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Application: SongbirdCategory: Music & VideoDescription: Songbird enables the seamless synching of all your music, and provides intuitive and powerful music management features. With Songbird, your music is organized and presented exactly as you like. Because your music listening experience is as individual as you, Songbird allows you to customize your player so you get exactly the features important to you. Can’t live without song lyrics or album art? Songbird gives you a custom fit for you listening experience.
Songbird; Experience music exactly as you like it. Your music, your player, your custom fit. Features:
- Media Importing/Exporting: Add media to Songbird by importing from your file system or iTunes. Export your tracks and playlists back into iTunes.
- Library Files Organization: Automatically organize the files contained in your library. Consolidate your media in one location. Customize the structure of the folder and file name based on metadata contained in every track.
- Watch Folders: Automatically import media from a defined folder.
- Library Management: Browse, organize, sort and search your media.
- Smart Playlists: Create dynamic playlists that automatically update based on criteria you set.
- Album Artwork: Display the currently playing track's album art and write new artwork back to the file. Automatically fetch missing album art from the web.
- Media Playback: Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac.
- Gapless Playback & Replay Gain: Skips padding data due to encoding and chains files for gapless playback experience. Adjusts the playback gain appropriately if a track's metadata contains replay gain information.
- GStreamer: Songbird uses GStreamer as the main media playback system, across all platforms.
- Web Browser: Songbird includes an integrated web browser with features like bookmarking, tabbed browsing, and more.
- Multi-language Support: Over 25 completed, community-contributed localizations and growing!
- Custom UI: Make Songbird your own by choosing from dozens of different
skinsfeathers. - Developer Support: Songbird is getting better everyday thanks to its open platform and growing developer community.
Download Songbird Portable 1.2 Pre Release 1 [13.3MB download / 65MB installed]
(MD5: f58c18760d87395d6c508ab05487a4db)
Release Notes:
Pre-Release 1 (2009-08-17): Initial release
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We are already at 46 Downloads of the PR!
Any reason why songbird is not compacted?
license agreement with POTI afaik
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
As Zach said. That's something I never discussed with the Songbird guys at length. It may be implemented in future releases if we can work something out.
That is what I thought. Compacted here and working very fine.
Thanks for the work.
Arnaud
I just saw this, and updated from a previous test release of songbird portable. Then I moved my Music and songbird Portable directory from my external drive to a partition on my internal drive, which changes the drive letter. With the external drive unplugged, songbird can't see any of my music, as it is still looking at the external drive letter instead of the internal one.
I asked about this during the test releases, and the response was that this should be fixed before the final release. Was that not the case, did this slip through the cracks, or am I the only one experiencing a bug here? I can try a fresh install and then move that, but I really don't want to rebuild my library from scratch (with ratings and playlists and all).
Thanks,
Jeremy
Your music and Songbird Portable are meant to work from the same drive and all remain in the same relative paths. It's supposed to be used on one portable drive as you move around from PC to PC... or all installed on one local drive on your PC. If you move your music and Songbird from your external drive at (K:\PortableApps\Songbird and K:\Documents\Music) to your internal drive (C:\PortableApps\Songbird and C:\Documents\Music) they will continue to work fine.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
That's what I did. Songbird and the music directory were together on U:. They are now together on X:. The relative paths have not changed. Songbird is still looking to U: to find the music, it is not using relative paths. Clicking on a song that won't play and choosing show this file reveals that it is looking for the file on U.
Thanks,
Jeremy
Please post a note detailing all of it in the support forum (Other Apps Forum) and we'll have the dev work with you (we don't do support in news story comments... too hard to follow).
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
That is not the news story. It's the Beta Testing Forum
Jeremy Cox - In any case, please post a new topic in the Other Apps Support forum, and ensure you're running the new release of Songbird Portable.
I am running the lastest, linked from the front page, and just posted in the other forum.