Songbird is becoming one kick ass media player (some installation tips)
I've been keeping a close watch on the development of Songbird , a fantastically innovative cross-platform audio player in the spirit of itunes (though it looks like it might exceed itunes in the near future). Recently version 1.0 was released, and so I thought I'd briefly review it here, as well as provide some nifty little tips that make the experience all the more enjoyable (especially for Ubuntu users). First thing, songbird is not yet in the Ubuntu repositories (hopefully this will change for the Jaunty release) - so there are two main ways to install it: Download the tarball package, extract it where you want, and symlink to it in your .bashrc (this is they way I did it). Download the Songbird deb package from getdeb: here . Once installed, there are a couple of addons that I add immediately: LyricMaster - Fetch lyrics and save them back to the file MediaFlow - Like itunes album art preview. Normally, though, I have this disabled because mashtape is much more functional...