HOLY SMOKES!!! THERE’S THE FINISH-LINE UP AHEAD!!!
Those of you getting songbird for the first time — or those of you who delete your profiles — will be invited to try out up-to-FOUR (count ‘em!) super slick extensions optionally available for install:
- iTunes Library Importer – by Erik Staats
- Shoutcast Directory List – by Francis Gastellu
- Audioscrobbler Notifier – by Steve Krulewitz
- Wikipedia Artist Display – by Francis Gastellu
Let’s give these outstanding gentlemen a heartfelt round of applause!@
The iTunes Importer will automatically prompt you after restart.
The Shoutcast and Audioscrobbler extensions will install into an “Extensions” folder at the bottom of the folder list in the service pane. Click on them to display their custom user interfaces.
And the Wikipedia window can be opened through an item in the File menu.
None of the extensions actually use the proper API for inserting themselves cleanly into a “final” Songbird UI — but this is just a 0.2, not a final 1.0 distro. On the road to 0.3, we’ll actually start to get that stuff cooked in.
Till then… Enjoy it! Have fun! Get DOWN with your funkybird selves!
mig
ps: Yes, there’s no iTunes importer available on Linux. We know. Think about it.
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SubscribeAnd why no mention for the Qloud Extension?
http://www.qloud.com/download_songbird_instruction.html
great job guys! testing it right now… but still…
problems with the same podcast:
http://www.roadhousepodcast.com
basically I go to
http://feeds.feedburner.com/roadhouse
(following the link at the top right)
and songbird list only like the 5 earlierst mp3s on that site, which is podcasts around 50, while the latest one is actually 86 or something. what about the rest? why does songbird only list 4 podcasts from around 12 months ago??
please help!
I’m a little disappointed, the bug (bug #1596) i filed last week isn’t resolved in this new release of Songbird although it is marked as “resolved” in Bugzilla … Xulrunner process still runs as “normal”. Hope this will be fixed for 0.2 final release.
iTunes is a Mac media player, available on Windows for commercial purposes. Linux has always been out of sight of iTunes, which has been a great deal because we have Amarok, and now Songbird. That’s why in Linux an iTunes importer wouldn’t work.
Just one question, an equalizer is something I really feel that’s missing in Songbird. Does anyone know if this is to be implemented? Note: Writing this lines from within Songbird, try doing that on itunes…LOL
An equalizer will not come until the decide on a single centralized media core, as in not for quite a while.
Hiya, if you used the software update to update your version of songbird from 0.2 RC2 or what not to RC3 you will sadly not get that fix. The VLCRC file is not part of the distro bundle, it’s generated at install time by the win32 installer.
If you could try downloading the installer and seeing if that fixes it for you, that’d be great.
Oh, hey, sorry. I didn’t mean to snub _any_ of the other great extensions already out there. You and windjay are doing great work and we love and adore you and want to encourage our users to feel the same way.
I was just showcasing the 4 extensions we’re soft-bundling directly through our first-run dialog.
Once we get this 0.2 nonsense behind us, the web team is going to be working on getting a great http://extensions.songbirdnest.com site up and working and we plan to give everyone their full 15 minutes of fame there.
I’ll edit our current extensions page to include the qloud extension when I get into the office.
This is Bug 1755, actually. We’re looking at it.
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1755
I absolutely love the new homepage in Songbird (And the new website design ain’t too shabby either!). The pie chart is a cool idea and the search function is sweet too. Think I’m gonna have to rip my CD’s just to play with it!
Rock on guys!, I had made some space in my Sunday to test drive the new Songbird
Let’s see how are those little bugs today and start helping to smash them all.
Alexis Bellido
mumobo | honest music, movies and books reviews
Was a stupid question.
But anyway I’m having problem with RC3, it is using 70%-80% of CPU all the time, whilst RC2 stays mostly under 15%.
Well, the whole point of all the searching function is so you can go out and find lots of different music by people you know and people you don’t know yet… and get lots more CDs!
(of course, we don’t have a working GPL-friendly CD device yet… but that will come in time).
As a Mac user I’d really like to see Songbird have Ogg Vorbis support! Otherwise, there’s almost no reason to use it over iTunes.
Please add ogg support if not yet planned.
Read this:
http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/trac/wiki/SettingUpQuickTime
Hopefully, we’ll be able to support extended formats on the Mac without requiring the user to install weird software. Until then, there’s solutions already out there from intrepid individuals.
Hopefully Audioscrobbler works better with this release. For some reason it was submitting tracks on a 24hr clock instead of 12hr. A lot of my submissions didn’t make it through because of it…
***edit***
yup, werks better
I cant get the audiscrobbler to sumbmitt traks.
Hi,
Thanks for the advice. It works perfectly fine using the win32 installer !
Great piece of software !
I mostly use songbird to play mp3 that I ripped using lame under linux. Some of them won’t play and I just get an error on the player area on top.
They play fine using mpg321.
Using RC3 on Slackware with most recent gstreamer.