Almost a million people have given Songbird 1.0 a warm welcome. We thank you for that. We’ve listened to your feedback on Get Satisfaction, our blog and Bugzilla.
We want to keep bringing out the innovation you deserve. Here is your Songbird 1.1.
New Features
On demand Fetching of Album Artwork
Songbird can now fetch album artwork from the web at your command. Simply select or right-click a track and choose “Get Album Artwork”. You can also select your preferred source of artwork. By default, Songbird will retrieve album artwork from Last.fm but you can install other sources such as amazon.com via an add-on.
Watch Folders
You can choose to watch a folder hierarchy for changes and the content will auto-magically be imported in your library. If a file is removed from the watched folder, the corresponding track will be deleted from your Library.
Better Sorting
Library sorting supports unicode collation and better handling of leading definite and indefinite articles such as “The” and “a”.
Replay gain support (normalization)
If a track’s metadata contains replay gain (including iTunes-specific) information, Songbird will adjust the playback gain appropriately.
Improved Media Core & Better gapless playback
We rewrote the low level media core component for Windows to improve playback performance and lower cpu usage. Also, if an mp3 encoder places metadata information to indicate the exact beginning and end of the audio, Songbird is able to read it and use it to skip padding data that does not contain audio, leading to perfect gapless playback.
MTP Device Support
We fixed many bugs affecting MTP devices on Windows. We’ve also added the ability to synch authorized Windows Media DRM’ed content to your MTP device. To see if your MTP device is supported, or to report your findings, visit the MTP device page.
7digital MP3 Store (Beta)
Buy high quality MP3s (up to 320kbps) from the 7digital store in Songbird. The 7digital store in Songbird uses your most recently played tracks to recommend albums to you. Plus, 7digital contributes a portion of every purchase back to Songbird’s development. Every song you buy supports your favorite artist AND our development. Woot! The UK store is fully stocked, but the US and other European stores are still continuing to populate a complete catalog of music.
Performance Enhancements
We’ve continued to make the application more stable and zippier in all sorts of ways. Amongst other things, you should notice a smaller memory footprint and decreased CPU usage.
We made some substantial gains this release:
- Reduced memory use with a large library by 40%
- Cut CPU usage during playback by half
- Fixed playback memory leaks
- Made library caching configurable
- Added batching to the media importer, reducing memory use by 60%
- Reduced Mac download size 45%
- Fewer Crashes: We’ve worked hard to identify and fix ten of the most common crashes in Songbird.
For Developers
- You can now invoke Songbird from a url. For instance,
songbird:open?url=http%3A%2F%2Flast.fm
will launch Songbird and open a new tab pointing to http://last.fm. For more information, review this article in our developer section.
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, 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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SubscribeGreat job. Why is it 1.1.1, not 1.1 or 1.1.1.1?
@Pino: We had to move the final digit from .0 to .1 when we moved to alpha/beta nomenclature. We don’t have a fourth digit just yet.
Great work guys, this is looking great, what a media player this is turning out to be! Definitely running faster and using less memory on my linux system.
Thanks for all the hard work, it’s much appreciated!
@Pino
We’re already busy working on the 1.2 release (aka, trunk). However, if we were to uncover severe problems with the 1.1 release (aka, Songbird1.1 branch) we’d release an update which would then make the version increment on the Songbird1.1 branch to 1.1.2.
We have to start at 1.1.1 because of the way versions work in Mozilla.
Also, we don’t have to go as far as 1.1.1.1 because we don’t branch our code in such a way that it would make that useful. There is one hiccup there however because on Windows, versions are always x.x.x.x. So if you look at the version of the songbird.exe, it will read 1.1.1.0.
In the end, it’s 1.1, until we have another release on the 1.1 branch
This is great!
Congratulations !
Will I lose my song ratings when I upgrade? Is there a way to back up my library in the case that something goes wrong?
Testing
Loving the Songbird protocol! Now I’ve got a bookmarklet to open the current page I’m viewing in Songbird:
javascript:document.location=”songbird:open?url=”+escape(document.location);
@Isaac you won’t lose your ratings. If you want to back up your profile, it’s hiding somewhere on your machine in a directory called Profiles. Step 2 in this post will help you figure out where that directory is on your computer: http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/06/23/how-to-restore-your-old-bookmarks-in-06/
Note that the directory is now named Songbird2 and not Songbird1.
Awesome!!!!!!!!!
I’ve personally waited for the watchfolders and am glad to see them back.
Cheers, great work, guys and gals!
Hooray!
Congrats on the release
I still got the same problem with option windows size and I can`t resize it :S (1.1.1 Build 1018). The weired thing is that it changes it shape everytime I open the option window but it`s always to small.
It started in beta 3.
I am using Windows XP SP2 with norwegian language both in windows and Songbird.
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15592
Excellent!
Excellent work guys.
for a while there i saw 1.1.1b4 in the repos and was worried.
I’d actually say the jump from 1.0 to 1.1 was nothing less then epic, and will definately get some attention. In fact, i’d say this release was bigger then the jump from 0.7 to 1.0. at the very least, we can finally say songbird is stable (1.0 had some weird bugs which caused it to crash, such as quickly changing tracks).
btw, Roadmap needs updating…
Excellent!
Congrats on the new version, going to update right now cause I’m not much of a beta fan and this version addresses some important bugs to me.
To bad the iPod support has not been improved has the MTP one, I’m really missing (like any other iPod user) some important features to ditch iTunes once and for all…
Yay for Songbird =)
i was just uninstalling 1.0 and looking for 1.1.3 for daily feather stuff and saw this lol
good work people!
first to download? =P
I love songbird! But I have a few complaints…With the update, a few things changed that I wish were back. First is that in each pane, I used to have the option of selecting any of my pane add-ons. Now it seems I have to select from a predetermined list. Maybe this will get fixed by the add-on people, dunno. I just figured I’d mention it. Second is that when I use the web-browser now, my library tab stays visible. I liked it when it disappeared until I went back. Any way I can do this? Thanks!
Thanks Songbird Team! You guys Rock!
I am always telling someone how awesome Songbird is… and how it has SO MUCH potential behind it to be the most dominate media player out there because of all the hard work and dedication you guys put into it…
Woot! Keep up the Great work!
