Comments on: Songbird in Linux

By: Five tips to help ease the migration from Mac to Linux

Five tips to help ease the migration from Mac to Linux — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:24:09 +0000

[...] This is one area that is a bit tricky. Because the issues with the iPhone and iTouch, you won’t find a software capable of syncing. There is a new mechanism in development (ifuze – which I will cover in a later article) that allows you access to your iPhone/iTouch. There is still no way to add music to either of these devices on Linux. Older iPods? For sure. And to that end you will want to include a particular piece of software that looks and feels very much like iTunes. That software? Songbird. I have covered Songbird in Linux in an earlier article “Songbird in Linux“. [...]

By: scouser73

scouser73 — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:55:51 +0000

I installed Songbird yesterday, and it’s far better than Rhythmbox which I previously used, plus the add-ons for Songbird are amazing, I really like Media Flow.

By: FACORAT Fabrice

FACORAT Fabrice — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:24:24 +0000

Songbird package is now available in Mandriva 2009.1 Spring. you just need to install the songbird package from the package manager.
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.1_Tour#Other_significant_updates

By: luzar

luzar — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:13:27 +0000

To second what had been said above, if you are ubuntu, as I am, one of the other major linux distributions, then there is no need to install from the .tar.gz. There is more than likely a package or repository for your distro available.

Also these will add it to the menu and such. The only gripe I have with songbird is they still have not implemented podcast support. Though this is something that is in the works for the summer so i’m being impatient more than anything else. I don’t see it making it as the default media player for the major distros as it is not the official music/media player of kde or gnome.

Thanks for the good overview of an up and coming media player.

By: Dim

Dim — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:02:53 +0000

Just download .DEB file from getdeb.net and double-click on it, the app installs without any additional work from you. I never install from .tar.gz, because there’s always a .DEB file (the benefits of Ubuntu’s popularity)

By: GwydionDdu

GwydionDdu — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:46:34 +0000

Songbird has grown on me quite a bit since Amarok went down the version 2 route. I have a large collection of mp3’s and ogg’s and my music player of choice was Amarok, but I don’t know they kinda have taken a great leap backwards with version 2.x as most of what I liked about it have been left out. The last straw for me was showing albums under various artists and to fix it I had to compile a beta version, this was too much for me so I went hunting again.

Banshee and Rhythmbox are so far behind where Amarok 2.x is now so I tried Songbird. The add-ons is what makes this. Media flow, Mash Tape and album cover downloaders are all there, even the various artists albums work. So as long as they don’t trash it, then I think I will stick with this player. I only hope that the distro’s start packaging this soon.

By: aby

aby — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:13:31 +0000

Aside from being user-friendly, it renders the same environment as iTunes. It’s like you never left home kind of feeling.

By: dougmmms

dougmmms — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:10:44 +0000

I like songbird, personally. Rhythmbox, Banshee, and Amarok are all nice, but never enough for me. Not that songbird is a great deal more, but it is certainly the firefox of media players (or music players at least).

You’re right, it’s not in most distros’ repositories. But Songbird links to community builds for each distro. For instance, Getdeb hosts .deb binaries of songbird. Hopefully the player will soon be included in repos since it has matured a great deal.

By: Agung Prastowo’s Blog» Blog Archive » Songbird in Linux

Agung Prastowo’s Blog» Blog Archive » Songbird in Linux — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:44:19 +0000

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