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Mari marked one of Dustin Paluch's replies in Songbird as useful. Dustin Paluch replied to the question "why dont songbird works on windows 7?".

Mari replied on December 18, 2009 23:42 to the question "Cannot edit playlist" in Songbird:

Hi all -

Could you please post what OS you're using? I don't recall seeing this issue before, so all possible detail and information is helpful in attempting to solve it.

Thanks!

Mari replied on December 18, 2009 22:55 to the question "moblin import truncated" in Songbird:

Hi jack -

How did you scan the library into Songbird? And if you re-run the same method, does it find the rest of your tracks?

Mari replied on December 18, 2009 22:51 to the question "Last.fm Login doesn't work ..." in Songbird:

Hi Nishino -

What OS are you using? It seems to be working for me on Windows Vista. I would recommend uninstalling and reinstalling the add-on.

Hope that helps...

Mari replied on December 18, 2009 19:36 to the problem "Unable to launch songbird, running instance" in Songbird:

Emmanuel -

In this particular case, I don't know what would have caused it. If you can give us a list of steps to reproduce the problem, we may be able to track it down. However, if it's not something that we can reproduce in-house, it's unlikely we'd be able to figure it out.

Glad you were able to get it working, though!

Mari marked one of Edu Camargo's replies in Songbird as useful. Edu Camargo replied to the problem "importing flac library album artist tag not shown".

Mari replied on December 18, 2009 19:22 to the question "Why won't Songbird work with my music library on my external HD?" in Songbird:

jdeorio -

How did you add the files to the Songbird Library? Did you just drag them in, add them via File > Add to Library, or are you using a WatchFolder?

I have also heard it suggested in another thread (that I can't find at the moment) that the drive may have a power-saving mode in which it spins down when not being accessed. In order to check on this, I would browse some directory on the drive just before playing a track in Songbird to see if that works.

Hope that helps....

Mari replied on December 18, 2009 19:16 to the problem "Unable to launch songbird, running instance" in Songbird:

Emmanuel -

This sounds like a very strange situation. I would highly recommend restarting your system to see if that helps.

Mari replied on December 18, 2009 17:59 to the problem "Unable to launch songbird, running instance" in Songbird:

Emmanuel -

Running "./songbird -p" will launch the profile manager. You can then select which profile to use and launch Songbird with it. It is possible that one of the add-on updates has somehow corrupted it, though, and it may not launch successfully.

If you are able to get it running, I would recommend disabling your add-ons one-by-one to see if you can identify which one is causing the issue. Another alternative would be to launch Songbird in Safe Mode and disable all of them, restart in regular Songbird, and enable them one at a time to see which breaks.

Hope that helps!

Mari replied on December 18, 2009 01:34 to the question "Why won't Songbird work with my music library on my external HD?" in Songbird:

Hi jdeorio -

Could you please let us know what OS and version of Songbird you're using? Also, is the hard drive connected via USB or is it a networked drive?

Thanks!

Mari replied on December 18, 2009 01:31 to the question "Updating add-on for Songbird 1.4.1." in Songbird:

Hi simon -

Have you attempted to contact the developer of the add-on? If they haven't responded, here's a simple way to update the max version :

1) Download the current .xpi file, and change the extension to .zip.
2) Unzip/uncompress the add-on.
3) In the new directory, there will be a file called "install.rdf" - open it with a text editor.
4) Locate the max version parameter, change it to 1.4.1 (or 1.5.0a), save, and close.
5) Recompress the folder to create a new [add-on].zip file.
6) Change the .zip extension back to .xpi.

This is the best way to update it for yourself; if you're interested in making it available to others, post a note on the add-on's page.

Hope that helps!

Mari replied on December 18, 2009 01:25 to the question "Music doesn't show up on iPod, after updating through Songbird..." in Songbird:

Kit -

hrm we haven't actually tried Songbird running on a BootCamp Windows, and while I would expect everything to be the same it's possible that there is some sort of fringe issue happening here.

If you downloaded it from getsongbird.com, it's version 1.2 (build 1146). ^_^ I would also guess that you downloaded the iPod add-on that came with that build - this should support the iPod classics.

Assuming that all the tracks you're transferring are mp3s, my next suggestion would be to create a new profile (instructions here), or downloading the current beta build.

Hopefully one of these will work... Please let me know! ^_^

Mari replied on December 18, 2009 01:15 to the question "Does Songbird work 100% with iPod classic? Bug-free?" in Songbird:

Hi Moloko -

What Andrew means by "sync" in this case is the ability to essentially mirror your iTunes library in Songbird, or vice versa. That way, you can use Songbird for all of the organization and playback you want to do. Then, when you want to actually move things to the iPod you only have to run iTunes for the 10 minutes it takes to transfer the tracks.

In answer to your original question, yes the iPod classic should still work with the new version of Songbird. Considering that the iPod add-on is now open-source and community-maintained, we cannot guarantee that it will work 100% and bug-free. Sorry!

Hope that helps....

Mari replied on December 17, 2009 22:41 to the question "Latest Version of Songbird still non-functional for large libraries" in Songbird:

Huh. It's so random that it took four tries... but I'm glad it finally worked! We do have issues reading over the network, especially with large amounts of data, so there may have been some random interference that was happening. (read: I really have no idea what may have caused it. -_^ )

Hope it continues working more smoothly now!

Mari replied on December 17, 2009 22:12 to the question "Where do I set the default programs Songbird uses for opening downloaded non-music files?" in Songbird:

Hi Leo -

Considering that Songbird isn't a full-fledged web browser, this feature is not available. There may be an add-on that enables this functionality, though!

Sorry!

Mari replied on December 17, 2009 21:49 to the question "Latest Version of Songbird still non-functional for large libraries" in Songbird:

Hey Joe -

It definitely shouldn't take that long to import 10,000+ files.... it sounds like you might have a corrupted profile. The best thing I can recommend is to create a new one and re-run the import. Our in-house testing has clocked it at around 5 minutes, so 40,000 shouldn't take more than 25 minutes or so (though we haven't tried that many).

The only question I would have is, are the files on the same machine that's running Songbird? There are known latency issues with network and USB drives.

Hope that helps.

Mari replied on December 17, 2009 21:40 to the question "why can't I see my ipod(80gb)clasic in songbird (have addon) Have reset ipod,ipod just not showing in songbird.This is a BIG DEAL trying to scrap itunes but have ipod." in Songbird:

Hi rickypicker -

Please let us know what OS and version of Songbird you're using. And if you could provide us with a detailed list of the steps you've tried, that would also be helpful (and prevent redundant questions).

Thanks!

Mari replied on December 17, 2009 21:38 to the question "Music doesn't show up on iPod, after updating through Songbird..." in Songbird:

Hi Kit -

Could you please let us know what OS and version of Songbird you're using? Everything should be working for classic iPods.

The only other thing I can think of is to make sure that the tracks you're transferring are mp3s.

Hope that helps!

Mari replied on December 17, 2009 21:36 to the question "Yet another ipod cover art problem [nano 3rd gen]" in Songbird:

All -

There are several issues relating to new iPods; basically it boils down to Apple locking them down so that you have to use iTunes.

As for the specific issue of album artwork, I believe this should be working. Please check that the artwork is being written to the file's metadata.

Hope that helps!

Mari replied on December 17, 2009 21:31 to the question "why can't i delete songs from my ipod nano" in Songbird:

Hi frustrated 89 -

Could you please let us know what OS, version of Songbird, and add-ons you're using?

Thanks.