Merci!!!!!!!!!!!!
Merci beaucoup, c’est génial je test ça de suite
Thanks, I test now with my Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Thanks a lot!!!!
It’s working very good in Ubuntu! Thanks
!)
Merci depuis la Martinique!
Please, make a forum (and a french forum
Great stuff guys, congratulations.
Podcasts sorted out next, please!
great job guys. but where are my album art settings? i want my covers saved in the correspondent folders and NOT as by default embedded in the audio files’ metadata.
Yeah podcast
And RSS plugin… and finally video!
Make it compatible at 100% for IPod, espacially IPhone (cover, app, lyrics,…) and I thinks a lot of people would put songbird
Georges, I guess the bird was trying to take the screw out after all… That was a close one…
@Starke:
“First is that in each pane, I used to have the option of selecting any of my pane add-ons. Now it seems I have to select from a predetermined list. Maybe this will get fixed by the add-on people, dunno.”
Exactly, leave a comment on the addon-page, then the add-on developer can add the display view to other panes, too.
“Second is that when I use the web-browser now, my library tab stays visible. I liked it when it disappeared until I went back. Any way I can do this?”
afaik, the behavior did not change since 1.0: If you are viewing a webpage, klick the “Hide Service-Pane”- Button on the bottom-left. Then the service pane stays hidden for _all_ webpages, but comes back if you switch to your library again.
Heh, now Songbird has a Vista Window shadow on it. Can’t tell whether that is good or bad.
The length the time the song has played doesn’t move smoothly any more.
I am impressed. I even filed a bug for the first time which was actually very minor(the Seeqpod staying after uninstall one) but you guys responded a bunch of times and even repro’d it within like 3 days. Great job! 1.1 looks great and I’m only using 45% memory now instead of 51% usually on my vista machine. niiiice. Keep up the good work
Congrats on the release, I’m downloading it now!
Starting songbird with ipod connected freezes it at Updating Library. Disconnecting it seems to have fixed it, but I was lucky to have guessed that. For awhile I was afraid I was going to be stuck with the non-fix of deleting my database…
Congrats to the release!
And, yes, please make a official forum for users not connected to some 3rd party site …
Serious congrats guys. Songbird performance has improved to the point where it is now my primary player. My latest notes on performance:
http://sites.google.com/site/songbirdwish/1-2-nightly-performance
My wish list for Songbird:
http://sites.google.com/site/songbirdwish/Home
Thank you guys, SongBird is really something.
When I tried Amarok 2 I realized that Amarok is no more my media player and I found that SongBird is the mp3 player which I should look forward to it.
I am wondering whether you have some schedule for 1.2 or not and whether a Ubuntu release is available or not.
thanks
@Sarah
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Roadmap
If you go to http://getsongbird.com/download/ you will find a linux version of Songbird aswell.
Thank you for release !
Why i want edit metadata is very loooonggg ?
Have you awser ? thank (sorry my english is bad)
Update 1.0 to 1.1 it’s ok ?
Because I am desinstalling and reinstalling songbird now it’s okay !
The way Mozilla works is
1.1b3 => 1.1.0
Thanks a lot for this release, you’ve done tremendous work. And starting from this one, I will be happy to spread Songbird to my friends (1.0 was lacking basic features such watching folders and performance was not there enough…).
This was a great stable release I do have a few of wishes.
Any chance you can bring back a feature from the earliest release, multiple watched folders, right now we can only watch one folder.
Also for sorting by location in the Library view instead of the long string location an option to only display the folder name would be nice.
OPML import and export and Podcasts, Podcasts, Podcasts, the only reason I still use Media Monkey/XMPlay on windows, and Gpodder/Amarok instead of Songbird, is the OPML support and Podcast support. I need these well implemented in a single package. Maybe you guys can fold the Gpodder backend into Songbird?
http://gpodder.berlios.de/
Where are the comments I just posted, and why were my suggestions deleted?
Runs beautifully here (damn my proprietary iPhone though)
Any updates to the Roadmap to report? It only goes up to the next release and some of the unscheduled features are already in 1.1 or scheduled for 1.2.
(Extremely) minor point, but I’d like to see a splash of colour in the default theme – maybe just maybe colouring in the icons and headings in the service pane. Can you inherit the OS’s highlight colour without doing a full ‘plucked’ feather?
Tis a beautiful thing!
Watch folders work brilliantly!
Great Job guys..!! 1.1.2 with FC10 compatibility ?
Great work but shoutcast is not working at all. When I click on the button I’m waiting nearly 2 minutes for the list of radiostations. However, on my other computer shoutcast works without problems! I don’t know why. Is it possible that there are problems with the firewall?
So, I use Songbird 1.1, Windows Vista, Kaspersky CBE, shoutcast 0.7.2.1018
thanks for your help
Best player on linux ! Thanks a lot !
It seems that the “watch folder” doesn’t work. I copy some files in the folder and they are not added on songbird, even after a reboot of songbird..
Great job guys!
The problem is that the watch folder feature doesn’t work for me. I added my music folder in the watch folder option, and when I add new songs to that folder, a popup shows up in SB for a millesecond and then disapears, I can’t see what the text in the popup says. When I then look in my library, no new songs has been added. What should I do?
The songbird still freeze and stops responding when I use the search function sometimes. I have around 40,000 songs in my library.
Im runnign Sonbird on Vista Ultimate 64-bit, 2coreDuo and with 4gb of ram.
Any ideas?
Peace
Sorry for the spam
but I solved my problem by clearing private data and ALL OF A SUDDEN
I WORKS WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS!!!!
thanks guys the singing bird is great!
It didn’t work for me. I’m running songbird on a laptop inspiron 6400, on ubuntu intrepid.
Yahtzee!!!!!!
i would love to see an amazon and/or musicbrainz tagger in this application, it can be done via plugins because some guy at mediamonkey forum has done it. this could be a killer add on.
some other thing i would like to see is a format converter (bitrate, mp3 to wma etc…) and a way to auto organize and rename files.
keep working and this will be the best media player in the world.
P.S. love the fact this is cross platform
Wooh I’m excited about this! Just wondering, is there a shortcut delete function yet? I have a huge library and I’m always trimming it down.
