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Thread: Songbird and large libraries

  1. #1
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    Songbird and large libraries

    First of all, can it handle large libraries? Will it accept music and keep it on and external hard drive? What is needed for an install/ How?

  2. #2
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    Re: Songbird and large libraries

    I haven't used it yet, so I don't know about the features you asked about. However, I am sure it will handle large libraries, external media, etc. gracefully. After all, this is 2008.

    As for installing, I found this guide that may help, though it is a bit old: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-so...in-ubuntu.html

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    Re: Songbird and large libraries

    Ok, I downloaded and installed songbird successfully. When I click on a song, it tells me I need gstreamer and such. I have tried, but I cannot install/get this to work. How do I install gstreamer? I tried through synaptic package amanager, but that didn't work.

  4. #4
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    Re: Songbird and large libraries

    why didn't it work? did you get any error messages or anything? Have you enabled the other repos, like universe and multiverse?

    Also, try taking a look at what the songbird wiki says about gstreamer plugins:

    http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/wi...ingUpGStreamer

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    Re: Songbird and large libraries

    I'm new to this. How would I do that?

  6. #6
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    Re: Songbird and large libraries

    The documentation is your friend for this kind of thing.

    https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/add-app...es-adding.html

  7. #7
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    Re: Songbird and large libraries

    It currently does not handle large libraries well. I have a 70.000+ MP3 library and Songbird is pretty much unusable as it takes forever to load the program and switch to the Library tab.
    However, they have promised that the next release will have better support for big libraries.

  8. #8
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    Re: Songbird and large libraries

    Try the blessed .6pre build. After an initial database build it works faster than anything else I've tried with my just under 20,000 library. The .5 release was a dog, not a bird.

  9. #9
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    Re: Songbird and large libraries

    I tried the latest nightly and it doesn't handle my 70.000+ library very well sadly.

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