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MacFizz replied on June 15, 2009 19:29 to the idea "USB mass storage library and network library" in Songbird:

I made another topic some time ago about library
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...
Hope that it gives some inspirations

MacFizz replied on March 24, 2009 21:50 to the idea "Well, I do hate to say it that way... library management" in Songbird:

OK
here's the soft, it's JAJUK www.jajuk.info
(moderators, wipe this if found inapropriate)
I may also add that it's working gret on windows but the sound output is sh**tty on macOS (probably due to java), however, library works great

MacFizz shared an idea in Songbird on March 23, 2009 20:53:

Well, I do hate to say it that way... library management

Well, a few months ago I've made a thread talking about music collection problem. That is having a big part of my music collection being stored on external media (ext HDD or network shares)
The bottom line was that nobody really had an idea of how things could be managed to accept multiple source of medias in one collection.
A few days ago, I stumble on a music player (which totally lacks lots of songbirds cool features) that has what seems to be (from the tests I've made) a very interesting way to set things up.
You add to you collection the different folders, mp3 players, shares, cd or whatever and tell him to only show the part of the library that is actually available at the time you're using the player.

For me, that's a killer feature.
When I'm on the road, with my 3 Joe Satriani : I see that in my library, that's it.
When I'm at the office, or when I plug my external HDD : the songs and podcasts I have appear
and when I'm home (which doesn't happen that often in fact): I have my whole library on my network drivers showing in the player.

If needed I can supplie with the name of the software (which is GPL by the way), but i'd prefer not to advertise another player on songbird pages.

However, and I hate to put pressur on dev, podcast support is a major, key, super-needed, extra-important with top-emergency label, issue,

so guys, keep up
I know I'm not helping a lot, all I've got are ideas, but still...

MacFizz replied on December 01, 2008 09:35 to the idea "Podcast subscription support" in Songbird:

well, yes I'm getting more and more disapointed with songbird.
It makes me think to some of the new mobile phone you can find now. Those that can play mp3 and video, has wifi, 3G, edge and god knows what cutting edge technology that able you to feed you cat remotely.
The only problem is that it lacks many basic features (like podcasts).
The whole idea is great and many of the new features are great steps forward, but what's the point of having all those nice new fetaures if I can't use the software for my more basics needs.
You could put it another way, cause the songbird developers are doing a great job and I don't wan't to upset them in any way, songbird is like a sport car with this new eco-engine with 500hp and suck 3l/100km, the car nearly drives itself on its own. The only thing is that there's no seats and no security belts...
So, please guys, do fix the basic functions first, then we'll talk about new features (I can even provide some ideas if neede).

Good luck

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MacFizz replied on September 04, 2008 15:18 to the idea ""Night Mode" or "Dynamic Range Compression"" in Songbird:

This probably will be able when the whole EQ and audio plug-in will work...

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MacFizz replied on September 04, 2008 09:07 to the question "download music" in Songbird:

be more precise on what and when you want to download music, the process might depend on which site you are

MacFizz shared an idea in Songbird on September 04, 2008 08:21:

USB mass storage library and network library

I've been reading posts bout the UMS plug in (which isn't working on 0.7)
It looks like it was working good allowing to access the UMS device library only when the device was connected.
This plug-in might be included in the future builds of songbird.
Could it be extended to work not only with UMS device but also with and mounted network drives.
I've already raised such an idea of a more dynamic and lan spreaded library but this could be a good start.
The main thing is, when does the UMS function will work on songbird and how does it work (does it look for actual USB devices or does it look for and drive letter or volume name) ?

if anyone has a clue, I'd be interested, I'm using an Archos Gmini 400 which isn't MTP...

MacFizz replied on September 04, 2008 08:07 to the idea "Remove the farting." in Songbird:

Maybe you shouldn't take it as flatulence and more like propulsion (some fishes use flatulence for propulsion)

MacFizz replied on August 29, 2008 07:50 to the idea "EQ and applet" in Songbird:

From what I read on gstreamer, it also handles video, which will probably ad better video to songbird.
What puzzles me is that Gstreamer seams to be in dev for nearly 10 years and it's still not in prod/stable release...
Anyway, once correctly implemented in Songbird, the whole experience and audio/video plug in support might make of songbird one of the best mediaplayer around...

MacFizz replied on August 27, 2008 21:07 to the idea "Libraries, ondisk, on lan" in Songbird:

great !!!
If needed, I got loads of great ideas...
the only problem is that some of these will probably require 4 or 5 more years of dev...

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MacFizz replied on August 27, 2008 20:53 to the idea "EQ and applet" in Songbird:

In a more general way, songbird would be great having a better audio processing system, I'm having little blips and cuts in musics when I open new tabs and so
Really hope gstreamer (whatever that is) will help

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MacFizz replied on August 27, 2008 20:47 to the idea "Libraries, ondisk, on lan" in Songbird:

I forgot to put the body of the message...
and obviously, I can't edit it

ok, here's an idea I have that comes from a problem I've encountered.
I have my laptop with a rather small mp3 library (only some of my favourites), I imported it in songbird and it works great.
Now I have other mp3, stored on a lan disk. That's a much bigger collection of mp3.
The thing is I'd like to be able to browse the two libraries easily but, of course I'm not always at home, connected to the lan drive, so my library is incomplete and I'm getting a lot of error messages.
Of course, you would say "why don't you just keep the whole library on your laptop disk ?"
Well, first because my laptop hard drive room is limited and second because I'm not the only one at home using the library (that's why it's on a lan drive).

The idea would be the possibility to have you songbird library spread on several locations but keeping track on which locations are actually accessible. Meaning, when I'm home, the whole thing (on the laptop and on the lan drive) is available and searchable (like one library) and when the network is unreachable (not at home, lan drive offline, ...) the library doesn't show the songs that are not available at the time.
The key idea, especially for large mp3 library, would be to have some sort of beacon or markers in each of the directories where the music is stored so that testing the presence o each songs wouldn't be necessary...