SONG BIRD IS USELESS

And should be kept locked up until it becomes a more developed program and wont have to depend on other programs to function as a media program.

I used MP3 format for its versatility between several computers in my home (HTPC – desktop – laptop) using Ubuntu / vista / windows 7. From my side, I was using Songbird to manage visually all my music library and also to let my wife to sync easily with her ipod and myself with my windows phone. For listening on my Hifi, i’m using Windows media center 7 that still fully working for multimedia use (music-film-tv recorder) with remote controller and nice skin.

Since you don’t support ipod anymore, i really think to switch to another system (even that is less useful but more versatile!). I cannot continue to manage several libraries even sync them on different platforms as it is really more and more complex!

Main need for people is platform and control versatility.

Until last revision, you were fully working in that direction supporting all kind of equipments and it was great. I fully understand the fact that you have difficulties to support new equipment from Apple. But considering that previous equipments were supported, why not keeping this marvelous function as it was really working well! My understanding is that the REAL REASON is not Apple but Songbird changes with this new revision. Your comments seems not fair at all and becoming open-source with no other support seems really to easy!!! How could you stop to work with the main music portable reader solution on the market?

Unfortunatelly, i have updated my songbird (as usually because i was really confident) and now i feel that you are working in the same way as “Apple”, without searching to keep versatility. Going through this way, I think you will devellop your own songbird music download platform with songbird DRM in the future weeks!

As I already wrote: Versatility is the future of multimedia use.

If not, I would prefer to keep listening my CD collection directly as i did in the 90s (20 years back). All the song still well organised on each CD and the album cover is with good resolution and nice paper!

Do you remember what Free and liberty means? This is reason why I prefer mozilla to other navigators. Hope that you will correct this “bug” quickly and come back to be the real music management solution for all users.

yeah i could read about the update before i accept it but that certainly was not an expected issue. and besides … i couldn’t NOT update forever.

for now i am using rhythembox to update my ipod. but thats only ok because i dont use playlists much.

considering banshee ….

Songbird looks nice and works well for the most part, but huge numbers of people have legacy ipods of various sorts, and breaking working functionality with a pushed, Vogon style update was a really, really dumb move. It leaves a legacy of distrust that will linger.