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Michael Purses marked one of Mike M's replies in Songbird as useful. Mike M replied to the question "FLV".

Michael Purses started following the problem "Three clicks to restore a minimized songbird window" in Songbird.

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Michael Purses marked one of alfred's replies in Songbird as useful. alfred replied to the question "how to upgrade from 1.1.1 to 1.4.3?". Michael Purses and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

klint's reply to "How to uninstall Songbird 1.3b?" was just promoted to the most useful! Michael Purses and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Actually, there seem to be an issue with the installation/uninstallation of Songbird 1.3b1, at least if you have used nightlies before.

I had the problem on 2 different computers running XP: SB 1.3b1 won't install, as it detects another version already there (which is true) but is unable to uninstall it automatically... Doing it manually does not solve anything either.

The only trick I have found is to remove the Songbird entry in the LOCALE_MACHINE branch of the windows registry.

Has anybody else met the same problem?

Michael Purses replied on January 22, 2010 18:15 to the question "Songbird does not work on Fedora 12" in Songbird:

Hey Jigar,

Head here for more info: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...

Michael Purses marked one of alfred's replies in Songbird as useful. alfred replied to the question "Scrubbing advances to the next song".

Michael Purses started following the idea "Step by step: How to sync your Apple iPod (iPod 1g through 5.5g, iPod Mini and iPod Nano 1g) with Songbird using Rockbox" in Songbird.

Michael Purses replied on January 19, 2010 21:24 to the problem "Songbird claims to be starting in Gnome Panel but never starts" in Songbird:

Hey David,
See here: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...

Michael Purses replied on January 17, 2010 03:00 to the idea "View by albums (similar to iTunes)" in Songbird:

Try Griddy :)

Michael Purses replied on January 16, 2010 23:15 to the question "UNKLE is never Christina Aguillera / SB and Screwball Album Art" in Songbird:

Hey spk2629,

Firstly, you can head over here for the main topic on this issue. We still can't track down why/how it is exactly happening.. but we're getting close.

There's a couple easy way's to fix this problem:

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  Open about:config, set songbird.commands.enableRescanItem to true, select all your tracks, right-click > Rescan Metadata.
  This should put your artwork back in the right places based on your metadata.
  
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  Or since you use the iTunes importer, you can just delete your library, and re-import from Tools>Options>Media Importer.
  

Michael Purses replied on January 16, 2010 23:00 to the idea "View by albums (similar to iTunes)" in Songbird:

Hey Veg,
Have you tried Grid View?

Michael Purses replied on January 16, 2010 17:45 to the idea "UI Overhaul for Small, High-DPI Touchscreens (Feather and/or Extension(s))" in Songbird:

The layout.css.dpi is probably the easiest way to make it just about perfect for that kind of use. But it would still be possible to perfect it to what you need. For starters you can look at Murphy on how to set up a custom XUL for a feather, or feel free to steal the layout cause it does save a lot of vertical space(And you can just compact all the player controls over there). Then I would go through and see all the things you don't really need - status-bar, display-panes/splitters, title-bar?...Then make everything you need bigger... I think once you set it up and take a look at the XUL and CSS everything will come together..

Or you can try to make an entirely new iPod Touch-like layout, which would be awesome!! But definitely a lot more time consuming as you would need some sort of multiple-layout-views depending on how you implement it..

Good luck and have fun!

Michael Purses started following the idea "UI Overhaul for Small, High-DPI Touchscreens (Feather and/or Extension(s))" in Songbird.

Michael Purses replied on January 14, 2010 23:40 to the problem "Songbird fucks with my filenames and data on metadata edit" in Songbird:

Hi Graham,

I'm not sure how the filename to lowercase problem could have happened. But Songbird writes metadata to id3v2.4, which uses UTF-8, which is not supported by Windows. That's why you don't see metadata in Windows Explorer. So all your metadata should be completely fine. If you want to see them in Explorer just use another program to write them back to id3v2.3.

And Tagger has all the tools you need to fix Case problems in the metadata and the filenames themselves. I personally think it is better than any other mp3 editor out there right now - and its only gonna get better ;)

I can't reproduce any of the problems that are happening to you, but if you see a pattern with reproducible steps, please file a bug on it!

Mike M's reply to "Miniplayer became obese" was just promoted to the most useful! Michael Purses and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

I brought this up during the beta and was told that some people thought the mini player was just too small. Anyway, you can use this addon to get a small mini player back.

Michael Purses marked one of Mari's replies in Songbird as useful. Mari replied to the question "why can't i bookmark web pages with the new version".

Michael Purses marked one of Mari's replies in Songbird as useful. Mari replied to the question "add-ons for add-ons". Michael Purses and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Michael Purses marked one of klint's replies in Songbird as useful. klint replied to the question "is there any addons that can rename the filename and filetype according to the metadata?".