*** The Official Songbird Thread ***

I've been using it since the 0.7(?) and I'm glad the release has come out.

It needs to use less ram though and freaking add an equalizer - I read a roadmap and it said it will be done by the April 09 release or something :x
 
Any way to make Songbird compatible with FoxyTunes and is there like a "current playlist" window. Kinda sucks when I can't see what's coming up next without navigating back through all the filters to find the album in listening to.

Really liking the lyrics search plugin though, saves having to go looking for myself.

The concert search is pretty neat too, searches for gigs in the area you select for all the artists in your library.
 
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gads said:
I've been using it since the 0.7(?) and I'm glad the release has come out.

It needs to use less ram though and freaking add an equalizer - I read a roadmap and it said it will be done by the April 09 release or something :x
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Yes I agree. RAM usage was mental in pre-1.0 releases. Absolutely knackered my old PC. Better now with my new PC but RAM usage is still quite high compared to Winamp. And there's a February 2009 release to come first. :)

R34P3R said:
Any way to make Songbird compatible with FoxyTunes and is there like a "current playlist" window. Kinda sucks when I can't see what's coming up next without navigating back through all the filters to find the album in listening to.

Really liking the lyrics search plugin though, saves having to go looking for myself.

The concert search is pretty neat too, searches for gigs in the area you select for all the artists in your library.
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The playlist is a very valid point. I'll be adding lyrics to an album and the album I'm playing will switch to this album I'm doing lyrics for. Quite annoying that. Almost seems like a ruddy great big own goal that.
 
It is indeed annoying. There is a "Now Playing" plugin but it's rather poor imo. Deletes the tracks from the list once the track has been played and you have to individually select tracks to add them it doesn't let you just double click an album and play it all. Disabled it after a few mins.
 
After discovering this thread and hear one or two peeps mentioned this as an alternative to windows media playerI have downlaoded it and installed it and so far will be sticking with this for the mean time.

As a former longterm user of iTunes and winamp while songbirds is very rudimentary I like that it is a Itunes clone but with the option of being like firefox customisable to how you want it.

I never really had a problem with iTunes but I hated the quicktime that forced you to install it if you wanted to use iTunes.

But what I really like about it is that I find it very easy to use. I mean you never had struggle with winamp or itunes either but I find this program more effortless than the other two. I just use a simple interface and it does everything I need it to atm.

The missing album art feature would be a huge bonus but not really a deal killer for me.

Really been loving it so far.
 
Songbird has come a long way, and will try to use it as my primary player.

However, I have a Logitech Keyboard, how do I get the 'special' buttons to work to stop, start, skip, back etc etc in Songbird?
 
Just downloaded this today and I have to say it's most excellent :D I love the "Photos" bit in the mashTape plugin. I have also just signed up to Last.fm because of Songbird!
 
Lately Ive been noticing that performance in Songbird isn't great, although that could be because of a large media library.

Inability to import playlists (eg .m3u) is irritating too.

I hope they add album art soon!
 
Tried it on OS X.

The functionality is good, but I can't be doing with the completely non-native UI elements. It's got a designed-by-programmers look and feel to it. I'll stick with Cog as an alternative to iTunes.
 
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I would say I've listened to about 90% of it. Obviously I have my favourites. Bear in mind that about 80% of it is classical, all of which is FLAC, and so has large file sizes.
 
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