“Kanyebird is gonna let you finish, but he thinks the Gonzo feather was the best feather of all time”

Kanye is the most arrogant of all time (he even thinks he’s some sort of prophet!) so therefore Kanyebird would probably only think that purple rain is the best of all time… HIS feather.

Looks good though

Change tha splash screen… It looks like an advertisement. And it’s absolutely unnecessary.

The lack of support for the linux community is finally making me to switch over to another software.

Not only that all of these nice features like cd importing or msc device (which i would actually love) aren’t announced for linux based system (although i remember that cd importing was just a short time ago), I tried out your 1.4.2 today and it’s unable to start up under ubuntu 9.10. Sad but true. Let me just say, that out of the last 3 updates, 2 weren’t even working (in fact, they didn’t even started up) on the most up-to-date ubuntu system (1.2 + 1,4.2). And I only got 1.2 started by spending days in order to find a proper and working solution.

Regarding a project that is based on the principles of free software, the lack of support and attention shown to the linux community, which is the most important free software project ever, is not only hard to understand, it’s simply emberrassing.

I’ll be back, once you change your ubuntu and linux policy.

Congratulations on a release and updates that seem to be bringing things back together imo.

Now..
The conflict with the media management and watch folder aspect.. where neither can contain each other… Seems like Songbird creates this predicament by default on windows. How are non-techies supposed to figure that out? IS it not possible to make the arrangement by default, where ‘Songbird music’ file is in a different folder? Even myself, was such a headache trying to commit to a place for one or the other, I simply turned off watch folder, because I need the file management more.

Finally, on Songbird’s launch, I can live with the splash screen, though I would agree it lacks ’something’… what is a problem is the white/blank screen in my library as it apparently takes a while to figure out my library before loading it. It IS the library manager, so it should not have that hard a time . I have not had this problem before. By the way, this is a clean install.

Thank you.

Ugh. The splash screen needs to go – it look horrendous. At least give us an option to hide it if you won’t remove/change it. Also, the quick launch icon is terrible. Who had the bright idea to put a solid black icon down there ? More of an eyesore now. Am I the only one that thinks the new look (Purple Rain) is terrible ? The look of the 1.2 releases was perfect – thankfully I see the Gonzo 2.0 feather is updated. Art director for the 1.4 releases should be canned, or given some vision insurance coverage.

@deOmega
About your white library, are you using the Purplerain feathers, or a still incompatible feather? Try to switch back to Purplerain.

@Eva:I’m sure someone will develop an extension to remove/change the splash screen. While waiting for that, check in the blog post about the 1.4.1b2. There is a method to change it and some proposals for new splash screen.

@klint
yes, it is a compatible feather, but if there is doubt, it also happens with purple rain, and here is a snapshot:

http://i49.tinypic.com/23rtkao.jpg

sure, no problem.. i may have to send you the whole thing if i cannot find out where 7 zip is storing the file when i click on compress and email… it just zips it and it disappears

love the new feather mind.

Hey, nobody’s found the easter eggs yet…

cool guys, thanks!

You guys really need your own package server. Using getdeb, packman and various unofficial rpm servers is … awful.

Plus it will get you even more attention in the Linux world. I don’t understand why Mozilla doesn’t have their own package server.

I’m disappointed that this update doesn’t get rid of the God-awful Purple Rain theme or the new black icon (which doesn’t work so well on black desktops, needless to say). Seriously, guys, get a UI consultant or something.

That said, thanks for the updates — both 1.4.1 and 1.4.2. 1.4 seems like a nice step up from 1.2. Keep up the good work!

P.S. You should really considering adding Podcast support sooner rather than later!

Installed 1.4.2 over 1.2. Started songbird, splash screen appeared, then nothing was shown. Looked through the invisible windows and noticed the addon update window existing, but wasn’t visible. Changed it to visible and continued on with the first startup. WinXP SP3, dual monitors. Sorry I can’t make a formal bug report.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! I can’t stand having to reboot between uninstalls and upgrades of Songbird. What gives?

Couldn’t start any Songbird version since 1.2.2 on my Ubuntu systems until I deinstall package libvisual-0.4-plugin. Can you please fix this bug?

Jan Leger just posted a comment: http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19273#c4 “Per todays bug triage, we will be keeping the splash screen in to ensure user gets UE that something is going on. We do not want it able to be disabled. Won’t Fix.”

Not to sound passive-aggressive, which this very much is, but has anyone you seen -one- single positive comment about the splash?

