Comments on: Songbird

By: Olly

Olly — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:54:52 +0000

To be honest, loads of music formats isn’t an issue — most of my stuff is MP3 or AAC. It’s just the videos that annoy me. I have to keep Windows Media player lying around because there’s certain formats that it seems nothing else can play — even if the codec is correctly installed.

I believe that Songbird incorporates VLC in some way or another, so hopefully it’ll play just almost everything. On the other hand it might be a pile of crap ;-)

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:24:24 +0000

Sony are working on an update to make their software work, in fact there is one out already. Just like Apple and Microsoft it seems they rushed things a bit too quickly without properly testing.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:35:09 +0000

Maybe they can make it work one of those Sony things you want, Olly.

I am going off itunes, but I am currently stuck in a “too low an operation system” to get the software a I really want to use. Mainly for podcast aggregation I’d like to change.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:38:04 +0000

Is a request for a media player to play several formats, such a big request… hmm I think you’ve been using iTunes too much.

Lets see if they manage to make this good, or as Owen says, just a black version of something thats already out there.

For now I am happy with VLC and WinAmp.

By: Owen

Owen — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:31:25 +0000

It just looks like they’ve done Apple’s trick of taking something successful and releasing it in black.