HOWTO: Songbird

[plb]

Really simple guys........

Download this
http://developer.songbirdnest.com/ni...ux-i686.tar.gz

tar -xfzv Songbird*

run songbird from the directory e.g. ./Songbird or add the path to your menu via alacarte

[coastdweller]

Really simple guys........

Download this
http://developer.songbirdnest.com/ni...ux-i686.tar.gz

tar -xfzv Songbird*

run songbird from the directory e.g. ./Songbird or add the path to your menu via alacarte

Thank you for the submission!

I was able to easily try this out.

I'm still working on my sound problems but its cool to know there is a Itunes-like categloger for music and its easy to use.

Thanks again.

[gils0040]

crashes every few seconds for me....looks great though, i cant wait for it to go stable

[RSX311]

yeah crashes randomly for me too, but it looks awesome, can't wait for a stable release to come out

[mrgnash]

I tried Songbird on Klik, because I thought it would be difficult to install. But this version crashes far less often Looks very promising so far!

[handband2]

First I would like to thank ArsGeek for making this so easy to install!!!

Songbird is a great way to have all your media and web media in one place. Check out the site Songbird.

Now lets intall it:

You can go here to download the file:
http://www.songbirdnest.com/download...orm=linux-i686

Click here to download Songbird!

Go to where you downloaded the file and untar it:

tar zxvf ~/Desktop/Song*.tar.gz

Rename the file:

cd ~/Desktop

mv Songbird_20061003 Songbird

Move Songbird where you would like to have it. I put it into /opt:

sudo cp -Rv ~/Desktop/Songbird /opt

Lets make sure we have use of this folder:

sudo chown -Rv username:username /opt/Songbird/

Time to run Songbird:

/opt/Songbird/Songbird

Add and icon. You can download it by clicking here:
Songbird Icon - The Default icon is /Songbird/chrome/icons/default/default.xpm

More icons here:
http://www.songbirdnest.com/getsongbird

Move icon:

sudo cp ~/Desktop/sb.png /usr/share/pixmaps

Adding it to the Application Menu:

• Right click on Applications

• Select Edit Menus

• In Alacarte Menu Editor - Goto Sound & Video

• Click on File -> New Entry

• Entry Editor
  
  • Name: Songbird
  • Comment: Songbird
  • Command: /opt/Songbird/Songbird

• Click on No Icon
  
  • Goto /usr/share/pixmaps/sb.png
  
  
  • Click OK

Now run it:

Applications -> Sound & Video -> Songbird



I would like to say thanks again to ArsGeek. If any of you have a chance check out the other Ubuntu Posts. There is a lot of good stuff there!

[franestepona]

Nice How-to! Works great, but I have a problem though... How to play last.fm stream? When I click in a radio it says: last.fm is not a registered protocol.

Thanks!

[geovino]

I downloaded the file and it installed a folder in some archiver but is doesn't tell you what program it is. Where do i go from there? It looks like it is already extracted. So I don't know if your instructions will work.

[handband2]

Nice How-to! Works great, but I have a problem though... How to play last.fm stream? When I click in a radio it says: last.fm is not a registered protocol.

Thanks!

I'm glad it worked.

For last.fm you have to make sure last.fm player is installed. reda_ea has a good howto for the last.fm player:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=213185

To install last.fm player:

sudo apt-get install libgconf2-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libgdk-pixbuf-dev libgtk2.0-dev libmono-dev  libgnome2.0-cil mono-mcs mono-gac

or

• Open Synaptic Package Manager

• Install these packages
  
  • libgconf2-dev
  
  
  • libgstreamer0.10-dev
  
  
  • libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
  
  
  • libgdk-pixbuf-dev
  
  
  • libgtk2.0-dev
  
  
  • libmono-dev
  
  
  • libgnome2.0-cil
  
  
  • mono-mcs
  
  
  • mono-gac

Download the file:
last-exit_2.0-1ubuntu2_i386.deb.tar.bz2
Untar or Extract the file:

cd Desktop
tar -xjvf last-exit_2.0-1ubuntu2_i386.deb.tar.bz2

or

• Right Click on last-exit_2.0-1ubuntu2_i386.deb.tar.bz2

• Goto - Extract Here

Intall last.fm player:

dpkg -i last-exit_2.0-1ubuntu2_i386.deb

or

• Click on last-exit_2.0-1ubuntu2_i386.deb

• Click on Install Package

I hope this helps.

[handband2]

I downloaded the file and it installed a folder in some archiver but is doesn't tell you what program it is. Where do i go from there? It looks like it is already extracted. So I don't know if your instructions will work.

geovino,
Try downloading it from here:
http://www.songbirdnest.com/download

Make sure you have the Songbird*.tar.gz file downloaded