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A comment on the question "songbird crashes internet adapter and vice versa" in Songbird:

The CD ripping addon uses Gearworks drivers.. So it might actually be the Gearworks driver causing issues (overall though, probably a bug in the wireless card drivers, the quality of drivers for those have always been pathetic). – Andrew Luecke, on February 09, 2010 17:41

Andrew Luecke replied on February 08, 2010 19:31 to the problem "songbird download kaspersky warning application trying to download drivers in a hidden way" in Songbird:

Actually.. I had a USB ODB2 adapter for my car PC.. It was pretty nice

Andrew Luecke replied on February 08, 2010 08:49 to the problem "songbird download kaspersky warning application trying to download drivers in a hidden way" in Songbird:

G'day,

All the others are because of the Gearworks driver...

Unless you can identify EXACTLY what behavior it finds suspicious, unfortunately, its no different than telling your auto mechanic that the car doesn't start, and hoping its diagnosed over the phone.

Maybe check the MD5 (cd673af9c69b872d245a9612d8575fe1), and if it's different, it could be a man in the middle attack against you (although, unlikely). The size of that build though is close enough to the previous one that if a trojan were attached to the code, it wasn't recently (or it was a very well written trojan)..

Sorry, but other Anti-virus vendors aren't picking anything up, and the information you present is one based on heuristics rather than a definite hit. That's why I'd expect it to be due to gearworks, because the log contains insufficient information to suggest otherwise.

Andrew Luecke replied on February 08, 2010 05:21 to the question "website sucks" in Songbird:

Something happened approximately a month ago.. The only real problem with the front page I have is that it doesn't list recent press announcements/blog posts

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Andrew Luecke replied on February 08, 2010 02:20 to the problem "songbird download kaspersky warning application trying to download drivers in a hidden way" in Songbird:

As mentioned, read my post above..

Andrew Luecke replied on February 07, 2010 15:20 to the question "Problems moving songs." in Songbird:

To do so, you need to create a playlist (that lets you sort the songs).. But the better way would be to work out exactly what isn't sorting, and why

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Andrew Luecke replied on February 07, 2010 04:45 to the question "Songbird crahes in Windows 7" in Songbird:

Yep... Songbird 1.4.3 in Windows 7 Final x64 works fine..

Andrew Luecke replied on February 07, 2010 03:32 to the question "Will Songbird work with Windows 7?" in Songbird:

Please check for dupes before posting.. Refer to:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...

Andrew Luecke replied on February 06, 2010 14:54 to the problem "Installer says Windows 7 x64 is not supported" in Songbird:

Btw, for CD ripping support on 64bit, you may need to download http://www.gearsoftware.com/downloads... because the driver included doesn't seem to work properly (at least not on Windows 7 64bit).

Andrew Luecke replied on February 06, 2010 14:51 to the question "Windows 7 compatable?" in Songbird:

G'day,

Please refer to http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...

Andrew Luecke replied on February 06, 2010 13:23 to the problem "Installer says Windows 7 x64 is not supported" in Songbird:

G'day..

Its simply poorly worded. It should say that it hasn't been officially tested in Windows 7 yet rather (and that because the developers haven't officially tested Windows 7 support, it may not be perfect, and there may be some bugs).

That being said, I use Songbird in windows 7, and it works fine..

Andrew Luecke replied on February 03, 2010 14:48 to the problem "Songbird package for Windows 64?" in Songbird:

G'day,

It should be working (on Windows 7 64bit, it works here fine for me).. What problem are you having? It could be a codec issue if you installed random 3rd party codec packs, or caused by something else.

Andrew Luecke replied on February 03, 2010 03:57 to the question "LyricsMaster and Songbird 1.3-1.5" in Songbird:

Its worth noting that Lyricmaster now supports 1.4.x

Andrew Luecke replied on February 02, 2010 16:03 to the idea "Songbird community edition" in Songbird:

Yeah, only a few of us were interested in coding it to begin with. It actually seems many in the community are interested (because they want stuff like ipod support, and linux MSC/MTP support), but it really requires sufficient interested people with sufficient skills.

Many addons, would also need to be redeveloped from scratch because they are closed source, including: MTP/MSC/CDripping.

As you'd imagine, POTI management may also be slightly unimpressed with a competing media player using their code, so they may be more prone to closed sourcing in the future (if I was running a business that relied on paying partners, its a sensible decision to make).

So unless enough developers are found, it probably wont happen. Geekshadow is too busy with uni, and others are just non-existent. That's the reality. Until someone is willing to stand up, and accept to help manage such a project, its unlikely to happen. I would, but at this point of time, I'd be slightly more interested in "thinking different"...

Andrew Luecke replied on February 01, 2010 09:50 to the question "PowerPC version for Mac (OSX Leopard) ?" in Songbird:

G'day,

There used to be a PowerPC version, however, POTI are no longer doing it, because its an endangered platform (at least for OSX), and at this time, it doesn't have a large audience.

Since 10.5 will be the last version of OSX, POTI would need to keep making exceptions to support an older OS into the future, so accomodating for PPC and testing it to supportable levels would result in a slowdown of the entire development process with little gain. At this point of time, even an ARM port would seem to be better use of resources.

That being said, Songbird is open source so you could try to compile it for PPC (in fact, I believe someone did compile a PPC version for 1.1.2 at least). However, at this point of time, for most applications, your best option would be to simply upgrade your hardware (PC or Mac). Even for video editing, unless you cannot afford it, it would be best to upgrade to Intel, because of new libraries such as OpenCL and QuicktimeX found on newer OSX versions.

Andrew Luecke replied on February 01, 2010 05:08 to the problem " instead of '" in Songbird:

Ahh ok.. then its most likely as mentioned by Mike M ;)

Andrew Luecke replied on February 01, 2010 02:59 to the question "Can Songbird Play M4A Files?" in Songbird:

@patrice
POTI are working on a AAC decoder for the next release, but because of the excessive licensing fees required, it will only be included with partner builds in the near future (so companies like Pioneer, who are paying partners).

However, that doesn't prevent people compiling a copy of the Gstreamer AAC module for personal use or using the gstreamer modules within Linux (not sure how legal it would be without a license though),

Otherwise, the only solution is to use the Quicktime addon at the moment.... It doesn't need to be Quicktime specifically though, stripped down copies such as Quicktime alternative seem to work too.

Andrew Luecke replied on February 01, 2010 02:42 to the problem " instead of '" in Songbird:

Its worth noting that Linux also often has unicode issues.. It may be the font being used too..