Songbird Remote iPhone/iPod Touch App

By stevel stevel Dec 8, 2008 3:21 pm Permalink
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As covered in LifeHacker and Wired today, 779Media (a.k.a. crisrys from #songbird) released his Songbird Remote iPhone app last night.  You can find it in the iTunes App Store right now!  Don’t forget to install the Songbird Extension required for it to work.

This first version of the Songbird Remote displays the currently playing track info and allows you to play/pause, and go to the next or previous track.

I’m hopeful Cris will implement some additional features such as library/playlist browsing; and I’ve talked with him briefly for plans to incorporate mashTape content into the Songbird Remote display.  Anyway – enough rambling, go download the app!  It’s free for a limited time!

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  1. munkethenut Dec 8, 2008 4:08 pm Permalink

    Its odd but i just assumed this was the next logical step for songbird its nice too see. now for a mobile version of songbird

  2. Tomas Dec 8, 2008 7:29 pm Permalink

    You should do the same thing for the newest blackberrys!! Why iPhone only? Don’t discriminate!!

  3. Tomas Dec 8, 2008 7:30 pm Permalink

    You should do the same thing for the newest blackberrys!! Why iPhone only? Don’t discrimine!!

  4. sarith Dec 8, 2008 8:51 pm Permalink

    id prefer a web interface

  5. Grodesh Dec 8, 2008 9:08 pm Permalink

    Why isn’t it available in the Canadian Store?

  6. NeX Dec 9, 2008 2:02 am Permalink

    Awsome !
    I’m gonna try this out right now :)

  7. Slate8 Dec 9, 2008 4:23 am Permalink

    Woo – nice addon! Tried it on my Ubuntu 8.04 machine but no luck (stuck as searching on the iPhone)… Just noticed the addon says Ubuntu 8.10 though so will try it on my 8.10 machine later. Good work!

  8. PJ Dec 9, 2008 6:48 am Permalink

    Any plans for a 64-bit Linux? I have an iPhone but can’t use this without 64 support. :( Nice work so far!

  9. j0an Dec 9, 2008 7:10 am Permalink

    awesome! I’ll try it

  10. Joren Dec 9, 2008 7:36 am Permalink

    Awesome! Hopefully we’ll get to see a simplify media plugin soon.

  11. Slate8 Dec 9, 2008 9:07 am Permalink

    @Joren I’ll second that – a Simplify Media addon would be amazing! :o ) Well, we can hope right?

  12. Snikch Dec 9, 2008 5:58 pm Permalink

    Free for a limited time? It’s the lack of features like this which force people to continue using iTunes. The remote app on iPhone is my most useful app outside the normal phone functions.

    Not having this feature available for songbird, or available with a bad implementation and a fee would stop me from going anywhere near it.

  13. John Marshall Dec 9, 2008 7:20 pm Permalink

    Nice App!
    Snikch, you also have to understand that this app isn’t made by Songbird and it takes the developer a considerable amount of time to work on it. It is free right now, but even a small amount wouldn’t be too much to ask.

  14. sebastian Dec 13, 2008 6:26 am Permalink

    can someone tell me why this:

    http://whacked.net/2008/12/11/ubuntu-songbird-sitting-in-a-tree/

    is not made public right here somewhere where it should be?

  15. me Dec 13, 2008 4:59 pm Permalink

    Now how about a portable version of songbird?

  16. cris Dec 14, 2008 12:55 am Permalink

    There was an update to better support default ubuntu installs, and ubuntu 64.

    If you have problems, feature or platform requests

    please post to

    http://getsatisfaction.com/779Media

  17. Frank Dec 17, 2008 6:41 pm Permalink

    Yes! I love songbird. I just bought and iPod Touch from http://astore.amazon.com/ipod_touch_deals-20 – iPod Touch Deals

  18. Matt Dec 18, 2008 7:25 pm Permalink

    I’m really happy to see apps like this being made. I’m hopeful that the Songbird team or someone will create a similar app for Android. I have an iTunes remote on Android (on the G1), but I don’t use iTunes, I use Songbird! :)

  19. Vada Dec 22, 2008 6:16 pm Permalink

    Nice beginning. It might be rough and slow, but it’s nice to see the Songbird community quickly responding to the market.

  20. Christian Feb 5, 2009 2:24 am Permalink

    Nice Idea. But it’s also needed for other devices :)