We set out to build an open, customizable music player. Today, we’re launching with dozens of integrated services, hundreds of add-ons, and a growing developer community. We’ll be the first to admit that there’s plenty left to do. And, while we’re not ready for everyone, 160k users a month are expressing their vote for an alternative music player.
If you think like us, you’ve got huge aspirations and you’re out to change the world. You gotta start somewhere, this is our 1.0.
New Features
GStreamer
We now use GStreamer as our main media playback system, across all platforms – giving us higher performance, better reliability, and a platform for much more media-related functionality in the future.
Improved mashTape
When you listen to music in Songbird you’ll have the option to see Flickr photos, YouTube videos, last.fm biographies, google news (and more) for the currently playing artist. mashTape has been completely re-written from the ground up to be more extensible and flexible than ever.
Improved Album Art Support
The album artwork feature now supports drag and drop of images, as well as, toggling between Now Playing and Currently Selected tracks.
Complete Keyboard Shortcuts
We’ve cleaned up our Keyboard Shortcuts this release (and added some new ones for power users). Look for the link to a complete list of Keyboard Shortcuts in the applications Help menu.
Updated Linux Installer
We’ve created a single archive that has all the necessary dependencies so that Linux users can run Songbird without having to install any additional dependencies.
Re-usable Smart Playlists
By popular request we’ve implemented the ability to use a smart playlist as a rule within another smart playlist.
Reveal Original Files
We’ve added the ability to expose the media items in Songbird as files in your filesystem by right clicking and choosing “Show File”.
Recommended Add-ons Updater
A new update mechanism ensures that all upgraded users have an option to install the latest Recommended Add-ons. You can turn this feature on/off in the Preferences.
Hide & Show Display Panes
We were inspired by Atrieu’s Pane Button add-on and decided to add a few buttons to allow you to toggle between showing & hiding Display panes.
Simpler Column Headings
We’ve refined the column heading property list and made it easier to enable the properties you care about. Just right click on any column heading in a library or playlist to give it a try.
Performance Enhancements
We made some substantial gains this release:
- Drastically Faster Search: Searching in Songbird is now anywhere from 10x faster for small libraries to 1000x for large ones.
- Reduced RAM Usage: There’s a 70% reduction in RAM usage when importing and using large (100,000 track) libraries.
- Faster Media Importing: Importing media into Songbird is now 2-4x faster.
- Reduced Startup Times: Large library users (10,000 tracks or more) will notice that Songbird startup times are now twice as fast.
- Efficient Scrolling: Scrolling through your library now uses half the amount of CPU.
- Snappier Sorting: Sorting your library is now 3-4x faster, which adds up to significantly smoother browsing when scrolling and filtering.
- Optimized DB Size: We’ve optimized the database in Songbird and reduced its size by, on average, 60%. This leads to a variety of performance improvements throughout the application.
- Fewer Crashers: We’ve worked hard to identify and fix 11 of the most common crashes in Songbird.
For Developers
- We’ve created a simple guide for updating 0.7.0 Feathers to be 1.0 compatible.
- For extension developers, we’ve created a similar guide for updating extensions to be 1.0 compatible.
- We updated the Media Core APIs to take advantage of GStreamer. This allows for more power and flexibility in controlling playback.
- We’ve documented how developers can add support for additional playback formats by packaging GStreamer plugins as Songbird add-ons.
Early Feedback on 1.0
“Songbird is improving at a rapid pace”
- Ryan Paul – Ars Technica
“the program runs and feels faster”
- Seth Rosenblatt – CNET
“[Songbird] has much to offer and is an improvement over the betas we looked at earlier”
- Scott Gilbertson – webmonkey
“We are very excited about our parternship with Songbird because it integrates a rich deskop media player with our database of concerts and tickets. While listening to my music library, I can see when my bands are on tour. The integration was painless and an example of the open and extensible platform Songbird have built.”
- Ian Hogarth, Founder & CEO of Songkick concert ticketing service
“Songbird brings the limitless, often fan-created context of the Web to your desktop media player, and put media playing innovation in the hands of any web developer.”
- Ian Rogers, Topspin Media and Former GM, Yahoo Music
What’s Next
Our goal is to continue to focus on building a world-class, open music player. Our next release will consist of continued focus on performance and stability gains, implementing additional audio features on top of GStreamer, and much more. Stay tuned to the blog to keep up to date, or if you like to live dangerously check out one of our nightly builds and see the progress for yourself!
We’re always interested in hearing your feedback so please comment below and file bugs and/or feature requests in bugzilla.
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169 Comments
SubscribeHow about a .deb installer?
or repository =)?
Yes finally, good work everyone!
Hoorah! Congrats to all involved – on the download now
Good job Songbird team!!! Made my day with this!
You kept that funky icon though…. why?