@klint Don’t you go raining on my parade now! Hahahah, it’s cool. You’re right about the new icon being hard to read, too – it doesn’t, does it?

@dim
How did you do that? syncing should go one way, from the Library to the device.
Are you using the MSC addon or the MTP one?

@MasterEvilAce Yeah, my first gut reaction to splash screens is, “This is so 90s!”

The thing is, you just opened the program. You know what you did – you just clicked the icon! “*SPLASH* HELLO! THIS IS PROGRAM X! YOU OPENED ME! I KNOW YOU KNOW BUT LET ME JUST RUB IT IN YOUR FACE ANYWAY! *SPLASH!*” – that’s redundancy.

@Eric N

We haven’t released auto updates for 1.4.2 yet. We’ll have a blog post when we do.

@Duv

Ah yes, that link did vanish. However, you can still find the builds here: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Builds/Contributed_Builds

Pretty easy to find in the meantime

Well, it syncs all of my iTunes playlists now, which 1.4.1 didn’t do oddly, so thanks

Still need the exorcist updated if it hasn’t been already

UPDATE – a little happier now. First, deleted splash.bmp and the splash screen is gone and no errors on startup (that was easier than an about:config setting).

Next, I took the icon from the 1.2 version and copied it/named it songbird_classic.ico in my C:\Program Files (x86)\Songbird folder.

Finally I changed the shortcut properties to use the previous icon and I’m back to the previous look (mostly). Note that it took a full restart on my machine for the icon to change, probably could have cleared the icon cache, but I didn’t.

Now a combination of a missing splash screen, changed icon and Gonzo 2.0.x, my Songbird looks like the 1.2 releases. Now just need to wait for an update to the Customize Filter Pane addon.

Somehow sync support for my Sansa Clip is gone with this update. With the previous version the sync worked to a degree (songbird wouldn’t remember the songs and library on the player, and some songs wouldn’t sync), but with 1.4 songbird doesn’t even recognize my Clip.

@deOmega: by any chance, do you have the CD Rip addon activated? Try to deactivate it and restart SB. Is the blank screen still there?
I ‘ve had issues with the CD Rip addon at startup already.

@Rob Hayes.
Purple? Oh, that is so nice And I find the Gonzo one horrible..
Now, pick the one you like as an addon, that is the strength of Songbird!
By the way, the old Gonzo is now available as an addon (look for Gonzo 2.0)
But I agree with you on the Splash screen. Hope there will be an addon to remove or pick another picture

@Klint

Thank you, that made a marked improvement.. Still get the white screen though, but it only lasts like maybe 2 seconds now. Enough to where I can do a quick screen capture.

also interested in an updated roadmap.

Another suggestion for linux version:
in the downloads window, the right click menu should have options such as “show track in file browser” and “show track in library”.

Thanks again!

I been using 1.4.0b3 for a while (in RHEL & Ubuntu).. I’m liking the new purple/black skin in 1.4.2.. The only thing missing were my bookmarks and this fixed fixed it: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1746
I liked that there was a Linux version for x86_64..

Some folks mentioned a splash screen in SB.. Is that a Windows thing because I’ve not ever seen one?
Anyway, kudos to all Devels for this release!!

sadly ipod support is broken. no info in the internet about it whatsoever…

Bah, forget iPod, I’d like Rockbox support!

Why nobody is updating the roadmap in songbird wiki ?

+1 Pr1me

@scott

There are command line options already for Songbird. Here’s a quick list:

playback.volumeup
playback.volumedown
playback.nexttrack
playback.previoustrack
playback.playpause
playback.pause
playback.stop

You can use them by invoking Songbird with –hotkey=

@Chauncellor

You can collapse those panes using the splitters. After they are collapsed, they will never pop open again and it disables the display panes that are inside of them too.

@ChaoZz

Songbird installs system libraries to support CD ripping. When uninstalling it’s often necessary to reboot for those to be removed properly. It won’t prompt unless it absolute needs to do so that it can remove the system files. I’m afraid there’s not really any way around that unless you don’t plan on reinstalling afterwards.

@Deepak

That’s because we haven’t settled on what we’ll be working on for future releases. When we have, it will be updated.

Yeah, splash screen makes the program look cheap. (Also highlights how long it can take Songbird to start…) Lame.

Songbird still can’t watch multiple folders, and it still does not handle multiple tags with the same name correctly. Instead, it has a new feather and can rip CDs. Bye Songbird, hello foobar2000.

Asus,

Great, thanks for the tip!

