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ashughes set one of pvh's replies as an official response to "Library Management" in Songbird

ashughes marked one of Velenux's replies in Songbird as useful. Velenux replied to the question "How to add single songs to Songbird?".

ashughes replied on December 17, 2008 22:27 to the question "Displaying and navigating the iTunes Music Store?" in Songbird:

Songbird does not handle the iTunes music store directly. Songbird passes the process off to iTunes. I agree with you that this process is one step too many, but I can confirm that this is the way Songbird works currently.

Of course, it doesn't make sense to integrate with the iTunes store for two reasons:
1. Apple would never let us
2. Songbird runs on Linux, and iTunes is not support on Linux

This is a good feature idea though. If this feature ever were to be implemented, it would probably be best served as an add-on for Windows and Mac users.

ashughes replied on December 17, 2008 22:24 to the idea "Is there any possibility to export media files from a playlist or the library in songbird?" in Songbird:

We currently only support drag & drop into Songbird, not out of Songbird. This is a good idea though.

ashughes replied on December 17, 2008 22:09 to the problem "Resource Not Found!" in Songbird:

Please enable the Location column heading in the library view and verify that the URLs point to the location of your files. Note: These URLs are case sensitive.

ashughes replied on December 17, 2008 21:49 to the idea "Can I burn a CD?" in Songbird:

Moving to ideas, since CD support is a "feature".

ashughes replied on November 09, 2008 20:02 to the problem "opening a new tab with CTRL + T is counterintuitive" in Songbird:

This works fine for me in the latest nightly 1.0.0 rc build. You can either update to 1.0.0rc1 (it may be fixed here, I am not sure), or wait until 1.0.0rc2 is released.

Cheers!

ashughes replied on September 30, 2008 16:27 to the question "Playing with Winamp" in Songbird:

I am not sure why Winamp sounds better. In the past, we used VLC in the core. We have recently moved to GStreamer. We will not be changing again to some other core. AFAIK Gstreamer is here to stay.

ashughes replied on September 30, 2008 15:54 to the problem "can't intall latest mashTape in nightly build" in Songbird:

I suggest attempting to redownload and reinstall the addon.

ashughes replied on September 30, 2008 15:50 to the question "Playing with Winamp" in Songbird:

Use Winamp.

ashughes replied on September 30, 2008 15:45 to the question "Why won't my .m3u playlists from Musicmatch play?" in Songbird:

Check to make sure the URLs of the songs in the library (add the Location column) match up to the actual path location of the songs on your hard drive. NOTE: Vista has a strange quirk of changing case which can throw off Songbird sometimes.

ashughes replied on September 30, 2008 15:43 to the question "It takes too long to start playing a song" in Songbird:

This is one of the many performance issues we are working to solve in a future release. I assume you have a large library?

ashughes replied on September 30, 2008 01:24 to the problem ""Install GStreamer" dialog box doesn't close." in Songbird:

This makes sense because it is looking for a gstreamer library for playback. It can't find it, displays the warning, you close the warning, it goes to the next track and the process repeats.

In 0.7.0 GStreamer is not turned on for Linux. You need a bunch of GStreamer packages for full support.

The following packages are required:
* libgstreamer0.10-0
* gstreamer0.10-x
* gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
* gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
* gstreamer0.10-esd or gstreamer0.10-alsa (depending on your audio setup)
* libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
* libgstreamer0.10-dev

The following packages are recommended:
* gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
* gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
* gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
* gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
* gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3

A comment on the question "Why does Songbird 0.7 not support PPC Macintosh?" in Songbird:

Apple no longer makes PPC based devices and is dropping PPC as a supported architecture for their next version of OSX.

Sony PS3/IBM Cell is it's own architecture. It is not PPC-based. There is an emulator for PPC platforms provided for SDK purposes.

Anyway, I understand not everyone is going to like or agree with our decision to drop "official" support for PPC. It was a hard decision, but we stand behind it.

We appreciate your feedback. Feel free to check out the community build. – ashughes, on September 29, 2008 13:58

ashughes replied on September 29, 2008 03:07 to the question "Import Media Limit?" in Songbird:

Run songbird -P, create a new profile, reimport your music and see what happens.

A comment on the problem "Error when downloading songs" in Songbird:

You don't have to read the whole thread. Just read my last post. – ashughes, on September 29, 2008 03:03

ashughes replied on September 29, 2008 03:02 to the question "I can't download anything" in Songbird:

What site are you trying to download from?

ashughes replied on September 28, 2008 16:15 to the question "Album art and ratings from Media Monkey??" in Songbird:

The best way to get the functionality you want into Songbird is to create an add-on for it. We completely agree with you, unfortunately, there is more important work that needs to be done before this can be worked on. It is not uncommon for us to take the functionality of an add-on and put it in the core. iPod support and Album Art both started out as addons.

A comment on the problem "Songbird's Memory Leak" in Songbird:

You are right. It is not "optimized" for any OS. Songbird is cross platform and works about the same on all platforms.

Everything you are reporting has been reported many times on get satisfaction already, has been witnessed by ourselves on our performance machines. Hence, it is a known issue which we are working towards resolving. Unfortunately, performance cannot be fixed in one release. We are committed to performance improvements in each and every release. This has all been stated before, however. In fact, I have mentioned it a couple times in this thread alone. – ashughes, on September 28, 2008 16:10

ashughes replied on September 28, 2008 16:07 to the question "Is there a way to "remember" last played song in play list?" in Songbird:

You could always help us out by creating an add-on to provide this functionality :)