Comments on: 0.7pre Blessed Nightly Build Available

By: Janet20

Janet20 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:12:38 +0000

Super. It took almost a day to find this info. Thanks, great job.

By: Miley-Cyrus-Fan

Miley-Cyrus-Fan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:01:06 +0000

hmm.. thank you very much. usefull information

By: Aus

Aus — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:58:14 +0000

@MonoApe

I’m not sure using more CPU would help much since scanning metadata is disk bound. That means that the performance is mostly tied to how fast the disk can read the metadata and seek to the next file and so forth.

By: MonoApe

MonoApe — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:16:40 +0000

Build 2008073101 on Ubuntu 8.10 on 2GB Core Duo – ~24k tracks

‘Identifying and removing duplicates…’ – ~9 minutes
‘Reading Metadata’ – ~12 minutes

Not the fault of Songbird, but Ubuntu responded very slowly / locking up while scan running even though Songbird only took ~10% CPU max (could it not use more and work quicker?).

* FLAC tracking now works perfectly
* Gonzo looking very nice. Request scrollbars increased in size – too small in comparison to UI default
* maximize state is not remembered

Great work, guys!

By: sabayenda

sabayenda — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:23:28 +0000

Hi, I haven’t downloaded this new release, but I was wondering if anybody knows if iPod’s are mounting faster? Mine takes anywhere from 10-15min to “mount” it, then it asks me if I want to sync…also, is there an option to have it sync automatically when I plug it in? If anyone could answer my questions, I’d love it (and I’m REALLY excited about smart playlists coming to Songbird!!!)
I’m running 0.6 by the way.

By: connor

connor — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:45:38 +0000

Also as a suggestion. Could newer comments be posted on top ? I am so demanding…haha

By: connor

connor — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:44:46 +0000

Warren:

Thank you I figured it out after I posted and knew that there had to be something out there.

I am glad people are moving forward with small fixes and this looks to be something I would use as my replacement. I do not care if it looks like ITUNES because the interface on ITUNES isn’t bad it is just a resource hog and restrictive.

Thanks once again for the help!

By: Danai Sae-Han

Danai Sae-Han — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:16:51 +0000

Hi!

I’ve just tested the nightly build of 2008-07-30, and I quite like it.

However, there are still a few things missing that would make it a true album player.

I am an avid fan of the Linux program “QuodLibet”, along with the excellent tag editor “ExFalso”. Both have the ability to display and edit any tag of your choice. On top of that, the player allows the user to have more than three filter panes, and to choose from any tag you would like, including things like “conductorsort”, “composersort”, “performer” or “album – part” (two tags in one).

The tags are listed in a simple and clean table, which makes it very easy to make changes to tags.

It also lacks the important (Ogg/Vorbis ?) “part” tag (at least, important for classical music listeners).

These things will hopefully arrive in a following release, like 0.8. But honestly, I must say that the Linux (x64) version works quite well, and is (or rather feels) much more responsive than the 0.6 version. Kudos!

Best regards

/Danai Sae-Han

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:02:26 +0000

Connor, the current official ipod extension doesn’t support 0.70pre, but if you download the nightly build of the extension it should work fine. That is what I am doing and it looks to work a lot better than the current official build. In my experience anyways

By: connor

connor — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:12:05 +0000

Are you people using the nightly build with your IPOD? Is it now supported(i did search I think )

I know the IPOD add on said it did not support .70 pre build.

I hope I am wrong. I cannot get the IPOD to show up.