Comments on: Songbird Roadmap Launched

By: hermes

hermes — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:18:57 +0000

TOOOOOO bad there is no media import possible yet. I’ll stay stick with itunes.

By: Totoche

Totoche — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:18:55 +0000

Thank you for all taken into account our wishes …

I can come back on the possibility of having a portable version of songbird …
Do you think this is possible?

Thank you

By: markus

markus — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:56:57 +0000

As an actually a more “conservative” media player user I tried songbird as a new alternative for winamp, just for playing my library on my pc – and not very interested in the possibilties of web 2.0 integrated in my media player..
But I have to say, looking at your roadmap and seeing much of the other great stuff you can already do with THE BIRD showed me, that songbird has so much potential to be also the ultimative web 2.0 mediaplayer.
Seeing the possibilities and services songbirds will provide, makes even “CD and offline music playing, radio and online music-deniers” like me interested in “musicWeb 2.0″.
So 2009 will be a great, world-conquerering year for firebird!
(And with Songbird 1.0 the Firefox download record will be history! ))

But enough of the praise.
I’ve seen in your roadmap, that the next important thing on the way to conquer the world is changing/improving the gui.
Here my 2 cents:

I’m one of these guys, who’s always too little space on theirs screen, always looking smallest skin with the tiniest buttons and most efficient layout for their internet browser, media player, etc.
With a media player, that has a library, tabs, panells, lyrics-, now playing- andmashtap-windows etc (certainly always open at the same time) it’s the more important to be efficient.
(F. e., one thing I didn’t like about the current itunes-layout is: “player section” it’s one fat bar using a lot of space downward, while to the left and right of it there’s a lot of unused space. I know I can collapse it, but then I lose some buttons and functions.)
What I want to say: lot’s of buttons and functions on as little space as possible would be great. The rest will do the right skin )

By: Per Wigren

Per Wigren — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:49:32 +0000

@aus
It’s still much better than nothing. Being unable to pause and rewind live media streams is so last century.

By: aus

aus — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:29:14 +0000

@Per Wigren

Sure, we could add something like that, but it still wouldn’t provide very accurate skipping to the previous or next tracks. As long as users are OK with some sloppiness there we may be able to do something. However, some streams also do not give any currently playing information so you’d just end up with one huge blob of something that you can seek through.

By: MonkeyFit

MonkeyFit — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:39:46 +0000

@Victor
Ripping/transcoding won’t be coming until after they use G-Streamer on all 3 platforms. So we’re probably looking at Hall or later for that. Definitely post-Genesis. Trust me, it’s a feature many are also awaiting.

By: Per Wigren

Per Wigren — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:55:09 +0000

I was just about to import my rather massive music collection into Songbird and noticed that it doesn’t seem to have any support for grouping compilation records together! There isn’t even a “compilation” checkbox in the metadata dialog I only have complete ripped CDs in my collection so it is very album oriented. This is a show stopper for me.

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:34:13 +0000

Ok. I love songbird, and I think that you have done really great things. I have to say I am INCREDIBLY frustrated by not seeing a ripping feature in the songbird roadmap yet. Not being able to pop a CD in and rip audio to the songbird library is very close to a deal breaker for me. On windows I use songbird because the options on that platform are bad enough that having a second ripping program is tolerable. On linux I use Amarok. I like the songbird look more. I like the feel more. I LOVE the integration with web browser, but Amarok lets me rip directly into my library. So it’s a deal breaker.

By: SW

SW — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:30:20 +0000

Hello!

I really like Songbird and it’s my standard music player/ music library on my linux computer, but not on my windows computer, yet.

There is one feature that I miss. I want to be able to change the volume of my mp3-songs in Songbird. I use it to change the volume of my songs in my ipod to max, so that I can have a really loud volume when playing my ipod on speakers/soundsystems.

On my windows computer I do this in iTunes, and on my linux computer I do this in the application gtkpod. It’s open source so you can have a look at it.

Links:
http://www.gtkpod.org/
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupod/

By: Spocky

Spocky — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:57:56 +0000

Hi folks,
I have just came across the Nepomuk-Mozilla activities and I’m really enthusiastic about these activities… In all the docs i can see only Firefox and Thunderbird is mentioned..
Could you elaborate maybe a bit on the future connection of the Bird with the Semantic Desktop? Do we see this integrated in 1.0 already?

Spocky