We have a new beta build ready for you guys! We tossed in support for a whole bunch of phones between the last beta and this one, and we nuked quite a few bugs. The newly-added phones are:
- Blackberry Storm 9500
- HTC Magic and Tattoo
- LG KU990i Viewty
- Nokia N85, N96, and N97
- Sony Ericsson W980
The nightlies page contains links to downloads for the Windows, Mac, and Linux builds. Check the release notes for outstanding bugs, and log a new bug in Bugzilla if you find something we should know about.
Automatic updates are set up for this beta. Beta 1 users: you can use the Check for Updates function to update to beta 2.
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[...] taget. Nu känns det som att Songbird är på väg att hitta tillbaka till rätt spår igen och den senaste betan (1.8.0b2) känns otroligt mycket snabbare och gedigen än tidigare versioner. Efter att i stort sett inte [...]
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So 1.8 will be a final public version ?
Yes, 1.8 will be a public release.
I know i should post it in Bugzilla, but i just lost patience
I have 20k files in my library and even on a powerful configuration just selecting an artist and changing between views takes 2-3 seconds, and completely freezes up the UI since about v1.4. I’ve done a clean profile with every new build…
Performance is still horrible…
– OS X
i really hope the final release of 1.8 will be much faster and more stable than 1.7.3…
Performance would be nice, but I’m sure (or I hope) you guys already knew that. Just different priorities and the ways of development I suppose.
I can barely browse my music library, performance is terrible.
Honestly, let’s just rip video out of there and focus on performance.
I don’t understand you people. Tens of users have stated here they experience horrible performance issues since 1.7 and you wait to fix it until the next release. While performance improvements is something Songbird needs so badly, already before these new issues.
Not everybody has thousands of songs. I have 6K of them though, and do not feel that bad response times.
So, it depends on the users and their usage of Songbird, and possibly most of the users do not suffer as much as you do. Hence the decision by POTI to not consider this issue as blocking a release.
Of course, from your own end, things look different and make you angry, I can understand that. But from a global perspective, it may be different.
Forget all wanted features!
Forget all open bugs!
Forget all your plans!
As long as you don’t work clearly on the performance you can keep this piece of software. I am really dissapointed on how songbird processed during the last major and minor versions.
I still can even manage to import my iTunes library. Is this such an uncommen use-case???
And I don’t get any help since 2 weeks or so on getsatisfaction.com. Now that not so cool. Who can I contact? IRC? Blog? Forum?
Sorry, forgot. Here’s the GS link
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/itunes_import_on_mac_os_x_10_6_3_with_songbird_1_7_3_failed
Seriously? SERIOUSLY? We’ve been bitching about how bad the performance is for *weeks* now and you just keep adding more device support and features no one cares about.
SONGbird is meant to PLAY SONGS. In its current state it barely does that. Every release is getting worse and worse. Do I care about video? No. Ripping? No. Stores? NO. Tons and tons of mobile support. NO.
If you try and conquer every feature out there you’ll wind up with a pile of barely working components… WHICH YOU HAVE.
Songbird used to run great on my Windows box, played songs beautifully, had excellent response time even on a 30K library… now it’s a huge grinding pile of crap. Please fork your media components into a separate build, this is getting ridiculous.
Foobar2000 might not be the prettiest, but I could care less about looks when Songbird doesn’t even function properly.
everytime i try songbird i see potential in it but also everytime i try to use it songbird gets more and more bloated.
It is nice to have tones of features but it is totally unusable. The performance is horrible.
i also don’t see that nightingnale is getting somewhere, so the linux version is dying. Every management solution under linux is better then songbird for now. Most of them have more features and a way better performance. So why should someone want to use songbird.
I hope you will change your concept a bit, at this state it is no alternative for me.
It’s frustrating to see a piece of software go from beta 1 to beta 2 with absolutely no improvements in performance. POTI, when will you listen?! You’re fan base is going to start shrinking rapidly unless you make some serious changes to Songbird to make it FASTER. Update the platform to the newest gecko and mozilla platforms, and tie it all in to work quickly. Forget about features for just one release and focus solely on performance. Do this, and I guarantee you people will choose Songbird over any other full featured player out there.
