After an extended incubation in beta-land, Songbird 1.7 is ready to leap from the nest and wing away. Download it here.
The new Philips Songbird is also available, included with the latest Philips GoGear devices on sale now at Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon and other stores across the U.S.
Enhancements with this release include:
- Expanded Device Support – including support for removable memory (SD) cards, the Google Nexus One, and improved support for the Motorola Droid.
- The Return of Video Playback – Now built on GStreamer, and running on both Mac and Windows! Video codec support is a little limited in our general release at this point, but we’ll be working on it.
- The Beginning of Photo Sync – In addition to audio and video, Songbird will now sync photos to your device.
- Official Support for Windows 7 – It worked pretty well before, but now we’ve worked out the kinks and can stand behind it.
- Various fixes to device sync, CD ripping, the UI and more!
In the future (already landed for the next release) you can look forward to:
- The new service pane
- Loads of performance improvements for device syncing
- Mac USB/MSC support
- Greatly improved device sync flows and clearer preferences
- More devices supported
Note to Songbird 1.7 Beta 1 Users: Your bird will not be automatically updated; to get updated, head on over to the download page and grab a copy.
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SubscribeGreat! My GoGear Muse should be out soon!
Linux. =(
@Wes
We’ll have some Linux builds available soon.Those won’t have gone through our QA process but should still work pretty good.
Have just installed… on Win 7 64-bit. “Library” has disappeared from the service pane. WTF?
I know this is pretty much beating a dead horse, but when I clicked through and saw only Windows and Mac downloads available, my heart sank a little. I don’t know what I was expecting, but still. I miss it.
@Greg
Exact same problem here. On first launch it was fine, and now nothing!
Had to delete my profile files, reload media, reset prefs and reinstall my addons, now it’s all good again.
I’m having the same problem as Greg and Alan…Library menu items have disappeared from the service pane.
(Windows 7, 32-bit, by the way)
Glad to hear you were able to fix it that way, Greg, but my media library is pretty big and I’d rather not go through all that…
Thanks for bringing sync support for my N1!
For the record, I’m Windows 7 64-bit. I’m going to try and delete my profile now – I tried doing it through the safe-mode option but that made no difference what-so-ever, so I’ll try deleting the physical files themselves.
Unfortunately, +1 to the Library disappearing issue.
- Win 7 x64 here, too
- updated from 1.4.3 via Help –> Check for Updates menu option
- after Songbird closes and re-opens after 1.7.2 is installed, the Library is still there in the service pane
- however, on subsequent starts, it’s gone
@ Alan, Greg, Trent,
All you have to do is close Songbird, delete the “servicepane.rdf” file within your profile folder, and re-start Songbird. The top three items should re-appear. This works on XP, and should work for other OSes too.
@Wes, @Matthew:
Linux builds are available for the community as untested, contributed builds; grab them here:
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Builds/Contributed_Builds#Linux
There won’t be any updates out of 1.4.3 for Linux users, so you’ll have to grab and install.
Much better splash screen… 1.4 version looked a bit 90′s.
I have download it .
@Travis
That’s done the trick, thanks!
@Travis
Deleting the service-pane.rdf worked great to get back the library under Win7 after an update. Thanks for that hint!
Each time I start Songbird I have to grant permission via User Access Control. This started happening before the 1.7.2 upgrade. Any help?
With regards to 1.7.2: since upgrade am getting “Warning: Unresponsive Script” error:
“A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.
Script: file:///C:/Programs/Songbird/components/sbServicePaneService.js:297″
It’s frustrating as hell. Help?
OK, seriously: “Recommended: 64 bit Sound Card”?? I don’t think that means what you think it means…
I want to report a bug, but it Songbird-Help section seem won’t work: I can’t find how to post a new topic, search, faq and previous topic didn’t work (1-click and…nothing happened
). Don’t know what’s going wrong so I post the bug here:
I’m using Lyric Master add-on, All English lyrics are ok but with Vietnamese lyrics, in the fist time I add the lyrics, every thing seem Ok. Like this:
“Quê nhà tôi ơi, xứ Đoài xa vắng”
But when I reopen that file, the font totally changed
“Quê nhà tôi ?i, x? ?oài xa v?ng ”
This bug was found from Songbird Ver 1.0, not now.
All text are using Unicode and always display perfectly with all other program.
