How to Get Compilation Support in Songbird
This is just a quick post, which I know will be of no interest to most of my regular readers, but I know this blog goes out to enough places to show up on a few people's Google searches.
I've recently moved my (sizeable) music library into Songbird, and in many ways it's made me very happy indeed - stylish, powerful and becoming quite efficient. But there are sizeable holes in the application that make using it a major pain in the arse.
One of these is support for a "Compilation" tag/checkbox, which will make Songbird group songs from albums containing multiple artists into their own category. Right now I have thousands of compilation album tracks, and my library is a mess to wade through, to the point where I frequently give up searching out of frustration or lack of time.
I know many others feel the same way, because there are hundreds of posts out there on the blogs, chatrooms and twitterverse complaining about the issue. Fortunately there is a way to get this issue addressed, but few people using it, in most cases I suspect just "not getting round to it" because it takes a few steps. So I'm going to make this really simple:
1. Go to Bug 5755: Group Compilations When Browsing.
2. If you don't have a Songbird Bugzilla account, sign up. It takes like 2 minutes. You can spare the time.
3. Click on "Vote for this bug"
4. Done.
Open source development is community-driven. Which means if you want something to get done, and you can't do it yourself, you have to show that the community wants it - through the excellent tools provided to you for that very purpose. It'll only take a handful of votes to show this is something our community of interested users really wants to see.
Huge kudos to the Songbird development team for developing what is already an excellent, and rapidly becoming one of the best, open source media players. Looking forward to what you do next (compilations please!)
I've recently moved my (sizeable) music library into Songbird, and in many ways it's made me very happy indeed - stylish, powerful and becoming quite efficient. But there are sizeable holes in the application that make using it a major pain in the arse.
One of these is support for a "Compilation" tag/checkbox, which will make Songbird group songs from albums containing multiple artists into their own category. Right now I have thousands of compilation album tracks, and my library is a mess to wade through, to the point where I frequently give up searching out of frustration or lack of time.
I know many others feel the same way, because there are hundreds of posts out there on the blogs, chatrooms and twitterverse complaining about the issue. Fortunately there is a way to get this issue addressed, but few people using it, in most cases I suspect just "not getting round to it" because it takes a few steps. So I'm going to make this really simple:
1. Go to Bug 5755: Group Compilations When Browsing.
2. If you don't have a Songbird Bugzilla account, sign up. It takes like 2 minutes. You can spare the time.
3. Click on "Vote for this bug"
4. Done.
Open source development is community-driven. Which means if you want something to get done, and you can't do it yourself, you have to show that the community wants it - through the excellent tools provided to you for that very purpose. It'll only take a handful of votes to show this is something our community of interested users really wants to see.
Huge kudos to the Songbird development team for developing what is already an excellent, and rapidly becoming one of the best, open source media players. Looking forward to what you do next (compilations please!)
Labels: bug 5755, compilation albums, compilation support, compilations, group compilations, grouping, Open source, songbird, various artists
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