Songbird, Part Deux

Ξ February 24th, 2006 | → | ∇ |

After a day or so’s use of it, I think I’ll come back to it once it reach 0.5+. It’s a fantastic concept but it’s still far too early days to have it as an every day software item. The list of things that need doing isn’t small:

No obvious way to configure a proxy, takes ages to search large music collections, iffy media centre and album:file association, only basic playback commands, small player lacks functions like transparency and don’t flick between small and large player quickly because it doesn’t like it. Resource hog is an understatement: try 50odd meg just playing an album of mp3s and 120meg for playing a podcast. You can ONLY play sound and finally I seem to have made it irreversibly crash whenever I load the program now, so it’s coming off.

It’s a fantastic concept and I prefer some bits to winamp but needs a lot done.