OMG BUSINESS MODEL!!!!
The partnering on the music store, and you getting revenue ROCKS! It reminds me of the google deal with Firefox. I really hope it works out for you. As soon as I get home I’m installing 1.1, and I will make a point of shopping 7-Music as much as I can.
I’m having an issue with updates on Ubuntu and curious to know if anyone else has run into this. I’m running the .deb from unter-hund.com of 1.1.1 and “Check for Updates” is greyed out. Also, when checking for updates to my installed extensions, I just get the spinner and “Checking for Updates,” yet no check is ever performed.
Any ideas? Seems to work fine on my MacBook, so I assume it’s an Ubuntu or Linux only issue?
Thanks…and other than that, great release! Keep up the good work.
Yeay, love the new version. Much more responsive and the smaller memory footprint and less CPU usage just rock!
Keep the good work up.
Love Songbird!
Cheers,
Jakob
Congrats! Now we just need to see the Add-on developers working to bring them up-to-date.Missing my feathers…
Also, as Alec Gorge said, the elapsed time bar “jumps” now, instead of the smooth flow it had before.
Overall, I’d say the new release is impressive though!
I’m with thierry – where are the album art settings? The features list mentions the ability to change from last.fm to amazon, etc — I can’t find any options to tweak this.
Otherwise, AWESOME release!!
Update re: album art issue:
Looks like there’s a fetcher add-on called Amazon Fetcher to enable that function. Still don’t see a way to configure settings though.
@Kejlsn
The search randomly freezing for a few seconds is a known issue that we’re working on already.
@Jesse
Album Art config options are coming…
Why can’t I drag and drop files from windows explorer to a playlist?
Love your Spinal Tap allusion
One community request, can someone write an “album cover” importer plugin for podcasts? Maybe something that looks to one of the podcast aggregators, iTunes or Zune?
Unfortunately,
the upgrade screwed my whole settings. All my playlists were deleted but all the songs came up in the add-on “now playing” playlist panel. Not with the names, though, but with randon numbers. Adding new songs to a playlist didn´t show the title,artist or album name of the song but I could play that song.
Uninstalled Songbird, reinstalled – nothing. So I had to delete my profile and everything. Now it´s working fine.
I am using XP SP3 and had the 1.0 version installed before.
Thanks guys!
You rock!
I’ll soon banish iTunes forever!! ha ha ha ha haaaaaa
C’est trop lent quand je fais des recherches dans ma bibliothèque sous Linux…
I want to suggest two features
- drag and drop files from nautilus or other file managers to a playlist
- minimize to tray. this one is really required.
thank you for your good release. Songbird rocks.
Anybody else getting a werid miniskip after pausing and playing a song? Looks like the play bar has a delay in stopping and moves forward just a lil. Might just report that. Seems like an obvious bug to me.
I’m getting the same error with Shoutcast as ich. Pressing the Shoutcast button locks up the program. I’m on Windows XP.
Also, in previous versions I could middle-click on a link in the left column, like a bookmark or the add-ons link, and it would open up in a new tab, but now middle-clicking those links does nothing.
I faced two problems:
1- When I try to use find updates to find and install updates for the extensions, it tooks many minutes with no result, it just shows that it is searching for updates?
2-I used to use mini feather but unfortunately it never shows where I placed it previous time. it shows almost in upper left section of screen.
I am using Ubuntu 8.10.
Thanks
I Have the same problem than Sarah, and I use Ubuntu 8.10 too
And please… Where is FoxTab Add-On???
Jesus, Equalizer, unless you can wait on him. Is “Normalization” or “Watch Folders” was so terribly important ?!!!! Equalizer should already be in version 1.0. Already tested the program and whether or not I do not like it but without Equalizer is lost to me, Winamp rulez – Equalizer. It was awfully hard to do?
I’m giving Songbird another shot, but is there still no ability to support FoxyTunes?
This is a significant factor in my decision as the other features different from iTunes I don’t really use.
It’s a great release. Except that one feature I have been looking for since version 0.5 still not there yet.. Playlist folder, which is extremely useful for me as I have more than 100 playlists and all organized in different folders, which is very messy on Songbird since it doesnt have they feature yet..
I wonder will the feature be in the scheduled roadmap anytime soon?
Importing files and and building library seems still to be a problem in the new version:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/songbird_wont_import_many_of_my_files?utm_content=topic_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=reply_notification
I was hoping for good things with Songbird 1.1, however I’m disappointed in it. I like many of the features but the album artwork lookup is awful. I had painstakingly gone through my library and got all the correct artwork since Songbird kept thinking everything titled “greatest hits” was by the same artist. However not only does it still think that way, but it didn’t even find all the artwork I had added before.
Winamp still sees that artwork but Songbird doesn’t load it, nor does the fetcher find them. I tried the Amazon fetcher but I can’t tell if its active since there are no settings to tell it to use it, I am guessing it uses it if installed but it appeared to make little difference to the artwork.
Some of the artwork was changed without asking me, which is really dumb.
Poor quality testing on that part of it.
I keep hoping Songbird will be the player I want it to be and it just can’t seem to get there.
Oh, one note. I installed 1.1.b1 before this and updated up through the other betas and then installed 1.1.1 through songbird’s update feature. When this is done, the application in windows programs still shows as 1.1.b1. Just thought I’d mention that!
@ess, Comments are moderated.. So if you refresh, they sometimes appear to disappear.. Nobody deleted them though, they just haven’t been approved yet! (its probably just to keep spammers out).
@thiery, any reason why? Imho, putting the album art in the tag is the correct way, because it means files can be moved around, etc.
@Kejlsn. I’ve been running it on vista fine. Firstly, some filesystems and such don’t support watch folders (because Songbird uses the proper API to do it, not the random scanning method). However, if you are having problems, try wiping your profile. Sometimes it fixes things, sometimes it doesn’t. Make sure u aren’t using a samba drive for instance on a uni network (SMB/CD drives don’t support watched folders properly).
Also, double check your version and ensure you ARE using the latest version. Much older versions don’t seem to uninstall automatically (because the nightlies install to songbird-BLEH, not songbird).
