How to install songbird 1.4.1 in Ubuntu

Songbird™ is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source.
If you want to know Songbird 1.4.1 Features and Improvements check here

Songbird 1.4.1’s main focus has been on adding new device support, CD rip support, and a new Feather/skin. We’ve included more format/codec support out of the box, improved the media management user experience, and continue to work on performance, footprint, and stability.

Thanks to Skyzim for creating .deb files

For 32-bit Ubuntu Users download .deb file from here

For 64-bit Ubuntu Users download .deb file from here

Now you should be having songbird_1.4.1_i686_skyzim.deb file for 32-bit users and songbird_1.4.1-x86_64-skyzim.deb file for 64-bit users

Install .deb packages using the following commands

For 32-bit Users run the following command from terminal

sudo dpkg -i songbird_1.4.1_i686_skyzim.deb

For 64-bit Users run the following command from terminal

sudo dpkg -i songbird_1.4.1-x86_64-skyzim.deb

Once you install you can open songbird from Applications--->Sound & Video

Troubleshooting Songbird startup

Problem

When you try to startup songbird you might see similar to the following error

$songbird

….. warnings are omitted….

(songbird-bin:5674): GStreamer-WARNING **: invalid name template vc3_video_sink_%u: conversion specification must be of type ‘%d’ or ‘%s’ for GST_PAD_REQUEST padtemplate
././songbird-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10/gst/_gst.so: undefined symbol: gst_task_pool_get_type
Could not initialize GStreamer: Error re-scanning registry , child terminated by signal

Solution 1

sudo mv /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10/ /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10_bad

Solution 2

Remove gstreamer

Open Synaptic Package Manager and search for “python-gst0.10″. Select the python-gst0.10 package, then click Package > Force Version. Select “0.10.14-1ubuntu1″ from the list and click the Force Version button. Do the same thing with the python-gst0.10-dbg package and then click Apply. Once it’s done downloading and installing the packages you can close Synaptic.

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Use Remote Desktop

Ubuntu offers extensive remote desktop functionality out of the box. Using the Vinagre tool, you can access other Linux boxes on your network through VNC. (Windows support is planned through RDP in future releases.) To launch Vinagre, run the Remote Desktop Viewer utility located in the Internet sub-menu of Applications. To configure how Vinagre can interact with your system, modify the Remote Desktop Preferences located in the Preferences sub-menu.

Get NTFS Compatibility

The NTFS-Config tool auto-detects NTFS-based partitions and sets a new mount point for them in /media. To enable support for a device, check the box next to it when it is detected. Once mount points for all devices have been set, you are able to enable or disable write support on internal and external NTFS devices with one click. To enable NTFFS write support on your system, install ntfs-config:

“sudo apt-get install ntfs-config”

From that point on, you can access it through the Administration sub-menu.

Speed up your Karmic PC Tip - 9.10 Karmic ONLY!!

I forget where, but I came across this guide and tried it. Wow it makes a huge difference in speed. Please know what you are doing first, tis why I hate posting these tips, but this one really helped my pc.

THIS IS FOR 9.10 KARMIC USERS ONLY.

Important tips to make Ubuntu faster
Faster boot time:

Edit /etc/init.d/rc
$ sudo gedit /etc/init.d/rc

And change the line (line 33)
CONCURRENCY=none
to
CONCURRENCY=shell
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Install preload daemon

Linux's preload daemon... monitors what programs you use most often and caches these programs and dependent libraries in (unused) memory to speed up application start time. If your system has 1GB or more memory then preload will have a positive effect. Install and start the preload process. Run command

$ sudo apt-get install -y preload

It will automatically load at boot.
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Disable IPv6 in the kernel
It seems to me that the lookup of IP version 6 addresses takes a lot of time. Let's disable it.
$ echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6

Check its status
$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6
0 = Enabled
1 = Disabled

$ sudo gedit /etc/rc.local
You can put the following blue line to /etc/rc.local (before the "exit 0" line) so it's set at boot up:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6
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Disable IPv6 in Firefox
Start Firefox and write about:config in the address (location) bar.

Then look for network.dns.disableIPv6 parameter.
Double click the line and set it to true. Restart your Firefox.