{"id":1207,"date":"2013-08-03T10:23:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T10:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2024-05-20T08:11:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T08:11:34","slug":"songbird-discontinued-nightingale-is-recommended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/songbird-discontinued-nightingale-is-recommended\/","title":{"rendered":"Songbird Discontinued, Nightingale is Recommended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>UPDATE 2024: Nightingale is also discontinued! Try Clementine Music Player which is available in Ubuntu Software \/ App Center.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here I&#8217;m going to tell you that the popular <b>Songbird Music Player project has been discontinued<\/b>. For those who are looking for an alternative, check out <b>Nightingale<\/b> which is built upon Songbird.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sunsetthebird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1208\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sunsetthebird.jpg\" alt=\"songbird discontinued\" width=\"460\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sunsetthebird.jpg 460w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sunsetthebird-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eric Wittman announced on the Songbird blog, <i>&#8220;Unfortunately, the company has found ourselves unable to fund further business operations and as of June 28, 2013 all of Songbird\u2019s operations and associated services will be discontinued.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Songbird<\/b> is a music player originally released in early 2006 with the stated mission &#8220;to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web&#8221;. On June 3, 2010, official Linux support for Songbird was dropped.<\/p>\n<p>While thanking the users, investors, partners, developers of Songbird, <b>Eric Wittman openly recommends the open source desktop media player <b>Nightingale<\/b> as an alternative.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>To access the open source for the Songbird Desktop player, you can go here:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><del>http:\/\/getsongbird.com\/desktop\/index.php?download=source<\/del> (Domain expired)<\/p>\n<p><b>Nightingale<\/b> is an open source media player based on Songbird and focused on Linux. It has a beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats, all with multi-platform support!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nightingale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1209\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nightingale.jpg\" alt=\"nightingale in ubuntu\" width=\"450\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nightingale.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nightingale-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nightingale is available for downloading at: <a href=\"http:\/\/getnightingale.com\/all-versions.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">getnightingale.com\/all-versions.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu 13.04, 12.04, 12.10 and Linux Mint 13, 14, 15 users, run below commands in terminal (<b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b>) to install nightingale from PPA:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nightingaleteam\/nightingale-release\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install nightingale<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 2024: Nightingale is also discontinued! Try Clementine Music Player which is available in Ubuntu Software \/ App Center. Here I&#8217;m going to tell you that the popular Songbird Music Player project has been discontinued. For those who are looking for an alternative, check out Nightingale which is built upon Songbird. Eric Wittman announced on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[260,387,17,15],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nightingale","tag-songbird","tag-ubuntu-12-04","tag-ubuntu-13-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}