Songbird 0.1 Released


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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.

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. :)

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

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