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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 scrol
by 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 agoAll software has problems.
- unalone 18y agoYeah. 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 agofoobar2000 has been eating iTunes' lunch for 6 years.
- unalone 18y agoNo Mac version, sadly.
- nihilocrat 18y agoCan you use Wine on a Mac?
- unalone 18y agoI 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 agoYes. http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX
- tdavis 18y agoAnd it's quite helpful to know about those in advance. Thanks, unalone.
- mapleoin 18y agoyou could, of course, just file some bug reports..
- unalone 18y agoI 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...