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SongSnarl



Description

Snarl is a Growl-like application for Windows. It displays nice alpha blended notifications for different alerts coming from different programs.

SongSnarl enables a notification for the current track in the moment when you change your track in Songbird. It also reacts on clicking on a popup with next track/pause/resume depending on which mouse key has been pressed and which alert type is displayed.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Install Snarl (http://www.fullphat.net/) first - otherwise SongSnarl won't / can't display anything. Second note: in some cases (don't know why until now) it will start working after a first reboto only.

Searching for other extensions for Snarl? Firefox, Thunderbird (incl. Lightning), Sunbird and Pidgin are available at http://tlhan-ghun.de/




Release Notes

Added compatibility to Songbird 1.8
Cover art not working in the moment




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MozillaSnarls
MozillaSnarls

Look at http://tlhan-ghun.de/files/SongSnarl/songsnarl-0.1.2.xpi for a version with auto-update as well as SongBird 0.6-support

over 3 years ago
dokueki
dokueki

It doesn't work. Grr. I tried several times ><

over 3 years ago
MozillaSnarls
MozillaSnarls

Looks now the Songbird-Add-Ons page likes again my extension - so ignore my post three months ago :)

over 3 years ago
MozillaSnarls
MozillaSnarls

@dokueki: If version 0.3 is also not working - could you send me your error console and data about your Windows setup?

over 3 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

Doesn't work for me :(

over 3 years ago
jonny5
jonny5

Could you make this add-on work with Linux by allowing it to function with the Mumbles branch that works just like Snarl for Windows and the alternative for OSX?

over 3 years ago
MozillaSnarls
MozillaSnarls

@jonny5: sorry, I am specialized in programming for Snarl and fully booked with that (not only for SongSnarl ;)). But if you know someone who is good with Mumbles maybe we could work together...?

over 3 years ago
Lakrits
Lakrits

There is one thing that bothers me with an otherwise terrific add-on. Every time a song changes, the program opens and focuses on the Songbird window (I have isolated this problem to SongSnarl). It's pretty annoying when you e.g. are writing an article in Word and the usually minimized Songbird window pops up every three minutes or so. Please tend to this bug, because I love everything else about this add-on :)

over 3 years ago
MozillaSnarls
MozillaSnarls

@Lakrits: I tried to reproduce this behaviour here on my machine (Songbird 1.0RC2 and SongSnarl 0.4 and 0.4.1) and have not been able to. May I ask which version you are using? I can't find any place in my code where I could see that it would do something like this. Anyway I just uploaded 0.4.1 which has (besides %RATING% and %NEWLINE% some code cleanups by removing old files - could you try it with this new version and if the problem is there too please have a look at Tools-Error Console and have a look there if there are any suspicious entries)

Thx for using SongSnarl :)

over 3 years ago
Lakrits
Lakrits

@MozillaSnarls: Just updated and did a recheck through the add-ons (disabling them and let them run alone). It seems as I wrongly accused you for this, it's LyricMaster that creates this very annoying effect. I'm sorry for this unintentional trick-or-treat, rating reset to 5 stars! *blushes* :)

over 3 years ago
MozillaSnarls
MozillaSnarls

@Lakrits: Happy again ;)

over 3 years ago
Joergenr
Joergenr

Great add-on.
The translations are missing some strings.

over 3 years ago
gapo
gapo

great one ...
It's working fine ....

over 3 years ago
Steve123458
Steve123458

It don't work dude.

Installed Snarl, Melon, and nothing worked...

over 3 years ago
dadrivr
dadrivr

I think it would be a great feature if a sound/beep could notify when the currently playing song has not yet been rated. I love your program and think this would be a great addition. Thanks!

over 3 years ago
deOmega
deOmega

I must say that it is quite an install to get this thing working.. installing melon and snarl, plus this addon... only to find it not working. :(

over 3 years ago
MozillaSnarls
MozillaSnarls

@dadrivr will be part of the next release
@deOmega sorry for your bad luck - can you maybe send me some output of the Songbird error console in the Extras menu? I know SongSnarl is working fine on thousends of installations so I would like to figure out why it isn't working on yours (and also on Steve123458's) Songbird

over 3 years ago
deOmega
deOmega

@MozillaSnarls

Sorry, I have uninstalled and done a clean install, having removed all of the extra stuff. When i put it back on, I will certainly give you some feedback. Thanks for responding.

over 3 years ago
MozillaSnarls
MozillaSnarls

@dadrivr check out 1.0b1 for this new feature :)

over 2 years ago
Jerome
Jerome

Thanks! This is the same than the Song Noticier Add-On?

over 2 years ago
Jerome
Jerome

Only for Windows? Pffffffffff!

over 2 years ago
garble17
garble17

Glad to see it working with the 1.1 version! I missed it!

