Comments on: First Look: Songbird Finally Gives iTunes Some Competition

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:24:32 +0000

thanks for the informationen. i’m still using spotify!

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Tech Industry News » Blog Archive » Last.fm: 12 Ways to Scrobble — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:34:13 +0000

[...] well as enable the Internet radio functionality of Last.fm. For a complete review of Songbird see TheAppleBlog’s comprehensive review. Surprisingly, iPod scrobbling is not [...]

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Technology Nerd Blog — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:48:57 +0000

[...] well as enable the Internet radio functionality of Last.fm. For a complete review of Songbird see TheAppleBlog’s comprehensive review. Surprisingly, iPod scrobbling is not [...]

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Last.fm: 12 Ways to Scrobble — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:50:02 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:34:24 +0000

I tried Songbird long ago when it was around 0.4. At this time it was pretty much an exact itunes copy (but black not grey). I thought it was interesting but didn’t see much point in switching as it was just a buggier version of itunes with less features. This 1.0 release has impressed me tho, it’s layout looks more like amarok 1 (which is good, I dunno if I like amarok 2 yet), but what I really like is the customization. I always hated having the one mac OS themed program on my windows xp desktop, now I can make songbird match one of the many themes I have for my desktop. The plugins show album artwork, artist info lyrics and more, all stuff I would have to google before. It hasn’t crashed on me once or had any noticable bugs. This is impressive since itunes has had 8 versions to get it right, (and I only found it got stable on windows after the 7.0 release) The only thing I want in this program is an EQ, which i’m sure will come in the next few updates. As with a lot of opensource projects the 1.0 release is about getting more people interested and working on the project to really fill out all the features they want. As the community grows around this great program it will jump leaps and bounds over itunes.

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Real Rhapsody Supported Mp3 Players — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:45:22 +0000

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By: Songbird 1.0 a review « Whitenoise

Songbird 1.0 a review « Whitenoise — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:51:59 +0000

[...] Mozilla stable. Songbird1.0 was released recently and there was lot of news that finally there is some competition to the much popular iTunes Media player. This is a brief on my experience with this player both [...]

By: Weekly App Store Roundup: Dec. 13th, 2008 | TheAppleBlog

Weekly App Store Roundup: Dec. 13th, 2008 | TheAppleBlog — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:54:26 +0000

[...] Remote, Slydial, TED and DTESS Aphid Attack. Songbird Remote (free) TAB’s Bob Rudis gave the most recent release of Songbird a thumbs-up not so long ago. The desktop app is an alternative to iTunes, managing your music, [...]

By: M.

M. — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:20:07 +0000

What is it with people who can’t handle the mere thought that maybe someone can do something better than Apple? “It crashes.” “It doesn’t do this or that.” “It won’t change my nappy when mommy isn’t at home”. Not once has this app crashed on me. The thing “just works” as simpletons are prone to say about every Apple product regardless of its shortcomings. Maybe your Mac can’t handle the thing…I mean…some Apple products do lack basic functions. The iPhone doesn’t even support a rather simple feature I like to call A-Capacity-to-Choose-a-Product-that-isn’t-Driven-by-Lies-Out-of-the-Mouths-of-Charlatans-like-Steve-Jobs-and-a-Frankly-Embarrassing-Tendency-Toward-Homogenous-Living. My girlfriend has a Mac and the f——g thing crashes at every given opportunity so the “just works” mantra is as dishonest as it is immature. Software crashes regardless of the platform and that’s a fact. Apple zealots, however, are insecure dimwits. Their Macs must be flawless at least within their imaginations or alas they’ll cry. Nobody’s forcing you to replace iTunes. When you come here and defend it so unconditionally you sound as hysterical as a whackjob evangelist. You may struggle with this morsel of cold harsh truth but some things exist outside your bedrooms such as other people whose experience with Songbird has been anything but as dire as you make it out to be. Grow up.

By: Paul Stejskal

Paul Stejskal — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:26:36 +0000

You guys must not know how to implement podcasts well. It takes a bit of work which is a disappointment but here is the basics:

1) Go File->New Subscription and take the URL of the podcast and put it in there. For example if you do Security Now, it is http://leoville.tv/podcasts/sn.xml and that can be obtained by right clicking the link and copying the address. It will subscribe then.
2) Create a seperate playlist for music. You will have to make sure it’s a Smart Playlist and does not include the Album name Security Now. Make sure you match all conditions if you have several podcasts and do the same for each one.
3) Don’t go to your library, but your Music playlist.

By: Songbird Finally Gives iTunes Some Competition at Fix Your Desktop

Songbird Finally Gives iTunes Some Competition at Fix Your Desktop — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:59:26 +0000

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By: dennis parrott

dennis parrott — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:35:51 +0000

the thing we’re missing here is what made Songbird interesting in the first place: its built-in ability to find music downloads embedded on a web page, make them playable as if they were in your local library and download those that you find interesting into your local library without the tedium associated with right-clicking yourself to death in a browser window!

Songbird is more about the ability to discover music on the web and play it than it is about organizing a music library!

player/organizer capability was added so that it could be an all-in-one solution. bear in mind that iTunes has a several year head start… there are plenty of player/organizer solutions but not one of them has the ability to surf the web, find music and play it for you like Songbird does.

By: TV Guide

TV Guide — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:13:10 +0000

Oh how sweet it would be to not have the itunes virus installed.

By: Thomas Legg's Geek Blog

Thomas Legg's Geek Blog — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:48:54 +0000

PPC Songbird 1.0pre for MacOS X 10.5…

So The Apple Blog takes a first look at Songbird 1.0RC1 for MacOS X on Intel. In the write-up, it is mentioned that there is no PPC version available.
Haven’t talked here about much else lately, so regular readers will know the Songbird project dropp…

By: Thomas Legg

Thomas Legg — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:17:15 +0000

There will be an unofficial contributed build for PPC for the 1.0 release, just as there is an unofficial contributed build for PPC for 0.7. I’ve been doing nightly builds and am currently rebuilding an optimized xulrunner & mozilla sdk in preparation for posting another build at my site. Due to the switch to gstreamer media support from the VLC plugin, this version will probably be only OS X 10.5 compatible as the 10.4 headers and libraries are old.

By: The Inquirer ES : Songbird 1.0 RC1 liberado

The Inquirer ES : Songbird 1.0 RC1 liberado — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:01:02 +0000

[...] iTunes, que monopoliza la plataforma Apple y para la cual no existe verdadera competencia, algo que pretende cambiar [...]