Eager birdbuilders, you may now build the bird.
Songbird’s public Subversion tree is open. Initial build instructions have been posted to the Songbird Trac. Developers may download the source via HTTP or BitTorrent. Please report bugs and post patches to Songbird Bugzilla.
Note that this our not-yet-0.2 source code release, which means it is not yet our 0.2 “Developer Preview” release as defined in our Songbird roadmap. The internal birdbuilder team will be substantially changing numerous APIs between now and the 0.2 launch. Eager Songbird extension authors should wait for the 0.2 “Developer Preview” launch.
Finally, Songbird not-yet-0.2 binaries are available for Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux. We’ll frequently update the binaries to reflect the latest source changes.
Build the bird, play the Web.
Rob
Update: Songbird’s not-yet-0.2 has been Dugg! And Slashdotted!
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SubscribeGood news!! I’m installing it right now…
Hooray!!!
Wow…this is simply awesome….was thinking about when I could get songbird on my mac jus today morning…and here is my answer….
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Dinesh Cyanam
Flock Tester
Awesome! I’ll be playing with this a bit, but I’m immediately noticing a couple things… I’m sure you already know about them, but I’ll mention them just in case:
- It won’t let OS X install any of the extensions that are listed.. you have to uncheck both to get it to run
- When you go into the mini player mode, you can’t move it around the screen or go back to the full mode… you have to quit the app and restart it
Nice! I haven’t used SongBird before, so I’m checking out the source tree on my FreeBSD 6.1 box. I’ll send you back the diffs if I succeed.
While i see it’s obviously not a major priority, i see the builds for this running and just imagine them interfacing with a MPD (Music Player Daemon) backend
Thanks for the media keyboard support in Windows. Having lot’s of problems with linux, but I won’t get into those now. I’m sure they’ll be fixed soon.
Here is a screenshot of Songbird on Ubuntu 6.06
Simply Awesome! Songbird is much better then iTunes or Windows Media Player 11 and it is the best Media Player/Browser available for Linux. My Ubuntu rocks now because of Songbird!
Thank You!
Proud Songbird user on Ubuntu 6.06!
Been waiting a long time for Songbird on the Mac, given the dismal/nonexistent support for Ogg, FLAC, and other common formats in iTunes. I finally get to install it, and it’s using Quicktime for playback. Ogg works thanks to the XiphQT plugin, but tags are not imported from the Ogg files, and FLAC doesn’t work at all. Please tell me some other playback engine is coming soon - not being tied to Quicktime was a major part of Songbird’s appeal for me, since Apple has stubbornly refused to support many common audio formats, and I’m just sick of it. The “play the web” stuff is cool, but I’d like to play what I’ve got already as well - be it FLAC, Shorten, Ogg, Wavepack, or whatever else I might have laying around. Other than that, I like what I am seeing here quite a bit, and I eagerly look forward to the day when I never have to open the intentionally crippled iTunes again.
Let’s fix this quick. The name is Songbird. Maybe Sb for short. There is no capital B.
Ahh, nothing like jamming to the Smash Bros. Brawl theme in Songbird, well done! The miniplayer looks and feels a lot better. Now all I need is CD support and I’ll be set!
Blirp!
I was waiting for this intermediate version from the last post of Mig(we’re going to open up our subversion and make an interim build available for everyone.).
I was waiting not because I am impatient to wait after your fabulous work and ideas, but more to spread the link to friends with a working and efficient beta.
thanks
i know its just a pre-pre thing build but i was having trouble running it at all. since i didnt have time i gave up but it seemed really screwed up. how stable is that windows installer supposed to be? the proof of concept couldnt do much but it worked without crashing at least.
but this is just my 2 cents, i think you guys are doing an outstanding job, and i am confident that 0.2 will rock my boxers. keep up the great work. i will praise the day when there will be a great alternative to amarok ;_)
Just blogged about my issues so far with attempting to compile for a non-standard architecture.
http://salintheinsane.livejournal.com/12090.html
Hey… Linux’s link is broken, couldn’t download it.
Errrr, seems fine here. ?
There seems to be a phantom components cache that the 0.2 is trying to load from the 0.1.1 components.
We’re still trying to figure out what more we have to delete.
“For now” there’s 3 different playback mechanisms on 3 different platforms: VLC on Win32, QT on Mac, and Flash on Linux.
Eventually (hopefully for 0.2, but we might push off to a 0.2.x release), we need to combine those 3 playback mechanisms so we can switch between them on the fly.
Then you’ll have your .ogg support on Mac and your .mov support on Windows — and gosh wouldn’t it be neat if your media player treated .swf as a video file type (and let you automatically slurp them from the internet)?
Unfortunately, this means we have to take other peoples’ code and make it work in ways they didn’t originally intend. Across 3 different platforms. This means it’s not always easy to make things work perfectly, and hence we’re only worried about one working playback core per platform at the moment.
Did you get anywhere?
I’m running 6.0
If we could get this running that would be sweet.
-Mike
Ooooooooooooooooooo
Sooooo goood