This extension allows you to change Songbird's window title to whatever you want, such as the current song being played, make track information scroll on your taskbar and act as a track change notifier.
To change Songbird's window title, go to Tools > Birdtitle preferences...
CHANGES MADE TO BIRDTITLE 0.4 (01.01.2009)
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- The ability to display album art on either the left
or right sides of the notifier has been added
- Partial re-write of the notifier - Birdtitle now uses
XUL instead of HTML to display notifier contents
- The Birdtitle Preferences Dialog has been re-written
as a Prefwindow.
- Minor UI enhancements in the Birdtitle Preferences dialog
- Dropped support for Songbird 0.6
© 2005-2009 Pioneers of the Inevitable
Can't close the settings dialog by pressing the ok button. Im am using SB 0.2.5 and Win MCE 2002 SP2
I have been unable to reproduce the bug. Open up the Javascript Console on Songbird (Tools > Error Console) and try it again. Did the console display an error after pressing the OK button? If so, then copy the displayed error and post it below.
Never mind. I found the bug.
Absolutely fantastic plugin. Simple, yet something that should be built into Songbird as it is. Really easy to change options as well. Great work!
Oh, your description is kind of vague though. For those thinking about downloading, this plugin allows you to change the program title to the current song being played, and even make the track information scroll scross the minimized taskbar window. Extremely useful.
I really like the add-on. However, a lot of Unicode characters won't work, I can enter them into the input field for the string, but they will appear only as blocks or something totally different in the title bar (I don't know whose fault that this -- maybe JS's?). Perhaps you could enable HTML-style abbreviations. In particular, I'd like —es ("—"). @hxcobd: scrolling is annoying and for me it's not a feature to always be distracted from the rest I'm doing — I wonder why that found its way into Songbird's miniplayer.
Great extension, but on 0.2.5 on Vista (don't know about any other os), when Birdtitle is enabled, the 'back' button in the browser stops working, I would assume forward does as well, but since I couldn't go back, I couldn't test it. The other navigation buttons work fine.
Wooooo the new notify function is nice I already uninstalled all other notify ad dons ^^
If the track notification once is enabled there is no way to disable it please fix it thanks.
Hey I just wanted to say that I REALLY like this add-on! Great job! :-D
Hi I prefer your song notifier to the one of the album art ad don by stevo, more preferences etc. but there is no album art in the notifier, so maybe you can work together wit stevo and ad a support for his album art ad-on. It would be great. Thanks for reflecting on my suggestion. ;-)
Can you make this compatible with Sonbird 0.6?? It’s a great addon, and that’s why I want to use it on 0.6, too…
when I switch to the mini player, the taskbar goes back to the default song bird 0.6.1
Is that a bug, or just not a feature yet?
This is a WONDERFUL extension. Has everything I need. I basically use it for the notifier, which is PERFECT. All I'm asking for is a checkbox to let you close the notification if you click anywhere on it. It still does everything I want it to, 10/5!
If you could add in a way to change the text colors of the notifications it would be amazing. But right now I can't read it because of the feather I'm using. Black text on a black bg just doesn't work.
Should be included by default in Songbird.
great extension
I think this plug causes my 'bird to crash. No problems since Uninstalling... :D
Wish it didn't, cause I like scrolling the title, WinAmp style....
This is a really nice add-on, but it would be a lot more useful to me if you had a tag called $menu$ which indicated the position of where the menus should go (if at all) on the bar. I want to put something like this...
...in the top menu bar. Otherwise at the moment the menu options slide to the right after everything else, which is annoying when the title on the right changes its width.
I named my Songbird "Goldfish", according to the new program-icon :-D
Excelent Plugin! I love the song notifier! Finally one notifier that works!
$year$ tag please!
Suggestion.... Make the text for the pop up customizable. Right now it is black on very dark gray and i cant read it.
$rating$ tag please!
I agree with SnoringFrog. I'm using the YABS feather and you can't read the text because it's black on black. Fix please!
Oh dear! I just figured out, that this add-on has Track-Notifications! =) I didn't take a look at this Add-on before, because I didn't need the title-changing-thingy, but your Notification rocks! It's the best notification-system for Songbird right now, better then the other Add-ons for this.
Thank you very much! PS: The title-changing-thingy is more useful than I thought, too ;-)
To the ones with YABS-Problems: I will skin the Notification soon. Then it will look a little bit better with YABS.
nice work. how about a "skip" or a "next" button in the song-change notification?
Hi - Would be great if the notifier window could be popped up on-demand using a global hotkey (ie not just on status changes but if eg mid-song I want to see the track info w/o switching to the SB app). This is a function I use all the time in winamp with the Toaster plugin. Toaster is, strangely, one of the main reasons I have not yet abandoned winamp in favor of SB.
Also, custom color settings and slightly more advanced layout options of the notifiy window would be a big plus, eg, font size, color, etc.
Thanks for the scrolling titles ! :)
I would like to know if there are settings/or chances to put the title of the active TAB of the browser, as the taskbar title?