Why is Songbird automatically queuing (and downloading) all of the links on websites?

Love typos, every link on the websites...*

Hey Laura,

Hungry hungry hippobird would be correct. The downloads are definitely active, if I forget to catch it my hard drive will fill up from time to time. And luckily, or not so much... it's still happening today. At least I'm not making this stuff up.

Computer's been down a few days sorry bout that. I'm running the latest (1.2.0) version of Songbird, and as for add-ons.... I've got:

Adblock Plus
Concerts
DOM Inspector
Fasterbird
Google Search
JavaScript Debugger
Last.fm
Mac Remote Control Support
mashTape
More of the Same
NABS
Now Playing List
Quicktime Playback
Releases
SHOUTcast Radio
SkreemR Search
Song Notifier
The Exorcist

All are, as far as I can tell, the most recent versions.
A couple example websites would be: vogelspand.blogspot.com and deathelectro.com.

Aha!
I got the same problem, but I noticed something interesting...
when I double click a track in the popup list, the whole list is also being loaded into the Now Playing List on the right – and all tracks are being downloaded. But if I just select a track in the page's popup list and press enter, the track is being played but it's neither appearing in the Now Playing List, nor is any track being downloaded.

As I noticed this behaviour of the Now Playing List earlier, that double-clicking on a track loads the whole playlist or library (or album, interpret... whatever the filter is the track is being viewed in) into the Now Playing List, while selecting the track and starting the playback by pressing enter just plays the music without loading all tracks into the Now Playing List, I get the idea that all this might be because of the Now Playing List plugin (and as I see, Jeff, you got it, too!).

So it's all Now Playing List's fault?! Don't know.
Is there anybody else with this problem?

Hello,


I am new to Songbird but I have always been a big music blog follower. I see that every time I open Songbird, it automatically starts downloading songs from somwhere. I have several music sites bookmarked in Songbird, but that's not where these songs come from. This is a two part question I guess...


1) Where are these songs I'm downloading automatically coming from?

2) How can I sync my favorite websites to Songbird so I can automatically download in this manner?


Thanks,

Jordan

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
how do I sync 'download' button function to other music blog pages?.

Hi Laura,
sorry that I didn't test it yet. Yes, the problem does not longer appear when Now Playing List is disabled.

But... I don't want to disable it! This isn't a bug, it's genius!

I don't understand.
If it doesn't automatically download the songs, how can it populate all that meta data?

Hauke... please explain!

Yeah Jordan, as I already tried to explain above, the activated Now Playing List plugin loads the whole list on a webpage into the Now Playing List. But only if you double-click a track. If you just select a single track and press enter to start the playback, nothing is being downloaded. All because of a little bug in Now Playing List, I think.
That's what happens on my Mac. Maybe, that other systems react different so it would be very interesting to find out.
So please try it in your Songbirds, to see, if it's really because of the plugin.

@Jordan, could it be possible, that you surfed through different music blogs and just clicked on several tracks to listen to them, not recognizing that downloads were started which were then continued when you openend Songbird again?

I really doubt it's just because I browsed into some MP3 links and just forgot about it. Here's what happened today, for example... I open Songbird and it automatically jumps to the downloads screen and begins downloading 3 tracks that I have never seen, let alone tried to download.

So I start browsing the dozens of music blogs I have bookmarked, and the MP3's are the latest from gorillavsbear.blogspot.com. I think the last ones I downloaded were from YANP. Maybe it's because their blogs are simple and the program picks up on the links all by itself?

Anyway I remember that this was happening BEFORE I downloaded the Now Playing List plugin, but I'm going to uninstall it and see if that's the variable. (even if it is, I'll probably re-install it.)

I have a hunch that it has something to do with having these pages bookmarked. Just a hunch.

Another hunch- any page that uses the Yahoo in-browser media player...?

Well I actually looked for a 'subscribe' option in the browser and didn't find one so I just bookmarked my favorite pages. I don't do RSS or anything like that. Is there a way to subscribe so that Songbird monitors those pages and automatically downloads the new tracks that have been posted since my last login?

I've uninstalled NPL plugin and will wait 24 hours to check and see if anything else downloads.

If you want more genius, you can subscribe to music blogs by right-clicking the "plus" sign next to the location bar or Selecting File > New Subscription...

You can find more info at The Web in Songbird Getting Started pages...

I didn't know about the + symbol, I never noticed it! Thank you, I'm OUT

Hello!
the new version of Now Playing List shouldn't start downloading all the tracks from a web playlist now. However it also won't queue them up either, I'm afraid it's either one or the other... Let me know if it's still downloading everything for you.