Songbird 1.0 released

http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/12/02/songbird-10-is-here/

by noisebleed • 18 years ago

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mstefff4• 18 years ago

Where can I get a deb?

jrp• 18 years 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.

mstefff4• 18 years ago

Yea, I noticed, but I'd rather it be installed properly.

unalone6• 18 years 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.

jonursenbach2• 18 years ago

All software has problems.

unalone6• 18 years 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.

tdavis• 18 years ago

And it's quite helpful to know about those in advance. Thanks, unalone.

mapleoin• 18 years ago

you could, of course, just file some bug reports..

unalone6• 18 years ago

I will, actually. That's a good idea, thanks!

EDIT: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/_feathers_ick, http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/controls_for_layo..., http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/work_better_with_..., http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/make_songbird_a_b...

bprater• 18 years ago

How does this compare to iTunes?

Zev• 18 years ago

poorly.

nuclear_eclipse• 18 years ago

I still want/need the ability to use DAAP shares from Rhythmbox, or even UPnP shares from Mediatomb, et al...

jmtame• 18 years ago

Also check out www.onellama.com (no downloads).

nihilocrat2• 18 years 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...

mstefff4• 18 years 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• 18 years 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.

unalone6• 18 years 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• 18 years 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.

mstefff4• 18 years ago

Are they like not allowed to test the addons, cause most of them don't work at all...

Songbird 1.0 released

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