Songbird minus all the web/browser stuff. Possible?

[kpkeerthi]

Just tried the 1.0 final release of Songbird. Overall seems pretty good. But I feel it is way heavier with all the web and browser stuff integrated with it. Is it possible (perhaps with compile-time options) turn off all the web stuffs and keep just the media player part of it.

[Polygon]

no, because then it wont be songbird. the browser is the idea behind the whole project

[Johnsie]

It would be nice. All that browser stuff is what slows down the performance of Songbird. Songbird inherits many of the performance problems that Firefox has been suffering for years. Problem is, without the web stuff Songbird wouldn't have very many features. All it would be able to do is play mp3s and maybe radio stations. There are already applications that can do those things (and also play cd's). Ubuntu really needs an advanced media player cable of organising music AND playing videos, dvds and cd's. As far as I'm aware there is no all-in-one package like that yet. Totem is the closest, but doesn't manage a music collection well.

[koffeinöverdos]

Thats probably the only thing I don't like about Songbird - it's a little heavy, but I guess it needs to be. I've gotten used to it, it's worth it.

[andras artois]

Sonybird without web browser would be great however I would hate it to be able to play video's. Thats what VLC is for.

[acelin]

Songbird is incredibley fast in Mac, but really slow in Windows and Linux.

[acelin]

I guess itunes has an integrated web browser as well...

[linuxguymarshall]

It's called Amarok

[FuturePilot]

It would be nice. All that browser stuff is what slows down the performance of Songbird. Songbird inherits many of the performance problems that Firefox has been suffering for years. Problem is, without the web stuff Songbird wouldn't have very many features. All it would be able to do is play mp3s and maybe radio stations. There are already applications that can do those things (and also play cd's). Ubuntu really needs an advanced media player cable of organising music AND playing videos, dvds and cd's. As far as I'm aware there is no all-in-one package like that yet. Totem is the closest, but doesn't manage a music collection well.

Banshee. The only thing it can't do is play DVDs.

[kpkeerthi]

I'd love to use Banshee but it's terribly unstable for me.

[bp1509]

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[icecruncher]

if you are willing to mess with the sourcecode, sure, anything is possible.
you could start your own project.
but is it worth all the work.
just keep looking for alternatives.