Songbird 0.7.0 Official Beta Fedora RPMs Up!
Submitted by digitalruin on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 22:27
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They're here! I've been getting lots of requests from eager birdies wanting to try out Songbird 0.7.0 RPMs on Fedora, and the wait is finally over. I'm sorry it took a bit, I had a wedding to go to over the weekend which took up most of my time and the rpm builds turned out to be a bit more complicated than a simple version bump. As always, the rpms are built on the official Fedora 9 build servers, although you might find that they work ok on Fedora 8 as well. I'm once again providing i386, x86_64, ppc, and ppc64 packages. Thank you for all the kind words from those of you that got some good use out of the 0.6 rpms, I'm glad to be of service. You might be interested to know that so far over 500 Songbird 0.6/0.6.1 rpms have been downloaded from countries all around the world. Thanks again! |
When installing these I recommend that you remove your Songbird profile (~/.songbird2) first to avoid upgrading issues. This isn't a problem with the rpms specifically, but there have been some upgrade bugs reported to the developers when going from 0.6 to 0.7. To be safe it is usually good to start clean. As always, feel free contact me if you have any issues or questions.
Songbird 0.7.0 - Fedora 9 - i386
Songbird 0.7.0 - Fedora 9 - x86_64
Songbird 0.7.0 - Fedora 9 - ppc
Songbird 0.7.0 - Fedora 9 - ppc64
Songbird 0.7.0 - Fedora 9 - src.rpm
Songbird 0.7.0 - Fedora 9 - spec
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1.0 is released now. Pls keep
1.0 is released now.
Pls keep up and give a new package
Hah. You have to love
Hah. You have to love messages like this. Instead of "Thank you for building Fedora packages of Songbird on your own time, I appreciate it and I'm looking forward to the 1.0 release." I'm told to keep up with the release dates. =D
Yes, I'm fully aware of the 1.0 release and I will have packages shortly.
Maybe hantsy-san doesn't know
Maybe hantsy-san doesn't know English well so doesn't get netiquette.
Pls post the .spec file along with the RPMs once you have it building on F10. thx!
The birdie has landed! Check
The birdie has landed! Check the front page... or for the lazy:
http://www.digitalruin.net/node/54
I've tried Songbird 0.7.0 on
I've tried Songbird 0.7.0 on Fedora, since I was looking for a new music player.
I have a couple of challenges that prevent me from using Songbird.
First of all, it does not play nicely with SELinux. I run in permissive mode so Songbird still works, but I have to grant a lot of exceptions in order to avoid warnings. I would like to run in strict mode, but with Songbird that would not be possible. I've filed a bug report with Songbird, but this has not been addressed.
I get most of my music by recording from Internet radio. When I find an artist I like, I'll purchase music from that artist's web site where possible. The downside of this is that my tracks do not have album information. I would like to know the number of songs per artist, but that doesn't seem to be a feature within Songbird.
Songbird seems to be both memory and CPU intensive. Coupled with PulseAudio, this causes sound dropouts. I know, I could get a more powerful machine, but upgrading a system just to handle a music player doesn't seem to be reasonable.
All in all, it's an OK music player. Hopefully the developers will make it lighter weight, and adhere to the SELinux programming recommendations.
I'll give it a try once the next version comes out.
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