Songbird 1.2 focuses on improving library management and provides full integration with iTunes, in case you want to live in both worlds. We continue to listen to your feedback on Get Satisfaction, our blog and Bugzilla. Please let us know what’s important to you.
New Features
Automatically Organize Library Files
Songbird can now automatically organize the files that are contained in your library. Once enabled, it will consolidate your media in one location. You can customize the structure of the folder and file names based on metadata contained in every track.
2-way Sync with iTunes
If you’re using iTunes Music Store to purchase content, you can now automatically expose iTunes library tracks and playlists into Songbird. You can also export tracks and playlists added to Songbird back into iTunes, so that they can easily be synced to your iPhone or iPod touch.
Last.fm Radio
Last.fm Radio supports artist, tag, and user stations, mapping station links on the Last.fm website to play internally in Songbird. It includes the Radio Directory allowing you to conveniently browse and explore the tag and artist relationships on Last.fm. Additionally, the Radio directory includes quick links for playing stations based on your Last.fm library, your Songbird library, and friends/neighbors’ libraries.
10-band Equalizer
Now you can tweak the frequency response of the audio playback to match your room’s acoustics or your personal preferences.
Performance Enhancements
We’ve continued to make the application more stable and zippier in all sorts of ways. Mainly:
- Faster search
- Deleting many tracks at once is faster
- Selecting a large amount of tracks from the library is no longer slow
- Reduced the amount of threads required to be running at all times by 50%
- Fewer Crashes: We’ve worked hard to identify and fix some of the most common crashes in Songbird.
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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136 Comments
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w00t, downloading right away!
awesome.
Hooray
AWESOME!
….Now will someone please update the Songbird .deb on GetDeb? PLEASE!!!
Hell Yeaaah !
Thanks for the Pony
Oh, yeah! Just like a child with a new toy, thanks for the Pony!
The Lyrics Plugin doesnt work with this version?
Thats one of the major selling points for me
Cool! .deb for Ubuntu, please???
Yes!!!! Thanks!
Make a .deb for Ubuntu please!
And lyrics and cover for IPod!
How about a Queue system?
Hooray! Thanks Songbird team, on the download now
)
It’s way cool to see enhanced file management and EQ features in Songbird! Congrats to the team on what’s bound to be another big step forward. Downloading now.
Brilliant. It’s looking really great now. Time to spread the word!
Can there be a portable version?
For those who want a deb for Ubuntu on GetDeb, you have to file a bug report on Launchpad to get it packaged, I have filed a bug report and the current status is “in progress”, so hopefully it won’t be long.
OMG! An equalizer! SQUEE!!!
a quick release cycle and lots of attention to speed and stability, couldn’t be better!
Works Great! Thanks!
I’m sad it still doesn’t do podcasting.
Waiting for a deb for Ubuntu.
There’s a .deb for Ubuntu now available at GetDeb, but unfortunately (for me, anyway) Songbird won’t start. There’s a GStreamer error… >.<
I have uploaded updated versions of More Gonzo, Walnut and Walnut2 to support Songbird 1.2.0. The MediumPlayer of MoreGonzo now supports a context menu to change its view (disable Album Art, Volume Bar, etc). Walnut and Walnut2 are extended to support the Equalizer (and the Equalizer Presets extension).
Seems great but dang! Still no support for compilations tagging. I feel like alot of people don’t use Songbird because of this. Personally, my music collection looks like a HUGE mess if I can’t sort all my Various Artists and Compilations into one tab instead of having them flood the whole “Artists” column.
What about the context menu in explorer? Can we now right click on a song and then click “add to the playslist” like in Winamp or VLC ??
Again and again
(and why not posting about that, you guys at Songbird?), compilations are supported perfectly, by using the Album Artist tag. It’s available in Songbird natively as a displayed field (right click to add it), a search field in the selector (right click to add it), an intelligent playlist field…, and handled by more and more extensions.
Just set Artist = artist of the track
and
Albumartist=”Compilation”, or “Greatest hits”…
Hope this helps
And I almost forgot: many kudos to all the team… next big step for me: podcast support in 6 months (and cd ripping as well).
