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Michael
06-28-2006, 10:34 AM
Has anyone yet tried out Songbird Media Player on Linux? Any thoughts?

Source and Linux binaries are available @ http://www.songbirdnest.com/

I tried out the new release on a FC5 box for a while. The media player it certainly elaborate and has many iTunes-like features. While the program isn't yet stable (segmentation faults and other problems have jumped up quite a bit already), it certainly has the potential of being an excellent media player. Below are a few screenshots I just snapped for those that aren't familiar with this new OSS multi-platform media player.

http://www.phoronix.com/misc/songbird1.jpg

http://www.phoronix.com/misc/songbird2.jpg

http://www.phoronix.com/misc/songbird3.jpg
Shadewalker
06-28-2006, 10:51 AM
Looks excellent and visually appealing to me. Wonder how it will compete against amaroK?
James
06-28-2006, 03:40 PM
Wondering that myself.

I'll give it a try sometime this week though.
niniendowarrior
06-28-2006, 10:36 PM
It surely looks good, Michael. I'll wait for it to stabilize a bit though.
Rob Williams
06-29-2006, 07:03 PM
Looks pretty good. Nice to see it supports FLAC right out of the box. Will be hard to compete with amaroK though.
Patrick
06-29-2006, 08:06 PM
It looks good and reacts snappily, but it wasn't even able to load my playlist completely before this: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x08ce4468 ***. Hopefully they will get those glaring errors ironed out. As a concept build, which it is, it looks like it will be a fun program.

Has anyone been able to load their playlist and is willing to report on the memory usage?
Ethyriel
07-03-2006, 12:45 AM
I'm already in love with MPD on Linux, but damn, a quick and easy way to get flac and ogg on the Windows workstations at the office! Now that's something.
Michael
09-27-2006, 07:33 PM
Songbird 0.2 is out for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

http://www.songbirdnest.com/

Giving it a try right now.
Michael
09-27-2006, 08:31 PM
A visual preview (screenshots) of Songbird 0.2 RC1 has been posted @ http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=7424
1c3d0g
09-28-2006, 09:24 AM
Not to bash Songbird, but IMHO BMPx does it better.
James
09-29-2006, 02:36 AM
A visual preview (screenshots) of Songbird 0.2 RC1 has been posted @ http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=7424
Looks like somebody needs to tag their music.
Michael
10-15-2006, 07:34 PM
http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/838 Songbird RC3 is out!