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Apple Keyboard Media Key Support

Version 1.41, developed by nick kreeger, ported by bensch

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Description: Adds playback support for Apple keyboards that have multimedia keys on them. For those interested, the source is hosted here: https://bitbucket.org/nkreeger/whitedragon/src

This add-on does not work for an external Apple aluminium keyboard on Linux.

Audio Bookmarks

Version 1.12, developed by Simon

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Description: Resume playback on restart and/or where you stopped Audio Bookmarks can automatically remember where you last played up to for all tracks, selected libraries, selected genres and/or individual tracks.

It can also resume playing the last played track when the player is restarted.

Alternative download and detailed instructions at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1696.

BackupBird

Version 0.9.1.9, developed by rsjtdrjgfuzkfg

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Requires RatingFile to be installed; a backup solution for preferences and everything RatingFile can store. Useful especially when switching to a fresh profile or a new computer.

Bird Cage

Version 1.5.0.0, developed by Simon

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Description: BirdCage adds a menu option to the Tools menu which allows you to to lock up Songbird for unattended playback. It is intended to provide a basic level of protection; it is not impregnable!

Alternative download and detailed instructions at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1682.

BirdWatcher (developers tool)

Version 1.19.0.0, (updated 20 Nov 2012), developed by Simon

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Description: BirdWatcher logs messages from javascript code running in XPCOM components or any Nightingale/Songbird area (including preference panes, dialogs and the main window.)

Alternative download and detailed instructions at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1794.

BirdTune

Version 1.3.8, developed by GeekShadow

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Description: BirdTune is a list of radios you can play via the display pane and the main view.

To listen to a radio, click on the logo or the radio name. You can also click on links to open the website of the radio, to see what the song is playing and also link to podcasts.

Command Line Support

Version 1.1.10, developed by GeekShadow

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Description: This extension provides an easy way to control Songbird in command line with these switch :

  • -play
  • -pause (play/pause)
  • -stop
  • -previous
  • -next
  • -mute
  • -volumeup
  • -volumedown

Cool Clock

Version 1.9.0.0, developed by Simon

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Description: This is a wrapper for the excellent highly, customizable CoolClock.

With it you can display an analogue clock in the control panel and any, or all, of the display panes!

You can change the clock face by clicking on the clock and choosing from a pop-up list, by scrolling on the clock face with the mouse wheel, or from the preferences panel.

Alternative download and detailed instructions at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1640.

Copy As Plain Text

Version 1.0.4.1, developed by Mehtuus

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Description: A context menu that allows you to copy in plain text. You can also configure it to strip out extra spaces and extra lines from the copied text.

Customize Filter Pane

Version 0.2.4, developed by kattla ported by eag

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Description: Adds the ability to change the number of filter panes in the media view. This seems to be working well with the exception of the description in the tab. If anyone knows where that can be fixed please let me know.

Delete from Disk

Version 0.6.2, developed by thebitguru, ported by dyedfox.

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Description: Adds a menu entry to delete the selected file(s) from the disk.

DetailsPane

Version 1.1.1.6, developed by rsjtdrjgfuzkfg

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Description: Adds a bottom display pane that displays information of the selected track.

DirectTune

Version 1.2.2.7, developed by rsjtdrjgfuzkfg

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Description: DirectTune is an streaming extension for Nightingale, it provides an interface for adding (Live-)Streams to Nightingale. You can add streams as URL, or download a List-AddOn to get pre-defined Streams such as online radio streams.

directory browser

Version: 0.5.3, developed by Epskampie, ported by dyedfox

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Description: browse your music directories directly, without using the the library.

Have you spent a lot of time organizing your music directory, but are the id3 tags not all correct? Do you have a lot of singles, or selfmade compilations? Tired of the music library?

This add-on is meant for you.

Directory browser allows you to directly view the contents of one or more of your local folders, without using the music library.

Usage: Install add-on Press ‘manage directories’ and add one or more of your music folders. Create and/or select a playlist Drag one or more items from the directory browser to the playlist to add them. The items will be scanned, so the first time it can take a while.

Please let me know how you feel about it, and any bugs you run into.

