Songbird 0.1 Released

[Nexus-]

It has potential

[icdover]

No doubt this is a preview release so here are some comments...

Pretty nice layout, seems functional.

Neat features related to blogs and audio files.

Smart playlists are neat.

No iTunes integration (I thought they said they were going to have this... ?maybe i am mistaken?)

Took 3.5 hours to load in my 16000 file library.

Using 107meg of ram right now as i am typing this.

Over 25meg of ram used on start up.

So in its current state its pretty unuseable...

Musikcube provides me a similar music library but with much nicer resource use (<5 meg).

The ram use and library build have serious issues.

Again, it is a good concept (not sure its revolutionary at all) and has a long way to go.

[D!rtySh@dy]

How to have Macromedia Flash player with Songbird ?

If I download the Firefox flash plugin, I don't have flash animation in Songbird.

Help Me

[CoolCatBad]

If you have Flash installed in Firefox, open ProgramFiles/MozillaFirefox/Plugins and copy NPSWF32.dll and flashplayer.xpt (and anything else with flash in the name) to ProgramFiles/Songbird/xulrunner/plugins

[BryanChung]

SingBird sounds actually like another P2P software :D

[CoolCatBad]

New temporary homepage http://69.90.210.150/

Extensions coming soon.

[MrPhun]

uninstalled.

what they have done is put a web browser pane into a media player and called it 50 features. nothing revolutionary about this program so far, i'll give it some time though. (hopefully they can come up with a more original ui also).

[Bamsebjørn]

I like it... going to use it today for testing purposes...

What I'm missing is the functionallity to pause my songs... :laugh: ...but for a proof of concept it's good. They basicly glued a couple of open source programs together and called it Songbird. The next step is to fit everything together better and eventually it's going to be a good alternative.

For a proof of concept, I'd have to say that I expected it to be worse. :)

[Michael_C]

Pause works fine for me, it crashes when I close it though.

[Bamsebjørn]

Yeah... it suddenly started working after I had switched to and from the mini player. Pretty weird, but it's still running fine now. :) Using 35mb and 2% CPU while playing music; I've seen worse. :)

[+John. Subscriber¹]

Sweet program!

[Techno_Funky]

too much of a ram hog for me

60megs off my 256mb ram

otherwise a la iTunes id say :)

[ziper]

I really disliked it. Uninstalled. Let's check again in about a year or two :)

[digen]

Downloaded.Trying it now.

[drshdw]

This thing was released way too early. I dragged in 4 mp3s, it started playing, it crashed. XUL error something. Deleted. :yes:

[oceanmotion]

Did'nt even start up for me. Just got an error. Uninstalled, will wait till its a lot further in development.

[Bhav]

Brilliant player. Even better that it's open source.

However, it's too slow for my liking, and so I'll stick to Winamp for now.

[Galley]

It wouldn't read the tags from any of my AAC files. :crazy:

[Dotdot]

Yeah went to add my Media Disk and it kinda crashed, so cant handle 5000+ mp3`s LOL.

I have to say I do like the look and feel of it, but the web-browser aspect needs cleaned up and so does that massive list of music related brick a brack in the left had panel.

However skin is ****ing nice :) and the whole plug-in open source side is ace

[DerkPY]

Added over 6,000 mp3's with no problem. Only took about 2mins. Goes to mini player with no lag or anything. Been using it for a few days and its never crashed or anything. I really like the mini player too. Just needs to be a bit thinner, and thats it really.

[chopyaedoff]

Just installed it - no problems yet.

[P.M.K]

Cool. Will give it a crack.

[chopyaedoff]

Using portable firefox as a base I have managed to make a portable version of songbird - it only leaves one file (pluginreg.dat) in %appdata%.

[.Neo]

Where the hell is the Mac OS X version? I only see the Windows exe file. :/

[jimbo12141]

just had a look at itm uses alot of memory, looks alot like itunes and doesnt really bring anything new.... i think i will stick with winamp!