Hey I’m having trouble with Last.fm playing through songs. I have an account and I click play, it plays a few songs, but then it cycles through all these songs in the time bar/song frame thing(the main bar on the bottom) and doesn’t play any of them. Is this a bug that’s already been reported?
Installed on Ubuntu 9.04 and get this error:
*** glibc detected *** ././songbird-bin: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb0a14900 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7d74604]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0×96)[0xb7d765b6]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_mem_free+0×21)[0xb0960141]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0[0xb0957407]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_plugin_get_list+0×73)[0xb09575e3]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_init+0×291)[0xb0966ec1]
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstlibvisual.so[0xb0996273]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb334eb2a]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so(gst_plugin_load_file+0×93f)[0xb334f6f1]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb335bab6]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so(gst_registry_scan_path+0×135)[0xb335bc5b]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb330734f]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb330783b]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb3307ea6]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb330846e]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_option_context_parse+0×5ab)[0xb6b62dcb]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so(gst_init_check+0xf1)[0xb330660b]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so(gst_init+0×32)[0xb3306715]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so(_ZN18sbGStreamerService4InitEv+0×9ff)[0xb31a99e7]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb31b2a01]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb31c6a56]
/home/henrik/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so[0xb762fb89]
/home/henrik/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so[0xb762f04b]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb31c3a3f]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb31c3a69]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb31c3215]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb31b1071]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so(_ZN27sbGStreamerMediacoreFactory4InitEv+0×46)[0xb31b18e0]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb31b2961]
/home/henrik/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb31c6a56]
/home/henrik/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so[0xb762fb89]
/home/henrik/Songbird/components/sbMediacoreManager.so[0xb37bd1c5]
/home/henrik/Songbird/components/sbMediacoreManager.so[0xb37bd1f2]
/home/henrik/Songbird/components/sbMediacoreManager.so[0xb37bca8d]
/home/henrik/Songbird/components/sbMediacoreManager.so(_ZN8nsCOMPtrI19sbIMediacoreFactoryEC1ERK15nsCOMPtr_helper+0×2d)[0xb37a4159]
/home/henrik/Songbird/components/sbMediacoreManager.so(_ZN18sbMediacoreManager4InitEv+0×1b9)[0xb37a115b]
/home/henrik/Songbird/components/sbMediacoreManager.so[0xb37a14f4]
/home/henrik/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so[0xb760c877]
/home/henrik/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so[0xb760ce1c]
/home/henrik/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so[0xb6e9c7a0]
/home/henrik/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so(XRE_main+0×19af)[0xb6e9a481]
././songbird-bin[0x8048f40]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5)[0xb7d1b775]
././songbird-bin[0x8048bb1]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-0804e000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 322493 /home/henrik/Songbird/songbird-bin
0804e000-0804f000 rwxp 00006000 08:05 322493 /home/henrik/Songbird/songbird-bin
09e7b000-09e9c000 rwxp 09e7b000 00:00 0 [heap]
b0946000-b0982000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 74955 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0
b0982000-b0983000 r-xp 0003b000 08:05 74955 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0
b0983000-b0984000 rwxp 0003c000 08:05 74955 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0
b0989000-b098f000 rwxp b0989000 00:00 0
b0994000-b099a000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 32245 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstlibvisual.so
b099a000-b099b000 r-xp 00005000 08:05 32245 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstlibvisual.so
b099b000-b099c000 rwxp 00006000 08:05 32245 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstlibvisual.so
b099c000-b09ae000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 32275 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideo4linux.so
b09ae000-b09af000 r-xp 00012000 08:05 32275 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideo4linux.so
b09af000-b09b0000 rwxp 00013000 08:05 32275 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideo4linux.so
b09b0000-b09c1000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1046328 /usr/lib/libcdaudio.so.1.0.0
b09c1000-b09c2000 r-xp 00010000 08:05 1046328 /usr/lib/libcdaudio.so.1.0.0
b09c2000-b09c3000 rwxp 00011000 08:05 1046328 /usr/lib/libcdaudio.so.1.0.0
b09c8000-b09d1000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 32291 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstximagesrc.so
b09d1000-b09d2000 r-xp 00008000 08:05 32291 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstximagesrc.so
b09d2000-b09d3000 rwxp 00009000 08:05 32291 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstximagesrc.so
And I’m attempting to play related songs under the “My Top Artists” tab, specifically Sum 41 related/sound-alike songs.
