Currently Unscheduled Feature Requests

Songbird needs to completely abandon the web browser and if a user wants to look for a songbird add-on then he/she should open the add-ons dialog and search from there like Firefox. But i would like to see information about the artist of the current playing song on Songbird like Winamp does. Other then this there is no point of a browser since we all know Firefox is for browsing and Songbird is for Music. And anyway Firefox created Songbird in the 1st place, right?

Also ipod touch and iphone support. C'mon Songbird, get with the crowd!

It would be good, if it is possible to allow multiple entries into a single meta-data category

for example:
to have multiple genres linked to one file. (like #28 requested)
to allow things like multiple albums stored for one file
to allow multiple artists to accommodate situations such as artist1 ft. artist2

Can't wait for proper podcast support, USB device support on Mac, metadata lookup, and CD rip/burn!

I hope, though am skeptical, that folks working on development actually read these comments, I'll hope. I haven't thoroughly cross-checked my request--mostly because I don't know how.

I will begin at an end-user experience level and work backwards.

What I would like is to be able to control hypemachine (pandora? grooveshark?) through the play/pause interface of songbird.

[Why? There are lots of reasons to want to have songbird "think" that it is playing a track. It might show the track information somewhere nice, for instance. There are lots of reasons to want to be able to control track skipping etc with the songbird controls. It would allow, for instance, skipping tracks from within the mini-player (though now it is _impossible_ to play tracks from hypemachine while not in main player (songbird closes all web windows, I'm guessing).]

At a very "high level", two things occur to me: (1) not requiring support from these webpages and decomposing the user interface to a sufficient extent; (2) requiring support from these webpages and having a nice "behind-the-scenes" data-exchange interface.

Has this been suggested before? What do folks think about this?

I use 5.1 speakers. I love the Channel Mixer plugin for Foobar on Windows which can upmix stereo files to play on all 5 speakers + bass.
On Mac unfortunately, only MPlayer Extended has this functionality, but the software itself isn't as feature packed as Songbird.

It'd be nice if Songbird could have the option to upmix audio so that stereo MP3 files could be played on 5.1/7.1 speakers which are now starting to become common.

I think this wouldn't only help with audio playback, but would be nice for the upcoming video features of Songbird - to watch a stereo video file with emulated surround sound edited 07:32, 17 Apr 2009

hi, a few ideas here:
jump back/forward 5 sec (+global hotkeys)
rename files using metadata
hide from taskbar on mini-mode
equalizer

[Moved this from the roadmap]
Another "idea" (euphemism for request): it would be great if it was possible to detach and rearrange panes around, rather than just show/hide them within a fixed structure. Keep up the good work!

Guys! Please listen to me, i know it's going to be a long and hard progress but it'll be worth it, add Ipod touch and Iphone support! If you want your software to go mainstream then these are you main priorities. Atleast tell us if you are ever going to add ipod touch and iphone support!

I would really like to be able to auto update smart playlists that are limited and selected by random. This is a key part of the way that I like to listen to music- by creating smart playlists that are based on last added, last played, rating, and that are in other playlists that tag them by genre. See this tutorial: http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2005/08/itunes_smart_playlists/, I did this in iTunes and it was cool - made a "musicbot" that played awesome auto-updating mixes.

I would like to be able to jump to the currently-playing track

Now, don’t get angry cause I know that this maybe a stupid request because your using GStreamer as the main playback engine and it can already play multiple audio\video formats cause I already read about a media player that can play multiple formats using GStreamer called Totem, the Movie Player for Linux at Wikipedia, but its only an idea but the thing is that I thought that because MPlayer can already play multiple audio\video formats right off the bat, I thought that this would make a nice (Optional) feature were you just place MPlayer near the Songbird.exe is in order for Songbird to detect it, or place MPlayer inside a MPlayer folder then put the MPlayer folder inside the Songbird folder and get Songbird to detect the MPlayer folder with MPlayer inside so you can use it that way, it will be nice if Songbird can be like other media player frontends for MPlayer. Now, I know what I said but I’m not saying that I won’t use Songbird I’m just asking if MPlayer can be added as an interesting feature, that’s all, and I’m not sure and I hope I’m wrong, but I think that GStreamer just like MPlayer can’t play everything so it be good to have MPlayer to back GStreamer up with media playback. And that’s all thanks for noticing.

Feature request

== PIN SAME SONGS TOGETHER ==

Add ability to pin songs together (same song - many files). For users with laptops it would be very cool if they could keep flac on external HDD and mp3 on local disk. If we could pin these files togher, songbird could automatically choose chose what version to play - if hdd is avaliable - play lets say flac, if no -play mp3 :)

Same could be for music videos, if i play song and have music video, show it (atleast as visualizatio)n ;)

Improvements to the add-ons/scripting interface should be a high priority (maybe after improved performance). The public interfaces don't allow for easy searching, creation of normal widgets, etc. You'd get more and better add-ons with a focus on providing add-on developers the best possible tools to do whatever they want with the data in the songbird database.

Been using 1.2 build 1146 for a couple of days now. Here's my gripe list.

- Double-clicking a playlist in the sidebar should start it playing, not rename it as is the default just now. Or there should at least be a Preferences option for this.

- Please, please give us folders in the Playlist section of the sidebar.

- Better implementation for 'bookmarking' netradio stations not featured in Shoutcast. I think the choices just now are to Bookmark the page or save the Playlist. A 'Favourite Radio Stations' section of the sidebar which supports non-Shoutcast stations would be ideal. At the very least, stations found through the Shoutcast site should be able to be dragged into the Favourite Stations thingy.

- Users should be able to enter their own genre, or at least choose All Genres in the integrated Shoutcast search drop-down. I can't find any dubstep stations through Songbird, but plenty on the Shoutcast site.

- It should be a helluva lot easier for non-coder joes like me to make feature requests.