Song Notifier

Awesome! PlayNotify is crappy and boring. Feh on it!

A very nice Add on.

I was listening to my music (great application), a song was starting that I didn't like so I wanted to change this to the next one (shuffle). I think it would be a good to add the functionality of either skipping to next trap or to bring to the application into focus when clicking on the alert slider. Your thoughts

great add-on. and too cute.

Need Linux version!

its works for me on linux just hit other version, and install away

very nice. this brings the behind-the-scenes music player experience to songbird.

Uhm...I found it a little hard to read titles, as there's no background and the font is not that 'bright', so it depends on the wallpaper you've set...

Needs a background behind the text, can't read anything.

Song Notifier 0.1.2, 0.4 Songbird:
The contrast of text/background is very bad. I cant read anything. Black text would be okay.

there are white spots at the round edges. I think they should be transparent.

I uploaded a screenshot, perhaps its doesnt work as intended:
http://img512.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenbv6.jpg

Anyway, thanks for the add-on! It not very useful for me, now, but its time will come :-)
I like the random birdy-pics!!!

its giving me a weird error…every couple of songs a notification will pop-up in the top left corner and just stay there…even if the song changes, and the only way i found to get rid of it is to change skins or restart the program…im using vista and songbird 0.4

I can confirm the error. It’s annoying, because it stays on top of all. im using xp and songbird 0.4

Works flawless on SB 0.5, Mac OS X, via Growl Notifier. Bang up job! Nice addition to the development of SB!

On SB v. 0.5, and the latest version of the plugin it pulls up 3 separate instances via growl. Not sure why, here are the errors

Error: [Exception… “’JavaScript component does not have a method named: "onBeforeTrackChange”’ when calling method: [sbIPlaylistPlaybackListener::onBeforeTrackChange]" nsresult: “0x80570030 (NSERRORXPCJSOBJECTHASNOFUNCTION_NAMED)” location: “JS frame :: file:///Applications/Songbird.app/Contents/Resources/components/sbPlaylistPlayback.js :: anonymous :: line 967” data: no]
Source File: file:///Applications/Songbird.app/Contents/Resources/components/sbPlaylistPlayback.js
Line: 970

Error: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NSERRORUNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getBoolPref]” nsresult: “0x8000ffff (NSERRORUNEXPECTED)” location: “JS frame :: file:///Users/momo/Library/Application%20Support/Songbird1/Profiles/cc6zv2ty.default/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js :: anonymous :: line 427” data: no]
Source File: file:///Applications/Songbird.app/Contents/Resources/components/sbPlaylistPlayback.js
Line: 991

Oh, I should note after reading some of the errors that I have Album Art manager installed, yet, it was doing it before I installed that add-on.

This is a great extension, what I would like to see in newer versions however, are:
* Ability to change the font
* Change positioning and sizing (including padding) of elements in the notifiication
* Colors that don't necessarily depend on the feather
* Adding more lines to the display (example, I want one line for title, one for artist, and one for album. Different colors per line would be nice. Maybe a big text area that reads newlines?
* Auto sizing based on content

I'm giving this a 3/5 right now, as it's working and working great, but I'd love to see more customization. Good luck!

Also, I forgot to note: Maybe customizable background images too?

Help! How can I tame this thing or simply get rid of it? It climbs to the upper left corner and never disappears: So I cannot get to the Songbird controls anymore. It even shows in other applications such as open office writer hiding the icons I need to work things.

Heyhey, nice addon! Maybe the best in terms of font size.. The text of other song notifying addons are soooo tiny. Especially when it comes to displaying chinese fonts.. The only problem I've had so far is the album art not displaying..

Any ideas ? I can't seem to uncheck the 'random' or any other icons boxes.

Experiencing the same problem some are reporting here (the notifier appearing also on the top left corner, on top of everything, unable to move it etc.). Tried an older version, and although the problem disappeared, now two notifications appear on the lower right corner, one on top of the other. Weird.Overall, I like it, but I'll wait for a new version before trying it again to see if the problem I'm experiencing disappears.(BTW I'm on WinXP pro SP2, using the latest Songbird.)

Great addon, but one thing i noticed: there doesn't seem to be a size limit on the album art. If I happen to have a hi-res art for one, it pops up huge, then small for the next song, ect. The same goes for CD titles and such. It would be nice to have a preset limit for the height and width, rather than having it extend and contract constantly.

Also, it would be nice to have a few more options than "Title", "Artist", "Album", and "Genre". Good addon, though.

Great Addon, some nice features would be:

check for album art in the metadata before going online to find it, and if it exists, use the one embedded in the tag.

put a maximum size for the album art to display, if the art is larger than the max size (maybe a changeable setting for the user), resize it to be the max size, if it's smaller, leave it as is

Some sort of border around the notification window, or using a colored background (close to the color of the built in windows balloon tips)....sometimes it blends in with other opened applications, and IMHO it would look better with a border or if it stood out more.

Thanks for the work on this so far :)

Very nice job!

I'm using Songbird/0.7.0 (20081007140914) on OpenSolaris 2008.11RC2 system. It would be great, if cyrillic names displayed correctly. I have the whole music collection tagged with UTF8, however weird symbols (boxed_hex_nums, you know :-)) displayed instead.

4 of 5 ;-)

Works well (and doesn’t require Snarl). Hoping for more customization in future releases – especially to set how long the window stays visible. Nice work!

My OS is Ubuntu 8.10, and the character encoding of the ID3 tags of my music is UTF-8. This addon can't show the right chinese characters.

I love it, but perhaps a constraint could be put on the size of the album art displayed? Some of my high-res album covers take thirty seconds to scroll up and down the screen... perhaps limit them to displaying at 250x250 or something?

It wont let me click the install button to get this addon, can someone help me out?

Never mind I figured it out how to get it to finally install

Hello Mr. Developper :p !!

I would just like to beware you because we can't install you're add-on from the songbird 1.0 navigator even if you have done the update. I think the reason is that you haven't mentionned in the add ons details that he is compatible with the new version (even if he is).

So just dot it so everbody will can install this one without going to firefox and install manually ;-).

Thank you for your add on and sorry for my poor english (i'm french)

Thanks for the update! It would be nice, if you could add some options for the fade-in animation. Like: How fast should the pop-up be faded in. And most important: for how long the message should be displayed!
If you then allow us to set transparency, it just would be perfect :-) Anyway, 5 stars by me

I've tried all three notification add-ons and this is hands down the best. Great work!

Just one minor request: when I check the "show album art"checkbox as well as the "random" bubble, I'd like to be able to see both the bird AND the album cover in the notifier window. I think the album cover is a highly useful visual aid, but I really, really miss that lil' bird.

Awesome!!

Just awesome!!

This is the best notification add-on ever!!!!!!

This is a great addon, I really love it. I do have one suggestion though: make an enable/disable option or button, because when I'm playing movies or games it lags like crazy when the notifier is sliding in and out. Thanks for the great addon!

A wonderful add-on!!!
I have one suggestion : change the delay for how long the message is displayed.

Thanks a lot for this add-on

great addon. i love the little bird icons that pop up with the song.

a suggestion with the bird:
 i noticed that there are many bird icons, each having a different mood etc. i think it would be great if the addon could read the tone and frequency of songs and choose a specific bird icon to pop up depending on what the song sounds like. if its a mellow song then the one with headphones looking relaxed etc.

anyhow i love it.

Works excellent.
My only issue is that it brings Songbird into focus everytime I change the song from my keyboards media keys.
I am using Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, Gnome Desktop, and this addon: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1412
to control media keys.
I can't tell if it's a clash between plugins since this is the only media key plugin I found that works.