When are we going to have true syncing with the Palm Pre? AS it is in in present state it sees Palm Pre as an iPod (because thats how Palm designed the Pre) but when you do a sync the music library doesn’t show up in the Palm Music Player. WHat I have had to do was after syncing my Pre I had to put it in USB mode and manually copy the music library folders out of the itunes directory and put the on the root of the pre. They would then show up in the music player. I hope this can be resolved (or maybe is resolved in version 1.2) but I am not sure that it can.
Does the 2-way iTunes sync also syncs play count and star rating?
Glad to see the updates! One question about the blog art though — in the image with the bird flipping through the jukebox, the little puff of air under the wing makes it look like he’s cutting cheese… or am I the only one that noticed?
uh Sean, that is intentional. They do that in every shot of the bird…
To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much of the equalizer. I thought it would be as unprofessional as the one in VLC. But wrong I was!! I love it
!
Some feature suggestions for the equalizer: presets (default, custom and per-genre ones), reset sliders to default.
I also love the music manager! This is gonna save me loaaaaaaaaaaads of time
!
Thanks a bunch friends!
Still waiting for Zune support. I realize it’s harder, because of the blocks Microsoft has put in, but it’s not even on your roadmap, and that’s very dissapointing to me. Even just putting it on the roadmap would probably be enough for me to switch to songbird, but if it’s not even on the horizon, it’s all but useless to me.
When you are going to fix Songbird so you can listen to podcasts without getting to the 99% Failed message. Your podcast download stops at 99% and says failed. People have been complaining about this for over year at least. With every release, it still doesn’t work on Ubuntu.
I’m also trying to run it on Ubuntu 9.04.
I get the same error as Henrik above.
*** glibc detected *** bin/Songbird/./songbird-bin: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb15ce540 ***
And like a real wiz I installed it over top of my 1.1.2 install. I can’t seem to find a place to download older versions of Songbird.
I get the same error than Henrik and Blob, i’m using Ubuntu 9.04 too.
I am trying to run songbird on Ubuntu 8.10, but I am getting the crash, and similar traceback that Henrik above had posted, see below. I tried reinstalling libc6, to no avail.
ron@ron-desktop:~$ songbird
*** glibc detected *** ././songbird-bin: double free or corruption (out): 0xb25bfda0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7cba454]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0×96)[0xb7cbc4b6]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_mem_free+0×21)[0xb21df141]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0[0xb21d6407]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_plugin_get_list+0×73)[0xb21d65e3]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_init+0×291)[0xb21e5ec1]
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstlibvisual.so[0xb26531f4]
/usr/share/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb362db2a]
Running on Linux Mint 7 (which is in turn based on Ubuntu 9.04), and I am seeing the same errors as the above Linux users. Sadness reigns… back to 1.1.2 for me.
Ah. I got the answer explaining the Ubuntu crash by doing a little searching on the web.
The problem is in libvisual. The solution is to remove the following packages:
libvisual-0.4-plugins
libvisual-projectm
It is NOT necessary or recommended to remove libvisual itself, just the plugins. I had to remove the projectm package as well however, then it came up running.
Congratulations guys! Another top notch release! I’m so proud of how far Songbird has come.
@Ron F: I saw some of those same posts in various forums; I’m hoping someone from the nest will comment on a resolution that doesn’t involve uninstalling stuff that may be used by other software on the system but actually resolves the conflict.
Ron Stewart: Well, unfortunately the last release of libvisual was in March, 2006. It does not appear anything will be forthcoming. I had been trying to use it to provide visual effects for various audio players I have on my system, but in general I found it buggy and problematic. I am not at all surprised that this particular crash can be traced back to this package.
The idea behind this project is a good one – make your visual effects independent of whatever audio player you choose to use. This particular run at this lofty goal however appears to have died on the vine.
I was checkin the visual effects on Totem and i found that this program uses this plugins. I find that Rhytmbox uses too, but, I don’t mind to uninstall them, i don’t use the visual effects on totem nor rhytmbox. So, I will try the fix that @RonF wrote.
