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Songbird for Ubuntu Respository

Asked by Paul Swanson

The open source music player project "Songbird" has released its first major version. While the project openly admits that there is much further to go with the project, the Songbird music player does seems to have reached a level of development where I am wondering why it has not already been included somewhere in the official Ubuntu repositories.

http://getsongbird.com/download/

Also, the Songbird project fills a niche as a cross platform MUSIC player (as opposed to the all purpose VLC / MPlayer style applications). As a person who uses Ubuntu 8.10 at home, Windows XP at work and Mac OS X occasionally, I would be keen to have a music player the stays consistent across all platforms, as I currently do with Firefox, Thunderbird and so on.

What can be done about getting this worthy little music player into the appropriate Ubuntu repository?

So, if you have any thoughts on this please reply...

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Best Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder) said : 		#1

There are apparently some legal (there's a patent involved) and technical (Songbird doesn't work well with Ubuntu's version of xulrunner) issues with Songbird which are being worked on, but still prevent it from being distributed with Ubuntu (or with Debian, for that matter.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software)#Legal_issues

If you want to add yourself to the notification list for bug 94494, you can keep an eye on what's being done to get Songbird into Ubuntu.

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Paul Swanson (paul-swanson) said : 		#2

Thanks Adam Buchbinder, that solved my question.