Yeah, that’s great news. It seems likes only yesterday I was using 0.3 version!
Thanks for the great player and at last I can recommend it to one and all!
w00t!
This is great news, I’ve been expecting this for a whole year.
I’m installing it as soon as I get home. I hope it has improved performance and less resource consuming.
Kudos and thanks to all of you
Today should be a Holiday!! =P
Waiting this day for years
Congratulations on the 1.0 release guys. Well done.
Well done. I’ve been looking forward to this point for many moons and am pretty sure it’ll be as good as I hoped it would be through the older versions.
Congratulations.
Congratulations guys! Magnificent software with outstanding potential, can’t wait for 2.0!
Congratulations guys, and thanks for all the hard work that has been put into the product, love enjoy minute of it
WOW i cant believe how fast you guys are at building new versions
it seems every other week there is a new release canditate nad now there is a finosh product
Congrats!!
Hugo
SXSWCrazy.com
Where can I find a deb?
Way to go!
I checked your site for updates from the very first moment
Songbird was born, in the 0.01 version (My, such a long time ago!)
and it has been improved dramatically!
Congrats, guys!
Hug,
David
Beautiful work, guys. It’s come a long way since I started using it way back when it was 0.2. I think I can finally start using Songbird as my only player now. (Bye bye iTunes and Banshee!) I look forward to future releases.
Congrats and looking forward to the continued growth of the little bird that could.
Congratulations guys! Looks like a useful tool, especially for those building the ‘new’ music biz
Finally, I’ve been waiting for this for forever! Good job.
Next candidate: you really have to work on getting that memory usage down. 100MB? MediaMonkey is like .. 35MB.
But seriously this has replaced my other media players, love it.
Congrats for the Release!!!
Is the Add-on page down? I guess it didn’t stand the release?
You call that 1.0? I can’t even access the options!!!
Well done Songbird and my congratulations to every singly developer and also to everyone that got a little dirty along the way! Spread the word…
GOOD JOB!
Great news! Congratulations!
At last but not least. Great work. Your program took the 1st place in my heart for music players. A lot of things where improved (but I’m still afraid to use it with my Ipod), and it’s the best program for discovering new music or info regarding your favorite artists.
As I was constantly checking your trunks, updating almost every day and keep looking when the 1.0.0 release was going to be out, I have some questions.
1st
The 1.0.0 release is the 860 build which was first available as Sonbird1 trunk at 2008/11/24 , but as of today there is one more Songbird1 trunk 867. Is this containing some changes that were made up to Gwar trunk 865, as someone had suggested at bugzilla?
2nd
What is Gwar? I thought that the next release would be Hendrix.
3rd
What is Triage QA, because then you will probably have better Greek character support.
That’s all. I think that’s all left for me to do is to keep improving the Greek translation so one more language could be available for Songbird 1.0.0
All I need is a little more free time
What about Mac Power PC? A friend of mine has a Mac book pro 17″ Power PC, I think about 1.4Ghz, it’s not exactly an old machine, but it’s really disappointing to see so many programs only releasing Intel versions now.
Does a PPC edition mean a simple recompile? or is it not quite that simple?
One suggestion though. When I started using the trunks, the search library feature broke for me at some point. It was fixed when I created a new profile.
If I am not mistaken the media core changed completely, as well the plugin api.
So (i think) when someone has problems after updating, he should check if the problems exist also with a new profile. I also think it would be best if everyone created a clean profile just in case.
This is mostly for
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what Dec 2, 2008 11:02 am
You call that 1.0? I can’t even access the options!!!
Yesssssssss!
This day will write history!
@Rob van der Linde – Follow Thomas Legg’s blog where he’s been building Songbird 1.0 on PPC.
@marinos35 – Gwar is a point release we’re doing to fix some MTP issues for partners. It’s a very minor release constrained solely to MTP support. Hendrix is still the next user-focused released.
@atrieu – Our add-ons site got swamped (every user installing it opens a tab to it!). We’re in the middle of adding resources to it right now, so it should be back up real soon now.
I’ve been following (and filing a few bug reports) since 0.5 and it is absolutely stunning to see how far this app has come. It’s great to see you hit 1.0.
Congrats, Songbird team!
Congratulations to the entire Songbird team for the best music experience yet!
I’m spreading the word to everyone fed up with iTunes on PC and the other lousy music options…
Wooooo you did it !
You’re just awesome, keep up the good work
whats the difference between options and preferences?
Or, to be more precise, why are there both? Once under Edit and once under Tools, both opening the same window, the one slightly to the right of the other one
Woooa, at last. keep the good job…
one thing though!! I thought the native theme was supposed to be in version 1.0, well maybe in 1.1.
Firefox Rocks, Songbird DOUBLE ROCK!!!
i gotta say – i got my songbird working on win, mac and two linuxes!
and i love it!
i’m staying with you, guys! you rock!