I agree with @Ron Stewart that, just in case, to wait until the guys of the nest fix this bug. I will be checking it, we never know.
Hell f***ing yeah! It’s working! \m/
Unfortunately the new version broke the support for Minimize-to-Tray http://tn123.ath.cx/mintrayr/
Other than that, awesome.
Now will someone please say me how disable the quicktime warning wich popup each time i start SG, i dont have installed the quicktime plugin and i dont need it
Great work guys. Best release yet (Getsatisfaction seems to be very quiet at the moment in terms of problems unlike the last 2, so certainly the most stable release yet).
The only problem that appears to keep popping up this time is linux problems all over
That may be a problem with libvisual though mainly. (PS. Still need to give fedora a try, but it doesn’t want to work on virtualbox..)
Be aware that the linux issues may be a bit more common then thought, because I don’t think bug reporter is popping up..
Unfortunately, I don’t think I will enjoy 1.2 for too long, because 1.3a sounds quite enticing already
Great work though. Can hardly wait for transcoding though..
I love Songbird and just wanted to say thanks for the update and all the hard work!
I can confirm that uninstalling libvisual-0.4-plugins and libvisual-projectm in ubuntu 9.04 makes songbird work like it should
Hi,
Can you tell me why in your artwork for Songbird 1.2 your bird creature is ‘letting one off’, ‘creating a stink’, ‘guffing’ or ‘f*rting’ (not sure what you guys in the US call it).
Ta,
Gavvy
GavvyM: It’s not a fart, it’s exhaust emission. You have to know, that in reality, Songbird isn’t a pure animal, but a cybernetic, engine driven creature. A Cybird *uhuhu*. I’m not sure, on what it runs on (gasoline, kerosene,..), but it certainly needs an exhaust.
/(° v °)\=3
Hi guys. Great work! Now i can finally switch (the audioplayer) from winamp to SB (thanks to pony!).
Ubuntu’s users, here is the deb file : http://www.getdeb.net/app/Songbird
Thanks a lot for this great, great version.
Next step, be integrated in the ubuntu’s official package !
It would be great to have the podcast support (a lot more important than video support in me eyes, we already have smplayer for videos…)
Full Podcast support is expected in the October 09 release, and the specs are already written and complete (check in the wiki)
Hey guys, thanks for the great release, good work. Songbird is looking great! However, has anyone else had trouble with the managed music mode? There seem to be issues when the managed music folder is the same as the watched folder, which meant that every song in library was copied twice (or three times in some cases) until the process stopped due to lack of free hard disk space. If this is a known problem (which get satisfaction posts seem to suggest it is) maybe there should be a failsafe that prevents this from happening.
Dear Costumers! Congratualtion to this big big step for Your famous software. But I hope, and I think I don’t stay alone with my wish, You will integrate “Bird Tune” again in “Songbird”, especially with all French and english stations.
Thanks a lot and Good luck for the future!
Walter Lohmeyer
According to the system requirements (1.5GHz/512MB) this thing must be damn slow. So it cannot be used on my netbook and not on my notebook (266MHz/256MB) in my stereo rack. iTunes does run on those machines.
And it means: this is not GreenIT, since it consumes more power than what would be necessary for just playing music.
It is a shame!!!
Por fin organización de archivos, si el soporte MTP es mejorado y se añade la posibilidad de elegir la versión de los ID3 tags ya seria perfecto.
i love song bird but, my music collection is 99% cd’s, and last i knew SB was not able to rip yet. and i dont see anything about ripping in this new version. an EQ is VERY important to me, but i just had to re-rip my entire cd collection to windows MP11. i am only 36, and i cant be the only one with hundreds of cds. yet the ripping feature is hardly talked about. i know it is being worked on, but can it be a higher priority? are there others out there not using songbird because of this issue? dont get me wrong i am very grateful to all you programmers out there, i love firefox, it just baffles me how such an important feature such as ripping is,and still not be in there for as far along and well developed song bird is.?! other wise, i am very impressed with it-keep up the good work people.
Can the Automatic Organiser include a leading zero on the track number? Otherwise it’ll mess up the ordering when looking at the folder through the file system.