I can’t seem to get the shortcuts to work though. I have tried:
songbird –hotkey=playback.playpause
and
songbird -hotkey=playback.playpause

could you tell me what i am doing wrong? Is there a man page?

Thanks

Please read the posts above to find the solution to get rid of Splash screen.
Gonzo will not be default anymore as a new default feather has been developed in replacement (that I find visually far more attractive IMHO ). But you have Gonzo 2.0 as the closest alternative.
And the thick borders have been implemented to give easier control on the right and bottom panel opening and closing.

@Michael Purses Thanks for adding that functionality to Gonzo 2.0…works perfectly now!

Again, not surprising. Windows users get the goodies, and Linux and Mac users get left in the dust. It’s always interesting for me to download each new release to see how far Songbird still has to go. Sure, it has a new default feather (another step back, IMO). Still no CD rip. Poor OS integration. Where is iTunes without the cruft? Not here.

Every release a bit better but …
– still to slow
– still no sub-folders like in iTunes
– still no video support

Try to do it like the Chinese: First copy the original, than become better! (this should not be to difficult if iTunes is the original)

Just downloadead 1.4.2 for Linux. Starting the Application takes about 1.5 minutes, skipping a song about 30 seconds. Where are the promised improvements in stability & performance? Are there any improvements for Linux at all since 1.2? (a new feather doesn’t really count as long as the core isn’t working properly and i don’t like purple anyway). The whole update and development policy more and more reminds me of openmoko, where the devs where switching the toolkit every month, discussing colors for the gui and brainstorming about what fancy features they should implement with the accelerometer while you still couldn’t use their “free’d phone” for making a phone call (nor for anything else).
When i first discovered songbird i was so glad finally having found a media-player which fits nearly all of my needs (itunes-like library organisation, integrated store…) and furthermore looked great. Now that i’ve been using songbird and watching its development-process for a few months i find it to embarrassing to recommand such a hardly working piece of software to anybody. Nevertheless i still believe that the project has the potential to become the best (free) media player and hope that the devs will readjust the focus to the really important tasks (performance, cd-ripping, getting features homogenous among different platforms imho).

Its running faster than 1.2 on Windows 7 64bit
Purplerain looks good its growing on me…
Also I like the splash screen, shows me that its actually doing something, so I know that it actually started up.

@Aus

I agree with lada’s comments. When I run Songbird (but on Vista rather than Linux) with the new Purple Rain theme, it takes > 90 seconds to load up. I can double click the Songbird icon and then go off an make a cup of coffee and still be back before it loads. I tried deleting the entire library listing and then reimporting the library but even having done this on subsequent attempts to start it it is still embarrassingly slow. I haven’t even bothered trying to install the new Songbird under Linux, I have switched back to Banshee for that for the time being.

@LingLing7 FLAC tags are working fine for me, only album art is still unsupported. I miss my album art!!! Hope this will be included soon, must be quite straight forward…

@Lasse

Try this: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1782

Also, you can just click on the album title in the now playing bar, that should help with your third issue.

I’m back from my last rant about the new UI. I don’t encounter operational bugs as others do, and I was always pleased by Songbird’s non-intrusive, neutral, and pleasing UI, but I am giving up on Songbird because changes I consider annoyances are perceived by many as bonuses. Thick bars for better control? Sure, let’s offer that “great” idea to Microsoft for free to include in Excel, so that it’s easier to control cell widths!

“Songbird is customizable” like Linux is customizable – you can get it to look like XP pixel for pixel given enough effort. But Firefox didn’t get where it did by being a special kid – it just feels right by default.

I wonder how many loyal users are put off by the redesign… Purple rain’s depressing black obviously requires “growing into” rather than being as transparent an UI as possible. A black UI was fashionable in the Vista era, but Windows 7 uses a lighter theme. So does Mac OS. If Songbird team and other users insist that every change is for the better, I guess I won’t stick around to praise it to its niche.

@katana346

Thanx for the Exorcist tip. I can’t believe an add-on is needed to fix such a basic library management feature though! Just want to hit the rescan button and know that my library will be 100% consistent afterwards.

As for the “link” in the now playing bar, these only work if you’re allready viewing a selection containing the track playing. In filter pane view this is often not the case, at least not the way I browse my library. Real, working links could be a powerfull featureI think.

@mcjv: I personnally like the new UI very much… but you really can’t tell the number of people droven away from SB from the posts here, as one usually comes in such places to rant rather than to praise !

