Comments on: Install Songbird Music Player in Ubuntu

By: Chrisse

Chrisse — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:51:26 +0000

Great work! Even i managed toinstall it Thanks a lot!

By: sam

sam — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:05:48 +0000

hi, i have a little problem with my songbird, i have it on ubuntu 9.10. the problem is that it doesn’t show the lyrics anymore, and i don’t know why. I tried re-installing LyricsMaster but nothing happened, it only shows the link to lyricsvip.com, I’d appreciate if somebody could help me out to fix this problem.

By: Kiran

Kiran — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:10:18 +0000

Thanks a lot dude.. Worked liked a charm.

By: suriyah

suriyah — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:09:01 +0000

Thaks a lot……for your advice
Ana…. is very easy install sonbird

By: stevjosco

stevjosco — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:05:52 +0000

Thank you. I’ve now got Songbird working with Ubuntu Remix 10.04 on my HP Mini 110.

By: David Thomas

David Thomas — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:05:15 +0000

For KDE, right-click the “K” button to access the “Menu Editor”

By: Yassine

Yassine — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:15:21 +0000

thankx Ana, counld’t get it to work without your help!

By: Zach

Zach — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:24:14 +0000

Thanks, Ana. Couldn’t get it working without your help.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:33:25 +0000

Thanks to the post. Works like charm.
I was struggling to find a good music player on Ubuntu. Was struggling with getting Winamp to work with the Wine.

Till i found Songbird, its the best out there. Now, I can kiss Winamp goodbye.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:13:03 +0000

Holy crap! What took me so long to discover Songbird!? I’ve been using Rhythmbox and Amarok for a while now but OMG the features of Songbird are lightyears ahead of the other apps I’ve used.

Thanks for this post and a big thanks to Ana! I was dreading having to go through all those steps

Cheers!

