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hugh started following the question "Ipod Touch Support?" in Songbird.

hugh started following the idea "Awesome Library Bar!" in Songbird.

hugh replied on May 11, 2009 22:04 to the praise "An amusing aside: Release naming convention!" in Songbird:

all i can say is that we need to go classic

o should be Orbison, Roy

hugh asked a question in Songbird on February 11, 2009 00:25:

watch folder not finding newly added songs

i have just downloaded the new nightly (Version: Songbird 1.1.1a, Build 964 (20090210012109)) then set the watch folder to my music folder. it hasn't rescanned to find a new album i put in there this morning. i restarted songbird thinking it would scan on restart. is there something i have missed?

hugh replied on January 31, 2009 00:34 to the question "Does Songbird support iPod Touch?" in Songbird:

has this been added to the road map? if so which release are you trying to include it in?

hugh replied on January 09, 2009 02:27 to the idea "Remote control via native iPhone/iPod Touch app" in Songbird:

the songbird app thats up on the app store at the moment has one problem that i found.

if your on a network that needs you to sign onto via a web browser it doesn't work because both you computer and ipod have to be signed on and this cant be done with one account. i know this is probably a problem with my internet provider on my uni campus but because its not needing to be on the internet to work i thought it wouldn't be a problem.

i know its a problem that at my end not the songbird end but its something to think for updates cheers

hugh started following the question "Does Songbird support iPod Touch?" in Songbird.

hugh replied on December 12, 2008 01:58 to the question "Why doesn't Songbird play unprotected .WMA files in OS X?" in Songbird:

yeah ive got the problem as well and im running osx10.5.5 and songbird 1. is there any new news on the issue?

hugh replied on December 09, 2008 23:36 to the question "Begging for OS X MTP support" in Songbird:

i really wish songbird and XNJB would play nice. xnjb can get lots of mtps going on mac and maybe linux too (i think?) xnjb is open source im sure somebody with a clue about coding could make it as a add on

hugh started following the question "how can I add new radio station? (like rhythmbox)" in Songbird.

hugh replied on November 19, 2008 02:48 to the praise "The new Songbird 1.0 icon!" in Songbird:

i wonder what it would look like it a bluey green similar to the egg . its slowly going on me though

hugh started following the idea "This is what the Songbird official release icon should look like." in Songbird.

hugh replied on November 19, 2008 01:34 to the question "songbirds new icon not so good, wheres the bird?" in Songbird:

i cant say im a fan of this new icon either. i agree it would be easier to see on a mac dock. i love style of the bird that we see in the blogs and stickers but it may be to dark to see in a little doc. the songbird web site has alot of blues on it i thought the icon would also be blue. what colour is a real songbird?

A comment on the idea "Normalize loudness" in Songbird:

cheers for the link martin, im all for which ever way song bird chooses to over come the problem as long as it doesn't change the dynamics and you can turn it on and off. – hugh, on November 15, 2008 10:29

hugh replied on November 15, 2008 00:13 to the idea "Normalize loudness" in Songbird:

Please don't put a feature that changes the dynamic range of a track most tracks today are already over compressed at the mastering stage of production.
all song bird needs to do is look at the RMS level (RMS is a measure of the average loudness) of each track then reduce to gain accordingly.
Itunes does this though a feature they call sound check it also lists the gain reduction for each track in the meta data. for example A-ha take on me is -0.2Db and Metalica is -10.4 (way over compressed lol)

hugh replied on November 14, 2008 22:50 to the idea "Can't songbird use libmtp, or something similar, to provide cross platform mtp support?" in Songbird:

does this mean you going to use the libmtp to get MTP's working in songbird very soon? if this is true how fair away is it?

A comment on the idea "Auto Volume" in Songbird:

is your volume bar changing by its self or are some songs just louder than others?
because over the last few years record labels have been wanting to be louder than the rest by mastering the tracks so they seem very loud with no dynamic range for some unknown reason. i think a auto level thing should help fix the level. – hugh, on November 10, 2008 21:01

hugh replied on November 10, 2008 04:58 to the idea "Auto Volume" in Songbird:

i like the idea too. saying that what songbird needs if something that turns the volume down and doesn't compress the sound or change it dynamic range. i really don't want my library to turn in to that horrible sound that Metalica have turned out on there latest album.

i would suggest something that measures the RMS level of each track then "turns the volume down" according to that level difference between the songs.
i think this is what mp3gain does and what the itunes preference "sound check " does.

hugh reported a problem in Songbird on November 09, 2008 23:16:

Is Concert Down?

I'm getting a problem with concert. it says I'm not connected to the internet which i am. and to check back later. with out hitting apple R there to way to reload the page (that doesn't' help either) there should still be the option to change city's from this error page.
I'm using mac OSX 10.5.5 and the new release candied of Songbird
here a screen shot

hugh started following the idea "Can't songbird use libmtp, or something similar, to provide cross platform mtp support?" in Songbird.