About customizing, installing another Skin/feather is just a couple of clicks away, starting from the menu bar. So, I don’t think your comparison with Linux can apply. Customizable also means the soft is not bloated from the beginning by unneeded features. You can install just those you need.

By the way, do you look for a thinner bar? Thank the Ne+ feather (I do prefer the thick bar though, it really makes gripping easier).

Hope this helps.

@Klint

Indeed I have this bug. It’s exactly the same. I have Windows XP.

@mateo360: I don’t think there is a 1.2.2 but you can find the latest 1.2.1 builds here: http://developer.songbirdnest.com/builds/Songbird1.2/latest/

By the way, may I ask you why you want to downgrade?
Merci

@klint Ne+ is really good. I don’t normally like dark skins, but along with Spotbird (and Gonzo 2.0, obviously), it really is the most mature skin for Songbird atm.

Excellent work with all of the above!

hola
tengo una idea para la proxima entrega
en mediaflow, cuando suene una cancion, la caratula del disco de la misma, podria cambiar al videoclip de la cancion
suerte
adios

@Gilles (and others): then go to the addon website and do a search on “splash”. Songbird is so extensible…

I just dowloaded the new version of Songbird and it still doesn’t want to play my songs.
I click on a song or an album and nothing happens.

I would like u to fix this problem if possible. It worked well this morning.

@ Lasse
Although I disagree that this should be a part of the SB core (the way I see it, nearly every “feature” should be add-on rather than a core feature, thats what makes songbird songbird, and why I use it in the first place), I could see The Exorcist being added to the list of recommended add-ons.

Perhaps you could file a feature request for adding Exorcist to the recommended addons list? You could even file one asking that such a feature be added to the core just to see the support you get. User feedback is what fuels this project, and if the community speaks (in a way that can easily be gauged by the developers: this is where bug requests come in handy with the voting system), then the dev team will listen.

@ all the people who are whining about the new feather
Go look up “addons”, “skins”, or “feathers”. The point of SB is that you can customize it however you please, and that you DONT have to keep the default look. I, like many others, actually like the new look, but if you don’t, there and many more to choose from. Hell, you can even make your own if you are that concerned.

Been using Songbird for YEARS and love it… until I downloaded this version. Just 10 minutes ago I was rocking to my 2nd gen iPod Nano via Songbird 1.2 and read about 1.4 on Gizmodo. So, I downloaded the new version, set it up, and… nothing. It doesn’t recognize my iPod being plugged in. In the error log, there’s just tons of errors too

Oh noes! Please don’t make me go back to iTunes!!

Songbird has problem with feathers:
i downloaded some feathers (just to choose one of it). But then i coudn’t enable any of it. No, a can click “enable”, but it wount change anything – it will be the same “purple rainforest”.

@Alex Monk: you have to use the “Display/Feather” menu option to change feather.

@RnB_001: what are the setttings of the NowPlaying? Also, try to deactivate it and make another test.

When I said that I was seeing the “Now Playing”, I was talking about the album art. Where do u c the settings?
In fact, it plays the songs really fast but I can’t hear anything.

If there r a lot of problems on the new Songbird, I’m going the downgrade it if I can find it or I’m going to use another MP3 player.
Right now, I’m using Winamp.

I love Songbird and I really hope u’ll b able to release a version which has no bugs at all.

Thanks

Hi,
I really want to try this new version of songbird but really afraid too when i see all of these problems, the previous version was just a nightmare for me on XP, errors to read songs on 80% of my music. Is there a portable version or are you planning to make one ? I continue to use VLC and shit folders for now coz’ there is no way that I go with iTunes.

@RnB_001!
There is no such software with no bug at all, unfortunately

Which extensions with Now Playing in their title do you have (Tools/Addons)?

Also, which formats are your songs? And where are they located? On a external or internal hard drive? If you go on a song in Songbird, and right click to locate file, what do you get?

And what do you mean by ‘play the songs very fast”???

I just imported all my songs into Songbird and it works fine.
Thank u for ur help

Sorry if I offended u by saying something.

The reason I’m asking is that when a song is in SB’s library but the file itself is not there, SB may give the impression to play the song “very fast” (it skips the song actually, but it’s like it was played in half a sec!)

