Talk:Songbird (software)
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[edit] User Agent String
A web browser does NOT need a User Agent string. See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html It says MAY, not MUST. I know, it's not a big error, but it's simply wrong! --85.127.128.31 (talk) 15:52, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Winamp developers?
An article on Ars Technica claims that Winamp developers are behind Songbird. Is this true? If so, anyone have a source? Jacoplane 11:14, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
- Compare songbirdnest.com with winamp.com -CraigF 19:29, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
- I believe it actually is. According to this page, Pioneers of Inevitable(the maintainer)worked on winamp and yahoo music engine: http://www.songbirdnest.com/about Achilles2.0 05:31, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
- 3 of the Songbird developers were part of the Winamp dev team: Mig Gerard, Ghislain Lacroix and Francis Gastellu. In addition, the project was started by Rob Lord, who was part of the early Winamp team.
[edit] It's nice but..
I got to admit this player is awesome, anything open sourced is great but the program is bloated.
Alexsnoz 03:35, 7 December 2006 (UTC) Alex Marar - Snoz.ca
- Songbird isn't designed to be slim - there are other media players (VLC, XMMS,...) which go for that. Songbird is a competitor for iTunes, so suffers some feature bloat. Also, this is beta software - the developers have to get it working before they make improvements. --h2g2bob 10:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] userbox
Hey, I made this neat userbox for songbird. Yeah, I know it sucks, but please forgive me. It's my first one.
| Song bird |
This user listens to music with Songbird. |
[edit] history/symbolism
It would be nice to get some background on the graphic art used in the webpage and install screen. It seems that they got the graphic art in place first, and then decided to code the actual player. Also, why are all the birds farting? (Also, for the above author, you may want to change your neat userbox so that it clears divs, and doesn't cause overlap with heading blocks like it does here)
- What kind of background are you looking for? One of the co-founders of the company (jkoshi) is the visual designer, and has a penchant for his characters farting. 74.85.7.238 (talk) 01:40, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Easter Eggs
Do we add Easter Eggs under features?
In the search box type "migmigmig" sans quotes and press enter and you get a popup that says easter egg backwards. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Karit (talk • contribs) 01:37, 14 April 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Help with Songbird/Wikipedia
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[edit] Who finances this thing?
I could not find anything proper on their site, but since they have an office and hire real people to work there 9am-5pm, I wonder where the money comes from. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.135.97.161 (talk) 17:04, August 24, 2007 (UTC)
- Our Songbird User Manual that's linked off our jobs page mentions our lead investor is Sequoia Capital. (full disclosure: I work for Songbird/POTI (i'm stevel)) 74.85.7.238 (talk) 01:38, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Songbird 0.3pre macosx.png
Image:Songbird 0.3pre macosx.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:14, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Zune
Does Songbird support the Zune? --192.154.91.225 (talk) 18:22, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
- Songbird 0.5 adds MTP support. I don't think the Zune was one of the tested devices, but we've been testing with Sansa and a few other random MTP devices we happen to have. (full disclosure: I work for Songbird/POTI (i'm stevel)) 01:36, 19 March 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.85.7.238 (talk)
- The Zune uses a slightly modified version of MTP, the extensions were changed to MTPZ. --68.81.70.65 (talk) 00:34, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- From personal experience I can tell you that Songbird 0.5 detects and fully supports the Zune 30, you can even edit playlists and delete files, unmount works as well. It takes some time for it to mount the device. I have yet to figure out how to synch. --Xero (talk) 10:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