Can you fix this bug? Thank you.
What exactly are the differences between “normal” Songbird and Philips Songbird (if there are any)?
Some things I’ve noticed so far with this update:
My bookmarks are gone(again)…
Skreemr urls are still not decrypted correctly and therefore not downloadable.
I keep getting this error when using the browser: sb-tabbrowser::handleMediaURL(http://thelookback.com/); TypeError: this.typeSniffer is undefined
Installed the new version. “Library” in the left panel was gone (on Mac OS X 10.6). Thought, what the heck since Songbird is so freaking slow it might not hurt to give it a fresh profile.
With my minty fresh profile, Songbird is slower than ever. It takes 2-3 seconds from clicking on an artist in the filter pane to populating the list. That was nearly instantaneous in 1.4.3 except those times it started beach balling.
Congrats on this release
I’m looking fordward Pink Floyd 
Script: file:///C:/Archivos%20de%20programa/Songbird/components/sbServicePaneService.js:325…
I only can see the controls, the rest of the screen is white…
Any solution?
Where the hell is servicepane.rdf? Have searched my whole PC and it doesn’t exist! What do I do now to restore Library?!
Does using a new profile wipe the library data? I need to keep all library-related metadata (data added, ratings etc.) so will creating a new profile delete these?
@Jaco-Niel:
The file was actually called service-pane.rdf on my machine. It’s in your Songbird profile folder.
Hope that helps,
Trent
I delete service-pane.rdf from my profile folder and doesn´t work to me…
Cool. Just found http://getnightingale.org/ . I hope they will start developing soon. Songbird on Linux.*dreaming*
No support for Shoutcast radio anymore? That’s a deal breaker for me, going back to 1.4.
At last! Thank you so much! You guys do a great job (except maybe a little slow, but the wait is fully worth it! )
Forr those (already
) complaining about missing addons: now that the SB version is out, expect most of the addons to be made compliant by their authors in the coming days (Shoutcast included, probably)
Hmmm. Last.fm not logging in, anybody knows why?
I’m also getting the unresponsive script warning each time I load songbird, and it’s pegging my cpu at 50% until I hit the stop script button :-/
oh, and I tried deleting the service-pane.rdf file but it didn’t help…
It is extremely slow compared to previous versions. It seems that Songbird is not going to the right direction. That’s a shame !
Please improve performance
using it on Linux and there’re no troubles at all
Nice work! I was getting some dismayed at the lack of action, however! The wait is worth it
Was it a planned feature to make it even slower on Mac?
By speed here I’m referring to stuff like UI updates after clicking on artists/albums etc. My library isn’t massive (8,100 items). It takes literally around 1 second to change views often, even longer if it’s something a little more complex. Really painful…
Ugh this release is actually unusable…back to just using VLC or something.
Get the basics right before crap like videos, photos and device syncing.
I just installed 1.7.2 yesterday but CTRL+J shortcut to show Jump to.. window doesn’t work. I don’t find it’s menuitem in [Controls] menu too!
Did you really remove it?! I can’t believe it! It was an essential part of Songbird if somebody likes run Songbird in mini or pure player mode (like me)! Please, please take it back!!!
Speed:
Before it was almost suddenly. It’s interesting ’cause I have a small library (only 3666 songs).
This new release is really really slower. When I click on an artist in the filter pane it takes 2-3 seconds to populating the list!
Bookmarks:
I lost all of my bookmarks. I had to reinstall Songbird Bookmarks add-on on version 0.1.1 to have bookmarks on service-pane again. Bookmarks menu entry is a good idea but without any context menu (f.e. “Rename”, “Edit”, “Delete”, “Organize”) is nonsense! I hope stevel will improve it.
Same unresponsive script sbServicePaneService.js problem here…
This version works really bad.
Is it possible to bookmark website in Songbird?
Why don’t the developers just make a general file sync?
This way it would work with anything and reduce the number of bugs and feature requests greatly.
Whenever I try to open a link in a new tab I get a pop-up entitled [javascript application] that says: sb-tabbrowser::handleMediaURL( –URL of link I’m trying to open in a new tab– ); TypeError: this.typeSniffer is undefined
is there any way to fix this?
@Pullaka:
Deleting “service-pane.rdf” work for me. Close songbird, look for the rdf file, delete it and launch songbird.
