Comments on: OSCON Day 1 http://whacked.net/2008/07/24/oscon-day-1/ thoughts on open spaces Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:58:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: TimC http://whacked.net/2008/07/24/oscon-day-1/#comment-97827 TimC Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:54:44 +0000 http://whacked.net/?p=988#comment-97827 <p>Ok, I've tried songbird several times, an I still have one big gripe. Maybe I'm weird, maybe I'm the only one this annoys.</p> <p>When I want to open a streaming station say... bassdrive.com, on winamp I can just hit the plus sign to add a url, and type in www.bassdrive.com/BassDrive.m3u, it loads it, everything is fat and happy. With Songbird I'm forced to download the .m3u, and mess around with getting it to load. That's a pain... and it <em>REALLY</em> doesn't seem like it should be that tough if you're leveraging mozilla to open a temporary file and load it into songbird.</p> Ok, I’ve tried songbird several times, an I still have one big gripe. Maybe I’m weird, maybe I’m the only one this annoys.

When I want to open a streaming station say… bassdrive.com, on winamp I can just hit the plus sign to add a url, and type in http://www.bassdrive.com/BassDrive.m3u, it loads it, everything is fat and happy. With Songbird I’m forced to download the .m3u, and mess around with getting it to load. That’s a pain… and it REALLY doesn’t seem like it should be that tough if you’re leveraging mozilla to open a temporary file and load it into songbird.

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