{"id":437,"date":"2006-11-02T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T23:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2006-11-02T23:51:53","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T23:51:53","slug":"songbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/songbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Songbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/songbirdnest.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/songbirdnest.com\/files\/images\/button_headphones.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Get Songbird\"\/ align=\"left\"\/><\/a>The last time I tried Songbird was when it first was made available \ud83d\ude1b At first it didn&#8217;t impressed me, heck, the sound didn&#8217;t even worked on Windows&#8230; The impression it gave me was that Songbird was a beefed-up extension for Firefox, kinda like Flock but with some multimedia gizmos. And so it was long left forgotten in my &#8220;don&#8217;t even bother to look again&#8221; list of software.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what got in me today to install the Songbird Developer Preview 0.2 on my Ubuntu. Download, untar, run, that&#8217;s it. Songbird looked for my audio collection and identified my albums perfectly and fast. One or two clicks later and it was playing a few Enigma tracks. Cool! This time it even plays music \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m being bad&#8230; Songbird has matured very much since the first version, and it&#8217;s very nice to have a cool and good looking media player with good features and that doesn&#8217;t suck like the majority that comes bundled with most of the distributions out there&#8230; still I rather have something like Amarok for Gnome.<a href=\"http:\/\/songbirdnest.com\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[tags]Songbird, Linux, Ubuntu, Audio, Music, Amarok[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I tried Songbird was when it first was made available \ud83d\ude1b At first it didn&#8217;t impressed me, heck, the sound didn&#8217;t even worked on Windows&#8230; The impression it gave me was that Songbird was a beefed-up extension for Firefox, kinda like Flock but with some multimedia gizmos. And so it was long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}