Songbird used to be very good, but something has changed with th 1.4 release. It seems as songbird has lost its innocence. Web browsing features are important in my opinion, and it is them that makes songbird unique. I used to LOVE the player, but now I a, loosing faith into it. How sad. It always worked graet for me. WHY did you remove the bookmarking feature so that now it is necessary to get an extension for that? Seems so illogical to me. And then these graphical issues. Obviously the graphics team changed. I liked the skills of our old one better, but this is just an opinion. As above: WHY WHY WHY? I said a lot about what I don’t like, but thanks for all the privous work, which gave me many hours of entertainment with the software yet.

cd rip addon doesn’t work for me (xp pro sp3 32bit)
as soon as i enable the cd rip addon and restart songbird, it stays at the splash screen and sometimes freezes my whole pc, i have to use songbird’s safe mode to disable the cd rip addon again to be able to use songbird, annoying…

Much better than 1.2 overall. Though the cover art is slowing Songbird down seriously, I have a slow internet connection and songbird ceases for about 10 seconds whilst it finds album art. Annoying but at least I know what’s up with Songbird now, once a track has artwork there’s no delay.

@klint thanks a lot! Definitely like to see this fixed in the next version. Saves embrassement in front of friends when it locks up for a moment.

Have you noticed that artwork doesn’t get saved locally to the folder? Is this a normally behaviour? Otherwise, although editing metadata on ogg/flac’s is slow, it’s bareable.

(Forgive me for my poor writing skills)

Its very stable on ubuntu 9.10, yet as many said, purple rain is strait up terrible. I am very disappointed that the control buttons and track info have been moved to the top. I don’t see why that needed to be changed. I’ve been using songbird for since it was in the beta and I don’t see why that needs to change. Many of the add-ons I previously had were taken away. I do like the fact that songbird searches for album art in the corresponding folders. It is damn hard to keep an organized music library when a person has over 14k songs. This feature is one of my favorites because I don’t spend as much time searching for album art. you are probably working on CD burning support but I just thought I’d mention it.

Songbird fix your mistakes and listen to the users because we are the ones that live the nest of songbird.

Editing the meta-data is slow, and then once I’ve proceeded to the next song, the previous reverts as if I’ve not edited it at all, with the exceptions of the track number that I put in.

special niche feather = Purple Rain = default
default-looking feather = Gonzo = downloadable option

it doesn’t make sense. and the changes in art direction are unfortunate.

Check to make sure all of your plugins have been updated before trying to upgrade. The upgrade process wont warn you until AFTER it removes your current version. Which doubly screws you as now you’re stuck with nothing that works. That should get fixed it’s a bad design, if I’m running plugins check for their availability in the new version before removing my currently working setup.

I’m going to rant now!

I used to love SB. Although there were some issues I didn’t like too much (e.g. how extremely slow it is with a larger library) I liked the idea and in many cases also the implementation and extendability with those great add-ons that do exist.
But with 1.4.x too many things went bad.
It’s especially the lack of information I would say.
The release notes for all the 1.4 versions are just the same and quite wishy-washy.
Nowhere it is mentioned there that:
a) Artwork is now automatically fetched.
b) Bookmarks are now removed and an add-on has to be used instead.
c) It doesn’t work on Windows 7 anymore (at least for some)
d) IPod support doesn’t seem to work anymore

I had 1.4.2 installed and my IPod was detected, it is not anymore on 1.4.3.
Others reported that 1.4.2 worked on Windows 7 and that it doesn’t anymore on 1.4.3.

1.4.2 is not mentioned in the release notes.
No way to see what changed between 1.4.2 and 1.4.3.
I do NOT believe that it was just fixing one bug (19365) as mentioned in this blog entry.
The add-on ‘IPod Device Support’ was always installable with 1.4.1 and 1.4.2.
It is not anymore with 1.4.3 and even not anymore with 1.4.1 and 1.4.2, although there is no new version for it and is is nowhere mentioned in the version history of this add-on.

I know about the troubles with the iPod and that this add-on is now not anymore part of the core development, but why is it so hard to get such essential information in places where one would expect it in the first place.

One has to read thru blogs and bug reports and stuff to get more information about what’s going on. And even there it is nowhere clearly stated what happened between 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 so that the IPod is not detected anymore (at least I couldn’t find any info on this)

So please write better release notes and inform the users what they can / have to expect with a new version!
E.g.:
Added support for….
Removed support for…

I’m not sure what I should do at the moment.
Just spent some days to rate my library in SB so that I all the stuff I like makes it on my 30 GB limited iPod.
I once was so glad that I could get rid of iTunes, but it seems I have to switch back again. (with doing all the rating again, arghhh – B.T.W.: Anyone knows if it is possible to import ratings from SB to iTunes?)

