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Songbird is an Open Source media player based on Mozilla for Windows and Mac

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Songbird + Podcasts not working?

Using Songbird 1.2.0 but cannot figure out how to get Podcasts to work with it. From what I understand that is what they call subscriptions, which I have added but nothing downloads?
Robert MacLean
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How to prevent iTunes from launching on media key press

Recently, I made the switch to Songbird, and it's all gone well except for one thing: global music hotkeys. I installed an addon (Apple Keyboard Media Key Support) that enabled me to use the iTunes hotkeys for Songbird, but they also open iTunes.…
tekknolagi
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Media key support in Songbird?

I've been trying to get media keys on my keyboard to work in Songbird. (next, previous, pause and stop). but nothing seems to help I also cant find any windows plug ins that do that either I'm running windows 7 64bit pro with a Microsoft Wireless…
Kurru
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Where does Songbird stores the playlists?

Songbird is not working right on my machine, i'm trying to recover my playlists...
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Mac .flac player that organizes folder structure? Can Songbird write to a ntfs drive?

I have a bunch of music in .flac format on my pc. I would like to put that music on an external drive which I can access from both my Mac and PC at work. I have the drive formatted in NTFS using MacFUSE and NTFS-3G drivers. Through Finder I…
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iTunes, SongBird and DAAP

This may seem like a question for stackoverflow, but bear with me: I've built (most of) a DAAP server in Ruby, I've modeled its output on the mt-daapd server and consequently my test data is such that my server returns exactly* what the mt-daapd…
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Songbird FLAC library to iTunes MP3 library

I wonder if there's some way to automatically export my Songbird FLAC music library to my iTunes MP3 library. Did someone know something about?
vitto
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Global hotkeys: songbird on KDE

I'm running songbird on opensuse 11.2 KDE 4.3.1 on my EEE pc. On windows, there is a hotkey thing inside Songbird, so i set META F9,10,11,12 as media keys and it work just fine. On linux, there is not hotkey thing in songbird, and I would like to…
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How to let Songbird know that its watched folder is moved?

Recently I've moded my Songbird's watch folder to a new location and naturally Songbird now don't link it's library files to physical files. Is there any way I can relink those files to new location so that Songbird can play them from new location?
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Songbird doesn't start because of GStreamer in Ubuntu 9.10

I have just upgraded my system to Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). This has apparently broken Songbird. The fix I found on the web (removing libvisual-4.0-plugin, or so) does not work, since I do not have that package installed. (songbird-bin:15641):…
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Bulk delete music files physically in songbird

I've downloaded hundreds of songs from SXSW 2009 Showcasing Artists. In Songbird, I've filtered out a lot of songs which I don't like, i.e. gave rating of one to them. I hope to delete all these from my hard disk, but it's a feature yet to implement…
juvenn
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Songbird 4-pane filter panel library view

I love Songbird but I was already whether it's possible add an additional column to the Songbird layout, I love categorising my music by dates as well, and find right clicking above the column header to change a little to messy and want even more…
wonea
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Songbird looping my library playlist

I'm using Songbird (on Windows) as my iTunes replacement. There's two things that annoy me about Songbird: 1) It has a web browser built in. I can ignore this as I don't use it. But, seriously, a web browser? :/ 2) It loops my library. This, I don't…
Logi
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Transfer Songbird metadata to new computer

I recently decided to move from my ancient Windows 7 (32bit) laptop to a newer Windows 7 64bit one. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble transferring my Songbird library. I copied the folder with all my music files, and it imported just fine on the new…
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Lock sing on mp3 files when edited from Songbird

Everytime I edit (Metadata id3 tags) of mp3 files in Songbird, the icon of mp3 files changes, an LOCK sign gets added on top of cover art of the fileicon when viewed in Windows Explorer. What does the lock sign means? How do I remove it? Here are…
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