Phil Adams's dashboard

Hi All

New to Songbird, played with it yesterday & today. Initially, I was very impressed, and thought "Thank goodness for Songbird, now I can at last throw away shiTunes, which since release 8 at least has forgotten all about QUALITY" - iTunes 9 is SO dire - it's unusable on any of my PCs, continually hanging and freezing.

Songbird, compared to that bloatware is a piece of fresh air!

BUT, then I went to switch on my Squeezebox...
... and of course, it's set to pick up my iTunes Library :-(

Sharing the library can't be difficult, after all even shiTunes allows me to have the library xml/itl on a NAS...

.. so for starters, could we at least have the functionality to specify where the Songbird library is stored: my iTunes library is on my NAS, so every PC in the house (and the Squeezeboxes) can all point to the one music store - if all my PCs could be pointed to the NAS Songbird, I'd wait for Squeezebox to catch up!

Hi All

New to Songbird, played with it yesterday & today. Initially, I was very impressed, and thought "Thank goodness for Songbird, now I can at last throw away iTunes, which since release 8 at least has forgotten all about QUALITY" - iTunes 9 is SO dire - it's unusable on any of my PCs, continually hanging and freezing.

Songbird, compared to that bloatware is a piece of fresh air!

BUT, then I went to switch on my Squeezebox...
... and of course, it's set to pick up my iTunes Library :-(

So I agree with everyone that wants to make everything work with everything - as has been said, this is 2009 after all...

.. but for starters, could we at least have the functionality to specify where the Songbird library is stored: my iTunes library is on my NAS, so every PC in the house (and the Squeezeboxes) can all point to the one music store - if all my PCs could be pointed to the NAS Songbird, I'd wait for Squeezebox to catch up!