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Install songbird in Ubuntu System
First thing is you need to Download songbird form here
Once you download the songbird you can see this file Songbird_0_2_linux-i686.tar.gz now you can move this to /opt directory using the following command
sudo mv Songbird_0_2_linux-i686.tar.gz /opt
Go to the /opt directory and now you need to extract this file using the following command
tar xzvf Songbird_0_2_linux-i686.tar.gz
Now you should see Songbird directory
Now you need to change owner permissions on sonbird directory using the following command if you want to run as perticular user
sudo chown -R ruchi:ruchi Songbird
You can replace the ruchi with the name of the user you want to run.
Now go in to the songbird directory and run songbird using the following command
cd Songbird
Now you are in /opt/Songbird directory run the following command to run songbird
./Songbird
This will open songbird application.
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 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
Now we need to place this icon in correct place i.e /usr/share/pixmaps using the following command
sudo cp songbird.png /usr/share/pixmaps
Creating Application Menu For Sonbird
Now we need to create a Application Menu for this Right click on Applications at the top of your desktop and select “Edit Menus“ option you can see this in the following screen
This will open Alacarte Menu Editor Once you open this you should see the following screen
On left side of the Alacarte Menu Editor select “Sound&Audio” and on the right side you need to click on “New Item” button
Once you click on new item button you should see the following screen here you need to select songbird icon, name, Comment and command options
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
Next You need to Name as Songbird and in comment field enter musicplayer or you can leave blank.In command option you need to select /opt/Songbird/Songbird and click on ok
After entering all the details you should see the following screen and click ok
Now you should see the songbird icon under show item and click on close
Now we need to open songbird from application menu for this go to Applications—>Sound&Video—>Songbird
First time you should see the songbird license screen and tick the box next to i agree and click on I Agree
Songbird welcome,optional extensions,privacy screen and click on ok
Songbird Music Player in Action
Songbird Music Player version details
That’s it your songbird music player is ready to play for music and it is really worth to install and try to play your music.I am sure you would love it.
Songbird Extensions
If you want to install Songbird Extensions check here
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November 9th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Some caution should be mentioned since Songbird is pretty much alpha. It is a glutten when it comes to system resources when compared to other similar offerings such as Banshee, Amarok, etc. Hopefully the devs will act on this resource-hog aspect soon.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:32 am
Very helpful site! Thank you very much!!!
January 12th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Ok, thx a million for this hack - AMAZING and easy walk-through for an AWESOME media player.
I’m amazed how rich the whole thing looks and it is only version 0.2.1
it feels solid and very functional full of features and professional looking
one always hears about Amarok and Banshee, and Rhytmplayer, VLC, Mplayer Totem etc but this may be better than all of them and i only stumbled on it looking for an open-source media player for xp on my laptop. I was so blown away i looked to install it on my Ubuntu desktop. The only thing missing was figuring out how to create an application menu so i was grateful to find this link and your how-to. Its only 0.2.1 but i’m sure they will include application menu in future versions for linux too
May 21st, 2008 at 4:30 am
Year and one half later and it’s still a resource hog.
May 29th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Indeed. 0.5 (still not 1.0) - but still.. at 800mhz, 2.5gb.. 53% cpu?? 1.6ghz.. 25-30 cpu?? ridiculous. Amarok uses 3-4%.. needs a lot of tweaking. That’s insane. I’ll stick to Amarok. I really REALLY like the interface, and the familiarity of it, though.