JohnMark.org Headquarters » songbird http://www.johnmark.org/blog Just another John Mark production Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:43:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Have an iPod? Use Windows? Get Songbird http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/12/have-an-ipod-use-windows-get-songbird/ http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/12/have-an-ipod-use-windows-get-songbird/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:16:00 +0000 admin Following up on my last article about using your iPod with Ubuntu, I decided to take a crack at what open source tools are available for those iPod owners who use Windows. As it turns out, there isn’t much. While a download of Amarok for Windows is available, good luck getting it to recognize or sync with your iPod.

But what I did find was the latest version of Songbird, and that might just be all you need. Songbird is built on the Mozilla platform and has an extensive list of community-contributed addons. The last time I checked out Songbird, it was probably still 2007, and while interesting, it didn’t strike me as particularly useful. That is, until I started using Windows. What seems rather mundane and just one of many options on Linux becomes a rock star on Windows.

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]]> http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/12/have-an-ipod-use-windows-get-songbird/feed/ 0 Have an iPod? Use Windows? Get Songbird http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/12/have-an-ipod-use-windows-get-songbird-2/ http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2009/12/have-an-ipod-use-windows-get-songbird-2/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:16:00 +0000 admin http://www.johnmark.org/blog/?guid=3e881bcaaf514451a4d583d024b74a7e Following up on my last article about using your iPod with Ubuntu, I decided to take a crack at what open source tools are available for those iPod owners who use Windows. As it turns out, there isn’t much. While a download of Amarok for Windows is available, good luck getting it to recognize or sync with your iPod.

But what I did find was the latest version of Songbird, and that might just be all you need. Songbird is built on the Mozilla platform and has an extensive list of community-contributed addons. The last time I checked out Songbird, it was probably still 2007, and while interesting, it didn’t strike me as particularly useful. That is, until I started using Windows. What seems rather mundane and just one of many options on Linux becomes a rock star on Windows.

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