Great news, I can soon get rid of iTunes on my Windows box at home. I must admit that it has been the best player so far, I have at least not been able to find a replacement. Banshee is now running under Windows.

It’s simply a great example of you are capable to do with Mono, and of course a great step forward in getting Banshee to be cross platform. The engine backend is implemented directly against Windows Media Player, called Banshee.MediaEngine.WMP10. It’s cool to see that they were able to use the native platform engine for playback, but sadly the developer of Banshee is more interested in getting the current GStreamer engine to run under Windows as well.

I can’t wait to get my hands on the first Windows release.