By: Sloma

Sloma — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:27:09 +0000

*** glibc detected *** ././songbird-bin: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb132e2a0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7db4604]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0×96)[0xb7db65b6]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_mem_free+0×21)[0xb1051141]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0[0xb1048407]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_plugin_get_list+0×73)[0xb10485e3]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_init+0×291)[0xb1057ec1]
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstlibvisual.so[0xb10b3273]
/opt/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb3ec2b2a]
/opt/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so(gst_plugin_load_file+0x93f)[0xb3ec36f1]
/opt/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb3ecfab6]
/opt/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so(gst_registry_scan_path+0×135)[0xb3ecfc5b]
/opt/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb3e7b34f]
/opt/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb3e7b83b]
/opt/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb3e7bea6]
/opt/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb3e7c46e]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_option_context_parse+0x5ab)[0xb6baadcb]
/opt/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so(gst_init_check+0xf1)[0xb3e7a60b]
/opt/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so(gst_init+0×32)[0xb3e7a715]
/opt/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so(_ZN18sbGStreamerService4InitEv+0xa72)[0xb3d16016]
/opt/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb3d1f8cf]
/opt/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb3d37412]
/opt/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so[0xb766b165]
/opt/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so[0xb766a627]
/opt/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb3d343fb]
/opt/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb3d34425]
/opt/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb3d33bd1]
/opt/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb3d1d907]
/opt/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so(_ZN27sbGStreamerMediacoreFactory4InitEv+0x4e)[0xb3d1e270]
/opt/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb3d1f82f]
/opt/Songbird/lib/sbGStreamerMediacore.so[0xb3d37412]
/opt/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so[0xb766b165]
/opt/Songbird/components/sbMediacoreManager.so[0xb4571c19]
/opt/Songbird/components/sbMediacoreManager.so[0xb4571c46]
/opt/Songbird/components/sbMediacoreManager.so[0xb45714e1]
/opt/Songbird/components/sbMediacoreManager.so(_ZN8nsCOMPtrI19sbIMediacoreFactoryEC1ERK15nsCOMPtr_helper+0x2d)[0xb4558369]
/opt/Songbird/components/sbMediacoreManager.so(_ZN18sbMediacoreManager4InitEv+0x1b9)[0xb455536b]
/opt/Songbird/components/sbMediacoreManager.so[0xb4555704]
/opt/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so[0xb7647e53]
/opt/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so[0xb76483f8]
/opt/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so[0xb6ed4f74]
/opt/Songbird/xulrunner/libxul.so(XRE_main+0x19c4)[0xb6ed2c56]
././songbird-bin[0x8048f40]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5)[0xb7d5b775]
././songbird-bin[0x8048bb1]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-0804e000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 157699 /opt/Songbird/songbird-bin
0804e000-0804f000 rw-p 00006000 08:03 157699 /opt/Songbird/songbird-bin
0814f000-08170000 rw-p 0814f000 00:00 0 [heap]
b1037000-b1073000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 10294 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0
b1073000-b1074000 r--p 0003b000 08:03 10294 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0
b1074000-b1075000 rw-p 0003c000 08:03 10294 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0
b1086000-b10a2000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 130482 /usr/lib/libtwolame.so.0.0.0
b10a2000-b10a4000 rw-p 0001b000 08:03 130482 /usr/lib/libtwolame.so.0.0.0
b10a4000-b10a8000 rw-p b10a4000 00:00 0
b10ab000-b10b1000 rw-p b10ab000 00:00 0
b10b1000-b10b7000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 12597 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstlibvisual.so
b10b7000-b10b8000 r--p 00005000 08:03 12597 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstlibvisual.so
b10b8000-b10b9000 rw-p 00006000 08:03 12597 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstlibvisual.so
b10b9000-b1102000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 108986 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmxf.so
b1102000-b1103000 ---p 00049000 08:03 108986 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmxf.so
b1103000-b1104000 r--p 00049000 08:03 108986 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmxf.so
b1104000-b1105000 rw-p 0004a000 08:03 108986 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmxf.so
b1105000-b110f000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 111841 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstrawparse.so
b110f000-b1110000 r--p 00009000 08:03 111841 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstrawparse.so
b1110000-b1111000 rw-p 0000a000 08:03 111841 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstrawparse.so
b1111000-b112c000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 22386 /usr/lib/sse2/libspeex.so.1.5.0
b112c000-b112d000 r--p 0001a000 08:03 22386 /usr/lib/sse2/libspeex.so.1.5.0
b112d000-b112e000 rw-p 0001b000 08:03 22386 /usr/lib/sse2/libspeex.so.1.5.0
b112e000-b117d000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 10259 /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0.3.4
b117d000-b117e000 r--p 0004e000 08:03 10259 /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0.3.4
b117e000-b117f000 rw-p 0004f000 08:03 10259 /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0.3.4
b117f000-b118d000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 10204 /usr/lib/libshout.so.3.2.0
b118d000-b118e000 r--p 0000d000 08:03 10204 /usr/lib/libshout.so.3.2.0
b118e000-b118f000 rw-p 0000e000 08:03 10204 /usr/lib/libshout.so.3.2.0
b1191000-b119e000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 50423 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstjpeg.so
b119e000-b119f000 r--p 0000c000 08:03 50423 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstjpeg.so
b119f000-b11a0000 rw-p 0000d000 08:03 50423 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstjpeg.so
b11a0000-b11e7000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 86496 /usr/lib/libmodplug.so.0.0.0
b11e7000-b11e8000 r--p 00047000 08:03 86496 /usr/lib/libmodplug.so.0.0.0