@andrew
Ripping always seemed to fall off the list of most important things to do since there are a lot of stand-alone pieces of software out there that do that and do it really well. Such as CDEx and EAC.
@iain
It already does that based on the amount of total tracks. So, if you have an album with 9 tracks, it will not pad with zeros but over 10 tracks it will.
@Thomas
Songbird will run fine on a netbook or notebook that doesn’t meet the minimum requirements. However, if you are attempting to manage a collection that is very large, it won’t have quite so much pep in it’s step.
You guys should be submitting each of these articles to digg.
Thank you for your work and this wonderful software!
I’ve 2 suggestions:
* The currently playing song should be highlighted in the playlist so that you know with a brief look what song is now playing and which is coming next.
* After restart, Songbird should start in the playlist what was playing before the last exit and the last played song should be highlighted. So you never lose the place of your last session.
excellent! now it’s very stable on osx intel so far!
it was really bad on 1.1.2, freezing a lot and just hanging there
@Lendo
We’ve definitely had those two requests pop up
We’d love to add that in at some point.
+1 Lendo.
I desperately short of these two features.
@klint
the only problem with that is that artists still show up individually in the artists tab, and alot of mp3’s don’t have the “album artist” filled at all.
meaning you’d have to go through and name every album artist the same as artist. unless anyone has a way of quick, bulk way of tagging the “album artist” the same as “artist” for the albums that aren’t compilations, this is still a huge problem for people with giant libraries that could easily be implemented.
I’ve been waiting for an equalizer for a long time. I’ll have to give Songbird another go.
I thought that songbird 1.2 would support compilations.
Still not there. and my library has been messed up.
not happy
@Joel D
It is very easy to tag all missing album artists:
- first install the extension Metadatatool ( http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1344)
- then create an intelligent playlist with the following criteria “Artist is not and AlbumArtist is ” . This will retrieve all tracks to be update in one click. This has to be done once.
Each time you need to retag:
- Display the content of the intelligent playlist created above, select all track, right click and “copy artistName to albumArtistName”
- Let the system do it, just wait, and…. that’s it!!
About your first remark? Which artist tab are you talking about? In many places of Songbird, you can select which columns are to be displayed… So, add or remove Artist or AlbumArtist field from these places.
Hope this helps
Olivier
I’m with Joel D, I wish to find an app for Linux good enough to work with tags, there’s nothing like “Winamp AutoTag”. I’m ubuntu user, and i hope u make a tag guessing for songbird, that would make me stop missing WinDos and Winamp. Play music is something that lots of apps do, but users claims a powerful media managing open and free. Make a googling about this, u’ll find lots of dissapointed users about this item.
@mario,
please read my comments and my answer to JoelD
@Songbird guys: I think that you could blog about 3 recurrent tips&tricks
- how to handled compilations with Songbird 1.2 (like I did above)
- how to use and external ripping tool, together with the Songbird automated folder watch for instance (see below)
- how to use both “watch folder” AND “manage music” features at the same time in a very powerful manner: the watched folder being kind of a buffer where you can pour any music that needs to be managed by Songbird, without bothering about exact location as long as tags are ok…. then songbird will take these files, rename and move them in its own managed directory… The ripping tool can pour its ripped files to the watched folder
What do you think?
@ Alfonso
To tag your files there is a great software : kid3 => http://kid3.sourceforge.net/
Install the package kid3-qt (gnome).
ahhh okay, so i would just retag everything to have the “album artist” the same as the “artists” EXCEPT for all my compilations. then just not display the “artist” column and use the “album artist” one instead?
i’ll try it out!
@Joel D
You got it!
Let me know it that’s a good solution in your opinion. If yes, maybe we should find a way to share it more widely, as it is a recurrent but inaccurate (IMHO) criticism made against Sonbird.
@ kilnt, and @ songbird guys
Great idea on the blog post, I’d love a post on how to use songbird more powerfully, especially with regards to watch folders and manage music. I imagine there are a lot of little tips and tricks that you guys could come up with that would be really useful.
Great Work. Works well in Ubuntu 9.04
how does 2-way sync with iTunes work exactly, i couldnt find any option like this. Hope someone helps me =)
@ klint
It’s a very good solution !!!
It works and it’s very useful because of the huge number of compilation albums in my library.
