First things first, IOU a correction on our last post. I made a wee bit of a typo and scared some of you away from our video contest by saying submissions were due at the end of this month when in reality we had scheduled the deadline for OCTOBER 30th, 2009. Just checking to see if you were paying attention. So that’s the date, tell your friends. The winner announcement is still planned for the November 5th Birdbath. Now doesn’t that make more sense?
You can expect even more mistakes and typos this week as a sleepy spell has been cast over the office thanks to Little Skillet and their Chicken and Waffles. I mean, if we’re serving breakfast and fried food for lunch, a cot should be provided.
Last week our Podcast Subscription Support thread was so active I think it caused global internet slowdowns. However it did result in some awesome developer/community dialog which I think this topic was in desperate need of (thanks again pvh). One important thing that resulted from the conversation was the realization that we’re not so far off from a short term solution while we finish baking the whole project. So consider this an SOS for some add-on developer love. Any takers?
There’s a new tweeter in town. If you like Songbird and you like to Twitter, you should follow SongbirdFans. Its founder, Richard just burst onto the Get Satisfaction scene a week and a half ago, but he’s a long time user and is already proving to be a helpful and knowledgeable member of the community. He knows a lot about the different add-ons available and has been offering some great tips and tricks so if you have a quick question, you should give him a shout.
Just as I was about to hit publish our first video contest submission rolled in, thanks grone1985! I can’t wait for more to follow. W00t!














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We are not soggy. Unlike your waffles.
Can’t say I didn’t warn you…
Hallo there!
I really appreciate your work on songbird. It is the condition for me, to switch from Mac to (Ubuntu)-Linux, because I need an iTunes-killer.
But what I am really interested about is, how is work going on for Jackson 5 and when do you think it will be released? I don’t want my whole music library and files to be automatically managed by the first version of a program (sb. 1.2) which can do this.
For the future: I want to see Songbird as the default music player in Ubuntu 10.04!
Yay, now I’ll definately get around to make that video. If I could I’d send you some Scandinavian style waffles
@volker I don’t think you’ll see Songbird as the default player on Ubuntu anytime soon. Many of the core features of Songbird such as MSC are not being developed for Linux. Plus, there is already a very good, feature-complete iTunes-killer in Linux, Banshee. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should head on over to banshee-project.org and get the latest .deb I think you’ll be greatly satisfied.
@forest: As long as I can install Songbird easyly in Linux, I can live with it.
I also installed Banshee and testet it out. It feels really snappy and integrates perfectly under Gnome: Unfortunately it has one giant disadvantage, that makes it completely useless for me: it has no genre pane. Without this I am not able to manage my music library comfortably.
Until I see the final of jackson 5 I use Songbird with the managed mode turned off. I just haven’t such a good feeling to entrust my whole library to such a freshly implemented feature. Even iTunes has deleted songs from me!
Keep on doing great work!
Amarok is also a great replacement for itunes for kde users.
I’d like to see a songbird gtk+ or qt integration.
@ Lenny Those sound good. On another waffle note, I have a recipe for The Liège waffle that I make during the holidays. We just call them French waffles. They’re amazing. Great, now I have to go bake.
@geek: I tried Amarok but I can’t get warm with the playlist orientated concept. I am focused an albums. I also didn’t get it so select several genres at one time to see all artists/albums of this genre.
Another this is that I am still interested in when the next major songbird release is planned to come out…
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Roadmap