Generally though, this is because of a slightly dodgy profile though. Maybe move it to the side, and if recreating fixes it, upload the profile to bugzilla with details, as it may help the developers.
@Rick stone, Might be because your current user doesn’t have permission to modify songbird files possibly (just a guess). Sudo songbird, and see if it works. I don’t really bother with linux anymore though.
@jesse.. You might be looking for the button on the Now selected/Now playing bar. If you click the folder symbol, you can change that. Not sure if you can use LastFM to permanently store your album art though honestly. This methods fetch the album art in realtime off the internet, but not sure if it is stored..
@Phil, I noticed that after they added the gapless playback.. Report it as a bug, but it probably has been before.
@Regoat. Actually, most people find Watch folders more important. Especially on large libraries, and normalisation is very simple. I honestly have never seen anyone use EQ (many speakers have good enough EQ anyway). So I think Songbird made the right choice… However, EQ is due in about 2 months anyway.
@Mark, post a suggestion at foxytunes about that. There is no reason why they can not support songbird, just just need to code support.
@Ronald, Its been posted now. http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15655
@ghos, You must remember that Songbird is still early days actually. In fact, in some areas (like importing iTunes playlist), I noticed winamp is playing catchup. And since the release of 1.0, songbird development has started accellerating actually. I agree that the album artwork function isn’t perfect yet, but it will most likely be flawless by 1.2 (which is only 2 months away). Also, the guys at songbird seem to take suggestions pretty well, so you will find that they will most likely listen if you post a suggestion early enough in the cycle.
There used to be an extension to help with artwork, not sure where it went though (but might return again eventually)
@steven.
I noticed that too…
For the love of god: why? Why still the hard coded handling of articles? Why is there no support for *SORTORDER tags like ALBUMSORTORDER, ARTISTSORTORDER and so on? Half of my music collection is tagged with Kanji and Kana and has corresponding *SORTORDER tags. Only iTunes and foobar2000 let me use these. And the use of *SORTORDER tags would also make all worries about definite and indefinite articles go away.
Memory use :
Songbird : 425.316Ko
iTunes : 101.152Ko
WTF ?
But the most important point for me is : songbird doesn’t keep music folder organized like iTunes does.
As long as this feature ain’t included there is no way I use Songbird and I think we’re a lot to think the same.
And I don’t need a browser, thanks.
Do the right things and you’ll kill iTunes.
Very Nice!
I however would like to see the following in Songbird.
1. Album art fetching from different sources (user configurable/selectable)
2. An option to choose between embedding the album art in the mp3 or a user configurable filename (folder.jpg, front.jpg, folder.jpg, albumname.jpg) within a configurable location such as album folder or one generic thumbnail folder.
4. Track changes and add an undo button.
5. Mp3 embedded album art stripper (multiple files).
6. id3-tag converter to various formats id3v1, id3v2.1, id3v2.2, id3v2.3, id3v2.4.
7. id3-tag merger: If id3v2-tag does not exist then copy from id3v1-tag and if id3v1-tag does not exist then copy from id3v2-tag
8. Songbird is a bit slow on user interaction. It feels heavy.
What can be done to improve speed?
Songbird has great potential, great work so far.
I will be looking forward to future versions.
Finally Watch Folders again
Good release, I’m really happy with it, thank you.
Rick Stone: “I’m having an issue with updates on Ubuntu and curious to know if anyone else has run into this. I’m running the .deb from unter-hund.com of 1.1.1 and “Check for Updates” is greyed out. Also, when checking for updates to my installed extensions, I just get the spinner and “Checking for Updates,” yet no check is ever performed.”
I’m having the same problem on Ubuntu. Otherwise, my Songbird 1.1.1 installation is working great.
Great release! Thank you all for all your hard work!
Also, one question. I noticed that CD Burn/Rip were removed form the Isan page on the wiki: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Releases/isan
Does this mean that Isan will not be adding CD burn/rip support as originally planned??
I really want to be able to use this but it just doesn’t work the way I need it to. I sort my library by using ‘album by year’ in itunes, it keeps the artists in alphabetical order with the earliest album listed first. I’m not sure if there is the option to do this in songbird but if there is, it isnt very obvious. It also screwed up my ipod, when I plugged my ipod in it displayed 39 tracks in songbird, not the 8000 it should be. Then when i ejected my ipod and used it with itunes, over 3000 tracks had been taken off.
Im using windows XP media center SP3, 120gb ipod version 2.0.1.
Please add the feature “keep music folder organized” ! The player lags when i search files. It also needs more stability. Very cloth to the perfect player ! Great job.
@Abnum
Are you on Windows?
I can see the memory usage on my XP in about 73.000-95.000kB
What exactly you’re doing to get it so high?
About File organization…that’s on a roadmap for the next release.
Can not assure it’s going to be exactly what iTunes does, shouldn’t we do better than that?
Having the borsewr capabilities is a great idea, I think.
Even if you only use to find the media(which can be downloaded in Songbird on one click). I’m sure there are much more people that wouldn’t mind having a browser intagrated in a player(or player intagrated in a browser).
We do the right thing by following our vision and listening on people’s suggestion to make SB better,
Thanks.
Geoffrey Plauche:
“Rick Stone: “I’m having an issue with updates on Ubuntu and curious to know if anyone else has run into this. I’m running the .deb from unter-hund.com of 1.1.1 and “Check for Updates” is greyed out. Also, when checking for updates to my installed extensions, I just get the spinner and “Checking for Updates,” yet no check is ever performed.”
I’m having the same problem on Ubuntu. Otherwise, my Songbird 1.1.1 installation is working great.”
Same exact thing here, it says checking for updates forever.
Podcast support please…
It’s so nice to know one more milestone was achieved. Thanks guys and keep rocking! And I am wating for the equalizer (next version) to definitively adopt SB as my default audio player
I personally think that there are some things to keep in mind when deciding to use Songbird:
After you have installed songbird and then have to manually go and fetch more addons, any issue from those are likely unrelated to the core Songbird product, and folks should consider talking with the respective add-on’s author.
IMO, this product is relatively young and still a work in progress, which I think by the time we get to ISAN may satisfy significantly more folks. But because of the demands we put on this program in terms of expectations, it will always be a work in progress… that is a good thing.
