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Problems/issues/suggestions for songbird 1.1
hi. so I'm a fellow songbird lover too and all that and i really think its got great potential but there's just a few things in songbird 1.1 that I'm not really sure about -
1) If you open up multiple tabs, you can't change the media view back in the main library - was this always the case?
2) While starting up, if songbird is installing updates it seems to just stop after finding and installing the updates - as in it wont open up the media player and i usually have to shut it down and start it up again
3) There's a few add-ons that were really awesome in songbird 1.0 that aren't compatible with songbird 1.1 - i know that they are mostly developed by third party developers and all that meaning it takes longer for them to catch on. However, there's a few add-ons out there that are quite critical I reckon and maybe should be added permanently to the player? Most notably so - the exorcist, song notifier, seeqpod *, and among the web player side of things - google search, adplus, noscript, ultimate guitar search (this is one feature i absolutely loved!). Oh and you know just as the cool asides - (8)photo, divided tag cloud.
I know the examples I've given in 3) are probably going to seem silly to some people, but on the other hand they are all addons that have received a fair number of downloads and good reviews. In no way do I expect or want the web player addons or the "coolies" to be permanent features of songbird - people would just hate me for that lol:P. But I do feel the first 3 I mentioned are worthwhile.
*seeqpod - at the moment it appears seeqpod isn't supported by songbird 1.1? still it seems to have just been retained by songbird 1.0 and appears in the sidebar as "&servicepane.seeqpodsearch" it doesnt actually do anything it just sits there lol. should I simply uninstall it?
Any comments, suggestions and solutions are always welcome!
PS: I still love songbird! :P
1) If you open up multiple tabs, you can't change the media view back in the main library - was this always the case?
2) While starting up, if songbird is installing updates it seems to just stop after finding and installing the updates - as in it wont open up the media player and i usually have to shut it down and start it up again
3) There's a few add-ons that were really awesome in songbird 1.0 that aren't compatible with songbird 1.1 - i know that they are mostly developed by third party developers and all that meaning it takes longer for them to catch on. However, there's a few add-ons out there that are quite critical I reckon and maybe should be added permanently to the player? Most notably so - the exorcist, song notifier, seeqpod *, and among the web player side of things - google search, adplus, noscript, ultimate guitar search (this is one feature i absolutely loved!). Oh and you know just as the cool asides - (8)photo, divided tag cloud.
I know the examples I've given in 3) are probably going to seem silly to some people, but on the other hand they are all addons that have received a fair number of downloads and good reviews. In no way do I expect or want the web player addons or the "coolies" to be permanent features of songbird - people would just hate me for that lol:P. But I do feel the first 3 I mentioned are worthwhile.
*seeqpod - at the moment it appears seeqpod isn't supported by songbird 1.1? still it seems to have just been retained by songbird 1.0 and appears in the sidebar as "&servicepane.seeqpodsearch" it doesnt actually do anything it just sits there lol. should I simply uninstall it?
Any comments, suggestions and solutions are always welcome!
PS: I still love songbird! :P
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Inappropriate?I thought an uninstall would get rid of the &servicepane.seeqpod ghost, but it's still there after the uninstall (?!). I have a similar ghost hanging around after uninstalling the nowplaying extension: the Play Queue link is still at the bottom of the pane but doesn't do anything. Anybody know how to get these to uninstall cleanly?
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?yup I tried that too to no avail. Is anyone else having the other problems too? most notably the update problem?
I’m anxious
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Inappropriate?Could you go into your profile folder and look under extensions, if anything of these mentioned addons remained?1 Comment
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I don't see anything in my Profile folder that looks like it belonged to these extensions. I looked at the install.rdf files in each subfolder of the "extensions" directory to find out which extension the the subfolder was for -- but none were from the extensions mentioned. (If others are trying to check this in Windows: type %appdata% into your file manager window and look for Songbird under Profiles.) -
Inappropriate?I concur with bibliophile - I haven't found any of the extensions in the profile folder - I should mention however that many of the mentioned add-ons have been updated since mentioned SWEET! However, the same thing happened - it wouldn't open up songbird after installing the updates - i had to end process and start it up again. in addition with the lack of a seeqpod update I still have a "&servicepane.seeqpodsearch" thing that doesnt disappear from the side pane.
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Inappropriate?anyone?
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Inappropriate?If the problem persists. There will be no way around a fresh profile.
Deleting your existing one and starting new should cure bugs caused by add-ons.
You can use the songbird profile manager to do so.
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Docs/Pro... -
Inappropriate?"2) While starting up, if songbird is installing updates it seems to just stop after finding and installing the updates - as in it wont open up the media player and i usually have to shut it down and start it up again "
I've actually got a similar problem - despite of the fact that songbird doesn't even find any updates for my addons. D: it just keeps on searching and searching, but not even the progress bar is moving at least a bit and it sticks with "Checking for Updates".
Version: Songbird 1.1.1, Build 1018 (20090309145106), Ubuntu 8.041 Comment Add a comment
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That sometimes happens, when the servers are slow to respond and addons have to be fetched from different locations.
Does that happen ALL the time for you, or just randomly?
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