18 Comments

1. Anonymous Jan 12, 2006 3:45 pm Permalink

   I was hoping for that post to say:

   So I therefore invite you to kick back, zone out, and
   download our first public release of Songbird.

   Alas, it did not.

2. mig Jan 12, 2006 3:56 pm Permalink

   Alas (and please trust me when I say I am as frustrated as you), not for awhile.

   Hopefully sometime next week we’ll have our act together well enough to at least guess at a release date.

3. Clarke Jan 12, 2006 4:04 pm Permalink

   As long as songbird doesn’t jump out of my monitor and rip my face off, it should be worth the wait. As i’ve said in a previous post, keep up with the good work.

   Perhaps once a version is released they won’t be so much bitching that they have it. But…. some will bitch all like “omg noes it crashed n my aol convo cam stop lol!11!” there’s no winning.

4. Anonymous Jan 12, 2006 5:37 pm Permalink

   I can’t wait for it to come out. It looks like a great replacement to the craptastic closed-source iTunes. iTunes has a good layout, as do you, but it is far too limiting. Hopefully I’ll be able to get it before my Birthday in the begining of March. Though as it has been mentioned before, I realize this is not even a beta and developing takes time. And that’s fine. I just hope the problems are quickly fixed and you feel confident enough to realease a proof of concept.

5. Anonymous Jan 12, 2006 6:58 pm Permalink

   I’m not sure if this has been covered in comments before, but I know at least OSX will be supported down the line… is the initial release going to be Windows only, or will it also be available for Mac and Linux? I ask because I’ll be getting a new MacBook Pro when they ship in February and will be using that primarily over my Windows machine and would still like to play with Songbird.

6. Pasha Jan 12, 2006 9:16 pm Permalink

   I hope unicode support will be added early on
   I had to ditch winamp, cause none of my russain songs displayer properly.

   I refuse to use iTines, so i am mocking around with musickube at this time

   Can’t wait for the release. I promise, i won’t bitch if it doesn’t work.

7. Anonymous Jan 13, 2006 3:25 am Permalink

   I’ve been using MediaMonkey and have been fairly happy with it. It supports unicode just fine. Shame it’s a windoze app only, so i wouldnt mind seeing something like it cross platform.
   Heres to hoping songbird will be just that.

8. Anonymous Jan 13, 2006 5:31 pm Permalink

   YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

9. bram Jan 14, 2006 4:13 am Permalink

   yes! i’m waiting for it… 24 on 24 , 7 days of.. 7

10. Anonymous Jan 14, 2006 4:17 am Permalink

    RELEASE DATE please! No more pokeing around anything!

11. Anonymouse Jan 14, 2006 10:30 am Permalink

    Nobody owes you a release date you retard. Keep masturbating to internet pr0n in the meanwhile.

12. Anonymous Jan 15, 2006 1:14 am Permalink

    So thats all you guys can say? Not much.

13. Anonymous Jan 15, 2006 8:09 am Permalink

    Be careful when editing tags with musikcube, it can royally screw them up if you do it en masse (there’s a bug in how some of the tags are named). So they might become unreadable or unorganized in other programs.

14. Bryce Jan 15, 2006 12:26 pm Permalink

    I’ll try and keep this short and sweet.

    Users don’t understand waiting.
    Developers hate rush releases.
    Blogs become flame wars.
    Impatience becomes trite quite quickly.

    So the Blog has become a “flame war” per sey becuase of impatient users who don’t understand waiting because good developers don’t want to rush release software. I’m sorry that you guys have to put up with this. Keep up the good work, I’ll be chillen with winamp till you release.

15. Anonymouse Jan 15, 2006 7:08 pm Permalink

    You don’t think that’s enough? that you and your pal are losers with no life who can only bitch about other people’s development schedule?

    If you can’t read between the lines and all the blog entries then you’re seriously challenged. I think it’s clear that it’s not the developers that are holding the release up.

    As for you – yes, excessive use of pr0n does mean you need some serious direction in your life.

16. mig Jan 16, 2006 8:29 pm Permalink

    The 0.2 release will include build instructions for anything upon which you can also build xulrunner and vlc.

    That being said, that’s not an easy text file to write.

17. mig Jan 16, 2006 8:31 pm Permalink

    I’m actually sad that some anonymous guy’s flames are being attributed to us.

    It’s unfortunate that sometimes people can be too zealous in your own direction.

18. mig Jan 16, 2006 8:32 pm Permalink

    The initial release is windows only. We will have “mac” and “linux” binaries available at some point, at least at 0.2 release. 0.2 release will also include build instructions for do-it-yourselfers.