmbox covers may be something else you wish to import. Actually, you can do it with “ Artist” and “ Album” as well, with it arranging tracks alphanumerically by artist or album, then the reverse order, followed by the original custom layout. Just click above the track names (on “ Name“) and it will cycle through different methods of arrangement, including the original setup you had saved in Rhythmbox. When you import your Rhythmbox playlists, you might find the tracks listed in alphabetical order (by band), instead of the order you previously had. You can then import your Rhythmbox playlists via Media > Import Media… (if you also have Rhythmbox installed) the Import Playlist… option you’ll also see is for importing individual playlists you may have saved, which would be the case if you’re migrating settings into a fresh install. Setting it up is easy, as it will automatically scan your ~/Music folder’s contents (you can of course change it to wherever you store your music via Banshee‘s preferences whenever you want to force a scan, go to Tools > Rescan Music Library).
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But besides having all of the features of Rhythmbox and some of its plugins, Banshee is a full media player, able to play video as well as all sorts of audio. Not just that, if you’re planning on trying it out on your current system, it can import all your Rhythmbox playlists to make the transition less painful.Īt first glance, Banshee is almost identical to Rhythmbox, except that it displays album covers in the browser. But Banshee is a worthy successor, and is very much like Rhythmbox anyway, just with more bells and whistles.
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Those upgrading won’t have to worry about Rhythmbox being uninstalled, and any installing a new system can always install Rhythmbox as well, and even uninstall Banshee if so desired. We’ll have a general look around the new default player, as well as cover everything you’ll need to know if migrating from Rhythmbox.
This is actually because the Rhythmbox development team has announced that while they might push out one more version, it’s the end of the road for this popular music player ( PLEASE NOTE: This situation only lasted a couple of Ubuntu versions, and Rhythmbox is again being developed, and is once again the default music player).
Besides moving to the Unity interface, one of Ubuntu‘s other big moves in 11.04 Natty Narwhal will be the replacement of the default music player, Rhythmbox, with another popular media player, Banshee.
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