Comments on: Lord of the Birds…Songbird http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:08:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Is BBC iPlayer a Typical App For Our Hyperconnected Future? http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187426 Mon, 11 May 2009 03:19:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187426 [...] building an application that focuses on content discovery and consumption. Others app developers, such as Songbird, have been trying to focus on developing better content [...]

]]> By: mig http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187425 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:50:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187425 Here’s an example of a Feather for Songbird that isn’t “All iTunesish”

http://addons.songbirdnest.com/extensions/detail/107
http://s3.amazonaws.com/addon-screenshots.songbirdnest.com/public/screenshots/117/jumpto.png

Eventually we’ll be as fully skinnable as Winamp5. And since XUL is essentially a modified HTML, leaning heavily on CSS, we really hope developers will move over from the web-space into making application skins for Songbird.

(oh, yea, I work for them too)

]]> By: Stephen Lau http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187424 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:41:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187424 (full disclosure: I work for Songbird, should have mentioned that up above)

Matt: One of the powers of Songbird is it’s completely skinnable layout and look and feel. Example:
http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/2367
(look at the last screenshot), that’s a complete Feather that completely changes the look and feel of Songbird.

]]> By: Matt http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187423 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:43:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187423 I really dig the way I can interact with sites like Hype Machine with Songbird. A real time saver there.

But, it’s a bit too iTunes for me. Do all computer-based music players have to have the same boring interface? For me, it takes a lot away from the experience.

]]> By: Stephen Lau http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187422 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:49:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187422 Dragoljob: Yup, Songbird supports syncing to both the iPod family of devices, as well as USB mass storage devices.

Han Lee: Is there something special about classical music? (Not trying to troll – just genuinely not sure what’s different). Certainly some of Songbird’s features such as its integrated music blog support would translate just as easily to classical music blogs. (Likewise, it’s integration with music search engines like Skreemr, etc. should carry over to classical just as well)

]]> By: Ralph Poole http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187421 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:56:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187421 This is a really good discussion of business model innovation. It is great to hear Rob talk about how he envisions carving out a niche in this very competitive space.

]]> By: Han Lee http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187420 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:19:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187420 Interesting idea, but the video is poorly made. 1) Can’t see any of the demo that Rob is trying to show and 2) background noise is louder than Rob’s voice, probably due to an outdoor interview session.

Songbird sounds very interesting in tying up web2.0 with the music players, but how does it work as a stand alone and off-line music player? As a classical music listener, I find no jukebox/music player that can satisfy my needs besides foobar2000 (which is a pita to configure/customize).

]]> By: Songbird - Usable? : Yanachik.org http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187419 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:00:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187419 [...] GigaOM has an interview with Rob Lord regarding songbird:  http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/ [...]

]]> By: Dragoljub Profirovic http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187418 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:00:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187418 Ah Songbird, building on top of the Mozilla platform certainly has advantages. Are there any readers that have replaced their previous media player for this one?

I feel like what drives me to use iTunes / Windows Media Player / or something else is the current mp3 player I own. Does anyone know if you can use songbird to sync your music to a mp3 player?

]]> By: Rob Lord http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187417 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:54:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187417 Om,

Thanks for posting this. Next time I’ll speak a bit slower. =)

Also, it’s “Songbird” not “SongBird”. Please update!

Best,
Rob

]]> By: SolSie.com / The Lighter Side of Mobile Technology » Blog Archive » Songbird = iTunes Open Source http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187416 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:55:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187416 [...] GigaOm] If you enjoyed this post, then read these…MobNewsRSS 2.0 RSS Reader by SolSie on December 19th, [...]

]]> By: Ben Cooper’s Weblog » Blog Archive » A Chat with Ben and Pete - Episode 7 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187415 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:02:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187415 [...] Om Malik talks to the Sunbird CEO [...]

]]> By: G http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187414 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:48:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/08/lord-of-the-birds-songbird/#comment-187414 OM – who’s the genius that shot this video – there is Rob using his laptop to show your the demo – and we can’t see any of that presentation. May as well have been a podcast – why call it a NewTeeVee episode if all I see the weather man and not the radar?

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