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Due to high request, here is the .deb file for the Songbird 1.0.0 (Final) release.

All you have to do is download the .deb file, install it, and the Songbird icon will be placed in your Applications menu under Sound & Video. Alternatively you can open a run application dialog and type in songbird which will also start the program.

Downloads

32Bit (Tested to work with Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.10)

Songbird 1.0.0 Linux Installer Download Link #1 (MediaFire.com)

Songbird 1.0.0 Linux Installer Download Link #2 (FileFactory.com)

Songbird 1.0.0 Linux Installer Download Link #3 (FASTEST DOWNLOAD: PROVIDED BY DANI’S BLOG)

64-Bit

Songbird 1.0.0 Linux Installer Download Link #1 (MediaFire.com)

Songbird 1.0.0 Linux Installer Download Link #2 (FileFactory.com)

Some New Features Include:

GStreamer
We now use GStreamer as our main media playback system, across all platforms – giving us higher performance, better reliability, and a platform for much more media-related functionality in the future.

Improved mashTape
When you listen to music in Songbird you’ll have the option to see Flickr photos, YouTube videos, last.fm biographies, google news (and more) for the currently playing artist. mashTape has been completely re-written from the ground up to be more extensible and flexible than ever.

Improved Album Art Support
The album artwork feature now supports drag and drop of images, as well as, toggling between Now Playing and Currently Selected tracks.

Complete Keyboard Shortcuts
We’ve cleaned up our Keyboard Shortcuts this release (and added some new ones for power users). Look for the link to a complete list of Keyboard Shortcuts in the applications Help menu.

Updated Linux Installer
We’ve created a single archive that has all the necessary dependencies so that Linux users can run Songbird without having to install any additional dependencies.

Re-usable Smart Playlists
By popular request we’ve implemented the ability to use a smart playlist as a rule within another smart playlist.

Reveal Original Files
We’ve added the ability to expose the media items in Songbird as files in your filesystem by right clicking and choosing “Show File”.

Recommended Add-ons Updater
A new update mechanism ensures that all upgraded users have an option to install the latest Recommended Add-ons. You can turn this feature on/off in the Preferences.

Hide & Show Display Panes
We were inspired by Atrieu’s Pane Button add-on and decided to add a few buttons to allow you to toggle between showing & hiding Display panes.

Simpler Column Headings
We’ve refined the column heading property list and made it easier to enable the properties you care about. Just right click on any column heading in a library or playlist to give it a try.

Please contact me via email at Erich.Wilhelm@Gmail.com or in the comment box with any questions, comments, or feedback. Thanks to everyone for all of your interest and support.

THIS .DEB FILE IS NOW OBSOLETE, PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE SONGBIRD 1 FINAL INSTALLER HERE.

As my friend Giovanni, and a few other users pointed out, the last .deb file that I had created for the Songbird 1 RC3 release did not work properly in multiple-user environments, in that it only worked properly for the person who installed the deb.

With much help from Giovanni, I have corrected the problem and rebuilt the .deb to work in multiple-user environments. So please, if you have more than 1 account on your PC, and others want access to Songbird, please uninstall the old Songbird .deb and install this new one in its place.

Songbird 1 RC3-Fix Linux Installer Download Link #1 (MediaFire.com)

Songbird 1 RC3-Fix Linux Installer Download Link #2 (FileFactory.com)

As always please contact me via email at Erich.Wilhelm@Gmail.com or in the comment box with any questions, comments, or feedback.

THIS .DEB FILE IS NOW OBSOLETE, PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE SONGBIRD 1 FINAL INSTALLER HERE.

In keeping up with the Songbird developers, here is the Debian file for the Songbird 1 RC3 release.

Release Notes for Songbird 1 RC3 include:

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Improved Audio/Playback Functionality

• We now use GStreamer as our main media playback system, across all platforms – giving us higher performance, better reliability, and a platform for much more media-related functionality in the future.
• Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA on Windows; and AAC on Windows and Mac.

