[Cialug] Songbird

[David Champion]

Anyone been looking at this?

http://www.songbirdnest.com/

I installed it last night, and it looks interesting. I'm not really keen 
on the interface, but it looks like a promising project.

The interface has too much stuff that happens by "magic". If I'm playing 
a playlist, then navigate to something on the web interface, I couldn't 
find how to get back to the playlist again. The way it interfaces with 
the web content is pretty slick though.

<gripe>
My mp3 collection all has .m3u playlists, and that's how I usually 
listen to it - just select the .m3u in my media player (audacious in 
linux, winamp in windows) and play it. Songbird will import my playlists 
(one at a time from what I can tell). But once the .m3u is imported, all 
of the songs go into the big playlist - they don't stay as my playlists. 
It's possible I'm just overlooking something - like I can go back and 
sort by album or whatever.
</gripe>

-dc