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The early songbird eats the file structure!

Shepherd — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:42:10 -0800

Songbird has completely destroyed my media file structures. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Windows XP SP3, 4.0GHz processor, 1GB ram, if it's relevant.

Pre-Songbird, I had a very nice, orderly directory called MP3, that contained all of my MP3, arranged thusly:

Artist/Album/Tracks

I decided to try Songbird, as it was working out well on my Mac at work, and it's completely destroyed the folder's order.

It seems to have spontaneously rewritten the whole thing as Whatever/Whatever/Some Tracks.

For instance, where I used to have

Gary Numan/Greatest Hits/Tracks 1-13

I now have

Gary Numan/Greatest Hits/Tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13
Gary Numan/Greatest Hits/Tracks 4, 5, 7, 9, 12

Where I used to have

Various Artists/Wipeout XL Soundtrack/Tracks 1-13

I now have 13 separate folders by 13 separate artists, some duplicates, with individual tracks scattered all over the damn place.

I want to fix this, but with about 120 GB of music completely scattered to the four winds, I don't know how. Songbird, to add insult to injury, absolutely refuses to work on my system, throws up error messages, and won't play music at the best of times, so sticking with it is not an option.

All I want is my tidy file structure back, then to apologize to Foobar and never stray again. Help!

I want to help the Fox and the Bird

photomusic86 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:19:17 -0800

What do i need to learn to make add-ons of my own for Firefox and/or Songbird? I'm interested in using my computer skills to improve my favorite open source programs. Unfortunately, I don't know a damn thing about coding, programing, writing lines, terminal, etc. I need to know, where's a good place to start?
I run a Mac OSX 10.5 on an early 2008 MacBook Pro, if you have something system specific. Thanks Hive!

I just installed Ubuntu, now how do I install programs?

chuckforthought.com — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:48:04 -0800

I just installed Ubuntu, now how do I install programs? Right now im trying to install songbird, and I extracted it, but I don't see any notes about installing.