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cosmia started following the idea "Delete a filter item to delete all of the songs it contains" in Songbird.

cosmia started following the problem "Delete button doesn't work in Songbird" in Songbird.

cosmia started following the idea "Help people fit Songbird to their needs with add-ons" in Songbird.

cosmia marked one of Murphy's replies in Songbird as useful. Murphy replied to the idea "Album art media view ideas". cosmia and 8 other people think it's one of the best replies.

cosmia started following the idea "Taskbird" in Songbird.

cosmia started following the question "i want to delete all my media files fron songbird!" in Songbird.

cosmia started following the idea "Put the new-playlist button next to "Playlists"" in Songbird.

cosmia started following the idea "Friends list - recommend and share music with friends" in Songbird.

cosmia shared an idea in Songbird on March 14, 2009 23:23:

Test the authenticity of your files

I've started ripping and downloading my music in flac, and I'm learning more about the format. I've noticed that people usually want a log file to accompany flac downloads so they can make sure the rip was accurate, since errors can be made in rips from scratched cds, or sometimes flac files are just transcoded from mp3s, which defeats the purpose of getting lossless files. I have found a few programs that can help you determine how accurate music files are, I thought a good idea would be to make an addon that can check the files in your library. Maybe the addon could add a new info column that shows a percent of how accurate it determines the files to be.

There are a few programs I've found that do something like this now. There is a program called Audio Checker that checks if files are transcodes using a tool from True Audio This is a picture that shows how Audio Checker gives you percentages of how accurate your music is: http://www.dester.hu/Images_Ready/scr...

Then there is a tool called Accurate Rip, which the popular ripping program EAC uses to verify your files based on data from rips that other people have made.

I don't know too much about how they work, so I don't know how possible it would be to incorporate either of these tools into an addon somehow, but I think they might be useful as people download more music and are unsure about how close the files are to the actual recordings.

cosmia started following the idea "Now playing feature w/o installing add-on" in Songbird.

Murphy's reply to "Album art media view ideas" was just promoted to the most useful! cosmia and 5 other people think it's one of the best replies.

I keep trying out ideas to find the best media view. I made this one today because I realized that having the album covers displayed equally in a grid solves a lot of problems with spacing them out; for example, with the overlapping-covers idea I posted before, when the artist runs onto the next row, a full cover would have to be shown again.
But I still tried to improve the grid from what iTunes and the Songbird addons do right now by separating albums by artist. It isn't a very drastic change from the way they are now, but I think that distinguishing artists like this would be useful. I also incorporated the letters into the scroll bar to help you scroll through the library to find artists quickly.

cosmia started following the idea "New method for displaying playlists" in Songbird.

cosmia started following the idea "Highlight newly added music" in Songbird.

cosmia started following the idea "ReversePlayer Add-On" in Songbird.

cosmia started following the idea "Automatically organizing music library" in Songbird.

cosmia started following the idea "Advanced tags edition" in Songbird.

A comment on the idea "Hide left side bar wile in library" in Songbird:

Murphy, these are my thoughts exactly. – cosmia, on March 04, 2009 19:48

cosmia marked one of Murphy's replies in Songbird as useful. Murphy replied to the idea "Hide left side bar wile in library". cosmia and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

cosmia marked one of Duncan's replies in Songbird as useful. Duncan replied to the idea "Hide left side bar wile in library".

cosmia marked one of Murphy's replies in Songbird as useful. Murphy replied to the idea "Hide left side bar wile in library". cosmia and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.