Saturnine's dashboard

i also have this problem using 0.7 the info is not updated at all until the track is played

I honestly don't remember, but my guess is that we may see something like that sooner than later... they seem to respond well, so I am confident that these guys will push something out... sooner than later.

Remember his name now? I want to know! ;-) – Lenny, on September 26, 2008 16:06

@Matt

I must add that your path as well as sentiments, seem aligned with mine... so, I am going to guess that there are a lot more of us wanting to see what you have stated.

I think someone was planning on implementing an equalizer as an addon, so. fingers crossed on that. Forgot the developer's name.

Here's the thing; In my view; GOOD SOUND MUST COME FIRST, or none of the other cool features will matter. In addition to this thread there are threads & bug reports about volume limiting/Normalization & some complaints about the sound. -- see:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...
etc.

Now we know the Dev's have heard these requests, & they're on the list, & that we're waiting on GStreamer, but improving the sound & sound tools still doesn't appear to be highest on the list according to the Roadmap.

I would've thought that making the player work well & sound good -as a music player- would come first (and even be easier?) rather than implementing some of the fancier web-related features.
For one thing; I think most of us already have ways to find content, both files and streams. I buy most of my music from Amazon, & listen to SomaFM a lot. & we already have a great web-browser; Firefox.

- so once it sounds really good, we could adopt the player as our main music-player early, & show it off to more people, & wait as cool web-search features, & cover art, & even video playback, etc. are developed.

just my 2cents. Still exited...

of course geekiness is relative... I never figured out how to implement skins, or customize anything in foobar, or even manage playlists. (I'll admit I didn't try that hard..)

- I find iTunes to be vastly more intuitive/easier to use, & has many cool/advanced features, & great sound. Of course it has strict limitations, being Windows/Mac only, proprietary, & not easily customizable.

I even had a very pretty black & blue skin for iTunes on Windows, implemented through Multi-Plugin, an unofficial plug-in, but Multi-Plugin is no longer developed, and wont work past iTunes 7.0.2.16

I've tried a lot of players, & liked a lot of things about several of them, but iTunes always seemed to be best overall... but you can never really own it, you know?

-- So we are all looking for the same thing: a cross-platform, open source, customizable, extensible, well thought out, cool player; "The Firefox of media players"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here's the thing; In my view; GOOD SOUND MUST COME FIRST, or none of the other cool features will matter. In addition to this thread there are threads & bug reports about EQ & some complaints about the sound. -- see:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...
etc.

Now we know the Dev's have heard these requests, & they're on the list, & that we're waiting on GStreamer, but improving the sound & sound tools still doesn't appear to be highest on the list according to the Roadmap.

I would've thought that making the player work well & sound good -as a music player- would come first (and even be easier?) rather than implementing some of the fancier web-related features.
For one thing; I think most of us already have ways to find content, both files and streams. I buy most of my music from Amazon, & listen to SomaFM a lot. & we already have a great web-browser; Firefox.

- so once it sounds really good, we could adopt the player as our main music-player early, & show it off to more people, & wait as cool web-search features, cover art, & even video playback, etc. are developed.

just my 2cents. Still exited...

I would like to see a 2-pass EQ like VLC has. It's better than a normal bass-boost option, in my opinion, because you can enhance the effect of your music on all frequency ranges.

I am very impressed at the first glance to Songbird. But seeing there was no EQ was a real disappointment.

U can make something like Enhancer_017 Plug-in for winamp..songbird rocks..

This tag editor program works very well

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

i am a new user since 2 hours, and woul like to know if it is already possible??

is this ability to search and attach accurate information automatically from online music databases already possible??

or why not use the tags info from the mega big data site :
www.gracenote.com