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A comment on the problem "glibc 2.8 detects invalid free() pointer" in Songbird:

alex.comanescu replied 8 days ago
removing libvisual-0.4-plugins also solved the problem for me.

(this also worked for me, as I remember) – notwist, on October 06, 2009 12:56

notwist marked one of Jonathan Grubbs' replies in Canonical as useful. Jonathan Grubbs replied to the question "Where can you download Edubuntu?".

notwist marked one of GeekShadow's replies in Songbird as useful. GeekShadow replied to the idea ""Now playing" information in MSN / Live messenger".

notwist shared an idea in Twitter on September 27, 2009 22:55:

Support for sending SMS updates to users in Sweden

It makes me really sad that Sweden doesn't have the ability to recieve SMS updates from twitter. SMS is used widely in Sweden, and if twitter implemented the ability to also send SMS updates to people, I think twitter could have a serious breakthrough in this country (the vast majority of people are still not used to SMS being free at all).

Please, cut a deal with an operator in Sweden and enable this feature for us as well, it would be awesome and would most likely benefit you greatly in terms of an increased number of users!

notwist replied on September 27, 2009 22:52 to the problem "Problem to activate SMS in Sweden" in Twitter:

+46 is the country number for Sweden, you could try sending it "normally" by removing the country code and adding a zero:

0737 494 222

notwist marked one of David Singleton's replies in Last.fm as useful. David Singleton replied to the problem "Stop Banning my Accounts You've already banned 2". notwist and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

A comment on the idea ""Now playing" information in MSN / Live messenger" in Songbird:

Sweet – notwist, on July 06, 2009 18:13

A comment on the question "Empty folders left behind after organizing, how to delete?" in Songbird:

For future reference, here's my blocklist of files to ignore when removing non-empty directories and classify them as empty anyway:
/*.tmp$/
desktop.ini
Thumbs.db
*.m3u
*.log
*.LOG
*.sfv
*.nfo
*.jpg
*.JPG
*.png
*.gif
*.jpeg
*.cue
*.CUE
*.TXT
*.txt
*.DAT
*.dat
*.directory
*.mxm
*.bmp
*.lnk
*.pls
*.pun
*.pdf – notwist, on July 06, 2009 18:12

notwist marked one of Michael Purses' replies in Songbird as useful. Michael Purses replied to the question "Empty folders left behind after organizing, how to delete?". notwist and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

A comment on the question "Empty folders left behind after organizing, how to delete?" in Songbird:

Remove Empty Directories seems like a really neat program, thank you! – notwist, on June 18, 2009 21:42

A comment on the question "Windows Live Messenger "Listening To" Feature" in Songbird:

Doesn't work in Songbird 1.2 :( – notwist, on June 18, 2009 20:12

A comment on the question "MSN messenger Plugin" in Songbird:

LiveTweeter does not work in the newest songbird version (1.2) – notwist, on June 18, 2009 20:12

notwist shared an idea in Songbird on June 18, 2009 20:11:

"Now playing" information in MSN / Live messenger

I have this feature in foobar2000 and I think it's a huge disadvantage when using Songbird :( LiveTweeter doesn't install because it's too old and I haven't found any other makeshift way to make it work.

This sould really be an out-of-the-box compability in Songbird!

notwist asked a question in Songbird on June 18, 2009 19:45:

Empty folders left behind after organizing, how to delete?

Before I organized my music with Songbird my albums were in separate folders, now these empty folders (empty with mp3:s that is, some have cover art and other stuff left) are littering my mp3-folder. How do I delete them? Is there any way to sort by smallest folders and just delete all the small ones (i.e. the ones that does not contain mp3s)

notwist shared an idea in Spotify on June 08, 2009 18:33:

Improve the design of the HTTP sharing page

Let's take an example, let me share this song with you all:

http://open.spotify.com/track/6Jl3uM2...

On the page that opens I am greeted with the spotify logo and an arbitrary link. Several things here could be done better, in my opinion:

- The design should conform more to the spotify design, that is; black background, white text, maybe some green.

- Why show only the spotify logo? Why not also show the album cover art as a centerpiece and show the artist / song that the link actually points to?

Please note that this would also make the new facebook sharing function a lot better, as you could then include cover art in your sharing and not just a big spotify logo with no information on what song you are actually sharing.

notwist shared an idea in Spotify on May 24, 2009 09:07:

Minimal player mode for when you've already chosen a playlist

iTunes has a feature to turn the program into a "mini player" (iTunes is still bloated as hell though), this would be awesome if it could also be done with Spotify. For example, when I've chosen a playlist and just want to be able to switch back and forth between tracks.

Perhaps it could also be done so that the minimal player takes less resources. That would be awesome. And ofcourse, you could still display ads by making the player the same size as a banner or something.

I hope you get my idea and that you think about implementing it.

A comment on the idea "Give users the option to change their user name or merge accounts" in Last.fm:

This is essentially what I meant when I said in the post below that they should make the nickname a variable. However, I think it would be good to also make sure that people could change their login name, or perhaps use the e-mail as login instead and make the nickname changeable like you mentioned. – notwist, on April 21, 2009 19:27

notwist reported a problem in Spotify on April 11, 2009 14:32:

Why does spotify stop fetching songs after just one song?

I'm running Spotify in Easy Peasy (based on and essentially the same as Ubuntu 8.10) through wine (latest version). When I start a song in Spotify, the song plays about 3/4 and then stops. If I try to start another song, the cover art comes up fine but the song doesn't start. The weird thing is that even if I only listen to the first song a couple of seconds, it still refuses to change to another song, so there's essentially a "one song limit".

The only way to fix this is to restart Spotify, then you can play 3/4 of any song you want until you have to restart again :)

Another problem that might be unrelated is that the progress bar for the song at the bottom "jumps" back and forward in the end as the point moves to show where in the song you are. This might be a Wine issue and is purely cosmetical.

notwist replied on April 03, 2009 10:06 to the idea "Give users the option to change their user name or merge accounts" in Last.fm:

Mateusz; ofcourse it's not impossible, do you know nothing of website building? It is, however, quite probably a lot of work involved, which might be the reason they haven't implemented it.

inh: there's several ways you could solve broken links, either you could make the links variables (the nicknames for everyone mentioned on a page is 'fetched' every time the page is loaded) or you could run a script site-wide to look for the specific nickname and change it.

To resolve both these problems, a lot of manhours needed and quite possibly a lot of server work, you could make it a minor pay service.

A comment on the problem "Linux download broken !" in Songbird:

Very likely, yes. – notwist, on March 31, 2009 13:13