Yay! You made it! Congratulations! I wish you the best for the future and can’t wait to enjoy your program even more.
Greetings from Berlin,
/M
Congratulations SB Team !
THis is awesome, I have watched this project form the start and am excited to try the 1.0 release
And the funny part is I checked back today to see how it was going and then within 2 hrs of this it went from 0.7 to 1
Great timing on my part.
Keep Up the good work Songbird team.
Congratulations
What I still miss (and always will, until its included in Songbird) is the missing watch folders functionality. Hope to see this in February, according to the roadmap.
Is there any way, Songbird on a Mac can read WMA tags? Unfortunately I have quit a lot of them…
Congratulations developers!
My only question is, will it be possible for Songbird to display album art which is embedded in the MP3/WMA file in the short term?
Songbird – The best of all times, Congratulations!
// Lenny
could someone who is using ubuntu and is able to download podcasts share their podcast-feed for me to try out?
I suscribed to the footballweekly-podcast ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/series/footballweekly/podcast.xml ) from guardian.co.uk and it won’t finish the download (see here: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/downloads_fail_at_the_last_instant_with_podcast ).
I can play the files while they’re downloading though.
thanks,
hachel
Look nice but you should do something with performances.
To many use of cpu and ram!!
Wow…. amazing, I remember the proof of concept release, lol, it worked sometimes, lol. I also remember thinking, man, this needs to be able to rip CDs, but then my CD-ROM drive died, so, I couldn’t care less, lol. Nice job guys.
I’ve been watching this since 0.3, and i’m really pleased with where it’s ended up. RAM is still obviously a problem, but is it a problem when new computers are being built with so much RAM now, and maybe is it because songbird has more features than other media players? I also want to know what happened to the add-ons page. lol.
Great job! Been using it since 0.7, it will quickly replace iTunes.
Perhaps it’s just me, but is there no way to see the total library size and total library play time?
Thanks for everyone who contributes to this awesome program!
-Elmernite
Congratulations, guys!
I especially like the new taskbar icon! That little bird is by far better than the old green egg.
Thank you!
Great job, defenitely planning on trying it!
One thing I would love to happen would be for added support for Zune users, like being able to import a Zune library as well as your iPod’s.
great release. It would almost be perfect for me but missing a few items (addons).
- pla file exporter (theres an m3u and pls but no pla – I am a sansa user hard drive mode user)
- rip via songbird to any format (mp3 definately, aac, ogg, flac, wouuld all be plusses).
- you can view file location/names, but it would be nice to have spaces rendered out as a space rather than %20. It just looks nicer. maybe an option or addon can fix this.
the top two would make this my player of choice. The last would just make it appear cleaner.
Congratulations!
Congrats guys. But can I urge you to *please* at least tell us when you are planning on sorting out the flaky podcast support? The fact that you have two more releases mapped out on the road map, neither of which even mention podcasts, says to me that you aren’t bothered about them. Fine, I’ll go find another media player. I really want to like Songbird, but so far it has not completely replaced iTunes in my use of my PC, for the *sole reason* that podcasts don’t completely work.
I’ve been on board with Songbird since 0.4, I remember when it was nearly unusable (hogging way too much memory, etc). I was so thrilled to see this release today (even though i’ve been using the RCs for the past week).
Good job Songbird team. Thank you for the best music player ever. When I get my Macbook, this is one of the first things I’m downloading.
It’s a shame the tarball is giving me problems…
Awesome, been looking forward to this for a while. Though, as a typical never-satisfied user, I’d really like to see three things implemented:
1. folder.jpg and embedded album art recognition (I’m currently using the last.fm album art addon because none of my album art is recognized)
2. more global hotkey functionality (minimize/restore songbird window, playlist switching, etc)
3. a proper song queue.
Songbird has already surpassed amarok, foobar, and iTunes in all areas except these, IMO.
bravo…put could you please write an (Linux) installation guide for non-developers who just wants to use a program Songbird without hours of false starts and installation problems?
Great work on 1.0! My first test went fine!
Please could we have the old “green-egg”-icon back or at least let us choose which icon to use! It’s not that the new icon looks bad, but it absolutely doesn’t fit to the whole Songbird-theme.
Thanks for all the work put into the project, development to 1.0 went faster than I had expected!
Looks like someone posted it to digg.com:
http://digg.com/software/Songbird_1_0_is_Here
Would be great if it made front page.
And I already said it on IRC, but congratulations guys. Now that it has hit 1.0 it will certainly get a lot of extension developers and artists onboard (and gives me a reason to finally get started on learning mozilla extension development).