Until then, Songbird will only have a mediocre place on the web…
The album artwork still missing in Windows 7:(, in Windows Xp worked great
Please fix this bug.
Well, songbird handles my 2k music library very well on fedora 13 box. I can see some performance improvement in 1.8.X release.
Why is necesary to restart to upgrade or uninstall if a previous release is present?
Songbird is dead, move on ppl.
Not good going back to Amarok on my macmini!
My great hope, one time long ago, was that Songbird would have better performance than iTunes. Clearly, that will never happen. Going to have to learn to love MediaMonkey. Bye bye!
Tell us the truth: Songbird’s linux build is dead or not?
When I open songbird, it doesn’t show my library, just a blank page.
Any plans for compatibility with the HTC Droid Incredible?
@VAGolfDad:
HTC Android 2.1 devices should work in Songbird with the MSC addon, including the Droid Incredible. While the only officially supported HTC Android devices include the Hero (v1.5-2.1), Magic (1.5-1.6), & Tattoo (1.5-1.6), the Incredible (v2.1) should for the most part be supported.
Be aware that we do already have an Incredible bug filed, http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21409, and it won’t be fixed until a later release. That said, the phone is on our radar (see http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21434), so keep your eyes peeled.
I’m on Vista, and I have to say that since I updated from 1.7 to 1.8 I have seen a great improvement on my performances.
And the new panel is so nice (and doesn’t disappear like the 2 other time, the reasons why I have updated to beta).
So unlike many commenter, I have to say I’m quite happy with this new version. I don’t feel like I need more performance (though if you could It would be nice).
Thank you songbird team, and good luck for the future, you are making the greatest player on earth !
with audio songs i have a large collection of video songs also. Most of them are in avi or mpeg. Is there any way i can play them in Songbird ?
(Note : i don’t want to convert them in another format )
Screw new features…focus on the performance issues! (please)
As I’m heading back to Songbird again it’s with great pleasure I qoute myself from my blog;
“…the latest beta (1.8.0b2) feels incredibly solid and much faster than previous versions.”
@Lucas R. Martins The Linux Builds are still being developed, but you’ll find links to them only visiting the nightly builds page. They are not tested, nor they do appear in the Songbird’s main page.
HTH.
@Jordan Have you plaied with Foobar2000?
@VAGolfDad
Yes the Incredible should be supported in1.8 Final.
@All
Performance is always something we work on and we understand your frustration but it takes more than a few weeks to fix performance issues. We’ve heard you loud and clear though so expect some improvements there but not for 1.8.
Can I get a Permanent Delete Song already. What are you people doing?
Aus,
Finally – someone official mentions the performance issues. Although you haven’t said much.
I’m sure everyone can understand if you have commercial reasons or whatever for focusing on other features, but as long as least acknowledge that SongBird currently runs extremely slowly for many users and have appropriate communication about possible reasons and the time to fix…
OOOLA! This version is terrible!
weird minor issue, but if you uninstall, it prompts you for the survey, but then takes you to the last page of it immediately. just a heads up.
*testing to see if any of my comments go through*….
What’s happen with the shoutcast support?Will back in the new version?
will there be any support for the Galaxy S family? as of now it recognizes but it is not capable of syncing music
Songbird 1.8.b3 64/32-bit .deb installer
https://sites.google.com/site/songbird18b3/songbird
Does this work with BB Tour?
Glenn Davis Doctor G
Recording with Whitney Houston
There was a add on called Gridview, but it’s not being updated. Can you add something like it to songbird as you did with LyricMaster?
Basically, the add on brings an appearance like the one we have in Media Player 11 and 12 and iTunes, so that we can select the artists easier.
admin@Keiths-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get remove songbird
[sudo] password for admin:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
songbird
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 119kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database … 197554 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing songbird …
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils …
Processing triggers for python-gmenu …
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_GB.utf8.cache…
Processing triggers for python-support …
admin@Keiths-laptop:~$
For Windows users with large databases suffering from performance issues, just switch over to MusicBee at http://getmusicbee.com/ – in my experience, it’s more than lightning fast no matter the size your database!
@Solomon
Or wait for Songbird 1.9
We (users) have made some tests on nightlies that have proven excellent response time again, at last.