I found it after a search on “C:\Users\” folder (I have Vista).
It’s here in this folder on my computer: C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Songbird2\Profiles\vt3bpq56.default
Songbird works fine for me either it use more ram when i use MashTape and the open some tabs. So if you don’t use MashTape and other add ons, uninstall them and close all tabs, the memory use will decrease.
Hope it will help
@Simon:
> Get the basics right before crap like videos, photos and device syncing.
Harshly said, but regrettably I wouldn’t put it any better myself. Numerous bugs and outdated addons (Shoutcast – developed by a POTI developer – being a fair example) make 1.7.2 a major disappointment. Honestly, I have tools that play videos and display pictures far better than Songbird, there’s nothing in 1.7.2 that would make me favour Songbird over those tools, thus all these new features are nothing but bloat. If only I could find a tool that plays music better than Songbird, I’d switch over immediately. For now I’m happy with 1.4.3, which works fine.
Holy crap this version is slow. Running Win 7, 32 bit, 3 gigs of ram, Intel E6750.
I can load up foobar and listen to an entire song in the time it takes for Songbird to even get to a song.
Have about 25k songs in my library.
Sorry guys, but this is the worst Songbird version so far, It’s completely unuseable . It takes 5 seconds for the songs of an artist to appear after I clicked it.
As much as I would like to use an open source media player, I still have to go back to Winamp (yikes).
Maybe I give it another shot in later versions, if you shift your priorities from new features to performance .
Hoping someone here can help me out – I’m running 1.7.2 on ubuntu 10.04 (I know linux isn’t officially supported anymore but worth a shot right?)
Trying to import my itunes library (about 14000 songs) and edited the xml file to reflect the linux file paths – this works fine for the majority of files but for about 1000 of them it seems to add extra slashes to the file location and then reports a broken file (I’ve checked the xml and the physical file locations and the files are the same as all the others there)
Any ideas? Thanks
I wish another team of devs would take the songbird code and start a new fork to create a quality music player – stripping out all the rubbish along the way.
The reality is this: if the basic performance of clicking between artists, albums and searching is not identical to or better than iTunes, then the whole application is pointless.
This build is shit.
I had a nicer comment written but I think this is appropriate. What is going on with Songbird? I’m sad.
Went back to Mediamonkey.
Sorry guys, I cannot use a music player this slow and buggy. It has already been said, you need to focus on performance. Build a fast and smooth player and people will come. Fill with features without compromising its speed and people will stay.
Of course I could go back to ver. 1.4 but I was really expecting this update and it has really dissapointed me.
See you in a couple of builds or so…
Melecio,
Lucky for you windows people!
Us Mac users that have FLAC files are kinda screwed for media management…
I still find it hard to believe how worked up peope get about FREE software! Just be happy that its out there and chill out.
I just started using Songbird. It seems like it could possibly replace iTunes for me. The add-ons and device syncing are great. The start-up time after starting the computer is horrible though.
@Mitch
Saying that is ok for the development of a software to be mediocre just because it is free is a mediocre thought.
And nobody’s getting all worked up… people are just changing media players and that kinda defeats the purpose of making a media player software, doesn’t it?
After deleting “service-pane.rdf” (thanks @ trent for correct filename), most of my bugs have now been resovled. The library is back, the unresponsive script warning is no longer appearing at startup and the in-songbird browsing problems seem to be sorted as well.
With regards to speed, IMHO this building seems slightly faster (with regards to library searching etc.) than 1.4.3. I know a lot of people have other experiences, but just thought I’d post my (seeming rare) finding. Just to clarify, searching (narrowing down songs) seems relatively fast, however, listing all library songs seems to be taking longer (i.e. clearing search). I’ve also noticed some (slightly) erratic library searching results.
build*
Have just noticed that startup is MUCH faster (about 4 sec.). However, I’m still having to run SB as admin… bringing up the annoying UAC screen each time for verification. Any help on how to solve this?
@Jaco-Niel: How many songs in your library? It seems like people disappointed of songbird performance have a lot of songs (more than 10k maybe).
I have vista,
-1Gb Ram,
-centrino duo 1.66
-only 2k songs
-songbird 1.7.2
and like Jaco-Niel this version seems much faster starting to the splash screen.
