Songbird - installation & review of an AWESOME music manager & player for your Linux

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 http://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.info

As usual I welcome all the comments!

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[josephseven]

good by songbird. it was nice knowing ya. songbird will no longer be available for linux.

[kad3t]

@josephseven

Darn. Really? That's bollocks... They're gonna loose many faithful users.

[josephseven]

@kad3t Some people are trying to bring it back using the name nightingale. They allready got a website for it. Its getnightingale

[kad3t]

@josephseven

As in unofficial port of sorts? It is open source after all, isn't it? Anyway, thanks for letting me know!

[MoonOvIce]

Hey, can anybody help? I have songbird which is great (even better than it used to be) and I have a LOT of songs in the .mp4 format, problem is that songbird won't see them at all!

I've tried everything but songbird won't seem them at all, I have the quicktime extension and the windows media extension.

Winamp sees them and plays them no problem, but I prefer songbird!

[skankingrudeboy]

The music from Flashback!

[drinkbudyXD]

@kad3t linux mint is ubuntu,i turned it into ubuntu once out of boredom,while i played around with it i customized it soo much i should prob make my own distro lol,since linux is missing so much for the average user and i had to work on so many details just so it would feel complete

sucks to hear this cause songbird was the only cool player on linux,its really slow tough,i got 70gb of music,i couldnt use songbird with it all,they should have came up with a better name,i mean Nighting gale lol

[kad3t]

@kad3t

*unofficial open source PORT ^_^

[kad3t]

@TGSaviorSelf

Someone mentioned Nightingale as unofficial open source for of Songbird that's in constant development after Songbird stopped supporting Linux. This may be worth a look at as it's basically the same product under a different name. Also check Linux Mint, you may enjoy it more than Ubuntu, though it's just my personal opinion. ^_^

[kad3t]

@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!