Banshee is a free media player for GNU / Linux, written in Mono and Gtk . It uses GStreamer multimedia library for encoding and decoding of different file types, such as Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play, import and burn audio CD but can not be synchronized with media players making use of proprietary transfer protocols, such as iPods and Zen, Creative and Apple, respectively, although only the current version.