Why became songbird so extremly slow since the last version? I have delays everywhere and that with a really fast high-end computer… I hope the problems might have been fixed but no!
That really sucks and makes me look for a different product.
this is getting ridiculous. I can’t get that “fix” for the library problem to work, whenever I try to follow a link on a webpage it freaks out about some “sniffer” thing and now the getsatisfaction page is down to top it all off. I was really exited when I found songbird a few weeks ago, but now it just seems like the whole thing is falling apart. I can’t stand windows media player and I don’t want to pay for a mediamonkey license, especially since alot of droid users have reported problems with it, so it seemed like songbird was a dream come true. alas, it was a very short one. If this keeps up I think I’m going to have to see if there’s a way to reinstall 1.4.3
@ gespion: I have 5,600 songs in my library. So, yes, it’s entirely possible that larger libraries (although I wouldn’t say 5k is exactly little) are suffering performance hits. That being said I really think urgent attention needs to be payed to core performance.
@ txgecko: All my bugs (incl. the browser one) were solved when I fixed the library bug. If you can’t find “service-pane.rdf” (although some people seem to be reporting the file as “servicepane.rdf”), simply search your entirely PC for the file and delete it. Make sure you quit SB.
I’m also experiencing huge performance problems.
Our Trackbacks is to bad.
2 only !
What’s happenning with the 10, 26, and 38 trackbacks ?
@Hiromacu
“hope stevel will improve it.”
stevel is no more working at POTI but at Rdio now
Do you really test the software before release?
It isn’t posible that you tested and yet you release such a shitty version of this great software.
@jaco-niel
oh, I can find it all right (and I did make sure to quit before I deleted the file), its just that after I delete it and try to start songbird again it puts up the “getting started” box and whirs along at 100% cpu without doing anything. I’ve literally sat there and let it run for 10 minuts hoping it was just obscenely slow, but it just wouldn’t start. It will only run after I restore the service-pane file from the recycle bin. (and with it, all the bugs)
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Hey http://twitter.com/songbirdteam !!!!
Where is the songbird 1.7.2 release on it !?
It is still on 1.7.2 b1 ont @songbirdteam
Time for me to uninstall songbird, first videos and now photos? All i need is something to play my music, no need for all this other bloat. Foobar2k time !
Last.fm won’t log in…
Massive slowdown on Network drive library (mac). Pretty much unusable.
Real shame I thought I had found the best player for the MAC, but the search might have to start again.
This version worked once yesterday. It updated itself to 1.7.3 then got unresponsive script error and deleting pane, resetting the settings nor even safe mode will get it to work.
Going back to 1.4.3.
Oh yeah. 1.4.3 with bookmarks add-on had become my entertainment portal. I watch all my online shows (Hulu, Daily Show, Livecast, ABC online Lost, etc.) no the bookmarks support is gone again. Bad form…
I don’t want to go back to Miro and Firefox is halting playback with Facebook and other windows open.
Please, please, please add bookmark support… It’s not a hard thing to do and why not do it??????????
I haven’t tried out Songbird for nearly a year now and I thought it was time to give it another go, and see if it can replace Winamp for me yet.
Wow it’s got slow. I don’t know if it’s just a bug with this current release, but it’s too slow for me to use. I shouldn’t have to wait 5 seconds after I click on an artist to see their music, Winamp is instantaneous.
What happened to the Jump to window? Without it, I have to get out of mini mode, choose a song, then re-mini songbird…not worth doing in my opinion.
On a related note, Songbird is still using the global shortcut for the window…maybe this is just a bug? I certainly hope so.
It isn’t posible that you tested and yet you release such a shitty version of this great software.
All due respect to the developers, but this really doesn’t deserve to be considered a ‘stable’ release.
This version is absolutely aweful. 1sec delays on clicks, when I never had any previously. Songbird no longer defaults to show library on opening. And where the hell has the playlist pane gone???
I want the good songbird back
HD Video playback is kinda bleh. I tried a 1080p video and there was a huge framerate drop.
Everything else is yaay
Any update regarding Shoutcast add-in support for 1.7?
Songbird 1.8.b3 64/32-bit .deb installer
https://sites.google.com/site/songbird18b3/songbird
Ah so this is why Songbird dropped linux, so it can sell out to Phillips, get lots of money and make it something sellable at wal mart.
Good job you loosers.