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- chaos7, on 11/07/2008, -0/+29i tried songbird months ago and didn't stick with it because it didn't have smart playlists and the last.fm scrobbling wasn't totally working... but this RC1 version has both. i may stick with it now.
- jvincent08, on 11/07/2008, -1/+24Sweet! I've been using Songbird for a while now. Really good stuff.
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -0/+18I tried songbird a while ago and found it to be a bit hungry.
I'll give it another go but i'm yet to be convinced it can replace my winamp.
Also who the ***** has ever actually used the web browsers that come built into media players? - twiztidsinz, on 11/07/2008, -0/+12"Songbird employs Mozilla's XULRunner platform" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software)
- theshalit, on 11/07/2008, -0/+10The beauty of songbird is that it doesn't have to. You can download all types of add ons and skins(called "feathers" here) and make it look nothing like iTunes.
The preexisting design is only to get people who have only used iTunes before interested. - MeltingIce, on 11/07/2008, -0/+9I've tried out Songbird a couple of times in the past, but always ended up uninstalling it due to an immense number of bugs and a really flaky interface. This release though is finally starting to look like a real music player, so once again, I will give it a try :)
- moocow1452, on 11/07/2008, -2/+10This or Amarok?
- cheesechoker, on 11/07/2008, -3/+10“Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players.” —Aaron Boodman, Greasemonkey
I tried it. It was more like the Mozilla SeaMonkey of media players. - ileftfark, on 11/07/2008, -0/+6For now, stick with Amarok, which is much better at managing dbs (sql), tag editing, and its playlist functions in a way I wasn't used to at first, but now find it superior.
Howeverrrrrr... I still update the newest versions of Songbird nightlies, and it's getter better and better. The fact that it has integrated web browsing is great (no need to launch a separate browser is nice), skreemr.com support so that you can look up a song and add it to your library for free in few clicks is also a bonus. Also, if you check their development plans, they are going to add video (FINALLY - a complete media library manager/player for Linux!) and the one thing that is a complete and total show-stopper for me - watched folders. Old incarnations of Songibird had this capability, but somewhere around v0.2, the dropped it. WTF kind of player in 2008 makes you manually add songs to your library?
In another 6 months to a year, I could really see myself using this on a regular basis. Until then, Amarok is king. - silfiriel, on 11/07/2008, -1/+7songbird needs a bloody playlist (integrated), not a web browser.
I'm just saying that it's not very user frindly for playing music, yet yo ucan browse the web, the developers need to prioritize, otherwise I wuold totally use it untill KDE ports amarok for windows. - mrsteveman1, on 11/07/2008, -0/+6It means the release icon will be a bird humping the moon
- chaos7, on 11/07/2008, -6/+11looks good
- poponegra, on 11/08/2008, -0/+5Why is the bird always farting?
- ileftfark, on 11/07/2008, -0/+5It means it's based on the Mozilla Foundation's framework, uses the Gecko rendering engine, and is capable of employing Firefox add-ons. And I believe some of the devs are from the Mozilla Project.
- MWeather, on 11/08/2008, -3/+8Songbird is A gem of open source music players. Amarok is THE gem of open source music players.
- Soave, on 11/07/2008, -1/+6I wish they had Party Shuffle, or something where I can add songs to a queue. I tried an extension, but it sucked. Also, I wish they released a version without the web-browser... I will never use that, and it just uses up extra memory.
I'm hoping Amarok will come out for Windows one of these days. - inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4I use Audacious on Linux, pretty much the same ***** as Winamp. Songbird, Amarok, Rhythmbox, iTunes, etc have cool features and all, nice playing around with. But after awhile, its all just in the way. Winamp's layout is simple and non-intrusive.
- kidcodea, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4it must suck coz he's thick as a brick?
- charlietuna, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4Yeah, I hate it when the scrobbling doesn't work.
- MWeather, on 11/08/2008, -2/+6Simpler? I can add 10,000 songs to Songbird by simply placing them in my music directory.
I want to play the music, not spend hours dragging and dropping songs. - inactive, on 11/07/2008, -0/+4and....
- str1fe, on 11/07/2008, -1/+5That's at least partly intentional. Why ***** with good design?
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4Someone needs to learn how to write descriptions, it gave me no idea what this was.
