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Old November 6th, 2008   #1 (permalink)
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Mozilla SongBird RC1 released!

SongBird RC1 is out!

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The Open Music Player

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.
We're working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. There are lots of ways to contribute your time to the project. We'd love your help!
There are several features we're proud of, but we'll be the first to admit that others need ironing out, are experimental, or are just plain missing. There's still a lot to do.
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Here are the most noteworthy and complete features we’d like to call out in RC1 and get your feedback on:
  • Audio Playback: We now use GStreamer as our main media playback system across all platforms - this means higher performance, better reliability, and a platform for much more media-related functionality in the future.
  • Album Art: The album artwork feature now supports drag and drop of images, as well as, the ability to toggle between displaying artwork for playing or selected tracks.
  • Keyboard Shortcuts: We’ve cleaned up our keyboard shortcuts this release (and added some new ones for power users). Look for the link to a complete list of keyboard shortcuts in the application’s Help menu.
  • Smart Playlists: By popular request we’ve implemented the ability to use a smart playlist as a rule within another smart playlist.
  • Performance Enhancements: We’ve improved many aspects of the application performance. Most notably, importing media into Songbird is now 2-4x faster.
The RC1 release notes contain additional details about this build including a list of known issues.
As always, please file any issues, bugs, or crashes you find in Bugzilla so that we can address them before 1.0 final!
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Memory usage is pretty damn high at 80Mb of ram, but its pretty responsive, and the fact that there are addons is a big plus IMO. UI is pretty clean too.
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Old November 6th, 2008   #2 (permalink)
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Last time I used songbird a few months back it was a buggy POS
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And it still is a bloated POS.
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I haven't encountered any bugs so far on this release, while way back when I last tried it (0.3 I believe), it was literally unusable it was so unstable.

I suggest you give it a try... The fact that it supports Add-Ons and is open source is a huge plus IMO.

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Yes and it is bloated.
*sighs*

And this coming from the coding part, or the unnecessary features bit? (I use just about all the features in it).
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SongBird still sucks as much as before, by the way.
They better stop labeling alphas as Release Candidates, additionally.
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The coding part.

80MB RAM usage is utterly braindead, plus other things (using a binary based database system is better for speed than human readable formats). You can easily make a music player use 2-3MB RAM ....
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With some trying, this baby could probably be made to reach 1300 megs usage on standard usage (as Firefox can). Crazy world we live in. Best stick to Amarok and iTunes, and they're not even that much better.
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With some trying, this baby could probably be made to reach 1300 megs usage on standard usage (as Firefox can). Crazy world we live in. Best stick to Amarok and iTunes, and they're not even that much better.
On linux I find Banshee to be infinitely better then Amarok. Much lighter on the system, and Amarok crashed a fair number of times too. Not to mention the UI of Amarok is kinda lack luster...
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I'm not even touching new software which doesn't even have a stable release yet Same was the case with Firefox 1, crashed quite a few times.
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