Binford 2000's dashboard

exactly the same happening here !!!! this problem sucks.

I don't know if you understood what I meant.
I wanted to say that Songbird has something what PERSONALITY describes the best way.

When I got my Commodore back in 1983, it was the best thing you can get your hands on for a reasonable price. There were lots of other 8bit and 16bit machines out there, but costing nearly the price of a new home. Mainframe jocks of the 80ies never built a kind of relationship to their machines, we did. We took out the soldering iron and enhanced and modified things and step by step we built from a home computer something that we considered the best thing in the world to work and play with.
Songbird is someway like this: The community brings in new ideas, the developers and programmers do a terrific job and the result is getting better and better.

I have to admit that I didn't like Songbird when I tested it once. It seemed unstable, nervy and too difficult to work with. I was a Follower of Winamp in that time. Now I am a true Songbird Believer, because 1.1.1 works stable, it offers great add-ons and somehow I love it to do the doubleclick on the songbird-icon in the morning and my favorite tunes start to play. From time to time, I drop in here and see lots of people giving advice and offering help to others and best of all: cooking in the idea kitchen...
Its great to have Songbird on my Linux machine, on my Windows machine and leaving behind everything else like iTunes and Winamp. Its not a religious thing, it's the belief that the best software is made for users, not only for sales like it is with iTunes...

Famous last words in this comment:
The C64 is still today the most sold home computer in the world of all times. It's structure and the way to add programs is still the most easy thing to understand and programming on the C64 is a challenge, because you need to think of the limited ressources. Songbird will be soon the same: The most downloaded and most used audio player in the world across all OS, easy to understand, easy to learn and easy to use! – Binford 2000, on March 25, 2009 13:00

Have a very similar problem...

I use WinXP SP3 w/ newest security updates. When I was playing an album, it stopped and SB freezes. When checking TaskMan, it showed SB uses 99% CPU time and 200MB RAM.
Confused I closed SB, but it was not to shut down, not even after 2min. I used TaskMan and stopped SB the rude method, because I wanted to restart the system and was short on time and pretty p****d.
After reboot, SB said at start "bla,bla...problems with library" WTF? Ok, have let SB rebuilt the library by re-reading the watched folder.
Now Album Art wont work at all. Nothing to see. I installed the Amazon Fetcher before, no effect. No Album at all - sad but true.
Then found this entry and tried several things out - no effect at all.

Album Art: No options, simply dead.
Amazon : No options, nothing

Have two entries in Console:

Error: SQLite compile step:
select distinct _mi.media_item_id, _mi.guid, '', _mi.rowid from media_items as _mi left join resource_properties as _p0 on (_p0.media_item_id = _mi.media_item_id and _p0.property_id = 2) join resource_properties as _p0 on _mi.media_item_id = _p0.media_item_id left join resource_properties as _sort1 on (_sort1.media_item_id = _mi.media_item_id and _sort1.property_id = 8) left join resource_properties as _sort2 on (_sort2.media_item_id = _mi.media_item_id and _sort2.property_id = 6) left join resource_properties as _sort3 on (_sort3.media_item_id = _mi.media_item_id and _sort3.property_id = 1) where _p0.obj_sortable is null and +_mi.media_list_type_id is null and _mi.hidden in ('0') and _p0.property_id = 5 and _p0.obj_sortable in ('medieval') order by _sort1.obj_sortable asc, _sort2.obj_sortable asc, _sort3.obj_sortable asc, _mi.media_item_id asc
caused the error
ambiguous column name: _p0.media_item_id

Those are happening again and again.

By now (5min after writing this far), Album Art works again and fine.....I am pretty confused....

I find the idea of a crossfading add-on great! i don't need visualisation at all.
The longer I use songbird, the more I love it...

I love that idea, especially together with MediaFlow. Would be great to have a 3D view of genres with the mentioned pics to scroll thru.

i had this problem too. only solution on winxp: completely uninstall it, check all folders for remains, check registry for remains and delete keys in there too. after songbird is completely gone, reinstall it and it works fine!