Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Banshee Media Player Dead?

[strypey]

Banshee haven't released a stable version since Feb 2014 (2.6.2), which makes  
it seem abandoned on the surface. But keep in mind that Banshee is a UI that  
sits on top of GNOME, GStreamer, Mono, SQlite, and a bunch of other free code  
components. It may be that most of the active development goes on in these  
dependencies, so Banshee doesn't need to release new versions very often.

Feb 2014 was just before an Ubuntu LTS release, so that's probably why they  
put out a stable release then. It is true that there's been two LTS releases  
since then, but perhaps the Banshee UI just hasn't needed any updates? The  
crashing problems you are having might be related to outdated versions of  
some dependencies, and may be solved when Trisquel 8 drops.