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.

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Songbird 1.0 :Nyhetsgloben — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:24:26 +0000

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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.

By: Kinox

Kinox — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:16:07 +0000

I installed Songbird v1 .deb from http://unterhund.wordpress.com/ onto my Ubuntu Hardy. Installation is successful. However, I notice that just the simple operation of playing a song results in Songbird using up 30% of CPU (consistently, not spikes).

Compared to RhythmBox, which uses about 6%, Songbird does’t seem lightweight at all. Hope the developers can really look into the CPU usage for future versions. Other than that, I like it.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:37:13 +0000

I tried it on my Vista machine, seems to run decently. I’m sticking with Media Monkey, though, until Songbird gets the ability to “dock” to my taskbar.

It won’t, btw, run on my Mac because I haven’t yet joined the Intel Mac movement… My 7 year old Powerbook still runs just fine!

-Adam

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By: Laurence John

Laurence John — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:07:05 +0000

I haven’t been using it because I have a Zune…

If it wasn’t for that than yes I would be. Songbird has a very clear idea of what it actually is, that just may not suit you.

Also remember Songbird is setting up a platform which online music stores, websites and partners can take advantage of and really improve the experience they provide for customers.

If you use Media Monkey, Winamp, Media Player or iTunes than Songbird is a great replacement!

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:38:19 +0000

I have never had a single crash in Firefox 3, despite having 20+ add-ons (which usually cause the crashes, in my experience) installed.

I tried Songbird before, but ITS stalling switched me off to it. I also like a music player to do just that, I certainly don’t need it to run GreaseMonkey scripts or search Google, etc. Songbird still seems to be unsure as to what it actually is, and in your own words wrote “I have not been using it as my main music management software …” neither would I,.

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By: docbob

docbob — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:24:25 +0000

I played with it yesterday or tried to. Unless they patched it, it is useless to me as it crashes under my version of Windows Vista.
Hopefully they can fix it as I enjoyed it.