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Songbird 1.0 released

• mstefff 18y ago
  Where can I get a deb?
  • jrp 18y ago
    It's not source; just unzip and run songbird. However, it didn't work for me. It ran and imported media, but closed when I tried to play.
    • mstefff 18y ago
      Yea, I noticed, but I'd rather it be installed properly.
• unalone 18y ago
  Why do they call themes feathers? Yech. On the Mac, it's set so that left-and-right scrolling becomes up-and-down scrolling. That's ugly, because I often scroll top-right to down-bottom, and Songbird stutters something ugly when I do that. The display controls are unintuitive. It took be a while to figure out how to control the browser. The controls don't sync to my Play button. iTunes starts up. Yech. I don't know how I'd test its speed compared to iTunes. But if I close it, the music stops. It doesn't know to make itself a background process. Yech. It shows my movies and TV shows as songs. It doesn't know enough even to ignore it. I do like how they made their interface deliberately un-Maclike, unlike Firefox, which tries and fails horribly. But I don't like that they ignore Mac shortcut schemes.
  • jonursenbach 18y ago
    All software has problems.
    • unalone 18y ago
      Yeah. And I always give negative feedback. I complain about things about iTunes, too. When people are looking to see if they will want a piece of software, the best indicator of if you'll want it is whether or not you can stand the negatives. And HN's a big enough place where I think the developers might look at this post, and fix those problems. I'd love to have a viable iTunes competitor.
      • ivank 18y ago
        foobar2000 has been eating iTunes' lunch for 6 years.
        • unalone 18y ago
          No Mac version, sadly.
          • nihilocrat 18y ago
            Can you use Wine on a Mac?
            • unalone 18y ago
              I THINK you can, but I've always avoided it. I'm not a fan of non-native ports of software. Not to mention: I really do like iTunes day-to-day. I hate adding album art to it (you can't drag images onto albums in album mode), but on the Mac it's quick and very responsive, and it's got excellent search.
            • jonursenbach 18y ago
              Yes. http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX
    • tdavis 18y ago
      And it's quite helpful to know about those in advance. Thanks, unalone.
  • mapleoin 18y ago
    you could, of course, just file some bug reports..
    • unalone 18y ago
      I will, actually. That's a good idea, thanks! EDIT: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/_feathers_ick http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/_feathers_ick, http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/controls_for_layout_are_unintuitive http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/controls_for_layo..., http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/work_better_with_mac_os_x http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/work_better_with_..., http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/make_songbird_a_background_process http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/make_songbird_a_b...
• bprater 18y ago
  How does this compare to iTunes?
  • Zev 18y ago
    poorly.
• nuclear_eclipse 18y ago
  I still want/need the ability to use DAAP shares from Rhythmbox, or even UPnP shares from Mediatomb, et al...
• jmtame 18y ago
  Also check out www.onellama.com (no downloads).
• nihilocrat 18y ago
  Hey, this reminds me of Firefox 3! Installed. Booted. Crashed to desktop. Reinstalled with no extensions. Wondered why I couldn't import any music. Noticed that the music was imported, it's just that no text was displaying in the library. Played a few songs and started paying attention to something else. Noticed that it suddenly crashed for no apparent reason. Back to using foobar2000...
• mstefff 18y ago
  Any get multimedia keys to work under linux? Got the addon installed but, of course, it doesn't do what it's supposed to do..
• pedalpete 18y ago
  how many years to get to v.1? and reviews of bad implementations and buggy. What problem are these guys trying to solve? what market are they after? Though I don't deny there is a market for alternative players (foobar2000, MusicIP Mixer), i've never understood what songbird was really offering that made them standout and get all the press they do.
  • unalone 18y ago
    Perhaps the Mozilla backing? When this was introduced, I remember Digg falling over itself and calling this a revolutionary product. This was after Firefox 2 came out and could do no wrong.
  • miratom 18y ago
    What problem are they trying to solve? A non-Applfied itunes-like app, that doesn't force you to install quicktime and iPodService.exe and other crapware. What market are they after? Well, I might consider buying an iPod now that it isn't tethered to freakin iTunes.
• mstefff 18y ago
  Are they like not allowed to test the addons, cause most of them don't work at all...