I know everyone is usually an Amarok or Banshee fan. But I just wanted to point some people into the direction of Songbird. It looks like as it matures, it will blow both Banshee and Amarok out of the water.
Take a look!
James
jameswalmsley wrote:
> I know everyone is usually an Amarok or Banshee fan. But I just wanted
> to point some people into the direction of Songbird. It looks like as
> it matures, it will blow both Banshee and Amarok out of the water.
>
> ‘Songbird Media Player’ (http://getsongbird.com/)
You did read what it does right? It’s a limited player at best
with deep web integration. If web integration is what you’ve
been missing from your media player… then yes, I suppose
Songbird is what you need. However, I didn’t see where
Songbird plans on replacing Amarok, Banshee, Kaffeine, etc.
I guess if there’s any good news… the fact that people
are enamored by web interfaces is a good thing in that
it lowers the bar considerably when it comes to a good
interface design. Actually makes Amarok (flaws and all) look
really good.
Songbird is an interesting app. I have read that there may be issues relating to the way it searches for and enables the download of music - depending on where you live. Amarok still rocks for me though.
I’ve had Songbird since 0.2 and it is evolving quickly. While it is a great app, I think it’ll always be more of a complement to Amarok or Banshee not a replacement. In the same way one uses Fx for a PDF.
Looks cool. The interface look almost identical to iTunes though. The idea of (copying is a strong word) emulating iTunes that closely makes me wonder about the originality of it, but it looks like it’s worth trying out as the program progress. If I could only get Banshee to play my iTunes songs, I would not even consider a player other than Banshee or Amarok, but it’s always good to try new programs out.
Good find! 
I’ve been using songbird for a few days, but after reconsideration, there’s nothing that it really gives that banshee or amarok don’t. I’m back to Amarok.
My point was never that songbird was better, but I think it could evolve into something great.
Right now it’s true that it’s really just an iTunes clone for linux, without the iTunes music support.
Regards
James