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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: TakingBackSunday on December 31, 2008, 05:14:49 PM

Title: Songbird is pretty rad
Post by: TakingBackSunday on December 31, 2008, 05:14:49 PM

flac support, firefox-like addons, and custom look

Using this in combo with iTunes and Coversutra on my Macbook is omg

Title: Re: Songbird is pretty rad
Post by: OptimoPeach on December 31, 2008, 06:42:50 PM

I tried their first stable release a few weeks ago and it basically just seemed like a bloated foobar2000 with built in Last.FM and Firefox. I don't think I would use all the extra features enough to justify it being somewhat of a memory hog. Plus, it crashed on me a few times. Maybe I'll switch once they work out some of the kinks.

I will admit that being able to use CSS for skins is pretty neat.

I forgot to say that I was running it on Vista. I have no clue how it works with Mac or Linux.

Title: Re: Songbird is pretty rad
Post by: TakingBackSunday on December 31, 2008, 06:54:51 PM

It seems to run pretty smooth on OSX, but the only thing that really sucks is the Coverflow equivalent for Songbird is a janky mess.  But I don't even use Coverflow for iTunes, so meh.

I'm really only using it for flac