Two simple Qs... and confused..

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Two simple Qs... and confused..

Submitted by saoir5000 on Sun, 05/11/2008 - 9:41am.

Hi all [iMac] - discovered Songbird last week and would love to support this project.

However I have a couple of problems. Firstly I visited the Preferences and although extensive they almost all appear to be about 'browsing', tabs, web site blocking, pop-ups, fonts, history and cookies etc ... which I would expect to see in Firefox but this is a Media Player .. where are the preferences for playing music ?

I want to play a song that I double click on and stop. But Songbird keeps playing whatever is next in the Library listing. Am I missing something or is there an option somewhere to get it to stop after playing the one track I chose ? I also downloaded and installed the AlbumApplet addon but despite installing it and cho0sing it in the 'View' menu ... I see nothing ..

Also how do I search the forums so that I don't waste everyone's (including my own) time if this has already been dealt with ?

All the best,

Saoir

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ChodaBoy Says: Sun, 05/11/2008 - 12:50pm

Not sure about playing a song only once unless you deal with playlists, etc, which doesn't seem like what you want to do...

As for the album applet: if you click view/album applet, a pane should appear above the tracks list with album covers. It doesn't work very well for me though. Very slow, I uninstalled it. Maybe my library is too big, not sure...

saoir5000 Says: Mon, 05/12/2008 - 7:41am

Thanks ChodaBoy... appreciate the help. I will try the applet again and leave it for five minutes to see what happens.

On the subject of playing just one song... is that not a strange problem ? I mean I want to sit and play one song ...and then maybe chose another when it's finished. Is this an unusual thing to want to do ?

jkoshi Says: Mon, 05/12/2008 - 11:14am

saoir5k, Unfortunately the album applet requires java 1.6, and java 1.6 on mac is 64-bit only, whereas songbird & firefox are built 32-bit. Since that add-on is community contributed the best we can do is ask nicely for something that works on the mac.

As for your play a single song and not another, that's the first time I've heard of that, but everyone has their own listening habits. I'd suggest you create a playlist and throw the song in there and play the playlist to achieve this type of behavior. You can also file a feature suggestion and we'll see what we can do. If we get enough of you who clamor for this, odds are we'll put it on the to do list.

saoir5000 Says: Thu, 05/15/2008 - 1:01pm

Ahhh... I understand.. so I shouldn't have expected it to work on my iMac...

No one wants to play a single song ? wow.. I never thought that would be a niche requirement ;)

TYhanks for all the help guys !

Saoir

jkoshi Says: Thu, 05/15/2008 - 5:04pm

Np :)