Good luck to those of you wanting to use SongBird. It and its extensions/plugins are buggy.
And now I hear someone thinking "but Slim Center is also buggy and it's great" - That may be true (at times) but SC differs from SongBird in one very key area. It doesn't WRITE to your music files. After using SongBird and its Lyrics plugin I found my music littered with ID3V1 tags and all 2.x tags converted to v2.4 whereas they were previously 2.3. A large number of genre tags were obliterated from the v2 data and the only reference was a numerical representation in v1 data. SongBird is an uninspired attempt to clone a limited set of iTunes functionality on top of a Firefox shell. In my experience it doesn't run better (faster, stable) than iTunes on either Mac OS or Windows XP. My music collection is at about 25k tracks, in case that's relevant for your own comparisons. Its tagging ability is lack-luster, making even iTunes own look advanced and full-featured. It would be a decent idea to allow Slim Center to read from its DB as it does from iTunes, but that's likely where you'd want to end integration. Building Slim Center as a SongBird extension would be like driving around a super-car (pick your brand) on the back of a beat-up tow truck. Just in case... Song Bird is the tow truck in that analogy. I don't think SongBird is going to be a viable alternative to iTunes this or any year. If you're running Linux exclusively, then you might want to give it a go on a BACKUP of your music library. But only if you really have little or no other choices for a similar product. -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60712 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
