On the Mac, it's set so that left-and-right scrolling becomes up-and-down scrolling. That's ugly, because I often scroll top-right to down-bottom, and Songbird stutters something ugly when I do that.
The display controls are unintuitive. It took be a while to figure out how to control the browser.
The controls don't sync to my Play button. iTunes starts up. Yech.
I don't know how I'd test its speed compared to iTunes. But if I close it, the music stops. It doesn't know to make itself a background process. Yech.
It shows my movies and TV shows as songs. It doesn't know enough even to ignore it.
I do like how they made their interface deliberately un-Maclike, unlike Firefox, which tries and fails horribly. But I don't like that they ignore Mac shortcut schemes.
Yeah. And I always give negative feedback. I complain about things about iTunes, too.
When people are looking to see if they will want a piece of software, the best indicator of if you'll want it is whether or not you can stand the negatives. And HN's a big enough place where I think the developers might look at this post, and fix those problems. I'd love to have a viable iTunes competitor.
I THINK you can, but I've always avoided it. I'm not a fan of non-native ports of software.
Not to mention: I really do like iTunes day-to-day. I hate adding album art to it (you can't drag images onto albums in album mode), but on the Mac it's quick and very responsive, and it's got excellent search.
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Why do they call themes feathers? Yech.
On the Mac, it's set so that left-and-right scrolling becomes up-and-down scrolling. That's ugly, because I often scroll top-right to down-bottom, and Songbird stutters something ugly when I do that.
The display controls are unintuitive. It took be a while to figure out how to control the browser.
The controls don't sync to my Play button. iTunes starts up. Yech.
I don't know how I'd test its speed compared to iTunes. But if I close it, the music stops. It doesn't know to make itself a background process. Yech.
It shows my movies and TV shows as songs. It doesn't know enough even to ignore it.
I do like how they made their interface deliberately un-Maclike, unlike Firefox, which tries and fails horribly. But I don't like that they ignore Mac shortcut schemes.
All software has problems.
Yeah. And I always give negative feedback. I complain about things about iTunes, too.
When people are looking to see if they will want a piece of software, the best indicator of if you'll want it is whether or not you can stand the negatives. And HN's a big enough place where I think the developers might look at this post, and fix those problems. I'd love to have a viable iTunes competitor.
foobar2000 has been eating iTunes' lunch for 6 years.
No Mac version, sadly.
Can you use Wine on a Mac?
I THINK you can, but I've always avoided it. I'm not a fan of non-native ports of software.
Not to mention: I really do like iTunes day-to-day. I hate adding album art to it (you can't drag images onto albums in album mode), but on the Mac it's quick and very responsive, and it's got excellent search.
Yes. http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX
And it's quite helpful to know about those in advance. Thanks, unalone.
you could, of course, just file some bug reports..
I will, actually. That's a good idea, thanks!
EDIT: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/_feathers_ick, http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/controls_for_layo..., http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/work_better_with_..., http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/make_songbird_a_b...