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Slate8 gave praise in Songbird on June 11, 2009 12:37:

Songbird featured in the Ubuntu UK Podcast

Just want to say that Songbird had a mention in the most recent episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast (S02E06). One of the presenters found it was the only media player on Ubuntu that could sync his wife's new iPod Nano!

Big congrats to the Songbird team! Great to hear Songbird get this kind of exposure.

If you are interested go to http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2009/06/... and listen for the mention at around the three minute mark.

Slate8 replied on June 04, 2009 08:39 to the problem "songbird doesn't open on ubuntu, 3 processes are strarted with no result" in Songbird:

Thanks so much for the tip! Had just been trying to run 1.2 Beta 1 and had this issue. All working now.

Slate8 started following the idea "A listening history page with better integration and more information than last.fm" in Songbird.

Slate8 replied on April 27, 2009 10:22 to the problem "Seach box lags or locks up the program" in Songbird:

Is it just me or does searching seem a bit quicker on Ubuntu 9.04? I don't seem to get the dreaded grey lockup any more.

Slate8 replied on April 08, 2009 16:24 to the problem "Seach box lags or locks up the program" in Songbird:

Yup - this has been happening for some time for me too on various different Ubuntu machines. See my topic on it at http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...

I have been playing around and it just seems to be related to the size of my library. The more files I remove from my library the faster search becomes.

Slate8 replied on March 26, 2009 16:52 to the idea "A possible way to speed up the library search responsiveness?" in Songbird:

Yup - I sill get this with 1.1.1 too... I'm going to try out a few things with my library and see if it's related to the number of tracks or a specific album or file...

Slate8 replied on March 03, 2009 13:09 to the idea "A possible way to speed up the library search responsiveness?" in Songbird:

Sorry to dredge up an old one, but I'm still getting this search issue. In fact it never went away and still occurs on 1.0 and the 1.1 nightlies.

I notice Bug #9646 has been marked as fixed - should I append my issues to this bug or file a new one?

Does anyone else still get this?

Slate8 started following the idea "Native Linux-Support would be great!" in Spotify.

Slate8 started following the idea "Native Linux-Support would be great!" in Spotify.

Slate8 replied on December 06, 2008 11:22 to the idea "Simplify Media support and other ideas" in Songbird:

I would just like to chime in and second the request for SimpliyMedia support. It's a great app for all platforms so a Songbird Addon or similar to enable this would be outstanding.

Slate8 started following the idea "This is what the Songbird official release icon should look like." in Songbird.

Slate8 replied on December 01, 2008 14:25 to the question "The company implemented this idea?" in Songbird:

With the public SVN Timeline you can see what is done when... http://timeline.songbirdnest.com/client/

Hope this helps.

Slate8 replied on December 01, 2008 14:14 to the question "genesis release date" in Songbird:

I'd like to know too but TBH I think the blog communication has been pretty good recently. Chill. :)

Slate8 started following the question "genesis release date" in Songbird.

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!

Slate8 replied on October 28, 2008 12:01 to the problem "M3U playlist trouble" in Songbird:

I just had a go at this using FireFox in both Windows XP with Media Player and Ubuntu with Mplayer but it did not work for me.

I suggest it's an issue with the site rather than Songbird.

I use the stream from this site a lot and it seems to use the same technique and works ok for me: http://nuskoolbreaks.co.uk/

Slate8 replied on October 28, 2008 11:47 to the problem ""Library" missing after updating Songbird in Ubuntu." in Songbird:

I had this before - try this. Browse to your home directory, press "<ctrl> h" to show hidden folders and delete the .songbird2 folder. This will remove your profile and any addons you had stored etc... you'll need to import your media again.

When this happened to me it was when upgrading from one nightly to a newer version...

Hope this helps.</ctrl>

Slate8 replied on October 27, 2008 09:39 to the question "Songbird 0.7 won't start on Mythbuntu 64 bit" in Songbird:

Hi Alexeix,
Sorry for the delay on this. My sister got married this weekend so I haven't been around to try it. I'll have a go tonight once I get home.

Slate8 replied on October 23, 2008 10:25 to the question "Songbird 0.7 won't start on Mythbuntu 64 bit" in Songbird:

As far as I know the default windowing system when installing Mythbuntu is XFCE, although you can choose Gnome if you want. If you are on XFCE, when you go to the "Applications" menu the first option will be "Settings", where on Gnome it will be "Accessories".

Will come back to you on whether I get Songbird to work on Mythbuntu 64-bit with XFCE.

Slate8 replied on October 23, 2008 08:24 to the problem "lastfmSidebar add-on not refreshing on track change" in Songbird:

Ah, that'll be it then - I'm on the latest nightly; nothing quite like bleeding edge ;)

I know you're busy with songbird core stuff at the moment so don't worry about this too much, it was just a niggle. Love this plug-in though as well as all your album art work. The embedded album art side of things is working really well in Songbird, congrats!