Comments on: Review – Songbird 0.2 “Test Flight” http://mark.dreamtime.org/blog/2006/09/songbird-02-test-flight/ climbs rocks. moves mountains Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:23:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark Beveridge » How I Listen To Music http://mark.dreamtime.org/blog/2006/09/songbird-02-test-flight/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Mark Beveridge » How I Listen To Music Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:53:38 +0000 http://mark.dreamtime.org/blog/2006/09/songbird-02-%e2%80%9ctest-flight%e2%80%9d/#comment-20 [...] I buy new music I hear on the radio (or Pandora), or recommended by Amazon and blog articles. I hear unsigned bands on podcasts (Odeo : an aggregator) and may visit their MySpace pages, but rarely go to concerts. I ’subscribe’ to some podcasts with Songbird (as I said), so that the files are saved to my server (and played with SlimServer), but don’t keep them. I don’t buy downloaded music, as it tends to use lossy codecs at low data rates (vs. CD’s) …and DRM [**]!. AllOfMP3.com is an exception, but I haven’t used it. [...] [...] I buy new music I hear on the radio (or Pandora), or recommended by Amazon and blog articles. I hear unsigned bands on podcasts (Odeo : an aggregator) and may visit their MySpace pages, but rarely go to concerts. I ’subscribe’ to some podcasts with Songbird (as I said), so that the files are saved to my server (and played with SlimServer), but don’t keep them. I don’t buy downloaded music, as it tends to use lossy codecs at low data rates (vs. CD’s) …and DRM [**]!. AllOfMP3.com is an exception, but I haven’t used it. [...]

]]> By: mark http://mark.dreamtime.org/blog/2006/09/songbird-02-test-flight/comment-page-1/#comment-6 mark Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:15:28 +0000 http://mark.dreamtime.org/blog/2006/09/songbird-02-%e2%80%9ctest-flight%e2%80%9d/#comment-6 That's certainly an attractive feature. If I can specify download location (eg. to always-on server, with lots of space, so that networked music players can always access it ...rather than to space-poor laptop, which currently has Songbird) then it's just what I'm after Otherwise, I guess I could put Songbird on my server as well. I'd have to access it remotely from my laptop to make changes, but I assume that anything downloaded would be available in a 'library' to my laptop Songbird and my networked players ...? <em><strong>Update</strong>: I can specify url, automatic update (frequency, but not time of day) and destination folder (eg. on my server) ...ref: para 1</em> <em>However, Songbird must be running for the downloads to take place. So in my case, I'll need to subscribe from a version on my server ...ref: para 2</em> That’s certainly an attractive feature. If I can specify download location (eg. to always-on server, with lots of space, so that networked music players can always access it …rather than to space-poor laptop, which currently has Songbird) then it’s just what I’m after

Otherwise, I guess I could put Songbird on my server as well. I’d have to access it remotely from my laptop to make changes, but I assume that anything downloaded would be available in a ‘library’ to my laptop Songbird and my networked players …?

Update: I can specify url, automatic update (frequency, but not time of day) and destination folder (eg. on my server) …ref: para 1

However, Songbird must be running for the downloads to take place. So in my case, I’ll need to subscribe from a version on my server …ref: para 2

]]> By: mig http://mark.dreamtime.org/blog/2006/09/songbird-02-test-flight/comment-page-1/#comment-5 mig Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:24:13 +0000 http://mark.dreamtime.org/blog/2006/09/songbird-02-%e2%80%9ctest-flight%e2%80%9d/#comment-5 Hmmm, "podcast"-wise, our major innovation at the moment is to simply treat any HTML page as a playlist format and allow any http:// based playlist format to be "subscribed" and autodownloaded like a podcast. So, in this way, we easily support peoples' podcasts but we also allow you to automatically pull media from people when they update their weblogs even if they don't bother publishing in rss. mig Hmmm, “podcast”-wise, our major innovation at the moment is to simply treat any HTML page as a playlist format and allow any http:// based playlist format to be “subscribed” and autodownloaded like a podcast.

So, in this way, we easily support peoples’ podcasts but we also allow you to automatically pull media from people when they update their weblogs even if they don’t bother publishing in rss.

mig

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