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Mike replied on November 20, 2008 20:21 to the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

Yes! Thanks Rob! You and your Songbird team have worked your butts off! You deserve to have the final say! The new icon is gorgeous, and if you are a person that doesnt think so.. it will grow on you...
We all love Songbird!

Dustin replied on November 20, 2008 19:40 to the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

Cool. Thanks for keeping us informed. You have no idea how good it feels to know that the powers that be are listening.

Clamm replied on November 20, 2008 19:38 to the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

I think its the moment that we should give the new icon a try and not argue anymore... As said the Songbird team is doing everything they can... And we... the community should now accept the decision as is and for showing respect to what they did in relation to customer support until now.

Thank you devs!

Rob Lord replied on November 20, 2008 19:27 to the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

Good work guys. The feedback is much appreciated. The bird + headphone design is pretty sweet -- with or without note as it suggests the bird is singing along! \m/ \m/

A few things to remember:

1. Remember that design is not a job for a committee. It's an individual creative process that evolves with feedback, but creativity shuts down under committee rule. Ultimately, Pioneers of the Inevitable, the organization w/ more than 20 people working full-time on Songbird, has to make decisions with respect to a release. Everything you post is and will continue to be read, considered and often directly responded too -- as I'm doing here. :)

2. Songbird release dates are scheduled, meaning that there's not time between now and our 1.0 release to Windows, OS X and Linux assets from a new app icon design at this point. We shall revisit app icon in our next and each subsequent release.

3. Songbird is highly customizable with add-ons so by all means free to build an add-on for the app icon of your choice. Or use the tools per OS to change the icon. App icons as add-ons is fairly common ex. see Adium's app icon add-ons. And if there's a myriad of app icon add-ons, I'll see to it that there's an app icon add-on section in Songbird add-on site.

So, thanks again for the major helpful feedback. Please remember that we're doing the best we know how to serve you, others like you and probably some others unlike you to the best of our ability. We thrive on your passion, constructive and well-considered feedback.

Chirp!
Rob

Yex replied on November 20, 2008 18:53 to the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

I think this bird looks nice and it's better than the headphones, but like i already said orange isn't so nice, i prefer black

And i not skipping the topic =)

GeekShadow replied on November 20, 2008 18:44 to the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

can you stick on topic? this bird is not good :(

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A comment on the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

Nix the note [3] – Yex, on November 20, 2008 16:16

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A comment on the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

nix the note. – Dustin, on November 20, 2008 16:06

TekGuy replied on November 20, 2008 12:34 to the question "Songbird 1 RC1 Win32 won't play AAC" in Songbird:

Can't edit metadata either - this is very odd since it's not playback related

Yex replied on November 20, 2008 10:20 to the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

I like the last one with a headset, but i don't think that orange look so nice, and u ppl are missing a detail... he's not farting!

pvh replied on November 20, 2008 08:44 to the question "Metadata From Internet, How??" in Songbird:

FYI: Scrubz is somewhat broken at the moment. Maybe Georges will have some time to hack on it after the release is out?

A comment on the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

I like. Take this further and we're set. I would axe the note though, makes the icon look a tad too small for me compared to others (say the Firefox icon). – thevan, on November 20, 2008 07:18

A comment on the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

woooooooo!!!
not perfect, but it's a good start. – Dustin, on November 20, 2008 04:42

Mike replied on November 20, 2008 04:33 to the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

I wanna play too!!!

plasticmadness replied on November 20, 2008 04:13 to the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

we're seriously running 0ut of colors

A comment on the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

heh. maybe not green then. – Dustin, on November 20, 2008 03:48

A comment on the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

oh the beak layer is too smudgy on the inner part (i thought it was too crisp... anyways it's a sketch) :-P hehe – plasticmadness, on November 20, 2008 03:47

plasticmadness replied on November 20, 2008 03:44 to the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

Green.
But then again it looks like a parrot.