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Things have gone from bad to worse here. My sansa express isn't syncing at all. I dont see the playsilsts and manual sync doesn't do anything. Im on win7 now.

@ByteMastr: Thanks for the alternative. Its apparently our only choice to look for better alternative and people who actually CARE about the first people who support software in the early stage, GEEKS.

With that said i think Winamp isn't bad at all, its not very fancy in graphics. But it has awesome geek oriented capablilities. It does alot of things well including unparalleled MTP support, great podcasting, a video player, and great CUE and FLAC support. Its everything a geek could need, without the open source part. – Oldarney, on August 20, 2009 04:22

A file that only songbird can read, thats useful. Btw switching a small setting in the about:config section saves the ratings to the id3 of the song.... not sure why this is still going. – Oldarney, on August 19, 2009 08:16

On top of that, there is very little competition in the fields of podcasting and video, compared to cue sheet support. Automatic downloads of podcasts is ONLY available in lime and iTunes. Same goes for music organizers with video organizing built in. I have zero interest in using Songbird for video playback, i would like podcasting support, but i can live without it, i can't say the same for the many who have several gigs worth of cue sheet music.
Your basically cutting out European music out of your player by not including cue sheet support. – Oldarney, on July 22, 2009 00:25

@earthmeLon
Would you happen to know where song bird is head quatered?
If its close to where I live i would be more than happy to take a trip and strike. I can already hear it "We want cue support and we want it know". – Oldarney, on July 20, 2009 22:37

for portable media players copy the entire song. Can songbird even convert Flac's to mp3s? most people here have other ways of putting specific parts of cue mixes on their mp3 players, if anyone would ever want to do that. This is because no player handles flac's or cue.

Here is another proposal, (btw, i never proposed anything, i was just inciting action. Action always ignites inspiration, rarely does inspiration lead to action.)
1. The only reason i wan't cue files is to skip to certain parts of the song's (in this case mixes); with that said a markers system would suffice. Where hitting forward would not jump to the next file, but instead the next marker on the song or mix. The markers would be visible on the timeline (or what ever you call the scrobbling bar).
2. A special character, symbol, or color at the Beginning of the name would destinguish the flac from other music files. clicking the the file would have a special option inciting to display the file as tracks or not.
3. anytime a track of the flac was sent to an MP3 player a dialog would say that the entire file will be copyed. Truth of the matter is that mixes were never meant to be split up. It's like a piece of footage with long cross dissolved transitions and slitting one of the transitions in half then pasting that onto another clip. The result would be a jump cut with artifacts from the last clip, or song.

With that said. An addon could handle the slitting up of tracks in order to put them in MP3 players. if the "show markers as tracks" feature is to out of sync with song bird, then make that feature into an addon that would use the markers for reference on where to split the song. A markers system would set songbird apart from others. Imagine being able to skip to a predefined part of a song you like, or hate. cue file's would be the core of such a feature. A new cue file would be generated everytime someone made a marker. – Oldarney, on July 18, 2009 12:01

Andrew, here's what your missing. We dont want to convert our files because alot of mixes are distributed freely with the help of torrents (legal). If we convert them we'd have twice the files. This is too much of a burden, specially when where splitting flacs. MP3's just don't cut it for true audiophiles. Nice work around though, stop pushing it as an end all be all solution, song bird should already include cue support and it IS a necessity.

It's been 12 months and its not even on the to do list. I switched to WMP and winamp couple of months ago... they handle MTP marvelously and cue sheets are supported like butter. on the mac i only listen to radio with VLC. – Oldarney, on July 17, 2009 14:35

not to mention that you would have to click play gapless every time you played an album that was split up from cues. Mixes with cue files aren't mean to be played seperately. In general the cue files are just complimentary markers to skip to certain points in the mix since generally the tracks are not divided, instead they have a smooth custom transition. the songbird team is aming at the mainstream before the grab the geeks. Thats a bad way to start anything with a small budget. Digg, twitter, revision3, youtube, they all started with an elitist user base and then expanded gradually. stop trying to imitate iTunes. – Oldarney, on July 17, 2009 14:27

Im here on windows 7 and i can affirm that WMP12 supports the albumart set by Songbird

nope it doesnt work with any version of song bird, the latest version of the MTP addon is useless. The best way to sync using MTP is exporting the playlists and adding them using windows media player, while unistalling the mtp addon off song bird (it deletes your playlists sometimes). or stop using songbird. or program a new addon yourself. – Oldarney, on May 26, 2009 11:17

that explains why some of my torrents were messed up... fudge. i used the amazon album art fetcher on my library...

Ehum, you forgot to mention that songbird doesn't write the artwork to the file by default (its a good thing). go to about config and look for the boolean that handles that. Maybe you should build that into the gui.

Edit: I confirm that i am able to view the artwork placed by songbird on WMP after changing the write to files config. – Oldarney, on May 25, 2009 08:14

ingenious workarround. i will likely be using that method.

It should also be possible to make a cue sheet addon in order to make cue sheets. Sometimes i feel like songbird is sucking apple juice too hard instead of listening to geeks.

Happens with my sansa sometimes. its been a while though. Thats not to say ive had a good experience. Plalist dont mount half the time...