If one does not want a browser, just don’t use the built-in browser. If one does not want a media player, well (haha)… maybe use Firefox. But there is definitely a reason to have the browser within the app. otherwise that locks out a huge part of the program’s attractiveness. Heck, a primary example is the ease of getting addons for the application, if one browses them through the built-in browser. Imo, it is worth it just for that alone. It is not like the browser gets in the way of the player… unless you are browsing, in which case there is a compromise.
@Martijn
Nice post!!!
Fantastic! Great job!
I am wondering why you decided to get rid of Skreemr? If its not going to be included by default, can you at least make it an add-on? Other music search services, such as iMeem, Last.Fm, Deezer, and Songza should be included as well.
Also, are there any plans to make the bookmarks appear in folders, in a bookmark toolbar along the top like in Firefox?
Additionally, I experienced an issue earlier today where clicking a song by one artist would not play, and/or i would click the title for one song, and it was playing another song, although it displayed the 1st song was playing
The website icons for some sites do not work, such as last.fm, grooveshark, and craigslist. I don’t know if this is a bug for more.
Speaking of Last.Fm and Grooveshark you should make compability for these better. Currently, “Loving” or “Banning” tracks in the player does nothing for my Last.Fm profile, and the last.fm radio has to play using the last.fm app. For grooveshark, the player has no integration with Songbird. Perhaps an add-on to integrate the queue for Grooveshark in the UI would be good
Myspace music players need to integrate into this system.
Any site that has a player, such as YouTube, or just music players should suggest you add an exception to allow them to pause your music when you open content
A list of user-suggested music blogs and other things would be nice, as I’ve discovered so much new music browsing on my own, and I can’t even imagine how better it would get with that kind of feature
The Deezer addon doesnt work either.
To increase wide-spread usage and awareness integration with firefox addons, notifying developers of Firefox addons that they should make things for Songbird, and other ideas could all help to get things rolling
I am not sure if Songbird copies new tracks from my watched folder into my itunes folder when it finds them, but it would be nice if it did this, and once done it cleaned out that song from the watched folder, so i have all my music in one place
The songbird team also needs to notify Facebook their browser exists, so that Facebook Chat will work for this platform. It is currently recognized as Firefox 1.9, and the only way around it is to modify the about:config agent string to Firefox 3.0.4, which then disabled installing add-ons.
I’ll keep posting in here as i find more info for your ears. Best of wishes!
_Matthew
oh just a few more thing…. dragging and dropping links into the toolbar to open them in a new tab does not work, and Songbird does not give me a choice to make it my default browser, to avoid links in adium [suggest integration] from opening in Firefox instead of Songbird, which is the only browser i’m using now.
Also, firefox bookmarks should be import-able to work with the bookmark toolbar idea i already mentioned.
Cool Iris/Pic Lens 1.9 is an add-on that needs to be brought to this browser
This update is just what I needed! I’m now looking forward the May release.
Keep on the great work!
Please tell me the “Watch Folders” feature won’t erase your entire collection whenever the removable drive/folder that it’s monitoring happens to be, well, removed. That kind of bug, which is quite common for audio apps like this to have, makes the feature almost worthless.
I’ll try it out tonight to see.
Also, do we have an equalizer yet?
okay, on the Mac 1.1 version, where am I supposed to grab to move the main songbird window around?
no where i grab “grabs.”
I’m in filter pane view. I have my whole library showing. I type in “monster magnet”. I get that artist. click on the “monster magnet” artist in the artist column. click the “x” in the search pane. “monster magnet” is no longer selected in the filter pane.
So much for this thing… Can’t even scan my whole library. SIGSEV’s every time. Oh well — maybe have to wait for the 2.x series…
Updated to 1.1.1 with my ipod plugged-in. Now a dozens of my songs and playlists are deleted! The Local Library also seems to miss some songs!
Thanks to God im only using it to play music from my ipod in the work.
I love Songbird! But I’d even love it more if it would be available as portable APP. So please make Songbird portable!!!
You’re doing a graet Job!
integrate with windows manager please on linux. The 3 buttons are not enough to manage an app.
otherwise it’s nice.
I can’t agree with those who say that this is an awesome release.
Running Ubuntu I experience the same problem as some people have reported above: add-ons cannot be updated.
One more thing. I manually find the best artwork for each new good album. I put it as cover.jpg into the album’s folder. Songbird 1.0 worked with this approach really well. The new Songbird 1.1 doesn’t even want to see cover.jpg files in folders. All I can do is manually apply the JPG using Edit metadata, but what Songbird does in this case is embedding the JPG into each file within the album, which is just a waste of disk space.
I love Songbird and one day hope to see it being the default media player in Ubuntu. But while the new release runs notably faster (one good thing!) other things make me think that the team has released it too early.
And one more annoyance. No official installation .DEB file for Ubuntu once again!
I’m seriously impressed with v1.1.1. It installed as an upgrade without a hitch on my Ubuntu netbook and works like a dream. Really like the album art and media flow improvements but I’ve yet to look at it on my main workstation with ~5000 FLAC tracks but I’m sure it’ll do well.
The 7Digital store integration is brilliant, one wish on that though: could we get more FLAC files as an option from them. Using FLAC as a gold copy is worthwhile esp. as storage costs are falling.
Keep up the great work.
“Geoffrey Plauche:
“Rick Stone: “I’m having an issue with updates on Ubuntu and curious to know if anyone else has run into this. I’m running the .deb from unter-hund.com of 1.1.1 and “Check for Updates” is greyed out. Also, when checking for updates to my installed extensions, I just get the spinner and “Checking for Updates,” yet no check is ever performed.”
I’m having the same problem on Ubuntu. Otherwise, my Songbird 1.1.1 installation is working great.”
Same exact thing here, it says checking for updates forever.”
same thing here, ubuntu 8.04
@G
We’d appreciate a bug report if you have the time. It sounds like you probably have some tracks that are crashing the metadata importer.
