In fact Winamp works well on Linux under wine. And so does Foobar2000.

I still have not seen a linux app that could do what the ‘Auto-tag’ feature in winamp does – i.e. you feed it a bunch a mp3 files without ID3 tags, named Track1, Track2, etc. right-click > Send to> Auto-Tag and it fills in the artist, album, etc.

Picard is supposed to be able to do auto-tagging on Linux but it barely does the job for me.

We lost only 2 contributors, 1 of which was a loss (your husband) and Lightshow/yourself which results in a net gain because we no longer need to protect ourselves from your attempts to seize the project. The other would likely likely be welcome back as a developer though.

Honestly though, how can one claim months of setbacks for a 2 month old project, when both users have yet to have proven their skills? Furthermore, the new strategy is entirely different to the old one, in which case, we are rebooting anyway. But the last 2 months were valuable nonetheless.

Fortunately, the new leader we are in talks with is overqualified for the project, and has proven her/his skills. That will likely be announced VERY soon ;)

The announcement will be nothing short of a project reboot, and whilst we do wish AlienBoombox a prosperous future (I don’t care what player I use, as long as it’s good), we do wish that Lightshow, would stop trying to alienate/degrade our community to succeed, rather than work on building her own.

Enjoy !

I just installed the Audalicious my wife uses on her netbook on to his laptop and he now uses both music players (i asked if he wanted me to put both the same and he refused.)
My mom stills prefers to use VLC for all her audio and video uses.

The loooong detour is to say that there are many choices in free software for those that need music players and the great part of the GPL is that Nightingale is able to carry on.

Songbird will eventually become but a distant memory (my buddy found a cd that said HotDog and it thought it was the ski bunny classic from twenty years ago. instead if was from one of the first easy to use WYSIWYG web building programs. he used ir regularly in the mid to late 90s but he could barely remember it a decade later. )

My buddy Mark is a recovering mac addict so he’s both pissed at them dropping Linux and Ipod support. He asked if they were planning to bed his wife and shoot his dog as well !!
(shoot the dog, the wife is uggo!)

I dont think I’ll be switching to Nightingale but I wish them success. Just because its not something I will use doenst mean that choice isnt a great thing.

Extremely short sighted at best. They are putting numbers ahead of principles and saying they still support the principles? Betrayal with a kiss, thirty pieces of silver, but hey I’m still a believer! Yeah… right…

This is a bizarre decision on their part and I for one and done with Songbird. There are good alternatives (doubleTwist on my mac and PC, RhythmBox on my Ubuntu box) and they don’t piss on their userbase and call it rain.

If Nightingale is able to succeed, I’ll definitely check it out.