Songbird should cooperate with Squeezecenter

OK, so here's what happened when I purchased music from InSound:

- I paid, and received download links in both Songbird and e-mail
- I followed the download link in Songbird, it opened a tab and got my permission to modify the database/library, then had a "click OK" dialog box about starting the download. Nothing else ever happened in this tab.
- The music appeared in my music library, but the "download" and "download details" were empty in the list view. I went to the purchased-from-insound playlist. From here: For songs that I had not yet played, the time field was empty; for those I had played, it was filled in. For all such songs, the "location" was a checkout.insound URL.
- The mp3 files were not in my specified download directory, and I could not find them anywhere in the profile directory or my home directory.
- I followed the download link from the e-mail, and it worked correctly to download a zip archive of each album.

So I have the files I need, and I created artist/album directories and extracted the zip archives. My immediate need (serve the purchased music using squeezecenter) has been satisfied.

But that's all stuff I did manually, outside of Songbird.

So I'm still hoping that Songbird will take music that I purchase and put the downloaded files into a sensible place (one that I specify) on my filesystem, preferably in an artist/album/ hierarchy. Otherwise, I've got to do it all manually.

Or maybe it already can, and I'm not doing something right?

I've been thinking about getting a Squeezebox for a while now but I'm not that happy with SqueezeCenter, or at least the interface for it.

It would be wonderful if Songbird could act as a secondary interface for a SqueezeBox/SqueezeCenter.

@ wayne

I agree. I would also like to see Songbird act as a secondary interface for SqueezeBox/SqueezeCenter.

Is that currently being worked on?

Sounds like a future plug-in to me. Should look nice next to the future Apple Extreme plug-in.

I would also like to see Songbird secondary interface for SqueezeBox. I don't much care for SqueezeCenter. Maybe someone who knows can explain to me what all would be involved with this?

+1 for Songbird to stream files to SqueezeBox. The SlimServer software is no good but the SqueezeBox (hardware connected to the net and my stereo) is a great device.

I'd love to see a plugin that integrates the songbird database with the SqueezeCenter database so I only have to manage one database as well as let me manage the squeezecenter playlists with songbird, UI for squeeze center is terrible. I'd be willing to test and help in anyway I can.

An integrated / syncing database between songbird and squeezecenter would be fantastic. I host my music files and squeezecenter on a server, and run songbird on a laptop. I would love for songbird to be able to manipulate the squeezecenter db remotely, buy songs from the SB music store, and then write them to the server. I guess that's a bit of an extreme case, but anything to help with squeezecenter and remoted music would be great.

my music files and the squeezecenter DB are on a server (NAS box) as well

Exactly what IM TRYING TO ACHIEVE

Do you have a project started?

At this very moment I am being irritated by Squeezecenter.

It sounds to me like we (meaning myself and the rest of you) are talking about 2 different things. My feeling is that 1 database is sufficient to manage a media library and that syncing 2 databases causes more problems than it solves. So I don't want to use Squeezecenter at all.

Rather I would like to add the ability, within Songbird, to configure & control my Squeezebox Boom and stream music to it.

The thing about squeezecenter is that it runs as a service, so you can run it on a remote server and not need to have songbird running all the time on my laptop. That way you can have your squeezebox playing (streaming) music from your server, without songbird. but if songbird could act as both a squeezebox client and server interface, it would be fantastic.

@pardsbane... agreed that it would be fantastic if Songbird could function as both a server interface and client. However, I would gladly donate to the developer who could come up with a plugin where Songbird acts simply as a client - the graphical interface for playing songs from my library. I don't care as much about Pandora, and other streaming services.

I am totally digging this one up, and I apologize, but I use SqueezePlay when I am away from my home HTPC which has all my music and is running squeezecenter.

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php...

SqueezePlay acts as a client to the squeezecenter server (which seems to do a good job), and since the source code for it is out there, maybe something could be written to use a similar protocol within Songbird like the DAAP plugin does? Not sure on this at all, but just throwing it out there.