over 2 years ago
MozillaSnarls
MozillaSnarls

@Jerome Song Notifier is an approach to be multi-plattform for notifications. The Snarl integration within SongSnarl goes more into details (like reactiong on clicks) but only works with Snarl on Windows

over 2 years ago
mihi
mihi

Song Snarl don't work with my computer event if I installed Snarl before (v. R2.06) :(
Someone have the same problem?

over 2 years ago
immaterialman
immaterialman

Hi there

This is a great add-on - the whole snarl stuff is very nice. Just a couple of issues I seem to be having.... there are options to notify when a song has no rating and when it has no album art - I've changed the display type, but it never comes up - it does tell me that a new song is playing... is it that you can only have one of the notifications at one time? I.e. if you have new song, then you can't be notified of no album art?
Keep up the good work!

over 2 years ago
immaterialman
immaterialman

I know it's bad form to reply to oneself, but just in case anyone else has the same issue - you need to make your choices in two places - once in Snarl and the second time in the options of SongSnarl itself - should have looked there in the first place!

over 2 years ago
sironitomas
sironitomas

Hi MozillaSnarls..! I'm wondering if you can adapt this extension to work with the new Ubuntu 9.10 Notification System... The only which the extension have to do is read artist info and album picture. The other is just send bash code. There is some help lines...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDevelopmentGuidelines

by the way, the extension is so great, but we like more integration with gnome desktop...

Thanks!!

over 2 years ago
jomaweb
jomaweb

installed snarl, melon and songsnarl...but nothing happens

over 2 years ago
jomaweb
jomaweb

Rebooted and works. Great!!
Two questions:

1- is possible to locate the notification in the middle of the screen, not only corners?

2- how to make it show artwork?

over 2 years ago
MozillaSnarls
MozillaSnarls

@jomaweb
1) Until now not - will drop a wish to the Snarl developer
2) should be displayed automatically if there is one attached to the song

@sironitomas
No, sorry - while using Linux on my servers everywhere I don't use it as client (private I have a Mac (Growl ;)) and at work I have Windows (Snarl ;)) But I assume it would be quite easy if someone wants to use my (or the one from Notify Me) as starting point. If you want to try it yourself (it's simple JavaScript I learned myself during the work on it ;)) I would be happy to give you the starting hints to make it

over 2 years ago
joerns
joerns

Installed the addon and Snarl, rebooted. Doesn't work on Win7 RC. No error message. I don't think there are any messages in the error console concerning SongSnarl... I am unable to copy from it anyway...

over 2 years ago
MozillaSnarls
MozillaSnarls

@joerns sometimes at Windows 7 Snarl seems to register alert classes by default as being deactivated. Please have a look at the Snarl settings -> Apps -> SongSnarl if the checkboxes in front of the alert classes are active

over 2 years ago
atlanx
atlanx

Funktioniert wunderbar mit Snarl R2.2. Vielen Dank.

over 2 years ago
damccull
damccull

Hi. I noticed songsnarl has registered itself with my snarl about 8 times. I'm not sure how that happened. Perhaps over songbird crashes, or restarts due to addon (un)installations. Either way, it's sort of annoying. Only one of the choices in my snarl "Apps" tab Application dropdown has all the songsnarl options, but there are about 8 more in there even so.

How do I rid myself of them, and can you make it so that doesn't happen?

Win7 home premium
Songbird Version: Songbird 1.2.0, Build 1146
Songsnarl 1.0
Snarl R2.21 (V40.15)

over 2 years ago
MozillaSnarls
MozillaSnarls

If Songbird crashes or it is not cleanly restarted (as it happens sometimes on AddOn installations) it will register multiple time. Restart Snarl and SongSnarl will be registered only once than

over 2 years ago
tsquillario
tsquillario

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Awesome!!! Will comment if i have any issues, so far so good...

over 2 years ago
TotempaaltJ
TotempaaltJ

You should replace the rating system with something like this:
★★★★
You don't actually need the -, but you could replace it ☆

This working depends on Snarl supporting Unicode. And, after a quick Wikipedia search, I found out that it in fact does, so I think this would definitely be an addition to the add-on!

about 1 year ago
david.jirovec
david.jirovec

I had exactly the same problem as Lakrits 2 years ago:

"Every time a song changes, the program opens and focuses on the Songbird window..."

Later it was identified as LyricsMaster problem. I use MLyrics and happens to me too. More interesting is, that is happens only when BOTH MLyrics and SongSnarl are enabled.

I took a look at SongSnarl version history and found

"1.0b2
Added more languages
Clicking on an unrated / no cover notifcations focuses player window"

which look little bit related to our issue :) so I disabled unrated / no cover notifications (hopefully I don't want them anyway) and now it seems ok!

about 1 year ago
david.jirovec
david.jirovec

ok it seems it is still happening :-/

about 1 year ago
ibabob
ibabob

Will the cover art support be added back sometime ? Everything else works fine and I remember cover art used to work too.

Thanks

about 1 year ago



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