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- roblord, on 11/10/2007, -5/+35Have you tried it Roger?
Can iTunes integrate with music blogs?
Can iTunes integrate with stores other than its own?
Can iTunes by stylized with CSS?
Songbird isn't competing with iTunes, but to call it a clone misses the point. Perhaps you mean its layout is iTunes-like. That's true. - PeachCobbler, on 11/08/2007, -3/+30At long last the prophesy has been fulfilled!
...been using Songbird since its alpha-days. What a long way it has come. - seventoes, on 11/10/2007, -4/+24omg both apps can play music! CLONE!
- cthielen, on 11/08/2007, -0/+19The old 0.25 preview release user experience had fairly rough waters but it was promising. I started using the 0.3 developer releases when they started a few weeks ago and if you thought Songbird was buggy, be sure to give it another run. It's not 1.0 but 0.3 is considerably better, and I can actually use it for my music listening/browsing for hours without trouble.
- inkyblue2, on 11/05/2007, -0/+19how is the performance these days? i tried it a year ago and my ~100GB library basically made it unusably slow, and it leaked memory worse than firefox. sad, because i really wanted to like it. has this been significantly improved in the past year or so?
- thosemoose, on 04/17/2008, -1/+18whaaaaaat??!?! I don't understand why all the hate. OK first, there is life outside of windows, so we have no winamp or foobar on mac. So this is a first (or atleast of my knowledge) for mac.
For someone like me that frequents music blogs, hype machine, etc. etc, this lind of integration is mind blowing. Instead of having to download a track from a blog, import it into itunes to hear it, i can simply browse to the blog -- songbird will then scan for all the available tracks, make them downloadable if available, and import them into my itunes. Or if I just want a quick listen, I can just click the song there in the menu at the bottom.
Or, if I just want to browse the available tracks, I can do that quickly in the bottom menu instead of having to scroll through the entire blog to find a song. Once I find a song, It quickly allows me to go to the blog entry which contains the track.
Yes, I admit, it is a bit of an iTunes clone, but hey it's a model that works for me. It does seem sluggish still, but thats to be expected this early on. I'm beyond excited that this kind of integration is the next step in obtaining digital music. - sifelltneytandi, on 11/05/2007, -0/+15It'd be nice if the audioscrobbler extension was compatible with the latest builds. It's the main reason I don't use it regularly.
Also, I don't like that the audioscrobbler extension doesn't scrobble tracks played from the web. - mariuz, on 11/10/2007, -0/+140.3.x is extremely stable vs previous version , this build rocks , i left it a few days to play in the background and
the music didn't stopped
My wish list is to add an youtube playlist extension , also to download play flv files (with unplug) - iashraf, on 11/13/2007, -6/+20You have a Zune???
- 350Zed, on 11/05/2007, -2/+15He's the only one... he's socializing himself.
- roblord, on 11/08/2007, -1/+12FYI, Songbird 0.2 was a proof-of-concept. After 0.2, we 'birders dropped the engine and rebuilt it as a proper Mozilla platform XPCOM + XUL application.
We did so because we're targeting doing things that media players have never done before, ex., Songbird Webpage API that enables Web developers to write Javascript against the media player features or develop feathers in CSS. Songbird 0.3 is now open to media sites like download stores, subscription services, radio services, social networking services, recommendation services, locker services and *anything* else a Web dev can code.
The Songbird community -- as of today, 20+ full-time devs + 1,800 community devs and QA w/ Bugzilla accounts -- is as and productive as we've ever been. Sorry we took so long, but we're definitely back and it's a big Web to play... - PAStheLoD, on 10/31/2007, -0/+11Still, there's a few very important features missing, but the 'nest busy baking the new versions all the time :)
- imightbewrong, on 11/05/2007, -0/+10does it have an EQ yet?
- 40bslove, on 11/01/2007, -0/+10finally getting its legs this great, its been running stable for sometime now i loved the rc's now for the real deal, glad to see this grow up
- chedabob, on 11/05/2007, -0/+10Yeah, it's called Audioscrobbler.
- adolfojp, on 11/08/2007, -0/+9Did they fix the insane memory consumption issues?
- greywolfexcel, on 11/05/2007, -0/+9On Amarok. :]
- codyman, on 11/05/2007, -0/+8I tried it back about six months ago and yes it was very buggy. I guess I'll try this version now that its been a while, just hopefully this bird can leave the nest without hitting the ground like the last hatch...
only thing is, I am digging the quality of foobar2000 + foo_tube + advanced limiter + resampler.... - chedabob, on 11/01/2007, -0/+8Not multi-platform (yet).
- blindmonkey, on 11/01/2007, -1/+9Soo... Except for the fact that Winamp is a huge memory hog, slow as hell, gigantic, not free, and only for windows... Yes, it's better. I liked Winamp better in the old 2.x versions. 3.x got a LOT bulkier, and now 5.x is unusable for me. Winamp is pretty buggy as well.
So Winamp is better than Songbird in a few categories. However that can be forgiven as it's 10 years older than Songbird. (Which, might I add was built by people from the Winamp team.) - edrift101, on 11/05/2007, -7/+15Go back to itunes, like a good little Apple fanatic and quit making fun of those that chose to take a chance on new hardware.
- ShloppyJoe, on 11/08/2007, -6/+13Wheres my friggin Zune support!?