@nunka
first, thanks for using Songbird and sharing your suggestions!
some good news to report, we are now “smarter” when we import media. sorry for not calling this out explicitly! if we import a media item that is missing album artwork then we look in that items folder for any images named cover.jpg or folder.jpg (in that order). if we find one we associate that image as the cover artwork in the application. we don’t currently write the data back to the file since we aren’t sure if that’s what the user would like. in the future, we might consider adding a preference to allow that. one last note, if you are upgrading from a previous version of Songbird (and you already have all your media imported) you’ll need to remove your media from songbird and re-import everything in order to re-scan the files. sorry about that!
we’ll continue to consider additional hotkey functionality and appreciate your additional feedback!
Oh, cool, thanks for pointing that out! That’s one down
I have kept an eye on Songbird for a while since I was looking for a platform-independent audio player for my PC and MacBook Pro. I haven’t tried it out because I’m not sure about one thing (I did check the features on the website):
Can Songbird play a flac image file? Not just a track in flac format — which I know it can, but the entire album.
Also, can I use this with iTune U? Or do I still have to install iTune for the task?
Congrats on the release guys – does it do ipod scrobbling yet? Once it does, I;ll switch
Awesome work, my peeps.
PS count mine as a solid approval of the cute icon. A++ would look at again.
Cheers!
I am still waiting for AIFF and Apple Lossless support for it to be a serious contender. Keep up the hard work.
Beautiful, I’m so proud to be a years-long Alpha/Beta/RC-tester. ;D
However, I’m still not a fan of the icon. Oh, and something I’ve always wanted is Songbird to sync Album art and Lyrics with my iPod. I don’t know why those features are missing.
conglatulation!!!
Great! I really love 1.0! Thanks so much!
You need to bring back the rubberducky theme.The gonzo is ugly. I loved the rubberducky. Gonzo is ugly.
A suggestion… the permissions in the Linux tar.gz package were 600 and 700. It would be nice if they were 660/770 next time. Makes it easier when installing to a system-wide location like /usr/local or /opt or /var…
now that looks like a fun little app!
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CONGRATS Songbird team… I have been waiting for this day for over 2 years!
One small step for my Mac, one giant leap for the future of high-quality, legal digital music!
The release looks and works phenomenal…!
GREAT JOB!
MUCH LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In one word: Amazing.
In two: Simply amazing.
Such an improvement over 0.7, which was already leaps and bounds better than WMP!
Why is Songbird always farting?
Hi!
I’ve just updated to 1.0!!
Congratulations to Songbird developers team for your hardwork and inititive, and to the very enthusiastic and ever growing Songbird community out there as well.
Cheers,
Olivia
(music lover, open software enthusiat and Songbird proudly user)
I got home tonight anxious to update my current version of Songbird to vers. 1.0.
I did and added my library, I have one problem, not one single song will play and it crashes everytime I click an album to play.
Annoying
I’d attempt a registry “cleaner” like RegistryBooster 2 from Uniblue (www.uniblue.com). There are MANY other alternatives for this, but that is the one I have used and like.
I have solved a lot of similar issues just that easily. No guarantees for sure, but it’s an easy thing to try.
One IMPORTANT note: If you do this be sure that whatever app you use does a comprehensive registry backup BEFORE calling any repairs, and that their restore process is dirt-simple. I know this sounds too easy, but truly this has been a method for fixing a lot of issues in the past for me.
One other obvious thing to try is totally removing this SONGBIRD version plus any previous ones… restart… clean the registry then if you want, or don’t (either way)… do an additional restart… then load the troubled version from scratch. I know… dumb. WINDOWS is goofy enough to functionally fix itself sometimes if you give it a fighting chance.
Good luck.
(I do not work for anyone connected to SONGBIRD or anything else mentioned here.)
@Matt
Doh, sounds like you may have a corrupted profile. Try these instructions here and uninstall Songbird, clean up the old profiles, install and let us know how it goes
Congrats guys! I used songbird since it was first released a looong time ago, you’ve come a long way!
I use FoxyTunes a lot for iTunes. I’d be more likely to use Songbird full-time if FoxyTunes worked with Songbird.
Is there a way to make this happen? I know there’s some generic way of plugging in players.
Anyone know how to make this happen?
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Awesome guys!!
Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much it’s so perfect
I do agree with some of the folks here. I really would like to use songbird but not until there is a proper podcast support.
Well, i just saw, that file associations don’t work. Songbird opens, but doesn’t play the file nor add it to the library. :/
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1.0 fucked up my whole setup. None of the plugins work and I can’t even play my media files (DRM-less M4A files).
Right now I’m testing on XP x64, later I’ll try on debian to see if it works well there.
Thank you for creating this is the best player in the world.
Eliel – Brazil.
When are you guys going to add ape / flac decode plug-in?