@Dim
You can enable looking for ‘cover.jpg, folder.jpg’ by enabling this preference: songbird.albumart.file.enabled in about:config.
btw, also hoping for it to be the default audio player in ubuntu
I noticed a problem. Many artists have been boycotted from the importation with the watch folder. The format of the boycotted files are .mp3 as the other files which have been imported correctly. How come ? Have you noticed the same bug ?
songbird.albumart.file.enabled doesn’t help for all files. in the new version it displays albumart for the first tracks only and last.fm album arts that are 150×150 pixels 200 kb in size overrides my own 600×600 100kb folder.jpg files that are by far much better and it’s inrevertable even if i delete the aotumatic downloaded album arts in my Users\User\AppData\Local\Songbird2\Profiles\ etc.. folder (windows vista).
setting songbird.albumart.lastfm.enabled to false doesn’t help. changing the priorities for lastfm, file and metadata albumarts doesn’t help. it keeps reloading the small sized albumarts when i re-add my music files in my library and keeps on adding the same low quality (and large in filesize) images in my hidden AppData folder.
i’m afraid of even opening songbird at the moment fearing that it will replace every albumart i have. what am i doing wrong? what were the default settings for all preferences starting with “songbird.albumart” in version 1.0 ?
i’d appreciate some help if anyone know a way to stop songbird from behaving like this
i did not tamper with any settings in auto:config until i updated to version 1.1.
This player is a slam dunk once you include Amazon MP3 store support (possibly with affiliate revenue for songbird) and some UI when USB music players are inserted for syncing.
Got the same problem with the new release as Dim. When I ad new albums Songbird doesn’t see the cover.jpg file in the album folder. I tried to change the about:config so that songbird.albumart.file.enabled is set to true but it didn’t help.
This is a big change in the way Songbird handles album art and I think looking for folder.jpg or cover.jpg should be the default setting.
Otherwise I love the new release.
Wow, I just lost about 20 gigs of my music off my ipod, just as I installed songbird and mounted my ipod on it…that isn’t coming back either!
I had autosync off already, I’ve never used it on anything… I really don’t know why it went away, given that the first time I opened songbird it worked; after restarting songbird, it deleted 20 completely random (or so it seems – i’m going through to see what is lost now) gigs of my music.
Actually, now I can see what happened — there are playlists on my ipod. If there was a song on any playlist, it was kept. However, say the song on a playlist came from an album, and wasn’t just an individual song — the remainder of that album (except that one song) was deleted. Unfortunately, I have no idea why this happened, it seems to be a software error. Most unfortunately, because it was on my playlist, it was stuff I was listening to, and was, in general, stuff I’d paid for. Too bad. Will probably never use this software again for my ipod. For better or worse, itunes – although a terrible program in many ways – still seems to be the best.
Is the ability to auto-sort any music imported into Songbird on the slate for a future release? The watch folder ability is nice, but I’d like to see a very flexible option that allows Songbird to automatically rename and sort any files dropped into the program as per the users wishes. iTunes has the feature, but it’s not very fleshed out, and doesn’t allow for the user to change the format and do something like sort music of the same genre into separate folders.
Keep up the good work!
Whoah, this last release is just awesome for many points, particulary the fetcher
Actually, i just have 2 little bugs :
- I don’t why, when i’m listening a playlist, each time, at the end of a track, songbird automatically skip the next track to play the 3nd, whereas when i manually start the skipped track, he have no problems to play it. If i have 10 tracks in a playlist, he’ll only play 5 tracks :/
- Songbird cuts the end of my songs, for about 2s whereas the song haven’t finisihed to play.
great… still crappy podcast support
no opml support, the bugged parser can’t import some feeds, impossible to set the podcasts id3 to Podcast…
a modern mediaplayer without podcasts… sigh!
I like the watch folder capability, I’m glad that was added.
I am having slight delays when scanning through a track. It seems that the player will start “playing”, or at least counting as if it is, at the location I scanned to in the track, but audio won’t come out until a few seconds later. This wasn’t an issue in v1.0
Also, still having an occasional misrepresented song. The player displays the name of one song, but it plays a different one.
Either way, still my favorite media player!
I have an interesting problem–
Any videos that I’ve imported into Songbird and sync with my iPod show up on the iPod but will not play. They show a time of a few thousand minutes. However, they play fine on my computer and they also play on the head unit in my car (Kenwood Excelon DDX-712). They worked fine with beta3.
Videos are encoded with Handbrake using H.264 and AAC. Any thoughts?
Several issue have arisen since we started using Songbird for editing MP3 tags
in files used for broadcast, apparenetly because the program doesn’t ‘clean-up’
MP3 tags:
1 – Quite a few songs now have lines of gobbledy-gook at the end of the
field which don’t manifest themselves until the playout software
plays the song and uploads the info. The song then needs re-importing into
ID3TagIT and re-editing, which fixes it.
2 – Some files now have a ‘date’ issue, causing the playout software to refuse
to
open the song’s and throwing up the error “Date is less than
minimum
of 01/01/2000″.
3 – A few weeks back, we had chaos caused by bizarre errors in both our playout
and playlist creation software and I think corrupted MP3 tags from Songbird
were causing a problem which manifested itself in a seemingly-unconnected way.
The whole horrible mess started the day after we installed and edited in
Songbird for the first time, and has gradually stopped happening as those files
have been found and re-edited in ID3-TagIT. Nothing else has changed on the two
machines which use these programs.
I may be wrong in these assumptions, but it seems like “one coincidence too
many”, to me. None of these problems existed prior to using Songbird.
Hope that helps someone.
Great work, keep it going!!!!
@Mark Davis
Oh for the love of god why are you saying oh for the love of god. It’s not that horrible that we don’t support those yet. And I emphasize _yet_. Sounding horrified about those tags not being used isn’t going to help anyone. Infact, it’s kind of annoying. Everyone has their feature that they wish Songbird had (believe me, I have my own list) and there are perfectly good ways to communicate that which don’t involve berating us. Thanks
@Lbie
That’s definitely strange. We haven’t experience this in house. Could you file a bug and provide more details? Maybe the format or song that it skips over is the problem? We could have issues decoding it and then just skip over it.
Also, the 2 second ’skip’ you see at the end isn’t actually a skip. Songbird will play the rest of the song regardless. This is a side-effect of how gapless playback works. So, to re-iterate, the faceplate may change songs early, but the rest of the previous song will definitely play before the new song starts.
