Install Banshee 1.6 With Grid View and Cover Art Support in Ubuntu Lucid, Karmic

All new Banshee 1.6 is released. This is a major release and a lot of new improvements and bug fixes is made to Banshee 1.6. Major changes include the addition of grid view, which makes browsing through your albums a breeze, and also an optional cover art display in lower left corner.

Feature List

• Gapless Playback.

• Sync Device From Playlist Option.

• Banshee Community Extensions.(Link)

• Type-ahead Find in Track, Artist, and Album Lists.

• Full changelog here.

Add PPA First

• You will have to add the Banshee-team PPA to your sources.list.

• For that, simply goto Terminal(Applications - Accessories - Terminal) and copy-paste the following line. 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:banshee-team/ppa

• Done. 

Already have Banshee?

• If you already have an installed version of Banshee, all you need to do is an upgrade. Copy-paste the following lines into Terminal(one by one). 

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

• Done.

To Install Banshee from scratch

• Now, if you don't have an installed version of Banshee, do the following.

• Copy-paste the following lines into Terminal.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install banshee

• Done.

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