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JawsThemeSwimming428

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From: USA

Registered: 2008-03-09

Posts: 149

Songbird Media Player

Has anyone used Songbird in Arch? I recently tried it again (I tried an earlier beta that I wasn't impressed with) and it is VERY much improved. I am using it on Mepis and Windows Vista and so far it has done everything I want. Just trying to find out other people's experience and how it is on Arch?

Diaz

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 366

Re: Songbird Media Player

i installled it and it worked fine, the only problem, isn't what i want

Damnshock

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From: Barcelona

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 414

Re: Songbird Media Player

Still too much cpu usage

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fukawi2

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Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: Songbird Media Player

I like it... I use it on my laptop for DJ'ing. Very handy for finding any song by any keyword very quickly

(`find /media/DJMUSIC/ -iname \*keyword\* -print` just doesn't cut it these days )

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geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Re: Songbird Media Player

Hello,

I cannot find songbird in the arch package search page..
Do you know if there is any package for arch?
Thanks in advance..

dmz

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-08-27

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Re: Songbird Media Player

Hello,

I cannot find songbird in the arch package search page..
Do you know if there is any package for arch?
Thanks in advance..

$   yaourt -Ss songbird
aur/songbird 0.7.0-1
    Digital desktop media player (jukebox) mashed-up with web browser, powered by Mozilla.
aur/songbird-nightly 20080812-1
    Bleeding-edge Songbird, the digital desktop media player (jukebox) mashed-up with web browser, powered by Mozilla.

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Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Songbird Media Player

I looked at moving songbird to the [community] repo but it appears there may be licence/trademark issues that are still not sorted out so I have held off.  You will have to use the AUR version at the moment.

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fukawi2

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Re: Songbird Media Player

Hello,

I cannot find songbird in the arch package search page..
Do you know if there is any package for arch?
Thanks in advance..

Songbird: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7286
Instructions: http://archux.com/page/installing-programs-aur

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geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Re: Songbird Media Player

Oh yes! I forgot AUR!!
Thanks guys!

MindTooth

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From: Norway

Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 331

Re: Songbird Media Player

To bad the AUR of Songbird bundles xulrunner. Since it duplicate the files.

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Re: Songbird Media Player

I run Songbird from /home directory works fine

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qdiesel

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Registered: 2008-05-19

Posts: 61

Re: Songbird Media Player

there's no tabbed playlist, but it's very nice.
may be it can someday finally substitute for me foobar2k which i really miss on linux.

rps63ifid

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From: Idaho, US

Registered: 2008-08-02

Posts: 39

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Re: Songbird Media Player

This is probably a stupid question, but I will ask it anyway... it almost certainly shows my ignorance of AUR, etc.

If I already have all of the prerequisites listed on the AUR page for Songbird installed on a system, is there any real advantage to using the package from AUR as opposed to just installing the Linux download from the Songbird site?

Thanks in advance.

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SamC

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From: Calgary

Registered: 2008-05-13

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Re: Songbird Media Player

rps63ifid: Well, for one thing, you'll be able to remove it easily with pacman, and it hopefully won't cause any other conflicts.

ST.x

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2008-01-25

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Re: Songbird Media Player

It's nice, might be changing to it from MPD+Sonata for while.

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Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

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Re: Songbird Media Player

there's no tabbed playlist, but it's very nice.
may be it can someday finally substitute for me foobar2k which i really miss on linux.

I highly doubt it... Just look at how foobar2k handles tags and how songbird does it... Its totally limited in its usage...

<commercial>
MPD is gonna get a freeform-tag system, that should allow it to use tags like you can do it in foobar2k. Queing is planned too and some more neat stuff...
You can help to advance mpd by testing it, submitting bug reports and (if you are able to) write patches
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rps63ifid

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From: Idaho, US

Registered: 2008-08-02

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Re: Songbird Media Player

rps63ifid: Well, for one thing, you'll be able to remove it easily with pacman, and it hopefully won't cause any other conflicts.

Thanks, SamC. Installed it from AUR, using the above-provided link... pretty slick. Currently listening to "Elf's Lament" by the Barenaked Ladies...

qdiesel

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Registered: 2008-05-19

Posts: 61

Re: Songbird Media Player

Just look at how foobar2k handles tags and how songbird does it

I haven't noticed the difference may be because of the way I use player
But I think it may be easily changed with plugins.