Thanks for the solution.
MediaFlow should organized the jackets that way because it’s a mess the way it does for the moment (same jacket appears many times).
I noticed a bug, which was already present in previous versions : the window to edit metadata is cut and can not be resized.
http://sd-14692.dedibox.fr/pepou/images/Capture-2.png
(ubuntu 9.04, gnome, songbird 1.2)
Love the new version. I have been looking forward to the organization feature and equalizer.
There is one problem I have been having since day one.
If I click on a playlist while a song is playing and then return to my library the focus plugin doesn’t return back to working unless I actually click on a file in the library.
Is there going to be a deb created for Ubuntu Intrepid? Looks like getdeb.net only has Songbird 1.2 for Hardy and Jaunty. I’m running Easy Peasy on my netbook, which is based on Intrepid.
DEB for ubuntu : http://www.getdeb.net/search.php?keywords=songbird
@klint,
it worked great! thanks for the explanation, you saved me from iTunes! there should totally be a blog dedicated to this problem. the only problem is that i can’t hide the “artist” columns and have a bunch of columns now. i used the “changeFilters” add-on in the past, but it looks like it’s not supported in songbird 2.0 yet..
did i miss a feature implement that i’m not seeing? or is there not a way to hide columns for this version yet?
Please, please, let Songbird integrate with Last.fm better, so I can scrobble my iPod plays!
For me that’s the most important thing missing. I can’t wait to switch to Songbird, but I have to stay with iTunes until Songbird has that feature. I just need to scrobble my iPod plays, as a Last.fm addict.
Keep up the great work!
@Yannick: Thanks, but that looks like Songbird 1.12 for Intrepid, not 1.2
A lot of bug with the “Automatically Organize Library Files”
Great to have the Automatically Organzize Library Files Feature but it’s removing the zero in all title numbers, no matter if there are more than 10 songs on an album or not… so thats a bit messy so far…
I don’t know if someone report it but :
Songbird don’t play the last 4 seconds of every song.
Good news for those Foxtab users that loved to use it but can’t now. I e-mailed the creator for the plug-in and while he said they are improving it and it will take some time to do so he managed to make an extension of it that will work for now.
“Hi,
For the current version 1.1.2, I attached the extension file which now will work also on Songbird 1.2.0.
However, for the new version of FoxTab 1.2, it will take some time.
Feel free to send it to whomever you like.
Cheers,
Roi”
I didn’t want to source from the e-mail so I uploaded it to my server, still all credit goes to the Foxtab creators and if you would like some more information you can go to their site here: http://www.foxtab.com/
Click the link to the right to download this plug-in > http://www.darksidehearts.com/Fox Tab.zip
*To Note* I will keep in on my server as long as you guys need it for direct downloading, if I ever move it to my Megaupload account I will let you know and post a link in the latest Songbird Blog entry.
I noticed the same thing as iRyusa. The player skips to the next song with 4 seconds left on every song.
This is by far the best app i’ve come across in years! Firefox + iTunes, fast and stable… brilliant! <3 thanks guys
AreTwo. Are you using 1.2 FINAL? The beta version had that bug but on Windows 7, it seemed to be fixed.
@Joel D
Which column are you talking about? in which view/panel? AFAIK, there has been no change here and you should be able to select the displayed columns by hiding/displaying them with the right click on the column headers. But maybe you are talking about another place
@Joel D again: by the way, once you’ve retag all your AlbumArtist fields, you can use them together with the Manage Music Folder feature, by naming the directories based on AlbumArtist instead of Artist itself. Hence, all your compilations will be grouped by Albums under a “Compilation” AlbumArtist folder (if you are using the word “Compilation” as AlbumArtist of course)
Does this make sense to you?
Thanks for the EQ!!! Songbird is now officially the best music player. (in my mind at least)
Greetings from Serbia..
I will say that the new update does it all.. The pause when you scroll forward in a song is fixed.. A lot of other special things… Fantastic music player!!!! I hope that they one day can fix a media player in songbird.. Then it will be pretty wild..