Can’t wait to get home to install it on my Eee Pc that is running Fedora 10.
it’s really cool
it would be nice to be able to have different window layouts for library tab and browsing tab i.e. i would like bigger navigation buttons and smaller playback controls on browsing tabs and i want the right sidebar to be opened in the library but not when browsing…
and there’s a problem with security certificates. i cannot add an exception for untrusted certificates
Wow! Songbird 1.0!
Really cool to see Girl Talk’s album cover on your screenshot!
This seems like a really great program. I wonder if there are any plans for a portable version?
http://www.portableapps.com
1.0 Congratulations on release.
I use this software habitually.Therefore I wanted to cooperate with a developer and translated a Japanese reason file from the latest source again.
http://www.mediafire.com/?dzaq3tgxnoe
I uploaded it in MediaFire.
I am glad to confirm the contents if I have you replace it with an existing language file
But there is not own in quality because it is the thing which an individual translated without permission…
In both the name and the address, the anonymity please decide.
I expect development in the future.
Good luck.
(Because I use machine translation, I am sorry if hard to read…)
Finally, 1.0, congratulations Songbird team. I’m using it since I read about it….and I still here to see the great evolution.
Congratulations!!!!!! again
See you
Only one question:
the icon :’( … why change? (…out of the egg? jeje) I like more the older one.
the egg and the black bird
This is just as useless as it’s always been, complete garbage so dont waste your time. I downloaded and installed 1.0 on my Ubuntu laptop and here are the things I discovered. Adding files is unreliable, if by some chance you interrupt the procedure and try and go back and add any music that may be missing…forget it. Search is glitchy say you want to type out the name of a song or album or artist in the little search box. Be prepared to wait two seconds after entering each letter, and heaven forbid if you want to erase the current search. If you put the controls at the top dont expect them to stay there. Overall the interface is slow and glitchy and it’s not because of my laptop (2.16ghrz Core 2 duo 1 gig of ram when nothing is open) this feels like it’s trying too hard to be Itunes, if I wanted to use Itunes I would have moved to apple and not Linux. It’s a memory hog just like Itunes as well, looking at my cpu scaling using this program (opening it adding music, making any other chancges) cause my cpu to jump from 46 percent to 100 percent. Another year of work and this software might be ready for Beta version but as a viable Gnome alternative to Amarok, dont count on it. Stick with Rythmbox or listen and pass this one by.
it’s the first time that i install songbird, and it seems to me a great work! i use ubuntu 8.04 and the .deb that made Erich Wilhelm in http://unterhund.wordpress.com is just excellent, that’s why some credits for him too.
I’d be nice if the development team of songbird add a tray icon, whem it minimize or click on the “x” for close, just like others programs do. Thanks!
PD: My Laptop is a AMD Sempron 1GHz, 1GHz RAM, Compaq Presario V2605LA and Songbird1.0 works faster and great. Maybe (Robert Dec 3, 2008 8:48 am) must check his machine.
I hate to say it but I think I offered my congrats too soon.
I’ve been playing with/testing the ‘bird since .2, I’ve been an enthusiastic promoter to friends real and virtual, offered help to folks on Songbird and other forums etc. It think the vision of the project is wonderful and as a music lover it’s exciting for me to hope it will someday be brought into reality.
But this is your final 1.0 release and many of us can’t even play music on it (I know I can’t and so many here in the comments and at getsatisfaction can’t either).
I don’t mean to be negative, but it’s just plain disheartening for your supporters to see the release numbers going up and still having such a buggy product. Your supporters are the ones who tell everybody to try Songbird and take the time to leave you guys congrats and give you heads up on problems in all the betas. I just don’t get how this is 1.0 and many can’t play a single song with it. Is QC out for another latte?
I would like to find it integrated into Flock browser. Why don’t you join forces?
Songbird is one of the best music programs I’ve ever used. iPod support is great. Congratulations for the 1.0 release from Germany!
Without proper Podcast support, I really don’t want to use it. I’d have to use two different applications for my MP3 management and that’s just too complicated.
Still waiting!
@Akira
Doh, we actually have an online translation tool to translate Songbird. It’s at http://translate.songbirdnest.com
@dontknowhy
Songbird 1.0 already supports FLAC but it does not support APE.
i love this program, now as soon as i can get customizable keyboard shortcuts i’ll be a permenant user!
Songbird ROCKS! Its soo damn cool…I love u MOZILLA!
Oh.. man
So nice with a alternative to iTunes (i am on a Mac). Keep the nice work up guys
Great job, allthough I just don’t see any difference with the previous release. But I never had crashes anyway and I got 1GB of Ram and my system just uses 200mb so I don’t care how much Songbird uses. 40MB rightnow but I have only about 1000 songs.
However, my keyboard’s mediakeys don’t work in songbird anymore under linux. (they work in totem)
Equalizer, rip and burn addons and songbird is ready for 2.0. I’m not using podcast apparently.
mh, no edit function.
