Weekly Birdbath

By Laura Laura Jul 2, 2009 3:20 pm Permalink
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Foxy + feathers = sexy music

We’ve fielded a request or 12 for Songbird integration with FoxyTunes, but we were pretty stoked to learn that they’ve had a request or two as well. Yesterday they announced that they can now support Songbird. In just a few simple steps you can control Songbird from FoxyTunes in Firefox on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux! Sometimes getting beat to the punch doesn’t suck. Woot!

Crossing the border

We’re super excited that Stevo and his family are bidding a fond farewell to Canada so he can begin working with us locally. The San Francisco office is thrilled to have you here. What do you want for lunch next week? You can have your choice as long as it’s not burgers, we had that today, or pizza, Kreeger had that for dinner last night. Otherwise, anything you want!

Goodbye Canada Day, Hello 4th of July

To celebrate the arrival of Stevo (and our independence) we thought we’d turn off the internets for a long weekend. Don’t call us, we’ll call you. Enjoy the fireworks but hold the fires!

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  1. trent Jul 2, 2009 4:47 pm Permalink

    huzzah! finally a reason to try out foxy tunes again.

  2. Andrew Luecke Jul 3, 2009 1:57 am Permalink

    Make it Maccas for lunch I’d say Stevo :P

    There is always chicken nuggets available to those who don’t want burgers

  3. Robert Carl Parisien Jul 7, 2009 4:21 pm Permalink

    wow i’m impressed to learn of the new support. This will come in very handy. Robert Carl Parisien Natick MA

  4. Shane Jul 8, 2009 7:07 pm Permalink

    I have been using/reviewing Songbird, and despite its captivating features and abilities, currently Songbird is more of a trouble than it is a blessing.

    Songbird does not substitute for iTunes in any way! People use iTunes because they have an iPod, not to listen to music on their computer. Songbird will not sync an iPod, it is only a music player (and other things that are irrelevant, such as a web browser).

    So with out iPod cabibility, songbird is only a music player right? Wrong, it is also a web browser! So if you were looking for a Music Player only, you have again come to the wrong place! Not only do you have to set your music listening preferences, you must also set your browsing preferences in Songbird!

    So with all that said, if you do not mind an iTunes look-a-like, that is also loaded with a web browser (which were so grateful for since nobody has Firefox or IE anymore, ROFL) and does not support your iPod, and only care to listen to music, you will have to wait longer than iTunes!

    That’s right, iTunes loads faster than Songbird, becuase everytime iTunes is opened, to load music to your library, or iPod, Songbird has to resync the iTunes play list! So every time you open Songbird after syncing your iPod, Songbird will run extremely slow while its syncing your library, for the first couple of minutes you have songbird open, at the time your trying to look through the library to find something to play. If you dont open it, then wait for it to sync, then it will jump around and go very slow during sync.

    I am sure this is not a problem for people with under 50gigs of music, but anyone with less than that can just use a normal music player. I am a real music collector, that needs a real music program to organize it all.

    While iTunes may be 3 or 4 times the size on disk, it runs about 3 or 4 times faster! I hate Apple, and every piece of software they create; however, until Songbird is revamped, iTunes is still the only music player available to iTunes users =(

  5. Dani Jul 9, 2009 5:45 am Permalink

    Great! But… when systemtray “firetray” for linux…. and… work? I only need foxy & this extensión for perfect songbird!!! ^^

    Thanks for this great job!

  6. Glenn Jul 12, 2009 7:48 pm Permalink

    So-o-o-o, sort of a melding between Firefox and Songbird, resulting in a… Firebird? (which, if you remember… :D )

  7. james Jul 14, 2009 9:15 pm Permalink

    Hi guys

    Well a mate has got Songbird to work on my PC, and it is great. I love the add on’s but when I try to add FoxyTunes to my FireFox so I can use Songbird at the sametime I get this “FireFox prevented this site (www.FoxyTunes.com) from asking you to install software on your computer) which is something they do if there is something bad about the software. Do you guys know why?

    Jim

  8. Anish Thomas Jul 15, 2009 12:35 pm Permalink

    hey
    i am glad that foxytunes works with Firefox & Songbird
    but i am a user of Flock & the FoxyTunes installer for Firefox doesn’t work for Flock :(