{"id":327,"date":"2006-06-16T07:53:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T13:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/16\/so-songbird-is-actually-just-singing-a-different-tune\/"},"modified":"2006-06-16T07:53:17","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T13:53:17","slug":"so-songbird-is-actually-just-singing-a-different-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/so-songbird-is-actually-just-singing-a-different-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"So, Songbird is actually just singing a different tune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/songbirdnest.com\">Songbird<\/a> developers flock to websites whenever their product is mentioned.  That&#8217;s fine by me. Developer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.songbirdnest.com\/nivi\/blog\">Nivi<\/a> has commented in my <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/15\/songbird-isnt-singing-to-me\">previous post<\/a> regarding my non-acceptance of the Songbird build:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We may be doing a bad job communicating the (eventual) Songbird value proposition. Songbird isn\u2019t supposed to replace your web browser. It is supposed to replace your media player.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact that that concept never occurred to me upsets me to no end. I&#8217;d like to blame it on their misrepresentation of the product, but it&#8217;s far more likely that I&#8217;m simply dense. In investigating the Songbird build, I really should have discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2005\/11\/29\/more-on-songbird\/\">this commentary from Mike Arrington<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"TechCrunch \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb More on Songbird\"><p>One thing to clear up is that Songbird is not an online application &#8211; it is (among other things) a next generation media player. And it is absolutely turning my head around in the way I think about certain things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would have significantly cleared things up for me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve re-downloaded the preview build of Songbird and I&#8217;m trying it out again with a severely altered point of view. Here&#8217;s hoping I actually get it this time.\n<\/p>\n<p>Blogged with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\" title=\"Flock\" target=\"_new\">Flock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Songbird developers flock to websites whenever their product is mentioned. That&#8217;s fine by me. Developer Nivi has commented in my previous post regarding my non-acceptance of the Songbird build: We may be doing a bad job communicating the (eventual) Songbird value proposition. Songbird isn\u2019t supposed to replace your web browser. It is supposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[158,288,300,309],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-development","tag-firefox","tag-software","tag-songbird","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}