Songbird 1.1

Songbird 1.1

Marcel Klum on 11 March 2009 - 12:33 · 12 comments & 4135 views

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Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.

It is integrated with these Web 2.0 services: mashTape, SHOUTcast Radio, Last.fm Scrobbling, and Songkick concert tickets. You can enhance Songbird with community-contributed plugins like Media Flow.

What's new:

On demand Fetching of Album Artwork
Watch Folders
Better Sorting
Replay gain support (normalization)
Improved Media Core & Better gapless playback
MTP Device Support
7digital MP3 Store (Beta)
Performance Enhancements

News source: Official website

Download: Songbird 1.1

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#1 psygn on 11 Mar 2009 - 13:10

Hmm, last time I tried this player it was chewing through 385MB of RAM after a few hours.
Not good for a music player.

#2 Admodieus on 11 Mar 2009 - 13:13

Yeah, any word on the memory consumption?

#3 :No-Frost: on 11 Mar 2009 - 13:29

Using this player for a couple of days and it uses about 80 MB of ram (if I'm right)... Still a little bit more than Winamp, but I tihnk works better than winamp...

#4 BinaryFragger on 11 Mar 2009 - 13:52

I've been using 1.1 since the first beta, and performance and memory consumption are vastly improved. It has since completely replaced iTunes on my computer.

#5 ripgut on 11 Mar 2009 - 16:04

Nice thank you, i'm loving this app so far.

Deb package for Ubuntu/Debian users here

(5 replies) #6 Victor V. on 11 Mar 2009 - 16:21

For someone using iTunes, this player is obviously heaven.

But I'm not leaving my 10k RAM foobar2000. Ever.

#6.1 Neoauld on 11 Mar 2009 - 17:04

Victor V. said,

For someone using iTunes, this player is obviously heaven.

But I'm not leaving my 10k RAM foobar2000. Ever.

some ppl like having a player with all the features though
foobar is the best for straight up playing..but i like having a really functional media library, and so on

#6.2 Hawk999 on 11 Mar 2009 - 18:09

foobar has a media library. And a lot's of so on

#6.3 McoreD on 11 Mar 2009 - 22:46

Victor V. said,

For someone using iTunes, this player is obviously heaven.

But I'm not leaving my 10k RAM foobar2000. Ever.

No. Actually SongBird is hell for me compared to iTunes.

I use a combination of foobar2000 and iTunes.

#6.4 +Harlem39s Finest on 12 Mar 2009 - 19:55

some ppl like having a player with all the features though
foobar is the best for straight up playing..but i like having a really functional media library, and so on.

lmao, have you heard of plugins ? have you even used foobar ?

#6.5 jstillion on 27 Mar 2009 - 16:41

Hawk999 said,

foobar has a media library. And a lot's of so on

That's true, but foobar requires much more user configuration to customize how you want it, where songbird give's you it's vision and allows you to custimze it. Nothing wrong with either approach.

#7 ghos on 11 Mar 2009 - 23:03

I do like Songbird, and the album art fetch is nice to finally have. I don't really notice much difference though with gapless playback. Its also still missing a very important addition - equalizer!! It sounds good, but I like to tailor the sound and I would like to have crossfading in place.
Those two things keep me from using it full time. Otherwise Winamp is the winner for me. Also just discovered CD Art display which I like and it doesn't work with Songbird yet. Still program is showing promise.

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