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brendy replied on November 15, 2008 08:06 to the problem "Album Art Manager | "Fetch missing covers"-button doesn't work" in Songbird:

how long until this is added into the songbird core? i'm running 1.0.0 RC2 and it still isn't supported
It would be awesome to be able to fetch album art

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Laura Thomas replied on November 13, 2008 05:25 to the idea "Idea: Minimize songbird to system try" in Songbird:

Hi ncjasen,

This is something that the developers are considering for a future release. In the meantime, I would suggest using the FireTray Add-on .

lol replied on November 12, 2008 00:25 to the problem "Songbird's Memory Leak" in Songbird:

My library is around 24k songs, and Songbird is currently running at 250mb, while firefox with 5 tabs open is running at 135mb. I'm noticing that things are better than they were in previous versions, but it's still a bit of a problem.

Is there anything I can do to help decrease the program's memory use while waiting for a new version? (for example, disabling certain things such as a browser)

Slate8 replied on November 11, 2008 10:27 to the problem "Songbird's Memory Leak" in Songbird:

Yup - 1.0 rc1 is great for me! only using 160Mb as I type. Yay. Well done Songbird team!

pvh replied on November 11, 2008 09:48 to the problem "Songbird's Memory Leak" in Songbird:

Hi guys,

just thought I'd check in. I think you'll find that memory usage is much improved in 1.0. There's will always be room for improvement, but we've made huge strides during the last couple of months and I think everyone who chimed in here will be able to appreciate the difference.

Also, HarmonicStyle, while there are still some rough edges, we're (gradually) working towards supporting 100,000 tracks in a Songbird library. At this point, I'd certainly feel very comfortable running Songbird 1.0 with 10,000 tracks or even substantially more. For those who try, the major slowness I'm aware of right now occurs when you try to delete thousands of tracks at once. I suspect you could probably create some Smart Playlists which would be pretty darn slow with that many tracks too.

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A comment on the problem "Unable to write metadata back to media files." in Songbird:

You are correct, .m4p is a protected audio file format. It's considered an AAC audio file (protected). I would think that you would not be able to edit the metadata unless you are using an Apple program, like iTunes.

However, I don't think that's ncjasen's problem. I receive the same error with varying file formats, including .mp3 and .wma so I'm inclined to believe the problem might be with Songbird. – flugen, on November 02, 2008 22:19

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Dustin replied on October 25, 2008 19:24 to the problem "Unable to write metadata back to media files." in Songbird:

What's the file extension of the song? This problem only occurs for me if the name of the file for the song is "Somesong.m4p". I believe that the "p" means that the song is protected, therefore, you can't write back to the file.

If you do try to write back to a .m4p file, you will get the error message you mentioned. But the changes will take effect in Songbird, at least they have for me.

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HarmonicStyle replied on October 25, 2008 03:59 to the problem "Songbird's Memory Leak" in Songbird:

It's not a memory leak. A memory leak constitutes that the program uses more and more memory over time indefinitely or until the physical memory and virtual memory is so maxed that the computer crashes. You guys act like your ram size is a hard limit, when you go over the physical ram limit windows (or in the case of Linux it uses the swap partition with a preset limit) allocates more paged virtual memory.

I think it has more to do with the size of you're library than anything because mine is steady @ ~100-125mb and I'm playing tracks from the web interface of my remote ftp server in the browser. My library also has ~2600 songs loaded currently.

BTW, people are acting like 10000+ songs is not a lot? That's about 700 albums (like bittorrent much?). It doesn't matter what application you're using, having a database constantly tracking that many items is going to create a little lag and eat a lot of memory to process. Memory management isn't magic, there are real limits to this stuff.

And for those of you using foobar, that's great and all, but foobar can't do what I'm doing with Songbird right now (nuff said...).

Stevo replied on October 22, 2008 22:54 to the problem "Album Art Manager | "Fetch missing covers"-button doesn't work" in Songbird:

I am sorry to say but this add on has been discontinued. It will be integrated into songbird as soon as possible :)

Slate8 replied on October 17, 2008 15:55 to the problem "Songbird's Memory Leak" in Songbird:

Not sure about the deb vs current version on getsongbird.com but the latest nighties are much better on memory. The media scan is still pretty vicious, but after that, for general playback etc, I was getting about 150Mb average; less than FireFox! Yay!

Vivek replied on October 17, 2008 15:52 to the problem "Songbird's Memory Leak" in Songbird:

Hmmm,
Even am experiencing the same issue in Hardy. But one noticeable thing was that the memory leak was more (400mb) when I used the deb package from getdeb. The normal download was just ok (150 mb after an hour).
Any guess why??

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dan_ipod replied on October 03, 2008 13:08 to the discussion "Why iPod Touch / iPhone support isn't in the roadmap ?" in Songbird:

I want iPhone support on Songbird pretty desperately: not only do I hate the bloated iTunes, but it also keeps me locked to Windows, it is the only reason I can't move completely to Linux.

If I followed the above discussion and links correctly, iPhone support depends on the development of libgpod/gtkpod. I just saw that you can donate to that project (http://sourceforge.net/project/projec...), and I think that's a great way of supporting the developers!