UI Experience Improvements
User experience improvements include these significant visual and functional changes:

• Many new keyboard shortcuts added.  The list of those supported per platform can be viewed via “Keyboard Shortcuts” selection in the Help menu.
• We’ve refined the column heading property list and made it easier to enable the properties you care about. Just right click on any column heading in a library or playlist to give it a try.
• “Show File” now available for any selected track via File menu or right click on track contextual menu.  This provides an easy way to find the media file location on your filesystem.
• Smart Playlists can now be used as rules within other Smart Playlists.
• Ability to show/hide display panes via individual buttons for service pane, bottom and right sidebar display panes

Performance Improvements
This release provides improved performance:

• Faster Media Importing
• Drastically Faster Search
• Reduced Startup Times
• Snappier Sorting
• Efficient Scrolling of Large Libraries
• Reduced Memory Usage (When importing and using large libraries)

And much more. Read the full list of Songbird release notes here.

Songbird 1 RC3 Linux Installer Download Link #1 (MediaFire.com)

Songbird 1 RC3 Linux Installer Download Link #2 (FileFactory.com)

Just as before, the Songbird icon will be placed in your Applications menu under Sound & Video.

If you installed either of my last .deb packages for Songbird, uninstall them by opening Synaptic or Adept, clicking search, and typing in “songbird”, then check mark for removal, and apply changes.

Please contact me via email at Erich.Wilhelm@Gmail.com or in the comment box with any questions, comments, or feedback.

THIS .DEB FILE IS NOW OBSOLETE, PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE SONGBIRD 1 FINAL INSTALLER HERE.

Just released, Songbird 1 RC2 .deb fresh off the terminal.

The new release candidate includes these features:

• Importing iTunes libraries will no longer trigger a hang.
• Using the the Windows Media Playback and QuickTime Playback add-ons we’ve brought back the ability to play pre-authorized DRM media: WMA DRM on Windows; Fairplay on Windows and Mac.
• mashTape has been updated and will no longer invoke Flash player security warnings.
• We’ve adjusted the buffer size for streaming media but we’re still working on the final setting. If you think it’s too high you can adjust it by following these steps.
• Video support has been temporarily removed from the application. Our move to GStreamer introduced some new video related bugs that couldn’t be addressed in time for this release. Since video has been an unsupported feature we decided that this was the prudent thing to do for now. You can absolutely count on us re-introducing video support in a future release down the road!
• When viewing Album art at fullsize you can now easily close the window.
• When clicking on a track in the library invoking inline editing of metadata is now less likely to appear when you weren’t looking for it.
• We resolved a number of bugs that could crash the application (thanks for always submitting your crash reports. Your anonymous data really helps us track down issues!)

Songbird 1 RC2 Linux Installer Download Link #1 (MediaFire.com)

Songbird 1 RC2 Linux Installer Download Link #2 (FileFactory.com)

And as before, the Songbird icon will be placed in your Applications menu under Sound & Video.

If you installed my last .deb package for Songbird, uninstall it by opening Synaptic or Adept, clicking search, and typing in “songbird”, then check mark for removal, and apply changes.

Again, please contact me via email at Erich.Wilhelm@Gmail.com or in the comment box with any questions, comments, or feedback. Enjoy.

THIS .DEB FILE IS NOW OBSOLETE, PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE SONGBIRD 1 FINAL INSTALLER HERE.

I was sitting around tonight not doing much of anything and I came across the download for Songbird 1 RC1, I was surprised to see you still have to manually install the files. So for those of you who want to give it a try, I made a quick .deb file for Linux i686 systems.

Please note this is only tested on a Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron machine, so whether or not it works on other Debian based systems is unknown, though it should.

Songbird 1 RC1 Linux Installer Download Link #1 (MediaFire.com)

Songbird 1 RC1 Linux Installer Download Link #2 (FileDropper.com)

All you have to do is download the .deb file, install it, and the Songbird icon will be placed in your Applications menu under Sound & Video. Alternatively you can open a run application dialog and type in songbird which will also start the program.

To uninstall, open Synaptic or Adept, click search, and type in “songbird”, check mark for removal, and then apply changes.

Please contact me via email at Erich.Wilhelm@Gmail.com or in the comment box with any questions, comments, or feedback. Cheers.

The original downloads for Songbird can be found here. And I do plan on making an installer for the official 1.0 release of Songbird so check back when 1.0 is available.