Roadmap

I have a large collection of music of Japanese origin. At the same time, I do not read or write Japanese and probably never will. That presents a serious problem regarding music tags.

There's a very good reason to keep a file tagged in the language it's name originates in, because every translation introduces ambiguity, while original song, album and artist name is, presumably, fixed and unchanging - at least, I haven't heard of a language on Earth where this isn't true.

But I can't read it. However, I don't really need it to be translated - being transliterated into Latin would be sufficient, and there is software out there which will do that for the most common non-Latin based languages - for Cyrillic it's trivial and for Japanese there's Kakasi - presumably, some ready-made solution exists for Chinese.

What I would love to see is an extension that would:

1. Transliterate the actual tag stored in the library into Latin before display, and use that for sorting, searching, and all other related purposes.
2. Avoid touching the actual tag so that the name remains unambiguous and present it in the tag editor.
3. Allow me to individually toggle which languages to mess with (so that it doesn't transliterate Cyrillic as well, since that's my native one)

Is such a thing possible? It could, probably, be implemented in ways other than real time by resturcturing the library storage somewhat or adding extra custom tags.

I really, really love Songbird. It's clean, fast and the add-ons are awesome! I really want to replace iTunes and delete it forever! But, I need to be able to sync the ratings and scrobbles with my ipod. So I would like to be a priority, I know it isn't easy, but I can't wait to transfer forever!

Hey all.

I just made a tiny edit to my comment, I'm #51. I hope that someone reads all of these ideas on here and starts thinking about how to accomplish such a massive goal for this project. I wish everyone the best, and can't wait for future versions! Thank you for this project, I hope it kills iTunes DEAD! =)

-Dave

Now, I don’t know if it was fixed yet but the thing I’m requesting is that if the creators of Songbird should add a way to remove all imported songs from the library, because if you import songs from a Removable Drive like a USB flash drive or a portable media player the songs appear in the library, but if you remove the drive the songs are still there and there unreadable so you have to remove the songs one at a time or try to select them all and delete them that way, so I’m requesting away to remove all songs at ones and that’s all.

A few things I want to see so I never have to use iTunes again:
1) iPod scrobbling support
2) The ability to cache scrobbles (for when I don't have an internet connection)
3) Podcast support, CD ripping, video playback, better iPod support (but it seems that all these things are coming in the near future)

still no shuffle/repeat-shortcuts : (

The Kanye release cannot come soon enough.

CD ripping and podcast support are the only two things keeping iTunes installed on my computer.

Get the "default mediaplayer" for Windows Vista feature implemented and it will be something worth spreading the word for!

Hi, excelent work with this software, I have nice feelings about the future of it.

It would be great if the search engine would be able to search songs based not only on the song data, but also on the folders where you have your song. For example, if you have your songs on a folder called "favourite" and you tip it in the search bar, it will show the songs you have in.

When can we have a feature that will play any part of the stream on shoutcast or whatever. Currently, it is not possible to buffer several hours of stream and having the ability to play, pause, forward and backward on the recorded stream. All the media players do not have this feature except RealPlayer. In RealPlayer it's called the PerfectPlay & LivePause. It's awesome and nobody else have it. The only thing RealPlayer missing for me is Socks Proxy. edited 09:54, 26 Jun 2009

Two features that are missing, but are essential:

1) When removing songs from the library, there is no option to 'Remove from library' and 'Remove & Delete from computer'. This way we don't have to manually find the file and delete it.

2) When editing tags from the 'list' menu, you should be able to tab from column to column. For example, I want to edit the 'Title' column, so I double click, and when done want to edit the 'Artist' column. But, I have to doulbe click again...I'd like to be able to tab into the 'Artist' column from 'Title'.

Other than that, Songbird rocks. Its much faster now since the update!

PS - Also, an iTunes skin would be awesome! iBird hasn't been updated :( edited 21:05, 26 Jun 2009

Something very annoying: You can't copy songs out of Songsbird. Neither does "drag & drop" work, nor can you copy it by copy+paste. I wanted to have a library where it doesn't matter in which folders my music is. But now, if I want to copy a song out of my library, I have to rightclick on the file to open the directory it's in, and THEN I can copy it. But it's annoying if you want to copy more than one file at a time...

Would be a great feature you could imply.

You CAN PLAY VIDEO and More AUDIO FORMATS in Songbird if you
copy /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to /home/usrrname/.Songbird/plugins/ and then restart, This should be made to be default in songbird ! Tested, works on IPlayer . edited 14:18, 2 Jul 2009

If you edit the xpi of a feather(a skin) you can change the install.rdf . In it change the minimal and maximal versions to match the ones you want to use your feather on and save the xpi . This way you can reuse old feathers/skins . This should be a default in songbird, too .

I strongly reccomend Podcasting and Itunes Movie support to be moved up in the roadmap so as to make the contributor base even larger, by hooking fans to TV series download and Movie Download from apple .