Who’s got the macppc build? Anyone? Bueller? My OG Mac Mini is not up to it or I’d get it going.

Haaaaalp1!

First impressions:

On first launch, after adding files to the library, it wouldn’t play. The Play Queue wasn’t in the UI and it wouldn’t appear. I had to restart it….

The skin doesn’t feel ’smooth’ enough. I don’t know how to explain it, but it feels disjointed - like some elements are from one philosophy and others for a different one. That said, the shading on the buttons is quite well done!

On my Vista x64, it’s still using 100mb of RAM, but much less CPU.

Adding things to the Play Queue isn’t intuitive enough - if I tell something to play, it plays directly out of the library, but if I want to add it to the Play Queue, I need to clear my previous Queue and select ‘Add to Queue’.

Searches are cleared from the library if you change to another view - I think they should remain.

After adding some FLACs I had to the library, their metadata wasn’t read in, it just displays the filename. Also, when I told it to play, it just went straight to my previous Play Queue. Once I cleared the Queue, it immediately started playing the FLAC files.

Overall, it’s great to see the quality of Songbird keep on rising like it is! It’s uber-fast now and really stable. Obviously, it has some niggling issues, but it’s certainly a step forward. As a useability gripe, I don’t feel like the UI is quite ‘tight’ enough. I know that the idea behind SB is to ‘Play the Web’, but as a music player it definitely feels like there is a disjoint between the library/browser side and the music player side.

Cheers.

RAWK. Nice guys! I’m all over it. =)

I am using nightly builds since very long time. This was the only release where i found so many issues with nightly. I always used separate profile though. But eventually most of hem got resolved. Just one question, Again i will have to create new profile and scan files again ? All my ratings and playlist will be gone ? Any other way to smoothly upgrade ?

Just downloaded the RC. Just my first impression like that, WOW. I really love the new theme. I would like to test the GST engine :D, but even setting the environment doesn’t seem to do it, I’ll search a little more :p. But for now, I seems Soooo much more responsive that the previous release on my system (Leopard).

Thank you so much for the hard work.

Why is that smartplaylists cannot autoupdate if I select sort by “random”? It used to work in the blessed nightly but it doesn’t anymore in RC1. Everytime i select sort by “random” the autoupdate check box is cleared.

@koppah

We’d love to figure out why you had a poor first experience. If you could hop onto bugzilla.songbirdnest.com and file a bug with relevant error console output and info about the files you were importing that would be super awesome!

In general I’d also want to point out that in 0.7 we introduced data migration for libraries! We’ll never make you lose your library data ever again

@Guillaume

Ooops, didn’t notice you were running on Leopard. We haven’t posted the add-on for gstquicktime yet. Stay tuned!

I love songbird and all, but it deffinitely needs iPod Touch/iPhone support before no one uses them anymore.But other than that this songbird release is great and the new skin looks nice too!

In the midst of my download, I remembered that I needed iTunes for my Last.fm scrobbles and I stopped the download.
Then I saw that you have Last.fm support in the 0.7 RC1.
Downloading that now =]. Very, very looking forward to giving it a test-run.

Since using 0.7 rc1 i find the music jolts at times. Like say if i re size the library’s columns a lot it might momentarily pause of stutter the music. Is this something to do with the switch over to gStreamer?

Can’t wait for more feathers to become 0.7 compatible.

@ironicmoth last.fm was always available as a plugin, also, if i’m not mistaken

AWESOME. Running on Ubuntu 8.04.1

The iPod functionality is amazing now. I’ve been trying Songbird out since .3 and you are right on the edge of becoming my main media player.

I am getting a few instances of not being able to find a couple properly tagged mp3s in my library that I know are there (I can see them in other media players). Songbird is seeing the total number of tracks correctly though, so I am assuming it is some weird glitch on my end.

OK first experience on a Mac. Library import worked flawlessly, but my WindowServer and SystemUIServer hung when I tried to drag a folder into the library. I haven’t tried to replicate it, I just dragged the files in. Not sure if it’s an issue with OS X or with SB.

That said, playing FLACs now and it’s working quite well. It skipped a bit when my system was doing heaps of stuff (iTunes never does, maybe something to do with threading?). Other than that, it’s working quite well - not using too much memory and CPU usage is much better.

I really like the new layout and style but much prefer the rubberducky colour scheme, any chance there could be a nice black alternative skin?

Last.fm scrobbling doesn’t seem to be working for me, when I play a song - it shows up on my Last.fm profile as “now playing”, but when it gets to the next song, it never actually scrobbles it and just shows the new song as “now playing” - without a trace of the previous one.

@Nick, hmm, I don’t know why the scrobbling wouldn’t work. Could you open a ticket on getsatisfaction.com - I can work with you there to find a solution.

@Dror, I’m not familiar with Last.fm fingerprinting, I know that you can submit the Musicbrainz id with scrobbles and the mbid can be determined through their MusicIP fingerprinting. We’re looking at adding this in the future by using GStreamer’s built-in Musicbrainz fingerprinting element.

can anyone help me out with changing the icon back to the .7 pre icon of the broken egg? i really like that one and i can see it better in my quick launch bar.

I have to say I’m not really a fan of the new greyish look of Songbird. I really liked the blackness in previous releases. It made it stand out.

hi fellas. due to some posts above I’ll be more careful and not try this RC1, how about releasing an RC2 this week? that might do the trick for me ;-))

anyways here are somethings that I’d like to see Songbird progress towards for 0.7 (or 0.8):
- better performance (when i click on a song i’d like it to play, and not 2 seconds later)
- what about an equalizer of some sort (or pre-settings for different sorts of music or speaker setups)
- navigation to and from library/browser mode should always remember where you were. maybe those should be tabs…. no idea

This is almost the coolest media player i have heard about, however, you still need to add en equalizer so that I can think of it as the best.

Found a bug on the install-routine?

Songbird installs only in an empty folder. But I have some not indirect related files in my songbird folder, so it will not install.
(I have some songbird-icon files in songbird-folder)

I think a better way would be to check, if there are files that can cause problems, not just require an empty directory.

(of course I can do a workaround, but i’ve never seen an install-routine like this and i think it would be better without that need for an empty folder)

Sorry, one more:
The first Tab (Library, Now Playing, etc…) keeps on showing the loading-animation, all the time. Is this intended?

You are doing a good job but really there is something that is very missing and is a cddb integration for gatering missing information from the web about the track-cd that is playing.

Songbird just became my favorite media player.

I don’t know why I can’t seem to drag songs, or albums to different album folders, genres, etc.

For instance one of my songs is miscategoried, and I want to drag it to the right album, but it doesn’t seem to work when I click and drag to where I want it to move to. It makes a little icon like it wants to add it, but never does. Windows Media PLayer 10 lets me drag stuff between folders, genres, etc.