Comments on: Songbird 1.2 Beta 1 is available for testing

By: scouser73

scouser73 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:28:38 +0000

I really love Songbird, currently I’m using 1.1.2. I’m running Ubuntu Linux and I’ve tried to get both the tar.gz & the .deb file to install, Once installed, I go to click on Songbird, it states that it’s starting but nothing happens, I’ve had to revert back to 1.1.2, can anyone suggest a fix?

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:13:50 +0000

Hi!
This, of course, all well and good, even excellent, you just Well done.
But a small but why in the metadata editor and the player has no information about the type of playing the file to me this is very much lacking please add this feature as soon as possible.
Believe me I think it is interesting not only to me.

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Weekly Birdbath | KolayOnline — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:32:25 +0000

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By: manu

manu — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:36:08 +0000

“Automatically Organize Library Files” Great !

Weird with artist names like “X featuring Y”, though. :/

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:01:13 +0000

Anyone else having problems with activating the “manage music” feature? Whenever I try to activate the feature and tell it where my music library is, I click “Browse” but get nothing. No folder selection dialogue…nothing. I can’t even type the path into the box either. Strange….

(i’m using a portable HD for my library, if that matters, but I’m not even getting far enough into the dialog for that to factor in)

By: klint

klint — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:41:49 +0000

@TRS: I am able to handle compilations easily with Songbird by using the Album Artist tag which is available. A lot of extensions already make use of this tag as well.
Hope this helps.

By: TRS

TRS — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:04:02 +0000

Ugh seriously, still no compilation support? Is there any particular reason why this wasn’t a basic feature w/ the first release, and still hasn’t been included? As spectacular as almost everything else on Songbird is, I use it maybe once every three months because of the lack of comp support, and I know that I’m a part of a pretty sizable minority.

Songbird is light-years ahead of other music players in so many respects, but until you Pioneers fix the compilation problem, yes, it really is a polished turd. I think you all might be fundamentally misunderstanding how people browse their music. If you could PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE prioritize and fix this, I’d bet that you’d see an exponential jump in users (and user happiness).

I really want to use Songbird– HALP PLEASE!

* And with that whining out of the way, you all are doing a fabulous job otherwise!

By: user

user — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:14:31 +0000

First, thanks for the equalizer. Second, I was wondering if there a way to integrate amazon.com mp3 store to songbird

By: ben

ben — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:40:35 +0000

very thankful for equalizer. custom presets would be fantastic, i use the equalizer all the time when i want to say hear more drums/less vocals/more bass/whatever on a particular song.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:06:51 +0000

I’m pretty sure that most people’s search woes are due to LyricMaster saving the lyrics to the comments field in the MP3 tag, and Songbird searching through said comments field.

I didn’t discover this until recently, and it really is quite cool as it means that Songbird can search through lyrics to find the song you want, but it slows it down significantly.