Media Management (Automatic detection of newly added tracks)
ID3 Tagging
Album Artwork finder
Skinning/Themes
Addons
Easy Metadata Manipulation
CD Burning/Ripping
There's many more things that I want in my player but that is the basic list. I loved AmoroK for Linux and used that for the most part but I found that with large music libraries it bogged down my system and would crash on me. I've tried SongBird before as well and although I was impressed with it, it really had allot of limitations.
However, I've been using SongBird now for about 4 months and now with the new update I'm completely sold, well let's say 95% sold. The only thing that it's missing in my opinion is decent CD Burning and Ripping addons or capabilities. As well I'd really like to see an automated Album Art downloader/Track Fixer. Hopefully some enterprising young programmer can come up with something that will help flesh out the very decent Album Art feature it already incorporates.
I have roughly 800 gigs of music and having to manually go through each artist/album to download the appropriate Album Art really sucks. I enjoy the look of the MediaFlow addon but with so many Albums having to use the default empty artwork placeholder, it ends up looking terrible.
Other than those small quibbles this is by far my favorite Music Management program and absolutely destroys Itunes (Songbird also has an Iphone/Ipod addon to allow for syncing) and I have yet to find anything remotely as capable. The J.River Media player is coming along but I have encountered far too many crashes and bugs with it to give it a thumbs up.
So, for all my buddies out there, if you want to use an impressive Media player, look no further than Songbird.
-Seth
