James Cornell wrote:
> Stephen Lau wrote:
>> Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:49:19 -0700 (PDT)
>>> ken mays <maybird1776 yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Steve Lau said:
>>>>> We're planning to push Songbird 0.5 out
on Monday or
>>>>> Tuesday of next week - probably easiest
to wait for 0.5 final and
>>>>> then make a build based off of that.
>>>>>
>>>> Great! SongBird 0.5RC2 is simply awesome.
Let's make
>>>> this rock on OpenSolaris distros.
>>>>
>>> And why is songbird so much better than
rhythmbox that is provided by
>>> gnome already on opensolaris?
>>>
>>>
>> One benefit is that because of the exception we add
to the GPL,
>> Songbird can be distributed alongaside binary
GStreamer plugins like
>> the MP3 codec Sun has licensed for Solaris.
>>
>> <snarky>
>> plus we embedded a web browser!
>> </snarky>
>>
>> 
>> in all seriousness, there are other benefits. I'd
encourage you to
>> take a look at songbirdnest.com for a more detailed
list. Here's a
>> couple of points of distinguishing features:
>> * Mozilla extension system allows for easy
extensions & theming. See
>> my mashTape extension for example:
>> http://addons.songbirdnest.com/extensions/download/780
(download and
>> then install it into Songbird)
>> This is a bunch of retardedly simple and easy
Javascript that hits up
>> a bunch of various websites for contextual
information surrounding
>> the artist and track you're listening to. Namely
it pulls in
>> upcoming concerts, Flickr footage, YouTube videos,
lyrics, bio, etc.
>> This was so easy to write, it's absurd. (seriously
look at the code -
>> it's ugly since it was my first Songbird extension,
but you can see
>> it's pretty simple)
>>
>> * Has a Webpage API, which allows the media player
to be addressed
>> via websites. Why is this interesting? Because it
allows websites
>> to integrate and enumerate your media player.
e.g., go to my blog
>> here: http://whacked.net/explore
>> Start playing a track and you'll see it pulls up
cover art, tags, &
>> similar artists from last.fm on the left hand side.
On the right
>> hand side, it's building a tag cloud of your
library's artists. This
>> is all done via the webpage API. What makes this
interesting is that
>> websites like music stores can build in the same
level of integration
>> that places like iTunes + iTunes Store have....
Apple has built a
>> really smooth experience if you:
>> a) Use an iPod
>> b) Use iTunes
>> c) Buy from Apple's iTunes Store
>> Change any of those 3 variables, and you lose the
experience.
>> Songbird's strength of talking to any device, and
any website and
>> allowing that same level of integration is
certainly one thing I find
>> compelling.
>>
>> cheers,
>> steve
>>
>>
> Songbird work with Podcasts? I use UC Berkeley, MIT,
and a few misc
> tech podcasts with iTunes. (ITMS URL is just
authenticated HTTP with
> a null session I think... there's no login for these)
We don't currently have a UI exposed for subscribing to
podcasts (all
the underlying FF/Mozilla support is there - we just haven't
integrated
it into the UI). I expect we'll probably have this around
the 0.7
version or so. (We release new versions every 6-8 weeks)
cheers,
steve
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stephen lau | stevelopensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
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