rob's dashboard

This is great, but is there a 'force offline mode' option like in the mobile client?

There are situations where I'd like to use the net while spotify runs, but can't let spotify access the network - like using my laptop at work!

Cue sheet support would be really good, and automatically solves the start/stop time and seamless playback problems for CD rips.

Cue sheets include "INDEX 00 and INDEX 01" per track. "INDEX 01" tells you which part to skip to if you jump to a track. The bit between "INDEX 00 and INDEX 01" only gets played when you play tracks sequentually (and shows up as a negative time countdown when you play a CD). For many CD's this inter-track bit is silent, but not for live CD's/Mixes.

CD's have always handled this fine, play a CD and you get the inter-track stuff, but if you shuffle tracks you don't get them. I'm not aware of any player that does this stuff well yet, and this would be a great way for songbird to be ahead of the game.

Most gapless playback stuff handles it badly - you don't want this bit appended to the beginning or end of a song when you play an individual track. You want it played only when you play sequential tracks, so playback is identical to the original CD.

What would be great would be for songbird to treat tracks as individual files, but detect when songs are being played sequentially from the playlist, and therefore knows whether or not to play the inter-track bit seamlessly.

"TRACK 01 INDEX 00" hidden tracks are also an interesting case for CD's that cue sheets are the only way to support this - these often just get lost when people rip to their digital media player of choice.