@klint, nevermind, i just had to shuffle some column around and change where they were at. thank you so much for showing me the light, haha!!
i’ve been getting a kick out of songbird, i still have been tagging new imports / downloaded mp3’s with musorq before importing. still haven’t let songbird organize the library yet, but i kinda enjoy being able to have more control over it before it goes inside of the library. i have to use it to check the “part of compilations” on the tag to make sure they are organized on the iPod when i put them on. the metatools are pretty rad though.
i can’t believe how far songbird has been coming lately, i first used it about 6 months ago and still couldn’t justify using it instead of iTunes but with so many cool add-ons, feathers, Mashtape, web content in the window, and neat little things i think this is the best music player for OS X so far. it’s gotten a whole lot faster also.
is iTunes 2-way sync working for anyone???
@iRyusa, @AreTwo
This is probably related to gapless playback. When we play back files in gapless mode (default, can’t turn it off at this time) there are two things that may happen.
1) The next file is at a different sample rate. This means that we can’t actually switch to the next track without a gap. Because of this, we rebuild the playback pipeline which can cause the end of the current file to not be completely played.
2) The whole file is actually played, but because of gapless mode, the title of the next track appears before all of the previous track is done playing. This happens because the tail end of the file typically fits into the audio output buffer so we actually ’start’ decoding the next file even the the current one isn’t done.
Both are already filed as individual bugs but we don’t have an ETA for when fixes will go in at this time.
I use Ubuntu on one laptop and WinXP on the other and Songbird on both. 1.2 has given me convincing reasons to move away from Banshee. The only thing that was holding me to Banshee was the last.fm support which is exceptional. Now that I can create my own last.fm stations and play them in Songbird, there is no reason not to switch. And I have always been a sucker for mozilla-based projects and the concept of add-ons.
Great job, Songbird team. You guys have made my life that much better. I wish you all the best
Since upgrading to this version, Songbird loads but then just hangs without doing anything. I have to close it with and end task from task manager.
This better get fixed soon or I’m gonna look elsewhere.
I had uninstalled libvisualplugins and libvisualprojectm to no avail, if anyone else is having this problem, delete the file in /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4/actor/ and that fixes it.
i downloaded songbird just about an hour ago, and i already LOVE it. i’ve been stuck with itunes since I started using osx and always hated the extreme slowlyness, lack of flac support and personal customization… and everything else. srsly, songbird is so fucking fast in comparison with itunes i’m in shock. will never touch itunes again. the only thing that bugs me is that i didn’t know of songbird earlier.
thank you!
@klint.
your solution is good, thanks for that. I’m using it at the moment!!
However, it does seems a little bit confusing, shouldnt songbird team implement something a little more refined to handle compilations?
Hi!
Since the new Isan release, my iPod isn’t recognized anymore… I have a 3rd gen iPod with Dock Connector and I’m using Ubuntu. My question is, for what specific reasons, this iPod model is only supported on Mac and Windows and not on Linux (see the iPod Device support Page http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Docs/Dev…)? I know that it isn’t supported on Linux, but at least it used to work via the firewire port with NO problems in the last releases… Can anyone please give me a logical answer to that question? It’s very frustrating for me as this should be a main feature…
Apart of this issue, I must say that you did a great job with this release, I appreciate it
regards,
Manuel
Same no-start problem for me with Ubuntu 9.04. As suggested above removing the directory /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4/actor (I renamed it) worked.
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CrashTime: 1245980945
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@Chris
That’s unfortunate that you’re running into such a bug. It would be extremely helpful for you to file a bug at bugzilla.songbirdnest.com so we can try and figure out what the actual problem is as we are not running into the problem ourselves in-house.
@Manuel R.
The iPod add-on is no longer part of the first run bundle so you may have to install it from addons.songbirdnest.com
Library is just as much crap as winamp
Who wants all thier music in one folder/list?
This is what kills me about winamp and what will cause me to dump songbird.
I have my music filed folder wise for various genres and eras. I want to keep it that way. ITs called being ORGANIZED. I want to be able to show just what i have organized by folders, rather than meta data. If I want to just look at all the songs in my Big Band folder. Thats what I want showing in the track list. If I just want to see whats in my 80s folder. Thats it. I have WAY to much stuff to have it all dumped into the library list and then even thing about sort viewing by meta data. Useless. Mediamonkey does this great!
