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Author:  gavomatic57 [ Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Songbird
Has anyone used Songbird? It's a cross-platform media player that shares more than a little with itunes in terms of style, but has a native linux version. Think this may replace Amarok on my desktop. Check out the image...
Image

It is apparently built on firefox code, so there is the scope for addons too, just like the shameless copy of coverflow you can see above!
It does last.fm scrobbling/radio, 7digital integration and a shoutcast directory. Coming soon, according to the website is cd ripping support - cool!

If you are running debian/Ubuntu you can get it here in packaged form - Clicky
Author:  forquare1 [ Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Songbird
I had looked at it a couple of years ago and it looks like a cool piece of software.
Author:  big_D [ Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:04 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Songbird
Tried it, hated it, uninstalled it... Then it was released, installed it, hated it and uninstalled it.

99.9% of what I use a media player for these days is downloading podcasts. It failed to download about 95% of the podcasts I pointed it, so I removed it. :(
Author:  gavomatic57 [ Sat Apr 25, 2009 11:12 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Songbird
I'm starting to see it's limitations, but at the moment it doesn't crash quite as much as Amarok 2!
Author:  Tsar [ Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Songbird
Cant get Amarok 2 to work properly

currently using rhythmbox
Author:  gavomatic57 [ Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Songbird
Tsar wrote:
Cant get Amarok 2 to work properly

currently using rhythmbox


Amarok 2 is still really buggy, hence my reason for seeking alternatives. Rhythmbox works fine, I just don't like it very much.
Author:  Nick [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Songbird
gavomatic57 wrote:
I'm starting to see it's limitations, but at the moment it doesn't crash quite as much as Amarok 2!


The joys of a linux user?? ;)
Author:  Tsar [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Songbird
gavomatic57 wrote:
Tsar wrote:
Cant get Amarok 2 to work properly

currently using rhythmbox


Amarok 2 is still really buggy, hence my reason for seeking alternatives. Rhythmbox works fine, I just don't like it very much.



I agree it works
Author:  gavomatic57 [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Songbird
Nick wrote:
gavomatic57 wrote:
I'm starting to see it's limitations, but at the moment it doesn't crash quite as much as Amarok 2!


The joys of a linux user?? ;)


Naa, it's not linux that is crashing, it is Amarok 2 - the windows and mac versions are just the same!
Author:  Tsar [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Songbird
Glad I have not tried the windows version

but a full working windows would be very nice :D :D
Author:  Nick [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Songbird
gavomatic57 wrote:
Naa, it's not linux that is crashing, it is Amarok 2 - the windows and mac versions are just the same!

Ah, I see.

I thought it was only available for linux. Back when linux was my main OS, Amarok was okay, but a little clunky.

That software you posted a screenshot of above looks pretty nice. But it just looks like iTunes - does it fit in with the rest of the system, looks wise?
Author:  gavomatic57 [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Songbird
Nick wrote:
gavomatic57 wrote:
Naa, it's not linux that is crashing, it is Amarok 2 - the windows and mac versions are just the same!

Ah, I see.

I thought it was only available for linux. Back when linux was my main OS, Amarok was okay, but a little clunky.

That software you posted a screenshot of above looks pretty nice. But it just looks like iTunes - does it fit in with the rest of the system, looks wise?


It fits in reasonably well. It's similar to picasa in it's choice of fonts, but as far as I can tell they are customisable. It does look like Itunes doesn't it, plus with that mediaflow plugin - moreso.
Author:  Nick [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Songbird
Cool.

That's something I hate about iTunes on Windows - it looks a little out of place!
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