songbird v1.0 released

[somanyholes]

nice write up here. If you haven't tried it, give it a whirl it rocks!

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081202-first-look-can-songbird-1-0-replace-itunes-wmp.html

[kinmel]

Excellent 

thank you

[Glenn]

I got the announcement yesterday but forgot to post it 

[Rik]

For a moment, there, I thought we were talking about a new Eva Cassidy release.

[Steve]

Thanks So. Given it a try, it will play music from my whs share but it all goes pear shaped with the itunes library stored in the same place.

Edit: I looked in the Songbird error console and discovered that it was looking in the wrong place for the files,which I thought was strange since iTunes was playing ok.It appeared that the itunes library had not updated a change of directory name I made some time ago, so having changed back to the old directory name the library import to Songbird now plays and so does iTunes. It a bit disappointing but perhaps not surprising that despite many hours waiting for library rebuilds with itunes allowing  consolidation of my music library into one location that it makes a fundamental error of keeping an old location in the file.

[somanyholes]

I have heard of some people having issues due to itunes etc. I presume they will be sorting it out. I don't use itunes, which is a good thing

[Sebby]

Very interesting, thanks.