b11e8000-b11eb000 rw-p 00048000 08:03 86496 /usr/lib/libmodplug.so.0.0.0
b11eb000-b126b000 rw-p b11eb000 00:00 0
b126b000-b1273000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 130538 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgsttwolame.so
b1273000-b1274000 r--p 00007000 08:03 130538 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgsttwolame.so
b1274000-b1275000 rw-p 00008000 08:03 130538 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgsttwolame.so
b1275000-b127a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 50739 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstshout2.so
b127a000-b127b000 r--p 00004000 08:03 50739 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstshout2.so
b127b000-b127c000 rw-p 00005000 08:03 50739 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstshout2.so
b127c000-b128d000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 80133 /usr/lib/libcdaudio.so.1.0.0
b128d000-b128e000 r--p 00010000 08:03 80133 /usr/lib/libcdaudio.so.1.0.0
b128e000-b128f000 rw-p 00011000 08:03 80133 /usr/lib/libcdaudio.so.1.0.0
b1298000-b129e000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 108974 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmodplug.so
b129e000-b129f000 r--p 00005000 08:03 108974 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmodplug.so
b129f000-b12a0000 rw-p 00006000 08:03 108974 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmodplug.so
b12a0000-b12a4000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 107228 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstcdaudio.so
b12a4000-b12a5000 r--p 00003000 08:03 107228 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstcdaudio.so
b12a5000-b12a6000 rw-p 00004000 08:03 107228 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstcdaudio.so
b12a6000-b12b2000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 87384 /usr/lib/libSoundTouch.so.1.0.0
b12b2000-b12b4000 rw-p 0000b000 08:03 87384 /usr/lib/libSoundTouch.so.1.0.0
b12b7000-b12c3000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 12606 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpango.so
b12c3000-b12c4000 r--p 0000b000 08:03 12606 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpango.so
b12c4000-b12c5000 rw-p 0000c000 08:03 12606 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpango.so
b12c5000-b12db000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 113501 /usr/lib/libmad.so.0.2.1
b12db000-b12dc000 r--p 00015000 08:03 113501 /usr/lib/libmad.so.0.2.1
b12dc000-b12dd000 rw-p 00016000 08:03 113501 /usr/lib/libmad.so.0.2.1
b12dd000-b12e5000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 112024 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstsoundtouch.so
b12e5000-b12e6000 r--p 00007000 08:03 112024 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstsoundtouch.so
b12e6000-b12e7000 rw-p 00008000 08:03 112024 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstsoundtouch.so
b12e7000-b12ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 107219 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstalsaspdif.so
b12ec000-b12ed000 r--p 00005000 08:03 107219 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstalsaspdif.so
b12ed000-b12ee000 rw-p 00006000 08:03 107219 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstalsaspdif.so
b12ee000-b12fe000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 130532 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmad.so
b12fe000-b12ff000 r--p 0000f000 08:03 130532 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmad.so
b12ff000-b1300000 rw-p 00010000 08:03 130532 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmad.so
b1300000-b1400000 rw-p b1300000 00:00 0
b1400000-b140e000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 113216 /usr/lib/libid3tag.so.0.3.0
b140e000-b1410000 rw-p 0000d000 08:03 113216 /usr/lib/libid3tag.so.0.3.0
b1410000-b1427000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 12623 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgsttcp.so
b1427000-b1428000 r--p 00016000 08:03 12623 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgsttcp.so
b1428000-b1429000 rw-p 00017000 08:03 12623 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgsttcp.so
b1429000-b1450000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 80081 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libpitfdll.so
b1450000-b1451000 r--p 00026000 08:03 80081 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libpitfdll.so
b1451000-b145a000 rw-p 00027000 08:03 80081 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libpitfdll.so
b145a000-b1463000 rw-p b145a000 00:00 0
b1463000-b1482000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9952 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
b1482000-b1483000 rw-p 0001e000 08:03 9952 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
b1483000-b14c8000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9950 /usr/lib/libjasper.so.1.0.0
b14c8000-b14c9000 r--p 00044000 08:03 9950 /usr/lib/libjasper.so.1.0.0
b14c9000-b14cc000 rw-p 00045000 08:03 9950 /usr/lib/libjasper.so.1.0.0
b14cc000-b14d2000 rw-p b14cc000 00:00 0
b14d2000-b14d4000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 87383 /usr/lib/libBPM.so.1.0.0
b14d4000-b14d6000 rw-p 00001000 08:03 87383 /usr/lib/libBPM.so.1.0.0
b14d6000-b14dc000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 107230 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstcdxaparse.so
b14dc000-b14dd000 r--p 00005000 08:03 107230 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstcdxaparse.so
b14dd000-b14de000 rw-p 00006000 08:03 107230 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstcdxaparse.so
b14de000-b14e1000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 50791 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideobalance.so
b14e1000-b14e2000 r--p 00002000 08:03 50791 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideobalance.so
b14e2000-b14e3000 rw-p 00003000 08:03 50791 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideobalance.so
b14e3000-b1502000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 87308 /usr/lib/libneon-gnutls.so.27.1.2
b1502000-b1503000 r--p 0001f000 08:03 87308 /usr/lib/libneon-gnutls.so.27.1.2
b1503000-b1504000 rw-p 00020000 08:03 87308 /usr/lib/libneon-gnutls.so.27.1.2
b1504000-b1509000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 112014 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstrtpmux.so
b1509000-b150a000 r--p 00004000 08:03 112014 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstrtpmux.so
b150a000-b150b000 rw-p 00005000 08:03 112014 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstrtpmux.so
b150b000-b1513000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 108035 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstjp2k.so
b1513000-b1514000 r--p 00007000 08:03 108035 /usr/lib/g