@Kevin
It should already be possible with MTP devices to do what you are describing. iPod should also work (although, the iPod add-on is definitely buggy
). If you set your portable device to be in library sync mode, any new song or playlist added to your main library and any edits done to them will be reflected on the device.
@Jeff
Thanks for filing that comment as a bug, we’ll try and look into it as soon as we can.
@regoat
It’s one thing to miss having an EQ but I don’t appreciate the rest of your comment. Take your childish attitude elsewhere.
I would like see video on Songbird!
Con you do like Itunes, see the number of musics i have and HOW MUCH Go IT TAKE???
The “Checking for updates” it’s not working! I’m on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.
@Jérôme
Yes, we’d like to display the total time and total size on disk for the library and the playlists.
The checking for updates issue is known and will be fixed in the next release, you can track progress of this issue by looking at bug 15589 on our bug management tool
I am super stoked for a new Songbird release (I swear I was one of the first people in the know about it when it was being developed
) but when I try and start it up on my mac it half bounces and then crashes 
if anyone could help me out I’d be grateful. I meet all the requirements and previous versions ran well, so I don’t know what the problem could be!
Thanks!
On demand Fetching of Album Artwork
1. so will this fetch album artwork appear in my ipod when i synched?
2. why is the gui like itunes? or is itunes copying songbird?
@Raul I dont think album art syncing works on ipods because of all the Apple encryption rubbish (I might be wrong)
Also, I highly doubt iTunes invented that layout. There honestly aren’t many ways to lay music out efficiently. Its just a natural evolution. Similar to how multi-touch screens was an obvious evolution of normal touch pads.
When multitouch displays become common place, and the next gen of OS’s get released, I’m sure that media players GUI will reflect that.
Please, can someone teach the bird the correct order of the letters? It’s terrible that THE Beatles is in the letter B. Come on! The name of the band is THE Beatles and not just Beatles. And the spanish and portuguese articles are also not taken into account when sorting. It’s like they don’t exist. It is horrible! There is a brazilian band called Los Hermanos. I know and many brazilians know that “Los” is a spanish article but I can tell you that nobody here would ever think of searching for the band in the letter H. Nobody would know which band is “Hermanos” becasuse the name of the band is LOS Hermanos. And by the way many brazilians don’t speak english and would not know that “the” is an english article.
And it doesn’t happens only when sorting the list by artist. If I sort the list by songs… the song “The more you ignore me the closer i get” is in the letter “M”. What? What does “More you ingore me the closer i get” means? It means nothing without the THE.
Please, at least tell me that there is a way to tell the bird do sort the right way because I couldn’t find one.
@Ishan
I have used Songbird in about one year now and synced both Apple Ipod classic and Ipod Nano 3d. gen. I`ve never ever experienced what you write here. Not even close to it.
What I have experienced is auto. sync before I understood I could turn it off.
Hello! I loved this player and I did use it for a while back in 1.0. However, when I went back to iTunes to listen to music there, a chunk of music had lost nearly ALL of its metadata. Thankfully it wasn’t all of my music that got affected (and I was able to get all of the metadata back, albeit it took a couple of hours). However, after that experience, I removed Songbird immediately. I’m not sure why this happened at all, especially when I use other players (MediaMonkey, WinAMP, foobar2000, Windows Media Player, MusicBee), and that NEVER happened.
There have been a couple of questions about album art but I haven’t seen any solutions yet. I’ve experienced the same as bert and dim: Songbird only displays the folder/cover jpg album art for the first track of the album. If You manually ad using edit meta data Songbird embeds the picture in each song of the album. That takes up to much space and makes it harder changing a cover.
So my qusition is: Is it a known bug that Songbird only displays cover/folder jpg for the first song on the album?
BTW I like my Beatles under B:)
I updated to 1.1.1 and songbird crashes every time when it starts “Rebuilding library sorting data” on win and mac. I unstalled the programme and reinstalled it and still the same problem.
Super!
@aus
Yeah, right, because being sensitive will help. Maybe you want to check the post by Rafael for another very obvious reason why hard coded handling of articles is a sub-par solution that doesn’t solve a thing. Why I wrote “for the love of god”? Because countless other players before Songbird did it wrong and still do it wrong. Yet you were more than happy to incorporate such an annoying “feature” that is terribly flawed by design.
I create the package for Linux Mint and don’t have the problem with the add-ons not updating.
I’m running Linux Mint 6(Ubuntu intrepid based) and it runs fine for me.
I really don’t use it much, I just create a package for our users.
It’s in our Community Repo http://packages.linuxmint.com/#6community
I’ll be moved to import later.
I haven’t created the package for Linux Mint 5(Ubutnu Hardy), yet.
@Mark
That’s pretty odd and I wouldn’t expect that problem to be related to Songbird. Did you edit any metadata in Songbird for those files? Did you use the iTunes Library Importer to import your library? I can’t say that we’ve ever ran into issue like that while using files in Songbird (including editing metadata) and then using the in iTunes. It would be really helpful if you filed a bug at bugzilla.songbirdnest.com.
@Mark Davis
Your sensitive comment is noted.
When I did uninstall Songbird, I left the reason for me uninstalling it during that process. Also, I do remember using the Lyrics add-on to add lyrics to all of my songs. Perhaps that’s the cause?
@Mark
Hmmm, it’s possible that an add-on could’ve been causing that issue, although, i’m uncertain if lyrics master will cause Songbird to try and write out the lyrics in the metadata of the file. If Songbird were trying to write back the lyrics set by lyrics master that could potentially cause some problems if we write the tag out improperly. If you think of any extra information that may help us in the meantime, let us know
Hmmm, I think that is it. Well, I was playing a few songs in Songbird, but I played others and nothing happened. I’ll assume it was the add-on and not Songbird itself that caused the problem. Hopefully.
Great work! However, I don’t see anything about grouping compilations on your roadmap. This is definitely a “must have” feature of a media player for me and – accordingly to your bug-tracker and getstatisfaction – a lot of other people. So please, please, please try to implement compilation grouping into the next release…
As Andrew Lueke mentioned, running Songbird as sudo on Linux DOES now give access to checking for program and add-on updates. However, this is not only ideal, I’m sure there is some sort of security risk with this behaviour.
It would be great if someone from the Songbird team could comment on this.
