For those about to rock: Songbird is an Open Source iTunes alternative which aims to be interoperable between Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
When I checked out Songbird 1.1 a few weeks ago I was quite astonished in the first place. It comes with a nice and shiny interface, it’s fast and quite stable as well and, of course, there’re various web-services like Shoutcast or Last.fm integrated. The only thing that Songbird 1.1 really lacked off was the non-existing equalizer, which is indispensable in my opinion. Therefore, I switched back to Amarok 1.4 on my Ubuntu desktop (Gnome) and to audacious on my Gentoo desktop (wmii).
Yesterday Songbird 1.2 has been released and besides a lot of other improvements… hell yes, it now has an equalizer onboard which works well at least for my sense of hearing.
To get it running under Ubuntu simply download the tar.gz from the Songbird website, extract it and remove two libvisual plugins that otherwise prevent Songbird from starting up.
user@host: ~ $ sudo aptitude remove libvisual-0.4-plugins libvisual-projectm
If you haven’t checked it out yet, give it a go!
Thank you so much for getting my Songbird up and running!