it doesn’t work for me, any ideas?

By: Fefe

Fefe — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:53:15 +0000

One more tks Ana for the short install!!!

And the the Ubuntu staff for the marvelous system.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:51:21 +0000

Ana, I love you.

------------------------------------------------

If you still get here, there’s an easier way for Karmic Koala:

add-apt-repository ppa:songbird-daily

apt-get update

apt-get install songbird

As root, or go sudo.

By: overtaker

overtaker — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:59:01 +0000

And the last solution is the best. Cheers Ana!

By: Ana

Ana — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:42:42 +0000

If you still get here, there’s an easier way for Karmic Koala:

add-apt-repository ppa:songbird-daily

apt-get update

apt-get install songbird

As root, or go sudo.

By: marco

marco — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:37:47 +0000

Works on ubuntu 9.10
The songbird icon is already in the tgz package under songbird-512.png file

thanks!

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:37:15 +0000

SO, I posted here as a last resort after searching all over to find a solution … no sooner did I post, did I find the solution: http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17082

fixed it for me!

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:15:30 +0000

Same problem as Nic, any advice?? Songbird was fine until I upgraded to Karmic last week. Actually it still works fine on my little netbook which I upgraded as well. I uninstalled and encountered upon trying to reinstall. hmpf.

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:36:38 +0000

I have the same problem as @Levi, can anyone help?

By: Jess Owen

Jess Owen — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:21:41 +0000

Here are some comments to the installation instructions at
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-songbird-music-player-in-ubuntu.html

Note: Some minor corrections:

RE: Now you are in /opt/Songbird directory run the following command to run songbird

./Songbird

N.B. its actually “songbird” with lower case “s” and would not run when I put it as a capital “S” in the command window.

This will open songbird application.

RE: Download Songbird Icon

If you want to create application menu you need to have songbird icon for this you can download from “here” under buttons section.

N.B. There was no “buttons section” at the above referenced URL ["here"]. I just googled google images for a songbird png.

RE: in this example i have downloaded the button_pickup.png and now you need to rename this icon as songbird using the following command

mv button_pickup.png songbird.png

N.B. The above is a “move” command if I’m not mistaken

RE: Now we need to place this icon in correct place i.e /usr/share/pixmaps using the following command.

N.B. This MIGHT be obvious but when you get here:

First thing is click on “no icon” tab to upload songbird icon you should see the following screen here you need to select the icon image location as /usr/share/pixmaps/songbird.png and click on ok

You will NOT see your songbird.png unless you hit “open” first while in the pixmaps folder.

Once those items were overcome its rockin! Thanks