- PeachCobbler, on 11/01/2007, -0/+7with the use of different 'feathers', songbird's appearance is very flexible. as for the general layout of things, why re-invent the wheel?
- dennison, on 11/09/2007, -3/+9Last.FM integration, anyone?
- wendelgee2, on 11/05/2007, -0/+6Hope the interface is just a little more intuitive. Especially adding blogs/sites to the menu bar on the side.
- seventoes, on 11/01/2007, -0/+6Its on the front page..
- jsd8cc, on 11/08/2007, -1/+7Fair enough.
- Oetzi, on 10/31/2007, -0/+6Just waiting for Creative Zen support and thisll be my main player. The API idea is fantastic
- inactive, on 11/05/2007, -1/+6I anxiously download Songbird...
tar -xzvf Songbird_0.3_linux-x86_64.tar.gz
cd Songbird
./songbird
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
... this seems promising.
Eh, at least the 32-bit version runs without a hitch. *Shrug* I'm very much looking forward to further Songbird development, Amarok simply doesn't cut it for me. - Kosimo, on 11/05/2007, -0/+5Does anybody knows if I can use an equalizer in this new version? Maybe as addon or extension? I couldn't find it.
I really can't use a music player without an equalizer.
On the other hand I have to say that under Ubuntu works gorgeous and I really like it. - GoldenChaos, on 11/08/2007, -0/+5Awesome - Been running nightlies of this for too long and I'm glad to finally see .3 out in the open.
- neonpulse, on 11/13/2007, -3/+8I use it on my MacBook since iTunes is horrible, and I like Firefox.
- Konstantino, on 11/08/2007, -1/+6And I can't help but notice that the egg icon has cracked a bit more from 0.2. I can't wait to see the bird hatch. :)
- esc27, on 11/08/2007, -0/+4This is a project I really want to get excited about, but every time I try, it is disappointing.
I ran Firefox before it was called Firefox and enjoyed it, but this I wait for 1.0 to try it again. - leinir, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4Well, Amarok's context browser is CSSable as well... and the other theme stuff in Amarok can be done through implementing a new widget style (which means that -all- of KDE can get that theme ;) )
- dylanrjones, on 11/05/2007, -0/+4Check out the new mashTape extension. It automatically searches for YouTube videos of the artist you are currently listening to (as well as lyrics, pictures and concert dates). Watch out iTunes, you are about to become as lame as IE.
- thenome, on 11/05/2007, -1/+5Still a ways to go in market share, but looking good, maybe the next firefox style success.
- inactive, on 11/05/2007, -0/+4err songbirds is not just for mac you know...
- mypenis, on 11/10/2007, -2/+5Interface looks cool but I can't help but feel like it looks too much like iTunes.
I don't want to sound like a hater or a fanboy of any kind. I just was hoping it would distance itself a little more. Give us something new.
But keep it up. It's a great start! - Bhima, on 11/01/2007, -0/+3That's illegal in 12 states.
- spyrochaete, on 10/31/2007, -2/+5I've visited the Songbird website a few times but could never find a download link. I finally found one today. For those in the same boat, here's a link to the latest nightly Win32 build:
http://developer.songbirdnest.com/nightly/builds/w ... - JJCDAD, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3Last.FM is the only reason I still use WMP.
- ausnul, on 11/01/2007, -0/+3Could you guys file a bug report @ http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/ ? That would help us out a lot :)
Also, Songbird requires C++ exceptions to function properly. Often older gcc / libc / libstdc++ version do not have support for exceptions which causes umm... bad things to happen. gcc4.1 and above seem to have the best luck overall, but some distributions still don't compile their gcc's with exception support enabled... - strictnein, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3For iTunes: why can't I have folders that contain playlists? The idea of just having one big list of playlists is annoying. Also, why can't I just right click on an album and select "Burn to Disc". Am I missing something, or do I really have to drag the album over and create a playlist with it, just to burn a copy?
/coming from a guy with 11319 songs in his iTunes library - mrthebunny, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3I just watched the screen cast (http://songbirdnest.com/screencast).
The program looks interesting, but boy is the presenter trying too hard to be funny...pretty bad... - anjinash, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2I've run into the same problem as Oetzi in the past. I believe it had something to do with Firefox's script-block extension. When I allowed Songbird's page to run scripts, the download link showed up. Before that, the upper right-hand corner of the main page was empty.
- ShloppyJoe, on 11/05/2007, -0/+2I do like amarok, but like all the other linux media players out there, including songbird, their libmtp support is lacking, making the Zune still pretty much useless on linux systems:
---libmtp 0.1.3---
Connect: Yes
Disconnect: Yes
List Music: Yes
List Videos: No (Probably capable but not working because Amarok is only for Music)
List Pictures: No (Probably capable but not working because Amarok is only for Music)
List Wallpapers: No (Probably capable but not working because Amarok is only for Music)
Upload Files: No
Download Files: No
Delete Files: Yes - rbenech, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2Segfault on OpenSUSE 10.2 :-(
- Sawta, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2I admit, one of my friends has a Zune, and I was impressed. It wasn't GREAT, but it was better than I had expected at least.
Can you really blame iashraf, though. It's just so easy.. - CYR1X, on 11/01/2007, -1/+3People really need to try this out, If I am looking for some obscure song and can't find it via, torrents, blogger sites, or google searching, it always seems to show up in songbird. Plus it's basically a black version of iTunes with firefox intergrated.
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