The description shouldn't repeat the title. - mikhial66, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3It's more like iTunes than MediaMonkey
- theshalit, on 11/07/2008, -3/+6FINALLY!
- kinerry, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3Bird is the word
- Shaneonfire, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3Knew about it awhile now, but just started using it today. Since my Zune software started to play my new music badly.
Glad it did, since it got be back in to Songbird. - spacerobot, on 11/07/2008, -5/+8nerd.
- drgmdp, on 11/07/2008, -4/+7that is a memory hog
- mnortei, on 11/07/2008, -7/+10Personally, I love foobar over anything else. There's an application that manages the iPod and yet another that works along with it to scrobble your ipod plays to last.fm. S whole SB looks promising, I'll have to holdout until those two things are available
- Ellipsys, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3They're working on it. As of just a few days ago MediaMonkey became the only (that I know of on Windows anyway) media player/manager that completely hacked the iPhone 3G wide open. Hopefully Songbird, Amarok, and other open source players will follow soon.
- HonoredMule, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3I still use winamp classic a lot for its tiny visual footprint, and make it share my screen's top edge where maximized titlebars go. If you're talking about some ability to integrate with the taskbar, then no, it doesn't do that (at least not without an extension). It does however have a miniplayer that's almost as small as Winamp Classic collapsed, which suits me well.
When it gains more mindshare, I'm sure Songbird will start getting some nice compact skins and extensions to better integrate with the OS. In the mean time, I use Winamp as my player of choice, and Songbird as my media/song collection browser and playlist generator. - MWeather, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3Firefox isn't really free? Crap, tell the IceWeasel guys before they get in trouble!
- MWeather, on 11/08/2008, -4/+7How do I make iTunes monitor the contents of a folder and automatically add the music it finds to my library?
- chaos7, on 11/08/2008, -1/+3actually i don't like apple, itunes, or ipods
- RomanThommassen, on 11/07/2008, -14/+16foobar
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2Does this have a toolbar that docks down the bottom like winamp has? That's one of the few reasons I have to stick with winamp.
- Nuhaus, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2Is there an equalizer function in Songbird? Been looking for one for the last 15 minutes and cannot find anything.
The Mediaflow view is enough to get me to switch from Winamp, for a little while anyhow. I don't like how it defaults to the top of the music in my library rather than to the last playlist I had open like in Winamp. - philrenaud, on 11/07/2008, -6/+8Downloaded it this morning, back to iTunes though - once I can integrate basic quicksilver key commands for it, I'm convinced that I'll stick with it. For now, I'm still a bit disappointed.
- mnortei, on 11/07/2008, -1/+3er *so while
- mrsteveman1, on 11/08/2008, -2/+4Yea, you are nitpicking now. You have it organized as files but you want to manage it with a front end media app, which will itself organize things, not always by moving the files but certainly for the interface, by artist etc.
It doesn't take hours and hours to import stuff into itunes anyway. I don't have CDs either, and my itunes library is almost 50gb at this point. It takes a few minutes to add the stuff, which i have only done once in a few months now.
All you have to do is drop the folder containing your stuff on itunes and thats it. I haven't yet heard a real criticism of itunes, this "adding stuff to the library" crap isn't it.
Hell tell me you hate the itunes interface, that it doesn't let you do what you want, annoys you, etc. Thats fine. - MWeather, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2If by non-free parts, you mean branding, you're right. The code itself is free. The trademark is not.
- TunaFishGangsta, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2I've never had foodbar crash on me. Oh *****, I can't believe I just wrote food bar.
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -1/+3Dude itunes is the only program with that issue.
You really should get out more. - ColinZeal, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2Ellipsys:
Source?
Would LOVE if Linux-based iTunesreplacements would touch the Ipod Touch so to speak.. :P - FrozenGonad, on 11/08/2008, -1/+3Why would anybody bury that comment? It was a fair criticism... Grow the ***** up..
- YodaJones, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Songbird is a good media player and I have used it for a while. They indeed are busy as the last couple updates were nice improvements.
You can do it! - diggdatt, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1I can really care less for all the bling these things offer, I just need something that can handle a huge MP3 list. WinAmp Free Minimum install FTW
- MazeBot, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1ie High and Mighty Color
populer in the west for doing a intro for Bleach - inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1It was because of the scrobbler for last.fm that it crashed every 5 minutes for me.
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