Fox Mulder

Songbird 0.2 released (Download Squad)

Oct 22nd 2006 11:08AM I was kind of looking forward to 1.0 myself. Recognizing the snails pace at which development is proceeding, that should be somewhere around the tricentennial. I agree that it looks like a neat capability but I am concerned that if the development is proceeding this slow (what has it been two years now?) then improvements and fixes will be similarly slow. Since I tried it first, I have been spending most of my time running Linux and using Amarok as my player/manager. Most of the features touted in the article are already available in Amarok. I am a Firefox user (on 2.0 now with Kubuntu Edgy) so I am interested in a player that is built on FF. I will probably wait until they get to 1.0 and compare with the state of Amarok at that time. I am not optimistic that will be soon, but we shall see. Don't get me wrong, I am not dumping on their development team and I applaud there efforts, but it seems that the code delivery to hype ratio is a bit out of balance. For windows I primarily use XMPLay and Quintessential. Both are awesome and I have been able to run XMP under Linux using Wine. Don't know about QCD/QMP. Thanks for a good article.