Comments on: Songbird: an Open-Source, Cross-Platform Music Player

By: fred

fred — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:18:24 +0000

i am using songbird’s latest version. started using from 10 Nov 2009. i didn’t see any bugs mentioned above. it got a few killer apps like lyric master thats super cool. the ability to add extension will only make it better. i’ll use it as my main music player in future.

By: techn0scho0lbus

techn0scho0lbus — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:41:57 +0000

I think the reviewer missed most of the functionality of Songbird. It’s essentially a web browser. You can navigate to a website and the media is presented in a bottom window pane available for view/download. It gives users great ability to both manage and add to media libraries. Songbird is visionary with enormous potential.
Songbird is like Firefox+Limewire+Winamp+iTunes and still 13mb.

Oh, and it’s open source…

By: lunaticprophet

lunaticprophet — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:49:04 +0000

I’ve been keeping an eye on Songbird but as of yet I’m not even remotely ready to let Winamp fly the coop (;o). Of course, Winamp is only partially freeware, but for music management (ONLY) — I haven’t found anything that I prefer to it.

For video.. I’ve found nothing that I like better than KMPlayer (including the vaunted VLC, whose interface I find infuriating).

Both Winamp & KMPlayer offer full media (music & video) management but I find their strengths (music & video, respectively) are far better implemented than their other media offerings.

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By: DimensionX

DimensionX — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:19:52 +0000

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By: DimensionX

DimensionX — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:18:32 +0000

Thank you! Looks great. Added 6 plugins. Bird tabs doesn’t seem to work. I’d like to see some sort of message like: no file found. But it just sits there. Otherwise the plugins work nicely. I put Songbird through it’s paces, even ‘tortured’ it, and can say it’s stable, no crash. Who knows how messed up other peoples computers are that this wouldn’t run correctly. It would be fantastic if there was some decent folder management. Well there is but it’s a plugin and there is no right-click menu, so all you can do is make a new playlist and drag and drop from the folder view. Because of this deficiency I give only 4 out of 5
Why is browsing capability crippled??? Had to use a trick to go to freewaregenius with Songbird.

By: sniping_dreamer

sniping_dreamer — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:49:55 +0000

I’ve been using Songbird for the past few months, switching over from Winamp. Despite it’s Firefox-like tendencies to crash and memory/CPU usage, I fell in love with it. It has potential if the extension development community was larger/more productive. But all in all, I like how it integrates last.fm and my library, allowing me to see band bios in an instant.

Very well recommended.

By: Denis

Denis — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:03:21 +0000

I’ve tried Songbird a couple of times and it’s developing nicely, but an alternative worthy of mention is Jaangle (previously Teen Spirit) which has been my default player for a few years.
Great site – keep up the reviews
Denis

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:44:03 +0000

It’s pretty nice and powerful. Several add-ons quite nice and some of them are very useful.
It could be a great app, but currently is memory hog.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:43:00 +0000

One comment I’d like to add is with the songbird search bar. It searches every single character you type in the bar. When you have a large library (over 7-8k songs) and you are typing quickly, your computer can get holed up in a repetitive search loop. Even on a high powered computer the program can freeze up for anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 mins.

By: Carbonize

Carbonize — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:41:43 +0000

I have tried Songbird in the past and it is far too resource intensive to be used seriously. There are better audio players such as QMP, Spider Player, Aimp, Foobar and so on.

By: tincanman

tincanman — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:31:02 +0000

I have been trying to use Songbird for two years now because I loved the idea of it. Every time there is an update I download it and try again, but it was always a little too buggy for everyday use. The previous update was much more stable, but I wasn’t happy with ipod sync and it does not burn CDs. So I’m still not using it. (I used to add yet whenever I said that, but I am beginning to wonder, if they still haven’t got all parts working after all this time, will they ever? Plus, what was unique two years ago is becoming common in other players. So this boat may have sailed, and without many passengers)

By: rtipping

rtipping — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:29:43 +0000

I agree I want to like Songbird but it’s just not playing nice,using KPM and foobar but I’m still looking.

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By: Pedro Homero

Pedro Homero — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:47:26 +0000

I’m not too convinced with Songbird, it is perhaps a bit too resource demanding for my pc, i dunno, found it a bit slow both times i’ve tried it (back in the day and a month or so ago).

Still, worth a try, that’s for sure. And yes, the Mozilla Foundation is not behind Songbird, some other folks are – it just so happens that it is based on Firefox, ’cause it’s open source. Mediacoder is also based on Firefox, and it is also not connected to Mozilla, just to name another example.

By: LD

LD — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:26:17 +0000

Mozilla doesn’t make Songbird. Songbird uses a lot of Mozilla open source technology, but Mozilla doesn’t make the product.

That’s like saying gstreamer or SQLite makes Songbird. Neither does, but their technologies are used in Songbird.