Comments on: Songbird: How To Make Great Software Unpopular

By: RonIn

RonIn — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:30:06 +0000

Thanks so much… removing the libs worked to get up and running SB in debian squeeze, I totally agree with this post… so beutiful and so ugly and buggy…

By: sime

sime — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:55:56 +0000

Just today I searched for “debian songbird” hoping I would see some chatter on a Debian list of package wranglers trying to tame the bird.

I would sleep better if it was sitting in unstable for a couple of months like Miro did, though it hasn’t even made it that far.

I hope your post starts the necessary chatter.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:42:44 +0000

@Karthik: in those situations you install the library dependencies locally yourself.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:33:59 +0000

I am very surprised by this. songbird was one player that worked out of box any linux box I tried.
>I noticed that the Linux binary distribution of Songbird >contains a lib/ directory, which has, among other things, full >copies of many GStreamer libraries, libvorbis, libFLAC, >libogg, libtheoradec/enc, and more

Not everyone works in an office that has an admin who will install gstreamer/anycodec. In my university most of them have no admin/sudo rights.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:03:04 +0000

Songbird was the first thing I installed on this Ubuntu Hardy Machine, it’s worked out of the box since the very beginning. I’ve never heard of any of the problems you mention.

By: Songbird: How To Make Great Software Unpopular | The Changelog | Softdown.us

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:45:16 +0000

[...] the rest here: Songbird: How To Make Great Software Unpopular | The Changelog Share and [...]

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:41:47 +0000

Thanks; I’ve corrected the article.

By: Hub

Hub — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:02:33 +0000

Songbird isn’t a Mozilla product. It is just using XULRunner as a platform.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:32:09 +0000

!Mozilla