Songbird 1.0 Release

[brentaal]

Songbird 1.0

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

We're working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. There are lots of ways to contribute your time to the project. We'd love your help!

There are several features we're proud of, but we'll be the first to admit that others need ironing out, are experimental, or are just plain missing. There's still a lot to do.

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[thealexweb]

Looks good.

[afusion]

Yeah I've used this player on and off and I'm impressed so far.

[Admodieus]

Switched over to it a few days ago and I'm loving it so far. It even syncs with iPods and Zunes. Very neat.

[ViperAFK]

Pretty "meh" imo. It's kind of slow and unresponsive, although I used to foobar lol. GUI is layed out nice though and I like the integrated last.fm. Has potential though they need to further increase the speed before I use it.

[i_was_here]

^ so its still heavy on resources? :(

[afusion]

Switched over to it a few days ago and I'm loving it so far. It even syncs with iPods and Zunes. Very neat.

O rly?

Very nice!

[Unknown_97784568745]

Looks good.

Looks like itunes.

[afusion]

Looks like itunes.

You say that like it's a bad thing :laugh:

[brentaal]

^ so its still heavy on resources? :(

I personally haven't tried it yet, but according to the folks @ Lifehacker, it is.

The official 1.0 release fixes most if not all of the bugs I came across in my initial review, which is very promising. The footprint is still a little unwieldy, weighing in at just over 100MB of RAM on the Windows PC I tested it on.

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[Boo Berry]

What? The resource consumption with Songbird 1.0 is better than all past versions. 100MB is nothing, Firefox and iTunes each use over 250MB respectively.

Gotta love this Songbird milestone release. I can't even reach the Add-ons area without 500 internal server errors.

[afusion]

What? The resource consumption with Songbird 1.0 is better than all past versions. 100MB is nothing, Firefox and iTunes each use over 250MB respectively.

Gotta love this Songbird milestone release. I can't even reach the Add-ons area without 500 internal server errors.

Servers are banging already?! DAYMMNN :rofl:

[John S. Veteran]

I just ran across this, had tried an early version awhile back. But unfortunately they've dropped PPC support. :/

Guess I'm stuck with iTunes.

[Minifig]

This looks dangerously close to the copyrighted look of itunes.

[Unknown_97784568745]

You say that like it's a bad thing :laugh:

That's because I think it is a bad thing. ;)

[xfodder]

Looks like itunes.

don't be silly it doesn't ... in iTunes the controls are on the top, in Songbird the controls are down the bottom ... wait i think someone did to apple before :p

[Mathachew Veteran]

I went ahead and tried it out and am pleased with its response time, but it's far more gray than I like, and it looks too much like iTunes for my taste.

[afusion]

The menu system on the left reminds me of winamp in an odd fashion.

But granted it does look like iTunes.

[shakey_snake]

Dang this thing is slow...

Each errant click costs me about 10 seconds of my life.

[(Spork)]

Switched over to it a few days ago and I'm loving it so far. It even syncs with iPods and Zunes. Very neat.

what firmware since 2.1 i think i have not be able to get winamp or songbird to see my ipod touch

[Knife Party]

so far im liking the footprint, hopefully it will become leaner and i can actually get onto the 'add ons' page -> damn servers are being hammered like hell :(

[rajputwarrior]

i don't understand why anyone would want firefox as a media player. IMO the audio quality is terrible and the amount of ram it takes, and how unrespsonsive it is imakes it now worht it. This thing IMO makes itunes on windows look good...

stick with winamp or foobar

[Knife Party]

don't be silly it doesn't ... in iTunes the controls are on the top, in Songbird the controls are down the bottom ... wait i think someone did to apple before :p

btw, any chance of moving the playback control to the top? the bottom feels weird..... :wacko:

edit -> found it, nvm

Edited December 2, 2008 by - Kaboose -

[MiG-]

its written in java :(

someone should make a WPF Media Player. Now that has potential!

EDIT - Installed, from what I can there is some nice touches, but its lacking some basics!

Edited December 2, 2008 by MiG-

[ViperAFK]

I am pretty sure it's definitely NOT written in java...it's based off of firefox...