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Tag Archives: songbird
Nightingale Preview Release – Songbird Sings Again
A new development release of music player ‘Nightingale’ has been made available for download. Songbird fork Nightingale was born after the former dropped official support for the Linux platform – a move that, it’s fair to say, didn’t impact on the majority of Linux users. From the cold ashes of Songbird’s death on Linux came ‘Nightingale’, the [...]
Songbird hits version 1.9.3, Linux build available
Although “official” builds of Songbird for Linux are no longer distributed the Songbird community still provide 32bit Linux versions for the gecko-using media player’s faithful flock.
Songbird for Linux: Not extinct yet, deb’s for the latest version
Official development and support for music-player Songbird on Linux was culled several months back but thanks to dedicated community support Linux users can still keep up with the Joneses and benefit from all the latest fixes n’ features the player has to offer. Songbird 1.7.3 running in Ubuntu Even better the the latest versions are provided as [...]
Lyrebird renames to Nightingale; Songbird for Linux lives on
Songbird for Linux, whilst officially no-longer supported, will continue to live on thanks to a community driven effort. The project, which was originally titled Lyrebird, finally has a definitive new name: Nightingale. Very apt. The team is made up of many longtime Songbird contributers so hopefully with some dedication to the Linux platform amongst them [...]
Songbird drops Linux support; Why this doesn’t matter
The big news today is the announcement by the Songbird team that they will no longer be officially supporting Linux versions of their media player. Community versions, will, however still be provided but there is no guarantee that these versions will see new features of thorough bug testing before release. So if you’re a glass [...]
Songbird 1.5 gets Video Playback Feature
Songbrid has gained video playback capabilities in the beta for forthcoming 1.5.0 release “Led Zepplin”. Video formats/codecs supported so far are WMV, MPEG-4, Theora and H.264, though the songbird team themselves note that “support is still basic and will be improved for the 1.6.0 release.” The video playback window with controls Video’s can also be [...]