I want to manage music on a mobile phone. It’s an MP3/MP4 player SmartPhone iPhone clone from this (de-spammed) address:
xxxx://www.szcutech.com/sdp/1008061/4/pd-4940680/5931761-1947543/P168i_quadband_dual_sim_card_1_1_iphone_clone_with.html
I want an app that can be used on both windows and Linux computers and that is as good as iTunes for managing media.
What do you recommend?
No takers hey – OK – what about this: an app to manage media on a computer that works in both windows and linux [forget about the phone part of the equation].
Hi
Banshee?
http://banshee-project.org/download/development/
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Look at Cuberok.
https://sites.google.com/site/cuberok/
Thanks ppl. Both great apps. Both a bit early-days for windows – both have problems in windows so far, according to the home sites.
Hi
What about something using AdobeAir? Check their market place.
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What exactly are you expecting this application to do?
First I’d like it to be a library and organise the media on my computer, to catalogue it and to store the meta data, album art, classification, make playlists, play tunes and videos – similar to how appps like iTunes, Amarok, Banshee etc do. But the key thing is that it work cross platform for windows and Linux.
Second I’d like it to be able to add-and-subtract media files onto-and-off mp3/mp4 players using the USB link (similar to what iTunes can do for iPods on windows and Mac machines) – but this is only a wish, not a requirement.
That’s really interesting. It seems AdobeAir installs on Linux – I didn’t know that :shame:
I’m checking that marketplace out now.
I understand you can install kde to windows too. So amarok?!
I’m still digesting Adobe, there’s some good apps there under the media section.
KDE is a bit too much of a leap for my users.
And Songbird seems very nice too, cross platform and all.
Songbird works well on both sides, I can confirm that.
Thanks Carl. I’ve now got Songbird by RPM for 11.2 openSUSE 64 bit: songbird-1.4.3-0.pm.3.5.x86_64
Problem is error messages when trying to play a tune, and ending up locking onto and playing a different tune.
Here’s a typical error message when I pick a tune to play:
Songbird is not able to play back the file or stream file:///home/john/Music/ABBA/ABBA%20Gold/11%20Chiquitita.m4a.
It gives this message then plays something different. Did you get any of that?
It’s a problem with m4a files. I can play them in vlc, smplayer etc, but not in Songbird. There’s a quicktime plugin for Songbird in Mac and windows, but not Linux. There used to be a plugin for Linux but it’s been removed from the Songbird repo.
The help forum says this:
Unfortunately as Linux doesn’t support Quicktime, this isn’t really possible.However, Songbird actually does use Gstreamer as its backend on all OS’s, which linux uses for a lot of stuff. At the moment Songbird uses its own special build (because it has customisations), however, in the future, I would imagine that Songbird will start using the systemwide one instead, which means if Gstreamer supports M4A, Songbird will.
So near and yet – stymied again
Hi
Where from packman? Maybe you can ask them to include it?
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It’s the Songbird repo of Mac/win/Linux files where the plugin used to reside, not a Suse repo 
I don’t use those extensions but I use Songbird from Packman, which works for me with my mp3, ogg, flac
So do I. And yes it works for mp3, ogg for me too. But have you tried M4a? That’s where the problem lies for me.
Trouble is, evil empire stuff is a royal Pain in the (U know where).
Email me a file in that format and I’ll mess with it
I’ll PM my address.
Hi
Do you think they might include it for you?
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