If Carlsberg made music players they would probably be the best in the World. But they don’t and until they do, Songbird is THE BEST there is when it comes to playing and managing music files on your Linux! This video is an installation & review of Songbird for Linux. Songbird is cross-platform, open source music player & manager built on mozilla’s framework by people who previously worked on Firefox, Netscape Navigator & WinAMP. Same framework that’s base for Firefox, Thunderbird & Seamonkey. So, enjoy the video. . . in HD! ^__^ Just a quick installation side note. . . If you’re on Ubuntu, Debian or Mint (or any other Ubuntu or Debian based distros) and Songbird is not in your repositories for whatever the reason, you can easily add it on by following these steps. . . 1. Select “System” – “Administration” – “Software Sources” in your Gnome menu. 2. Select “Third-Party Software” tab and click “Add” at the bottom. 3. Enter this line: deb repoubuntusoftware. info DISTRONAME all#Ultimate Edition Repository Replacing “DISTRONAME” with a correct coressponding name of your Ubuntu or Ubuntu based distribution (9. 10 – karmic, 9. 04 – jaunty, 8. 10 – interpid, 8. 04 – hardy, etc. – with no version numbers, just the name). Refresh your packages list and Songbird along with hundreads of other applications will be available from now on from Synaptics Package Manager. Just to make this clear – this is NOT my repository, it’s part of Ultimate Edition Ubuntu Linux available at www. ultimateedition . . .
Tags: Awesome, Installation, Linux, manager, music, Player, Review, Songbird
Categories: Linux
@timshapiro
Right… First of there’s few ways it can be done… Let’s start with the easiest one which would be downloading and installing Ubuntu Tweak and using it’s built in mechanism to pull Songbird to your machine. UT is in vanilla Ubuntu repos. The other way is to go to getdeb . net and install it from there. It’s pretty simple, if you follow the guide on a site it’s just adding their repo and pressing install from within your browser. Sorry for not being clear enough!
It’s not much of a tutorial if you don’t explain how to get Synaptic to pull up songbird in the first place.
I’m assuming that you somehow expanded the Repository or something… but yeah… If you don’t explain it, the whole thing becomes useless.
Well, I suppose it works great for some and not at all for others. I hope the next version’s going to work for you if you ever decide to give it another shot.
No, it doesn’t. Creating my own custom playlist was ridiculously painful and it wont get album artwork for some reason. The current version of Amarok is much better.
But does it work? If it does I suppose that’s the most important thing about it, isn’t it? Especially that if you go into the mini mode to do some other stuff whilst listening to music you wouldn’t see no wobbly windows or any effect anyway.
It doesn’t integrate with Kwin either.
Welcome! Enjoy the Songbird!
helpful video. thank you.
I’m glad you liked both, video & the Songbird!
As for compiz I’ll look it up soon since I have vague memories of it working in the past, however I got to be honest with you that I didn’t even noticed that it wasn’t wobbly. ^__^
Great video, and a great program.
I’ve been using it for the last few days and I’m very impressed with it, I really like it.
About the only thing I could find to complain about it is that it doesnt seem to integrate with compiz properly (i.e no wobbly effects etc) and also doesnt have any taskbar integration like some of the other Linux apps…but hey, those are fairly small things and who knows what the future holds
The program itself works very nice ^^
I suppose most modern mp3 players sync with Songbird easily. I know my sisters iPod 3rd Gen does & my (sic!) Zune also tough I wouldn’t recommend Zune. ^__^
I’ve been looking for an iPod touch replacement with basically the same functionality, but I don’t know of any that syncs with linux. Any help would be much appreciated.
LOL! I know the feeling… My cousin dropped on me a script file for Wine he got of somewhere and I was planning to make a video about it as according to him it eases the user with certain Wine related tasks but I didn’t get time to even look at it yet. ^__^
this is why I love FOSS
everyday something new to learn
i tend to install everything I can find and then forget to try everything, so yeah still plenty of apps/games I’m yet to use, even if some of them are already installed… hahaha
not enough time to try everything and keep up with my work
I belived that you of all people would know about it, Tim. ^__^ I mean, I was judging by the amount of entries in your Gnome menu on your videos… Heh, never judge the book by it’s cover, eh? Anyway, I’m glad you liked it, it is a great piece of software that definately deserves more attention than it gets. ^__^
awesome video
thanks for making it
iv been trying this app out now its cool