Hope you do something about this. Right now it looks too much like winamp.
Thats my big gripe with winamp and one of the few reasons I might switch to songbird. Hope you do something about it.
@aus: I’ts installed but my problem is, that even if I had an unsupported iPod in Linux, it worked perfectly till this new release came out… I don’t think it would be a problem to get it working again under Linux, but this has to be evaluated by the coders, as I don’t have an insight into the iPod extension… I don’t see, why this iPod should only work under Windows/MacOS and not under Linux… I would be glad if it only worked with the firewire-connection workaraound. Otherwise I have to reinstall windows or use another program for my music…
Hallo everyone.
Yesterday I installed Songbird 1.20 on my PC.
Just a question: do you think that I could prefer Songbird that get busy my RAM for 100Mb or a player that flow only for 25Mb?
Too much…
Songbird needs crossfading and equalizer presets before I’d consider replacing Winamp.
Why is Songbird not native yet, or at least why is there not an option or skin for it? More Native isn’t compatible with 1.2, this should be built in! More Native has bugs as well (EG., the equalizer window is completely borked).
After digging up almost all media players that are available on ububtu, I finally decided to put amarok away and start using songbird.
I’ve finally managed to sort the update for Songbird, after much head-wrecking since it’s release I realised that some plugins were conflicting, removed them, installed the update, and hey presto Songbird is working like a charm.
Henrik, remove the libvisual plugins;
sudo apt-get remove libvisual-0.4-plugins
Reinstall the updated Songbird and see if it works that way, hope you can sort it.
I be trying to run songbird on windows xp, but I am getting crashs, I wish that someone had use the word BETA in the headline for this program.
Songbird keeps asking me to load or update programs that I HAVE on my PC, best of all it keeps closing down my Firefox.
Think I wait till this comes out of BETA before I download again as I not up to speed with all you have to do with this program to get it to run, I just a everyday user that can just download and click the word “run”.
Be happy folks
JIm
Hi guys,
Could somebody please tell me how to upgrade songbird without re-installing it? because I’ve already put a lot of add-ons in my current songbird version
by the way, Songbird really rocks man! keep up the good work
Thanks,
Rindhu
Songbird looking good on Windows 7 RC.
I’ll mail a picture to you shirtly and feedback how it does over the comong months to release.
I’ll be testing under 64-bit as well, and I have a nephew usng a Netbook, and I’ll have him try it as well.
Rick/King Gypsy
forgot to mention, in the same weekend of the “full montey burger,” songbird summited mt Tallac, Tahoe:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/drmarkidunn/3725096043/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/drmarkidunn/3726001244/
And it still close when you click exit button on Mac Leopard. This stupid fuction is still stopping me to use Songbird. I will wait and use my iTunes. thanks but not now until you change this function.
@Rafal. Why would that be a problem? Songbird isn’t a multi-window application, so it doesn’t make sense to keep it open anyway.. Furthermore, closing the application window in most applications doesn’t even save ram/CPU anyway.
Why not just minimise?
@Ron F: thanks for the tip!
On first sight I was about to fall in love with Songbird. But then – I am pissed off, because without even asking me it did completely mess up all my files. That should not happen! My completel large library, carefully sorted through years, is messed up. Mp3 files taken out of their folders and moved into new folders, sorted into complete different structures, speparated from the covers that were together with the mp3s in oe folder, idtags changed etc., on Songbird’s logic of genre, not in mine. Now I can spend weeks to get everything back as I had it, and even my playlists in other players don’t work anymore, since all files have been moved elsewhere.
Crap is that. It right gets thrown off from my computer!
Henrik, i have this error too, If you have an NVIDIA graphics card you may need to remove the libvisual-0.4-plugins package.
http://carlrobers.wordpress.com
“Seems great but dang! Still no support for compilations tagging. I feel like alot of people don’t use Songbird because of this.”
I’m right there with you.
As crystal commented it messed up all my files. 40 gigs of music that I had sorted in folders, but without tags is now moved into one folder because it was recognized as “unknown artist”. I cannot get it back to the way it was because I do not know all the songs. NOT happy!
Maybe read about a feature before you try it next time, or tag your files. Your problem is your own fault.
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