Songbird 1.0 Release

[_neutrino Veteran]

i have used it off and on since it was first public and honestly i think that its a nice program it just has some resource issues i do not like it when my media player takes up 150Mb of ram just to play a song it seams a bit ridiculous.

[RadishTM Veteran]

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.

Tried Songbird, liked it but felt sluggish - and it was using 150MB of RAM on my PC compared to 85MB for iTunes and 4MB for Winamp v2.

Radish?

[ViperAFK]

its not written in java lol

java != javascript

they have nothing to do with each other at all.

[DigitalE]

Still completely useless for me without iPod touch support.

[GEIST]

I tried it and loved it, esp. the add-on support and iTunes library import capabilities (no support for iTunes smart playlists though).

But when I discovered it has no graphical EQ I got rid of it. No EQ? What the heck were they thinking?!

[sharp65]

I'll be sure to give it a try when they add support for the ipod touch.

[Rappy Veteran]

I tried this earlier only for my nano support and transferring songs was really easy and quick unlike itunes.

[fred65]

I love the idea of this, it just needs some time to catch up to itunes. itunes has the best layout IMO, I like my music list where each album has a section, each showing album art. I would like to see that grid thing that itunes 8 has, so I'd like songbird to have a comparable feature.

Give it some time to mature i reckon.

[Lt-DavidW]

Why so much RAM Mozilla?

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

Why so much RAM Mozilla?

Mozilla don't write Songbird.

[Calum Veteran]

Yeah, Haddaway, Songbird is based off Mozilla technology, but is developed by different people - not Mozilla themselves :)

[burnsflipper]

Still completely useless for me without iPod touch support.

you can thank Apple for that, it seems they locked out the touch support to only their player, threating with legal action to anyone who tries to add support

[Lt-DavidW]

Mozilla don't write Songbird.

Ahh right, I didn't know that. Regardless, I like what I see!

[Lt-DavidW]

I would use it at my main music player if it cut it's RAM usage in half to match Windows Media Player 11.

[Calum Veteran]

Still completely useless for me without iPod touch support.

According to CNET, iPod touch support will be arriving soon :)

you can thank Apple for that, it seems they locked out the touch support to only their player, threating with legal action to anyone who tries to add support

Wherever did you get that 'information' from? Or, did you just make it up?

CNET have already stated that support for the iPod touch will arrive soon.

[tsupersonic]

Ha and you believe Cnet? They fail in everything technology

[Veedems Veteran]

Ha and you believe Cnet? They fail in everything technology

I don't know what people have against them. I find many of their mobile phone reviews, at least, to be a very good starting point for finding information about new devices.

[Veedems Veteran]

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I've finally given Songbird another chance and I'm pretty impressed. Out of the box it was really rough, but two or three extensions later, it's running pretty well. It still needs work, but I needed something with better library management than what Winamp offered and this was it.

[shakey_snake]

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I've finally given Songbird another chance and I'm pretty impressed. Out of the box it was really rough, but two or three extensions later, it's running pretty well. It still needs work, but I needed something with better library management than what Winamp offered and this was it.

^Give MusicBee a shot. The first public build came out around the time Songbird went 1.0 and I found it quite a bit more impressive. It's slowly becoming my recommendation for people who won't use/need foobar2000.

[DanManIt]

I'm a foobar man myself, but songbird is a nice program

[ViperAFK]

^Give MusicBee a shot. The first public build came out around the time Songbird went 1.0 and I found it quite a bit more impressive. It's slowly becoming my recommendation for people who won't use/need foobar2000.

downloaded it but I just get an error and it won't open :(

[Boo Berry]

Same here, a crash on startup. Seems to me it hates 64-bit operating systems.

[ViperAFK]

Same here, a crash on startup. Seems to me it hates 64-bit operating systems.

Yeah I am running 64 bit as well.

[+wd40 Subscriber²]

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

Does not.

Songbird's device support is limited. The Device Support wiki has additional details about what's supported. Apple iPhones, iPod Touch and Microsoft Zune devices are not yet supported.

Devices Supported

[tom01]

After all this time Windows STILL hasn't got the perfect audio player!

Itunes > Bloat (Too many services) :huh:

WinAmp > Feels tacky, doesn't look nice to be honest...

Songbird > Needs Watch Folders and sort the god damn UI out... So slow and strip out Firefox... Oh and now playing would be nice!

Foobar > To plain.

Linux on the other hand has all good ones... Banshee, Rhythmbox..

Maybe I'm just to picky... :wacko: