Comments on: Songbird 1.0 Hatches! Download It Now

By: Avery

Avery — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:06:33 +0000

I hope this skin is formally alike itunes.

By: evbart

evbart — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:07:48 +0000

I’m definitely ready to get away from iTunes, but I can’t pick an alternative.

Songbird seems just as heavy as iTunes, when I’m running it on an older XP pc. Just opening it and playing a song takes up over 120mb of ram! While something like Foobar only takes 7mb. Foobar is a bit too bare bones, and requires too much configuration for my lazy tates

I have an ipod and a zune as well, so maybe mediamonkey or winamp?

By: Anand

Anand — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:17:38 +0000

I hope this skin is formally alike itunes.

By: heavyMGS

heavyMGS — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:54:40 +0000

I have been following Songbird for a while and keep trying it out every time they update it but I can’t get into it at all. This newest version hangs pretty badly on my Vista machine when I have no problems with MediaMonkey. The album art does not show up for files even though I know it’s embedded in the file. The addons seem to work part of the time. No Podcasting directory.

While I do like the idea of this player, it just does not seem to work very well or have the functions I like in a player or manager.

MediaMonkey and Aimp2 or XMplayer are my music players of choice.

By: Laurence

Laurence — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:54:23 +0000

Please find better things to get worked up about.

By: Laurence

Laurence — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:53:17 +0000

Yeah I thought about this one… hmm no probably not, Amarok is great and if you like it Songbird may disappoint you with the increased system resources usage etc.

I wish there was a proper Windows version too =P

By: scott

scott — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:08:40 +0000

Yes they do, as a plugin i believe.

By: ryall

ryall — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:57:49 +0000

Do they have a ‘Playing Now’ view yet? Seriously, why copy iTunes’ flawed design?

By: Chutzpah

Chutzpah — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:02:38 +0000

Please get a dictionary or grammar text and learn the difference between “than” and “then.”

By: Neagrigore

Neagrigore — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:25:39 +0000

but what if you are using Amarok? I would not trade Amarok for anything, whish they had a version that works well in Windows.