17.3 Using Banshee with Your Digital Audio Player
Banshee supports several digital audio players, including Apple* iPods, Creative* Nomads*, Dell* DJs, and almost any other generic USB Mass Storage player. Instead of having to use separate applications to get support for your audio devices, Banshee gives you easy, integrated support and lets you copy your music to or from your device, no matter what format the music is in.
17.3.1 Playing Music from Your Digital Audio Player
To play music from your digital audio player, simply plug your player into your system. After your system recognizes your device, an icon is displayed in the left panel in Banshee.
Select the icon to display the music on your device in the right panel. Double-click the song you want to listen to.
Figure 17-11 Banshee MP3 Playback from an iPod Mini
To view or change device properties, right-click your device, then select . From there, you can view various pieces of information. If you have an iPod, you can update the owner's name.
17.3.2 Adding Music to Your Digital Audio Player
To add tracks to your player, simply drag the tracks you want from your Music Library to your device.
Banshee transparently supports transcoding of your songs for any device. You can have your music library in any number of formats (including, but not limited to, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and AAC), and it will be transparently transcoded before it is sent to your digital audio player.
To remove tracks, select your device in the list of sources, right-click the song you want to delete, then click .
17.3.3 Copying Music on Your Digital Audio Player to Banshee
Banshee supports importing music from your digital audio player to your music library. Simply drag and drop the songs from your digital audio player to your Music Library and they are copied automatically. You can also import all of the music on your digital audio player by right- clicking your player in the source list and selecting .
Figure 17-12 Importing Music from Your Digital Audio Player to Banshee
17.3.4 Synchronizing Your Library
To keep your digital audio player up to date with your Banshee Library, select your player in the source list, then click in the upper-right corner.
Banshee also synchronizes your ratings and cover art in your tracks to your iPod.