Songbird is a player and a platform. Like Firefox, Songbird is an open source

[somanyholes]

very cool, if you want a new media player, worth looking at,

http://www.songbirdnest.com/

[Rik]

Bears a passing resemblance to iTunes.

[somanyholes]

with extensions though rik http://addons.songbirdnest.com/, a lot of cool features in it

[Rik]

Oh, I'm not disagreeing, I'm just curious that they've chosen to mimic the look so much.

[somanyholes]

keeping those dam apple heads happy

[Rik]

Probably helps with the inertia factor, of course.

[somanyholes]

theres a search feature in it, where you can stream a hell of a lot of music it finds online, im in heaven! mad get in here!

[somanyholes]

it uses this website http://skreemr.com/ where you can stream just about any sort of music you want

[madasahatter]

theres a search feature in it, where you can stream a hell of a lot of music it finds online, im in heaven! mad get in here!

I'm here mate - can't wait 2 minutes can ya? 

I'll have a good look at that this weekend - looks really good 

[madasahatter]

It looks great - just what i've been looking for in fact. 

Only trouble is that it crashes everytime I run it, and makes my machine run like a bag of spanners   

Real shame 

[Rik]

How does a bag of spanners run? 

[madasahatter]

How does a bag of spanners run? 

Not very well - they haven't got very long legs you see 

[Rik]

Ah, the haggis syndrome.

[madasahatter]

Haggis have a syndrome named after them? 

[Rik]

Haggii are a syndrome.

[somanyholes]

hope its justa  beta thing mate, u get any errors?

[madasahatter]

Didn't look to be honest - just says it's crashed and do I want to send a report. I'll try it again and see if that tells me anything. You recovered yet mate?

Edit: Well, it's running again, and to give you some idea of how much it affects my PC, it's taken over 3 minutes to get to this page to post this!!! On the good side, it's managed not to crash yet.......

[somanyholes]

thats a good excuse for an upgrade mate, you know you want to,

You recovered yet mate?

finally feeling human again, yeseterday was a painful day, bloody alchohol...

[madasahatter]

finally feeling human again, yeseterday was a painful day, bloody alchohol...

Tell me about it - still felt a bit rough last night - didn't stop me eating everything in sight though 

I've left my PC and swapped to the laptop - got fed up of waiting half an hour for everything. Might try it on here actually - if it's fine on here I think you may well be right - time for a new desktop. 

[madasahatter]

Well - gone back to my desktop to see how it's doing. It's not crashed as such this time - just decided that it doesn't want to respond to anything, with the CPU usage sitting nicely at a constant 100%.

Real pity, because it does look to be really good 

[Rik]

Can you see what process is eating the CPU, Mad?

[Ted]

Installed this earlier, well actually all you need to do is unpack the zipped file and run it straight out of the box, no installation required.
Have to say i'm fairly impressed by it, couple of small bugs but nothing worth worrying about
Runs pretty quick with the integral browser, highly configurable using the GStreamer media core engine. Looks nice as well.
Good find So, 

That's on Linux BTW

[Rik]

Thought of a name yet, Ted?

[Ted]

Thought of a name yet, Ted?

Got a couple i'm dwelling on. Any suggestions?
On second thoughts, perhaps not!!

[Rik]

Very wise.