@Rick Stone
We already have a bug open here about the issue. It will be fixed in the next release.
Great release! Glad to see that metadata for shoutcast streams is updated with each song! Is this now one step closer to getting Shoutcast to scrobble?
Also, on Vista Songbird’s a little slow to close. It takes about a second or two longer
Hi, there is something that is I miss a lot on songbird. On Itunes it is possible to extract a playlist on the desktop. We just have to select the title of the song we want to extract, right click on it, then extract to desktop. Then we can find on the desktop the mp3 files of every song we extracted. It is very useful when we want to put some files on a USB key. Is is possible to see this feature on songbird ??
Thank you in advance.
Again, I specifically had autosync turned off because I know from itunes that autosync causes problems. Anyway, if its a bug, its a bug; I don’t know, if everyone still thinks I had autosync on though I didn’t, then, that’s fine too, either way, I’m not about to try it again. Maybe with a smaller ipod where I don’t mind losing my files.
I noticed that after syncing my iPod with Songbird 1.1 all of my music is missing on the device. Guys, can you please look into this! Very unprofessional first time experience.
@Om
Sorry to hear you were affected, it’s unfortunately a known issue http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2009/03/16/ipod-add-on-woes/ a this point.
We promptly pulled the iPod addon and blacklisted it in the application as soon as we confirmed that it was causing problems. We’re investigating the root cause of this.
Well…. Congratulations. Songbird 1.1.1 manages to play multiple tracks, gapless, from an SMB network share, without a single dropout. That is VERY positive improvement over 1.0.
It launches thousands of times faster than 1.0 as well! Deferring the “checking library for changes” into the background is a huge win for a 40K+ track database. Good job there.
That solves two of my most important issues.
The audio quality has taken a major hit, though. It sounds incredibly flat and tinny compared with iTunes on the same track data. (no equalizer settings, btw. I did doublecheck.) I don’t recall 1.0 sounding this bad, but I’d have to dig up an old copy to prove that.
Oh, and the party shuffle plugin is .. ugh.
It’s getting there, but it’s not there yet.
Thanks for the info about the Ubuntu issues, though I have to say that if this will not be fixed until the next release (which I assume is more than 4 weeks away), then I won’t be using Songbird until then, as I imagine that many won’t. This is quite a shame as it seems that Songbird was just beginning to be usable on a day-to-day basis.
This seems like kind of a major breakage to not fix right away.
mediaplayer =great
songbird vs1= fantastic
songbird vs1.1.1= epic fail this will cost member
songbird 1.1 as unstable as possible even itunes works faster
it stops working when its searching in the libary for songs or anything else
Still does play shoutcast right, it worked up to 0.61, but hasn’t worked since. If you listen to online radio forget about songbird, it’s cr@p.
- When viewing your library of music lets say you scroll to the G’s and stop then then switch to a playlist, or downloads on the left bar.
- The next time you switch back to library, “Songbird” doesn’t remember your scroll position, or place you back in the G’s where you left off. This gets quite annoying having to scroll down your whole list every time.
- I know there’s a search feature to find songs, but that can get quite annoying searching for every song.
I totally agree with kr1zmo. the library-browser loosing the selection is far beyond of just annoying!
Merci pour l’excellent article! Jean Carl Parisien Natick MA
why the “exe” file has another icon and not the fartin’ bird?
In my experience, Songbird is the only music player, that really almost satisfies me (Now Playing Plugin is very important too).
Is a bit slow and has some features I would prefere not to use, but fortunately these can be disabled (album art, etc).
I have almost 6000 tracks, so scrolling up/down is kind of slow.
Actually, whole OS is slow atm because of the gpu drivers, so ignore that scrolling thing.
see my post on the Beta-Release:
We definitifely need a Rating-Sharing-Mechanism!
regards
markus
I love Songbird! But I’d even love it more if it would be available as portable APP. So please make Songbird portable!!!
You’re doing a graet Job!
+1
I have the same issue as Florian – I updated 1.0 to 1.1.1 and upon starting the new version for the first time, the program stalls when updating the library. Uninstalling, then re-installing results in the same outcome. I’m running WinXP and more than meet the sys requirements.
Great work here!
But please include “compilations” (like in itunes) in your next release!
I have many electronic music compilations and navigating through them could be much easier with the tag… must-have!!11
And the shoutcast support is far from perfect…
I’m sorry, but I can’t use this 1.1.1
The Search lag bug is just too annoying, even with 13,5k numbers.
I did enjoy 1.0 much more
But I’ll ofcouse be using this awesome software when the bug is gone.
Oh I see people write watch folders have come back, I was like, “uhm, I’m sure i’ve seen a watch folder option”, and I had been searching days trying to find it. Glad to see it back.
see people write watch folders have come back, I was like, “uhm, I’m sure i’ve seen a watch folder option”, and I had been searching days trying to find it. Glad to see it back.
What a waste of time. Doesn’t play imported iTunes. What amateurish crap. FAIL.
It would be really nice to be able to burn a playlist onto a cd. I don’t know why that isn’t available. It’s really nice to be able to make mix Cd’s and I’m not able to do that with Songbird. Is there ever going to be an upgrade for this?
I absolutely adore Songbird & have since version 1.0. There are two issues I have right now:
-I can’t report bugs. I try to sign up, but I never get a confirmation email to register an account. I know its not really related to Songbird, but it flows into my next issue.
-Shotcast has stopped working. I was running Mint 6 and Songbird 1.1.2 and it was working wonderfully. All of a sudden one day it just stopped and I get an error that says “This is probably a text file”. I figured ok, no problem. Mint 7 is out soon & I’ll be doing a full reinstall anyway. I did so. Voila, radios came back. For the first play only. Once I shut the system down & brought it back up exact same error. I have Songbird on Windows and it does not appear to occur there, just on Linux.
You guys have an amazing player. You truly do
I recommend it to anyone I can, but I so miss my Shoutcast stations!! Last.FM is a great addition and fills in for the time being, but its just not what I want.
Songbird is nice, I’ve been using happily nostly it but it seems to refuse to watch my mp3 folder. Having this feature is important to me so I’ll try Mediamonkey now or maybe I’ll have to (nausea) go back to iTunes.