Anyway, I forgot to mention: please start integrate songbird with the windows manager. I’m using openbox right now and songbird doesn’t let me use the most prominent of openbox’s features.
Ive had a little test of Songbird it looks very promising, though i am dispointed with the lack of FLAC right now. Half my songs are ripped to FLAC from cd and i cannot get playback.
no support for proxy?
in my office i’m behind a proxy server. most applications will just get the proxy credentials from IE, can Songbird do the same? otherwise i’m stuck with a “dumb” media player in the office..
I install songbird today, it is my last chance to found a perfect iPod support in Ubuntu.
But, it is still away from this…
- Songbird recognize my iPod Classic 160GB –
- Songbird allow me to import my iPod playlist to my harddrive, and edit it –
- Songbrid allow me scrobble to Last.fm
- Songbird find many information about the singer, band, etc
BUT!!!!
Songbird did not recognize my Album Artwork from iPod
When it will be released?
We need an official DEB Repository from you guys. The getdeb version for v1.0 is not working at all both the 32 bits and the 64 bits for Intrepid.
When I import “Media” using File-> Import Media… buttom, and point to an iPod music folder the import of Album Artwork works fine for files that have album artwork embeded with tags, but….doing by this way I cannot import the iPod Playlist, so….Or I import the album artwork, or I import the playlists….
Whoever wanted the .deb repo, have you tried the .deb that I made? Please look here: http://unterhund.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/songbird-1-final-linux-installer/
I know for a fact it works with Intrepid as I just installed it on a brand new install of Ubuntu 8.10.
If it doesn’t work for you, let me know and I will try to help you get up and running with Songbird.
@Hybrid
We’d love for you to file a bug about that if you could since FLAC playback seemingly works fine for us. However, there are known issues with multichannel FLAC files (by multichannel, i mean more than stereo). Are your files multichannel?
@yonan32
Songbird should allow you to set proxy settings but they do not come from IE. You’ll have to enter them yourself, or point Songbird to the proxy autoconfiguration file.
You’ll find these settings under Tools->Options->Advanced->Network->Connection (Top box within the Network tab) -> Settings
hey guys great work. ive been using it since 0.2.5 and i have loved seeing it grow and fly out of the nest. i just showed some guys and now all 15 are using it. can wait to see whats next hopefully mac MTP support.
keep up the the good work team POTI
@Aus thanks a lot man!
I noticed that 2-3 seconds towards of a song it suddenly ends and the next one starts. that is my only real negative about SB so far.
Ah, excellent. Keep this up, and you will be the next Firefox in media. And I’m sure everyone here realizes this
Excellent work, if I had a hat on, I’d take it off.
Congratulations on 1.0.
But I’m slightly disappointed to be honest and I’ll explain why;
I heard the buzz and decided to try it out despite I rarely listen to any music except radio.
After installation I got smacked in the face with some EULA dialog and by God do I hate those. Sure I understand there has to be legal mumbojumbo, but does anyone besides a tiny minority read it?
I don’t, instead it’s another obstacle I rapidly click past. Well, the next thing that annoyed me there was the very tiny Continue-button to get past the dialog.
Not good start being in a bad mood trying out new software.
Argh! It automatically downloaded and installed Swedish. Although it is my native tongue I dislike applications in anything but english.
Next bit was some dialog with a choice of addons/plugins, unfortunately all selected. I don’t approve of extra junk on my machine unless I specifically ask for it, so quickly deslect them all and hit Next.
Finally the main window!
I don’t have any music so I checked the menu if it supported streaming music and Yes, it does!
Grab a WinAmp PLS-url from http://www.sky.fm/ and hit “Open location” and …
and..
…. asking me if I want to save the link or open it in some other program?
At that point my Songbird experience ended.
I’m sure many have their opinions about my usage scenario, but what I wanted was just to get started and play some online music.
@erichVon: can you make a x64 .deb for me pls? It would be much appriciated.
@alexander: let’s go back to your remarks:
- License agreement: who cares? not you but the author of the software does. he wants the responbility of using his software not relying all on his shoulders… and maybe there are pieces of software used in SB that require EULA on their own.
- Swedish instead of English? It IS an excellent thing that a software promotes your own language first. We don’t want to be speaking English only all over the world, do we? And changing the language is just one click away
- Extensions proposed for installation: this is not “extra junk”, these are new core functions added to the main software, like…Shoutcast radio support… I’m listening a Sky.fm radio without any problem at this very moment.
So, I really think you should give it a try again, by accepting this time to install the default extensions. You’ll see what such “extra junk” can add to the Songbird experience.
You can see “Songbird” will be a big contender. Who know’s how big It is growing
all the time.
Roger0642
Thanks a lot to all Songbird devs & to the ‘enlarged’ Mozilla community !!