Or is it possible to get 1.4.2 or 1.4.1 somewhere?
Just tried the link in the release notes for 1.4.1 where it says:
‘Download Songbird 1.4.1′
Guess what? Yeah right! -> You’ll just get 1.4.3 instead…

@Chlorophyll
I agree that some important changes could have been added to the release notes and maybe will (like bookmark and Gonzo replacement by addons).

But just 2 notes about the iPod addon and Windows 7
- I think you have a warning when you install SB on Windows 7 and the system requirement pages does not mention Windows 7 as being officially supported (although many people have reported it to work fine with it). So there is no ambiguity about it being not supported, isn’t it?
- and the iPod addon has been made not compatible anymore with 1.4.x (it was supposed to be at 1.4.1 go live date, but by accident it was only some days after). Like any other non-recommended add-on, it is not in the release notes as it is not part of Songbird core anymore.

God damn the new “Purple Rain” UI is ugly. What happened to clean, professional interface from 1.2? Now it looks like some cheap shareware that was slapped together by a team of amateurs. Seriously, it is that bad. Even the Gonzo 2.0 feather doesn’t really make things much better with the terrible fat show/hide bars next to the content panes.

And what purpose does the splash screen serve? Like others have said, not only does it look ugly, there’s simply no need for it and it just adds to the poor level of the overall design. I seriously hope for 1.6 the devs go back to the 1.2 interface and just keep all the other changes under the hood.

Not trying to rain on the parade. I did find 1.4 to be faster and more responsive than 1.2, but seriously… new interface team please?

I don’t like the new design. Too purple

@Chlorophyll
About the iPod device support, the addon is only compatible up to 1.3, not up to 1.4, because they are issues with it in 1.4.x, as you have noticed by yourself. Too many issues to mark it compatible even with a warning message actually. That is very sad, I do agree, but it could remain like that until someone from the community raises and resumes the development of this addon, as the addon has been outsourced.

@Shannon: +1 – I don’t like neither the splash screen nor the new feather. I still feel like the bookmarks should be added by default. And please, make it easier to manage them.

Looking forward to downloading the next version with video support. And please, provide it with subtitle support.

@Chlorophyll: To respond to a couple of your points:

No way to see what changed between 1.4.2 and 1.4.3.—Not true; there are multiple ways, in fact. You can diff the release tags (which now exist), or you can look at the changes.txt file which goes into every nightly build (to get this information, look at all the builds between 1.4.2 and 1.4.3; there was only one anyway).

The SB team acts like bad politicians in the last time by answering questions about iPod issues very evasive.—We haven’t been evasive on this point at all; the iPod addon has issues with the 1.4-series builds. Our Support Champs have heard of many problems with the addon. Because of this, we removed the version of the addon that was compatible with 1.4, and which was actually released during the 1.4.0-preview release cycle. The addon you were using was never tested or intended to be used with 1.4.1, 1.4.2, or 1.4.3.

The fact that you may have gotten it working was luck at the most, and it likely would not have continued to work.

The iPod addon currently unmaintained, and if you want to sync your iPod, we provide that functionality via the iTunes import/export feature.

Use that instead.

@Klint: It doesn’t matter if it’s only once, that’s a very large problem for me as many of my albums do not have album artwork that is easily found. I listen to non-mainstream music (Classical and Eastern, specifically), and I remember dealing with iTunes automatically fetching my artwork: Not a single album was right. Not one.

Lots of players have the option to forbid the program to access the internet unless manually specified. This would be a GREAT time to implement a tickbox.

@Klint: This addon is good to know. Thanks for the help .

Why isn’t this option included? I think that the option qualifies to be in the default preferences.

Kanyebird is farting into the microphone! awesome! heh.

Love the new theme, the splash screen is easily got rid of (:D), and searching is now speedy (yay! it was painfully slow before!). Overall, a nice update.

Is there any way to get the cd ripper to rip to mp3? (I know you guys can’t bundle the encoder without paying for it, but it’s easy to grab a LAME encoder online…)

I came looking for an alternative to sync my iPod, now not supported anymore plus the the bitchy reply of support team (“Preed”). I’m going back to Winamp!

The new theme is simply put, ugly as sin. The biggest problem? There’s no way to go back to the previous one… Which was a really neat, clean and professional theme design. And no, the one available for download it’s not the same thing.

Actually, there is a way to go back… I just removed version 1.4.x and reinstalled the previous one. And I don’t care how much better feature wise or bug free is the upcoming version. Unless they bring back a clean and professional looking theme, I’m not going forward.

That’s just my 2 cents.