Martin's dashboard

Martin replied on October 29, 2009 23:22 to the problem "Managed Mode: What the h*ll did your software just do to my library?" in Songbird:

It would be great to select only a subset of files and be able to only put those in managed mode. Or move them in a one-time way. So I have some idea of what you're going to do, without the preview (which by the way, is great, but on my 68k tracks, it's a little tricky to use the interface).

Plus, I don't have EVERYTHING tagged, but I do have some things I'd to get reorganized. It would be great to selectively and/or one-time-use managed mode on my files.

Martin shared an idea in Songbird on October 22, 2009 03:23:

Manually organize specific tracks, a la managed mode

Add the command to manually rearrange and organize the currently selected tracks a la managed mode, but only for selected tracks. I have certain files that still need to get retagged to have correct titles and artists. I'd like to have Songbird *not* move them until I know, as sometimes the original folder structure helps me figure out how to correctly tag the album. I'd still like the older, correctly tagged albums to get 'organized' by Songbird.

Martin started following the problem "Slow library search" in Songbird.

Martin shared an idea in Get Satisfaction on October 01, 2009 23:18:

Share a post by sending to a Get Satisfaction user

We can currently share a post via Facebook, Email, Twitter, etc -- but I would like to share a post by specifying a Get Satisfaction user!

Martin shared an idea in Songbird on October 01, 2009 23:15:

Add a metadata plugin architecture for popular tagger or mashtape!

The Tagger addon or the Mashtape addon (either one!) should support a plugin architecture for providing metadata. Then lots of smaller projects could provide an implementation for their favorite metadata repository.

Martin marked one of Mike Orren's replies in Songbird as useful. Mike Orren replied to the idea "Large library support".

A comment on the problem "(possible)Big libraries will make songbird unusable" in Songbird:

I wish the search issue was fixed too. Library performance with a huge library (I have about 55k songs) is still poor, with the threading causing the performance to destroy the GUI. – Martin, on August 23, 2009 17:26

Martin replied on August 15, 2009 01:54 to the idea "What's your vision of our future?" in Songbird:

I definitely think social networking addons are premature. My library is still too big for Songbird, and cleaning it up still requires a bunch of addons that do linear scans of 50 thousand song databases. I loooooove social networking features, but Songbird isn't ready. In my opinion of course. I still love you guys for making Songbird as good as it is, and I'm still a zealot who will use it as a primary media player :)

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

Martin started following the question "refresh library: delete broken links, re-read metadata information" in Songbird.

Martin started following the question "Play music through UPNP/DLNA?" in Songbird.

Martin started following the idea "DLNA or UpNP support ?" in Songbird.

Martin started following the idea "DLNA Support" in Songbird.

Martin marked one of Michael Bushey's replies in Songbird as useful. Michael Bushey replied to the idea "Watch-Folder = SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE".

Martin marked one of Uncle Spellbinder's replies in Songbird as useful. Uncle Spellbinder replied to the idea "Watch-Folder = SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE". Martin and 7 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Martin replied on July 31, 2009 02:36 to the problem "Will not play logically down the library. Next song goes to currently selected track." in Songbird:

I also don't like this feature. I want to play Artist A while browsing Artist B. Until I actually manually click to *play* something from another list, like manually activating a song from Artist B, my player should continue on the playlist for Artist A.

Windows Media Player and Winamp behave this way, iTunes offers a shortcut to get back to the now-playing list, but Songbird schizophrenically plays whatever you're jumping around to.

This is a HUGE pain when I use addons that create playlists like SmartyPants, that suggests new music for me to play. I can't stay with the suggested songs unless I stop browsing/organizing/tagging my library.

Martin started following the problem "Will not play logically down the library. Next song goes to currently selected track." in Songbird.

Martin started following the idea "Play a playlist with a single click" in Songbird.

Martin started following the idea "Author profiles on add-on website" in Songbird.

Martin replied on July 25, 2009 23:35 to the idea "Contact the author of an addon" in Songbird:

It would be great to document this if it's true for all developers.