For those who don't know about the bird, it is based, from what I could see on the same engine as Mozilla, Firefox, and earlier browsers. I followed Songbird since the earliest version to v.0.7, and then, lost interest in it. A few days ago, I tried to update from 0.7 to 1.1.2, I believe, and ran into all sorts of problems. Unlike Firefox where add-on are voluntary, Songbird comes which add-ons, which should be uninstallable, if of no interest. The new update indicated that all but one add-on were incompatible. No updates seem to exist, so I proceeded to try to uninstall the twenty or so add-ons. Songbird went through the motions, I restarted it, and....nothing had happened. After two more tries, I uninstalled Songbird.
Today, I download v.1.2, and tried again. To my surprise, all add-ons were compatible. Songbird, very laboriously, went three the importing of iTunes files. After it was done, I tried to play a song, of the mp4 type, and Songbird told me that I needed to authorize, through iTunes, the computer. iTunes told me that the computer was, already, authorized. Songbird ot the message, and proceeded to hiccup a couple of songs (hiccup is very similar to skip). I uninstalled, successfully, some ten add-ons, uninstalled, and reinstalled Songbird, which, immediately hiccupped.
I uninstalled it, again, and the site asked me if I wanted to make any comment about why I was uninstalling Songbird, like it did on my previous attempt. And, immediately, before I had any chance to do anything, I was thanked for my efforts. Does it sound like fun?
Again, for those who do not know about Songbird, it was able to play iTunes and Windows Media Player protected file. Even at this point, it was very desirable to be able to do both in one program. I hope that the uninitiated understand this.
But, the bird got awfully fat over time. It took up to 100MB before showing up, and, pretty hopeless as you can see.
If anyone got a recent version to work, please let me know.
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