Songbird is to iTunes what Firefox is to Safari : as easy, as fast, more beautiful and open-minded, and much more customizable !!
Long Life to SB <3
@j-d33zy: I have made and released a 64-bit edition, please let me know how it works for you.
Congrats on the release! I really dig Songbird.
I am, however, experiencing the same problem these people have been experiencing: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/songbird_does_not_show_album_art_problem_ignored?utm_content=topic_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=reply_notification
The vast majority of my ID3 tag embedded album art simply doesn’t show up in Songbird.
Good luck. I hope to make a full transition to Songbird, soon!
Well done! Thanks for your hard work in Songbird! I use this program since version 0.2. Last features I miss are CD ripping and burning of music CDs.
Hallo,
Always when I start songbird 1.0 and click on a song in order to play, songbird freezes and it doesn’t work anything. So sometimes I must start songbird 3-4 times in order to play a song!
Please help me!
mfg martin_bighomer
thank you for songbird 1.0. so far the only alternative to itunes on mac …
one small wish though: closing a window (songbird) shouldn’t coincide with closing the program on os x, it makes the handling a bit weird compared to the rest of the operating system. but foremost: thank you
Well, it’s certainly a wonderful program. I was very surprised that it was called 1.0, but maybe that’s because I don’t find a media player useful until it can read/rip CDs…..
Also, Songbird is pretty sluggish with my 30 GB library on Intrepid Ibex 32-bit.
Other than my whinings, I’m really in love with the program. CD support, once again, is the only thing keeping me from switching to it completely
Thank you for making this release possible! Thank you!
This media player just kept getting better and better
Now I love you guys to pieces, and congrats on 1.0 (and thanks for supporting drag+drop on Linux!) But if you don’t fix global hotkeys for Linux by the next release, like you SAID you would’ve by now, I’m gonna be steamin’ mad ;(
Seriously though, thanks for a great release! It does seem snappier!
What a terrific improvement this application has made since the early developer betas. I know there’s still a lot further to go, and even some features I was surprised that were missing, but this is a project I don’t mind waiting for and using along the way.
Well… instead of crashing less, it crashes more for me!
First of all, I really appreciate the improvement that SB has suffered. However, there are some things that I don’t like:
This new “queue” mode… I simply don’t understand how it works. The only thing I now is that if I select an album and start playing it, I don’t want it to stop until I say so. With the current system, as soon as I navigate through my library (without specifically ordering to play anything different) SB starts playing the next song on the part of the librart where I am at the moment. That’s really annoying.
As I commented on the add-on post, I miss a lot the Album Art Manager…
And SB crashes whenever it doesn’t find a song that is on my library. Some songs are supposedly not missing (the ghost buster add-on says there aren’t missing files) but they don’t play and SB freezes. I had to delete half of my library and import it again.
Many good new features, but many new disappointments too…
@martin_bighomer, @Mister Potato
Please make sure you do not have the BirdQuizz or Now Playing add-ons installed, they’re known to cause issues at this time. We are however working with the developers of those add-ons to get them fixed up and happy
@shorttime
Agreed. We’ve even had several dupes of that bug filed in the past few days. I can’t guarantee when it will be tackled though, but let’s hope it’s soon
@Malcolm Bastien, @Marco
Thanks for the kind words guys, we really appreciate it
I like the new icon. But I also like the old icon.
Maybe you’re should make the yellow bird singing in a half egg or something?!?
@Aus
Thanks, I’ll try what you suggest.
Seems to need a lot of work
1) first run – took ten minutes to open
2) doesn’t pick up all album art
3) overly complex GUI
4) takes 117mb of memory to run!
1.0 crashes way more than 0.7 on my Ubuntu 8.10 installation. Almost every other time I use it, it crashes!
Also, I second the FLAC support.
Songbird is so close to being a major player to compete with, if not beat the big boys like Winamp, iTunes and Media Monkey… yet it is also so far. No default playlist area on screen anywhere to play tracks from? No automatic folder watch? No tree view? Every mp3 manager in the world has these things. Yikes. But I’m pulling for you guys. You have such tremendous potential here!
I’ve been following Songbird for a long time, waiting for 1.0 to really give it time to improve and hopefully meet my high expectations. I’ve wanted to replace Winamp and iTunes for so long now…
Unfortunately, it doesn’t live up to the hype. The first thing I tried to do with it was drag a playlist (m3u) onto the window. No dice! It asked me if I wanted to open it in Winamp! Uh, guys? That should be *basic* functionality for a media player. Then I tried to “Open File…” and again went to my playlist. Nope! Apparently it can’t open m3u files. Then I figured out I had to “Import Playlist”. Ugh.
Then I went into the options, and it looked just like my Firefox 3 option screen. I was looking for a way to associate mp3 and m3u files to Songbird, but the option wasn’t there. Umm, I know this is based on Firefox and everything, but again, I want this, first and foremost, to be a *media* player, not a web browser. The options should reflect that.
