Comments on: Ubuntu & Songbird, sitting in a tree…..

By: Brian Russell

Brian Russell — Thu, 20 May 2010 09:01:48 +0000

the download page correctly recognized me as an ubuntu user but gave me a tar.gz download – with no instructions! I unzipped the directory and tried running things but it just RAN songbird and didn’t install it. Luckily, I was able to find http://skyzim.com/songbird-1-4-3-installer/ which was what I (and to be sure most users) was looking for. works great!

thanks for this great app! I would recommend including a link to the download on skyzim’s site if you are not going to offer a .deb file on your own site..

By: Chauncellor

Chauncellor — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:31:36 +0000

oi, will you shut up?

By: Isaiah

Isaiah — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:19:57 +0000

really, with mplayer what’s the point of songbird..

By: Andy06

Andy06 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:44:35 +0000

@Minivitale,

It already does Just like Firefox, all you need to do is shift your profile folder to the common data partition and then use profile manager of songbird to point to it. It contains all your extensions,settings and plugins. Your songbird will look and behave exactly the same since it will be using exactly the same profile.

Underneath, it behaves exactly like Firefox so its predictable and a great asset.

By: minivitale

minivitale — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:32:47 +0000

what i really want to see is something for us dual-booters so that I can use the same library, plugins, and settings in Windows (XP) and Ubuntu. that would switch me over 100% no question to songbird, as maintaining 2 different pieces of software is obnoxious and time consuming. i was hoping that songbird would already have that functionality.

By: Helia

Helia — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:34:28 +0000

As a recent switcher from Windows to Linux/Ubuntu (jaunty) it was easy to install from a deb package. The package from http://unter-hund.com/2009/04/17/songbird-112-installer/ installed, but did not automatically integrate into the menu and produced non-critical GStreamer warnings. These are other reasons that I hope to see resolved once an synaptic integration is available.

Thanks to POTI for songbird and for working on the ubuntu integration.

By: Supporting Songbird « Bits by Ben

Supporting Songbird « Bits by Ben — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:56:55 +0000

[...] of the Songbird developers wrote a good blogpost about the problems that distros meet when trying to support Songbird, an open source iTunes competitor. The post concentrates on Ubuntu, as one of the most popular [...]

By: Jonathan Breedlove

Jonathan Breedlove — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:17:08 +0000

Just wanted to echo the "keep up the good work" sentiment-I have Songbird on two boxes currently (an Ubuntu 8.04/Hardy desktop & a Linux Mint Elyssa, using the same repositories) and I don't think that it was too hard to get it on either (pretty much just a download & install from tarball sort of situation, if I remember correctly).

That being said, getting it into the Universe would be great-I'd love to be able to just apt-get an update or handle it with the package manager. I'm sure that you'll all figure it out & I'm looking forward to it.

By: durruti

durruti — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:32:34 +0000

@Erik, @teddy, the others (probably the same person) who also wrote "really, with mplayer what’s the point of songbird…"

Have you ever used Songbird? I suspect not, it is not simply a media player (otherwise I would agree with your question as mplayer will play anything, it's great, I use it as my default media player). Songbird however browses music on the internet (mplayer doesn't do this), so they are different. Songbird is also a much better music manager, one that would rival itunes. If you don't need these things you probably don't need songbird.

Keep up the good work POTI.

By: Erik

Erik — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:42:04 +0000

really, with mplayer what’s the point of songbird…