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What are Songbird's system requirements?
What system requirements does Songbird have for the various OS/platforms it supports?
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Windows
- Windows XP, Windows Vista
Minimum Hardware:
- 733 MHz Pentium III CPU (Recommended: 1.5 GHz Pentium IV or comparable)
- At least 256 MB of physical RAM (Recommended: 512 MB)
- At least 40 MB of available space on your hard drive
- 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit Sound Card)
- Speakers or headphones
Mac
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Minimum Hardware:
- Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 processor
- At least 512 MB of physical RAM
- At least 200 MB of available space on your hard drive
Linux
The Songbird QA team has tested Songbird on Ubuntu 7.10 32-bit & 64-bit, and Fedora 8 32-bit. Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.
- Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or later with the following libraries or packages:
- glibc 2.3.2 or later
- XFree86-3.3.6 or later
- gtk+2.0 or later
- fontconfig (also known as xft)
- libstdc++6
Minimum Hardware:
- 233 MHz Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ CPU (Recommended: 500 MHz or greater)
- At least 64 MB of physical RAM (Recommended: 128 MB or greater)
- At least 52 MB of available space on your hard drive
- 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit sound card)
- Speakers or headphones
NOTE: Performance requirements will scale to the size of the user's library.
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Windows
- Windows XP, Windows Vista
Minimum Hardware:
- 733 MHz Pentium III CPU (Recommended: 1.5 GHz Pentium IV or comparable)
- At least 256 MB of physical RAM (Recommended: 512 MB)
- At least 40 MB of available space on your hard drive
- 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit Sound Card)
- Speakers or headphones
Linux
Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.
- Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or later with the following libraries or packages:
- glibc 2.3.2 or later
- XFree86-3.3.6 or later
- gtk+2.0 or later
- fontconfig (also known as xft)
- libstdc++6
- Songbird has been tested on Fedora Core 5 and Ubuntu Dapper 6.06.
Minimum Hardware:
- 233 MHz Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ CPU (Recommended: 500 MHz or greater)
- At least 64 MB of physical RAM (Recommended: 128 MB or greater)
- At least 52 MB of available space on your hard drive
- 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit sound card)
- Speakers or headphones
Mac
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Minimum Hardware:
- Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or a PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
- At least 256 MB of physical RAM
- At least 61 MB of available space on your hard drive
Performance requirements will scale to the size of the user's library.
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Sorry :/, We do our best to keep Songbird a cross-platform solution, but that means that our resources must be carefully managed. It's difficult for us to make a case for backward compatibility back to Win2k. -
Inappropriate?One good case for backwards compatibility to W2K is that since iTunes dropped its support for it, older computers (such as the ones the kids, the ones with the iPods, inherit) don't allow them to sync their iPods. How can I justify upgrading an old machine to XP just so they can run iTunes? I came here looking for an alternative - guess I'll have to keep looking. -
Inappropriate?I was looking for player that uses less memory than iTunes, songbird doesn't.
I hope there will be improvements on this point in the future.
I'll keep an eye on this bird for sure !
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Inappropriate?Please update the system requirements for Linux. The current releases of Songbird require a very recent version of glibc (version 2.4 or greater).
Unfortunately this means that the binary builds of Songbird no longer support the *current* Debian release (etch). etch's glibc is 2.3.6. Any chance we could get some Debian etch compatible builds?
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Inappropriate?Actually, I just downloaded Songbird 0.6 on my Win2K machine and its working fine. I don't know about addons but it started up fine.
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Inappropriate?Can we, as a culture, please cease referring to unix as "Linux?" It's unnecessary politically-motivated branding. This software, for instance, isn't "Linux only" as I'm typing this on my Songbird running on Solaris. Linux is a subset of unix. System requirements should say something like Microsoft version xx, unix version xx, Mac version xx (I guess the Mac-specific part is arguable too).
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Nitpicker ;-)
ALL *nix derivates ARE publicly called Linux, by all but the geekiest Tech-savvy people... It has become like saying Jeep for all Offroad vehicles, or here in Germany "Tempo" (which too, is just a brand) for Handkerchiefs or like many people refer to "google something", when they want to say online search. I think, you got to live with that. It's too late to change, if you ask me... -
The moment they start testing, developing, and making builds for BSD, AIX, IRIX, HP-UX, Solaris, etc, they'll start saying UNIX instead. As is, they develop for Linux, and if it happens to work anywhere else, that's a plus.
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Inappropriate?will there ever be a Mac OS 10.3 or lower version? Im running an Imac G3 so I cant upgrade to 10.4. Any thoughts?
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Inappropriate?Current release does not support Macs with PPC processors. What's the plan on that?
Also, could you change the system requirements to reflect the processor requirement on Macs?
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Inappropriate?just a comment. The Mac version is labeled "Mac OSX Intel" which is confusing because, according to your answer above, non-Intel Macs are okay, too.
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Update: cannot be installed on this system. OSX 10.4.11 Not sure why.
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Inappropriate?Is this compatible with Vista x64?
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Inappropriate?Windows
- Windows XP, Windows Vista
Minimum Hardware:
- 733 MHz Pentium III CPU (Recommended: 1.5 GHz Pentium IV or comparable)
- At least 256 MB of physical RAM (Recommended: 512 MB)
- At least 40 MB of available space on your hard drive
- 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit Sound Card)
- Speakers or headphones
Mac
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Minimum Hardware:
- Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 processor
- At least 512 MB of physical RAM
- At least 200 MB of available space on your hard drive
Linux
The Songbird QA team has tested Songbird on Ubuntu 7.10 32-bit & 64-bit, and Fedora 8 32-bit. Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.
- Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or later with the following libraries or packages:
- glibc 2.3.2 or later
- XFree86-3.3.6 or later
- gtk+2.0 or later
- fontconfig (also known as xft)
- libstdc++6
Minimum Hardware:
- 233 MHz Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ CPU (Recommended: 500 MHz or greater)
- At least 64 MB of physical RAM (Recommended: 128 MB or greater)
- At least 52 MB of available space on your hard drive
- 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit sound card)
- Speakers or headphones
NOTE: Performance requirements will scale to the size of the user's library.
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Inappropriate?songbird's running very slow for me on macbook with 512MB ram and OS 10.5, got just under 13k tracks in the library, want to add another 35k stored elsewhere on my external hard drive. is the slowness due to the size of library then? i prefer this software to itunes but at the moment the freezing mid-track and whenever i try to do anything is kind of annoying...
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Inappropriate?Up-to-date system requirements for Songbird can now be found on the Songbird site.
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Inappropriate?I only accept Songbird since it plays AAC files which the powers at Apple corp refuse iTunes to play.
Only to find that the equivalent wont play on Mac OS X PPC or AMD architecture. Could you please make a Mac OS cross-platform version.
I’m Frustrated!!!
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