I didn’t even try using the iPod plug-in with my 4G Nano, but I can guess what the result will be. There are some really neat things about Songbird, especially its open-sourceness. But guys, come on, it needs to be more like Winamp and less like Firefox.
Hope the feedback helps for 2.0…I can’t wait to try it out!
I can tell you that your biggest mistake in comparsion to firefox that firefox doesn’t tries to be huge thing and integrate everything inside. Thre first step they did to be popular was ripping off things like email client. So itunes is a music player at first. And would be better if it remains light and fast music player with music addons and dont try to be a monster or you will fail unfortunately.
Is that a little bird fart I see as he crosses the finish line?
Anyway, Songbird is great! I had some stability issues with it a while back but it has definitely come a long way.
Well, all my troubles are gone after making a new profile and cleaning some things… SB is now working better than ever! Thanks guys for all the work!
I’m missing a STOP button in the player.
congrats songbird
I covered the release here:
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Open-Source-iTunes-Competitor
Kudos to all at Songbird. I’ve been giving it a go since the beginning.
I have SB on my MacBook Pro (4GB memory) and while I like it a lot, compared to iTunes, it runs very slow. Admittedly, with 520 GB’s, I have a large library. SB imported all of it and everything works but, when I select a song, it takes several seconds to load. Sometimes more. 1.0 is a very big step forward but, it just needs a little tweaking I suspect to run as good as iTunes does for me. This is not meant as a slam at all. I will keep it and support by telling others of it. I love and support OS and Songbird, you have done a stellar job here! IMO, it’s 98% there, for me anyways. I am sure a smaller library would help performance but, today, a lot of people have huge libraries. I’d just like to see this addressed. That’s all.
I just wanted to stop by and say, after following the progress of this application for the last 3-4 years (or has it been longer?), I am thankful and excited about the final release. I knew this was going to be a great application from the start. Thank you all very much to everyone involved!
@Jesse
We’re nearing 3 1/2 years since the initial proof of concept release and it will be 3 years since the first developer preview (version 0.1) release in February! Crazy!
Happy about songbird supported Linux!!! XD
But maybe “Lite Edition” is needed
such edition only have some basic functions or only a music player !?
Congrats Songbird! It’s a great improvement for Songbird but I’m still having problems with it… It doesn’t show time for WAV files:(
I can’t use this, I can’t stand how the songs suddenly end 2-3 seconds before the end and start on the next song. It just drives me mental, when a decent crossfade is introduced I’ll be back.
This is interesting. I’m having fun playing with Songbird. I hope it evolves.
I’m hoping that Songbird can help me with a problem.
I have a whole lotta lotta songs that look like this: http://tinyurl.com/3rg7mk That’s all kinds of missing meta data. In fact, most of the songs in my library could use an improvement on their metadata.
My friend can hold up her iPhone in a starbucks and get the song title and it’s iTunes page. Is there a plugin or add on in Songbird that will let Songbird listen to the song and then identify it and allow me to load it’s metadata? That would be SWEEEEET!
Still no possibility to open the files directly into Songbird through double click into Songbird.
:/
I read “Our goal is to continue to focus on building a world-class, open music player.” and I’m a big fan of songbird itself. BUT: why have a musicplayer wich starts so slow on an average computer that I always think “why not winamp”? why isn’t implemented such things then iphone support, CD grabbing, Equalizer, etc. Out of the Box? Songbird COULD be a iTunes Killer, but sorry to say that NOT at this time! And I also fear the time when apple steps in and buys the Developers here. So my wish for the new year is not to have such an overdose on AddOns and feathers on top, but make more quality and a faster, smaller, stronger program itself. Happy xmas.
recently been using songbird instead of WMP and im not into Itunes. I mainly run my music from one main folder and i especially like the functions and browser capabilities offered by songbird. But, i began to notice sufficient slowdowns while using songbird and crashes, at least once every run time. Im wondering if anyone else has been experiencing the same thing?
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Rubberducky is not compatible with the new version of Songbird. I really miss this theme! Please bring us Rubberducky!
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1277
Отлично написано, но как говорится, для полноты информации нужно как минимум три источника
It looks like cool music software. I will have to try it out, thanks for sharing.
I wonder if Songbird is less resource hungry than Winamp… I m testing and compairing with Winamp …. now..
Regards,
Simple
А когда станет доступен релиз 1.1 который описан в тестировании?
so cool. thanks a lot! I will have to try it out.
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I dont understand why (almost) all music players have to look like iTunes…
I’m sticking with Audacious.
What about versions for MAC OS tiger PPC platform?
We are enought people to do it, and we need the power of opensource, community.
i bless for a version hosted in songbird servers and no personals versions in blogs o personal webs