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wonea replied on March 25, 2009 17:09 to the question "Why did Songbird stop supporting PowerPC users, does it dislike the Mac?" in Songbird:

This whole thread reminds of when the Audacity developers stopped supporting Mac OS 9. Their mailing list used to be full of requests. Time went on to, and most eventually switched over to OS X, and the requests became less frequent. Perhaps because of that Audacity is a better audio editor today because of it.

PPC for desktop being dead is unfortunate, however that's the way the cookie crumbles.

wonea replied on March 25, 2009 16:56 to the problem "Podcast subscriptions won't load" in Songbird:

Let's hope the next release in April gets this feature right. Be lovely to have consolidated podcast/feeds menu. To summarize what's available for listening. I'm optimisitic now this is being worked on. After CD-Ripping this is the next big thing.

wonea replied on March 22, 2009 15:37 to the question "Why did Songbird stop supporting PowerPC users, does it dislike the Mac?" in Songbird:

Why doesn't everybody just use the unofficial build?

http://www.the-eleven.com/tlegg/

Yes, an official build would be better but hey maybe I'm selfish but there's plenty of things for the developers to be working on. I.e. making podcasts actually work! That would be something I could show my friends on their window laptops, and none of them run any ppc hardware.

wonea replied on January 24, 2009 12:39 to the problem "Podcast subscriptions won't load" in Songbird:

This is the big cookie for me, it's something I really want to see! Podcasts are something I live my life by.

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wonea replied on January 05, 2009 19:09 to the question "Why did Songbird stop supporting PowerPC users, does it dislike the Mac?" in Songbird:

It's bums on seats, and sadly PowerPC going out the window. My Quicksilver 2001 is now approaching eight years old. This is seriously old. I'm planning on upgrading this year, and although I was intially annoyed by the dropping of PowerPC I've had a good run. Next stop Linux I think, and some juicy Intel Quad Core chips. Not restricting myself with PPC again, anyone who's ran PPC Linux will know what I mean. Graphics drivers? Forget it.

I for one welcome the transition, just wish it didn't burn my pocket.

wonea replied on October 12, 2008 17:09 to the question "Why did Songbird stop supporting PowerPC users, does it dislike the Mac?" in Songbird:

My cents is that my Power G4 Quicksilver is so slow running Songbird I really don't see the point. Maybe if your running a G5 this is different. I think this is not just the Songbird developers, but all software. Stuck on 10.4, and seeing all new software becoming less supported. Open Office 3 isn't PPC. Not buying another mac, rather get myself a PC running linux. Bought two revisions of Mac OS X, and I've had enough. No more money. Mac rant over.

wonea replied on October 12, 2008 17:00 to the idea "Songbird isn't a good competitor to iTunes and WMP." in Songbird:

@Hen Asraf

Choppy sound I agree, there are definitely problems I've ran into. Usually when downloading music within Songbird, and previewing at the same. Mind you, lets see what happens when the new GStreamer backend is implemented. Choppy user interface? I agree with atreiu; please be particular. Possibly image links, demonstrating the problem.

wonea replied on October 12, 2008 12:09 to the idea "Songbird isn't a good competitor to iTunes and WMP." in Songbird:

Personally I think songbird takes whats good about ITunes, and builds on that. Personally, I'm happy. Though I wish music stores had more presence in Songbird. Music stores should build their own extensions.

As for building a native application. Well yes Songbird is based on the same XUL framework, as firefox. Making an application solely for windows, as in making it truly native is a little troublesome. By Songbird using XUL it remains truly multiplatform, and can easily be adapted to run on phones, possibly android! :-)

Okay, it doesn't look like a standard Windows app, but frankly I don't want it to. Think Songbird looks best on the Mac, much like Firefox.