Songbird Linux Support Falls Out Of A Tree

[misiu_mp]

What I fail to understand is why, it being based on open-source, portable components, they decided that the linux port will not be developed and some new features might not be implemented for linux. Am I wrong to thing that mozilla xul, gstreamer and all are easly portable? How much platform-specific code do they have? Why do they intend to add more platform-specific code (as apparent from their statement that some new features might not be there for linux at all)?

[NeoBrain]

Actually, Amarok 1 rocks. Amarok 2 is still like years behind Amarok 1

Let's start a flamewar about this
Anyway, Amarok rocks. Be it 1 or 2, they're both good enough for me now :P

[yoshi314]

i tried it around initial linux release and it was a bit too much of a kitchen sink for me. slow, big, difficult.

i pretty much forgot about the app already. i prefer simpler audio playback solutions, like mpd

[mcgreg]

It should die Amarok 2 rocks.

Actually, Amarok 1 rocks. Amarok 2 is still like years behind Amarok 1

[Silverthorn]

+1, Songbird was no good, it also had the slow startup typical for mozilla based stuff.
There's no really good music player for Gnome currently (like Amarok), only a few "almost good enogh" ones.

Couldn't agree more. It makes me want to create my own music player just to get a player which I could be happy with.

[cl333r]

+1, Songbird was no good, it also had the slow startup typical for mozilla based stuff.
There's no really good music player for Gnome currently (like Amarok), only a few "almost good enogh" ones.

[kraftman]

It should die Amarok 2 rocks.

[lem79]

Doesn't Songbird modify your files without you knowing? I vaguely recall something audiophile/data-integrity related (possibly torrents) that discouraged the use of Songbird. If that's the case, then:


And nothing of value was lost.


(MPD + Sonata user here)

[Zhick]

Well, it was crap anyway. At least it was the last time I tried, which admittedly was quite a while ago and on Windows.

[Pfanne]

i tried it once.
i couldnt figure out how to configure hotkeys.
-> sudo apt-get remove