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Currently Unscheduled Feature Requests

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This page tracks feature requests that have not yet been scheduled on the Songbird Roadmap.  If you have additional requests that are not listed on this page please add them in a comment below.  Thanks!

 Feature Request
 Dependency (if any)
 MTP Support on Linux

 MTP Support on Mac

 CD Ripping
gStreamer implementation win/mac
 CD Burning
gStreamer implementation win/mac
 Media Encoding (CD to MP3, etc)
gStreamer implementation win/mac
 Improved Video Support
gStreamer implementation win/mac
 BitTorrent Support

 Support for media sharing

 Built-in music store

 Amazon store integration
Ability to decrypt AMZ file format (AMZ store API's would be nice)
 Network hard drive improvements

 Reordering nodes in the service pane

 Creating folders to store playlists in the service pane

 Update the service pane to support additional media categories such as video

 Create a single OS native (aka plucked) feather

  Constrain the minimum window size under OS X

 Create a user manual and online help docs

 Gapless Audio Playback
gStreamer implementation win/mac
 Audio Cross-fading
gStreamer implementation win/mac
 Support visualizations

 USB device support on Linux and Mac

 USB sync support

 Cover-flow like media view
(available as addon)
 Watch Folders

 Configurable Sorting (Custom Collation)

 Status re-design (kill help bubble)

 Media Backup (locker service integration)

 CD Metadata auto-lookup (for album art, lyrics, media info/etc)

 Concert calendar/Ticket purchasing integration

 Plugins that support updating status in popular IM applications (Yahoo Messenger, Adium, MSN Messenger, AOL, etc)

 Lan sharing (UPnP, DAAP support)

 Media management and consolidation

 Social sharing integration (APIs, web-based applications and widgets for posting to popular sites)

 Unpack and import downloaded ZIP archives

 Printable cover art functionality

 10-foot feather so Songbird can be used on a TV, etc

 Add-on manager redesign

 Browser history

 Playback history

 Preferences redesign

 Duplicate file detection

 Winamp skin to Songbird feather converter

 Ability to export playlists

 Queue / Now Playing / Party Shuffle

 Updated Hotkeys & Shortcuts

 Improved Birdhouse

support for creative products on Mac
support of the Mac remote control
support importing multiple playlists from a folder, not just single playlists one by one

add filename to the list of categories displayed in the library/playlists

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i see there is "Support for media sharing" does that mean you can access other peoples itunes shared music and maybe even copy them over to your songbird
Posted 23:57, 27 Sep 2008
Hey Songbird, do you plan to integrate a feature which is saving date & time of each playcount? for example i would love to use this for creating smart playlists, i.e. "most played songs three weeks ago". not total playcount but playcount in that timeframe.
Posted 05:08, 29 Sep 2008
If you guys would integrate support for ASIO or at least true MME on the Windows platform Songbird would likely convert a lot of professional users. Right now Foobar is the only player on Windows that has great sound, nice features and good ASIO support. CoreAudio on Mac is not a issue, but on Windows, most players have been forcing us to do the aural equivalent to "selling our children" just to use our quality converters through DirectSound/Kernel. edited 21:22, 1 Oct 2008
Posted 21:20, 1 Oct 2008
it would be rockin if you could make dynamic local playlists like exaile has where it will play similar songs to the one you initially play. That way you could click on one song and it will go through your library and play similar songs. Thanks
Posted 12:48, 5 Oct 2008
Visualizer?
Posted 20:43, 13 Oct 2008
I've been using Songbird since the very early days. Recently I've upgraded my home entertainment set up. I am still under the thumb of Windows Media Player because this seems to be the only [easy] solution to streaming media to my Playstation 3, in the other room. I would be amazed if Songbird could effectively provide a "Media Server" solution to interface with the PS3 [and xbox, i guess.. ugh] so that I could play mp3 and .avi files... Perhaps a lot to ask, but surely there are others in my situation. Thanks for listening!
Posted 12:35, 14 Oct 2008
i have my computer set up in my bedroom so it would be great if i could use songbird as an alarm clock (to wake up with my music)
Posted 13:45, 5 Nov 2008
I normaly use the search library Function to narrow down the list of albums and artists to the one I am searching. When I have found it, I click on the Album/Artist to see their Media Library entries. However, if I delete the string I entered into the Search Library Field now, my selection gets resetet as well. I would prefer the Media Library to keep the selected Genre/Artist/Album, even if I reset the search string.
Posted 07:05, 11 Nov 2008
I see DAAP and LAN sharing as one of the more important feature requests that must be implemented as soon as possible. Too long have we been dependent on iTunes for organizing and sharing music. Besides, iTunes for Windows is very bad, because half the time, DAAP sharing on iTunes doesn't work (maybe it's Windows Vista that's not working) I recommend the developers take a look at the small open-sourced program OurTunes (saveourtunes.com) to see if their DAAP access library can be integrated into SongBird.
Posted 20:11, 15 Nov 2008
It would be great to add support for multiple genres.
Posted 01:51, 19 Nov 2008
I'd love to have some sort of relative volume control so Songbird would remember which tracks in my library I want louder. If I adjust my overall volume so it's right for Nirvana, a quiet Bach piece disappears, and if I turn it up to hear the Bach, the next rock song blasts me out of my chair.
Posted 23:18, 21 Nov 2008
Thx for this great product. What I'm still missing is a feature for renaming audio files/folders according to the file tags to keep your library together. also would be nice if you could specify a media folder, like in itunes, where files are organized automatically.
Posted 10:01, 24 Nov 2008
I'd like to suggest four things. 1) Support for "out of tracks" like iTunes and Winamp has (10 of 18, etc.) in the filter pane. 2) Additional metadata support that iTunes has. 3) Ability to sort song titles/artist/album artist/album/etc like iTunes does, thus allowing for multiple artists in an album (e.g. box sets). 4)Option to ignore the "The" portion of artists and sort them accordingly (e.g. The Eagles would be treated as Eagles and sorted in the E section). edited 11:44, 1 Dec 2008
Posted 11:43, 1 Dec 2008
I'd love to see support for airport/airport express for Mac users. I don't know how easy this would be, but that's the primary thing that's keeping me from switching to the new player.
Posted 12:42, 2 Dec 2008
The one thing making me use firefox instead of this is: There's no bookmark tool bar! It wouldn't kill to put one in, would it?
Posted 14:43, 2 Dec 2008
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