Version 1.0.8, developed by GeekShadow

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Description: Search for music in Creative Commons on http://www.dogmazic.net

DOM Inspector

Version 2.0.0, developed by Mozilla

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Description: Inspects the structure and properties of a window and its contents.

Download Badge

Version 1.2.0.0, developed by Simon

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Description: Adds a badge to the Downloads node in the Service Pane showing the number of active and queued downloads.

Alternative download at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/2021.

Equalizer Pane

Version 1.0.10, developed by GeekShadow

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Description: This add-on allow you to use the Equalizer in the content pane (bottom pane).

Equalizer Presets Plus

Version 1.1, developed by GeekShadow, Azraeht (Brice Santus) (as part of CoMETE project) and Seba Kerckhof

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Description: This add-on add 18 custom presets for both Songbird & Nightingale Equalizer. You can also save your own presets.

The Exorcist

Version 0.1.6.1, developed by Stephen Lau, ported and updated by johnmurrayvi

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Description: Media Views for showing your broken/missing tracks (ghosts) and duplicate tracks (clones).

Extended Copy Menu

Version 1.6.1.3, developed by Ryan Cook, updated by GeekShadow

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Description: Provides the option to copy selection as plain text or html.

It adds a “Copy As Html” and “Copy As Plain Text” to the context (right-click) menu. It is useful if you want to copy the text or underlying html from a web page into documents, posts or other applications.

FocusTrack

Version 1.2.6, developed by Steven Bengtson, updated by Michael Burns

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Description: This extension will set the focus in the playlist window to the track that is currently being played.

G15 Simple

Version 0.7.3, developed by firetech, updated by GeekShadow (for Linux only)

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Description: Simple G15 keyboard LCD display (and others supported by g15daemon) notification add-on for Linux. Requires G15 Composer (which in turn requires G15 Daemon, see http://www.g15tools.com for more info), pkill and pgrep. Tested and working fine in Ubuntu 11.10

gReader podcasts

Version 1.2.0.0, (updated 20 Nov 2012), developed by Simon

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Description: Get access to podcasts from a Google Reader account. Causes known issues with the Syncronization feature, the alternate version linked above fixes the issue but did not have much testing yet. Feel free to report any issues you run into.

Creates a new gReader library and populates it with references to podcasts in the posts in your Google Reader account.

Alternative download and detailed instructions at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/2033.

Grid View

Version 0.5.1, developed by JohnM, ported by zjays

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Description: An alternative media view that displays a pile of album art above each artist. This is similar to the default artist view in Windows Media Player or the Grid view in iTunes.

GrowlGNTP-Nightingale for Windows

Version 1.0.0, Ported and updated from GrowlGNTP for Songbird

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Description: Growl for Windows ported by SteveW. Tested with Growl v2.0.9 and seems to work OK on Windows 7 with Nightingale 1.11.0 build 2223.

You will need Growl for Windows from www.growlforwindows.com installed.

Growl is a notification system for OS X and Windows - As far as I can tell this add-on only works on Windows.

You can find out more about Growl here - Wikipedia.

Guitar Tab

Version 1.2.6, developed by ewcrider, ported by zjays

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Description: Searches Ultimate-Guitar.com for tabs of the currently playing track. You can select the tab type (Guitar, Bass, Chords, Guitar Pro, Power Tab, or Drum Tab) from the options menu.

There are two control options to execute the search, a button to the right of the Songbird search, and a menu item under the Controls menu. Either of these (or both) can be turned off via the options menu.

Last.fm

Version 1.0.7.2223, developed by POTI

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Description: Publish your playback history to Last.fm and listen to Last.fm Radio

Last.fm Album Art

Version 1.0.4, developed by necimal

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Description: Use the art (not always of the album) from Last.FM for the playing track

Last.fm Scrobbling Support

Version 1.0.4, developed by necimal, ported by semogj

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Description: This extension differs from the other Last.fm extension in that it submits your songs to the official Last.fm client, which is a small program installed on your computer.
The Last.fm client then sends the information to the Last.fm server, so Songbird doesn't need to worry about your Last.fm login details. This is the way most other media players submit tracks to Last.fm, and you can open the Last.fm client to view information on the currently playing track, and love/ban songs.
The Last.fm client also provides support for offline scrobbling.

Last.fm Sidebar

Version 1.3.15, developed by Stevo, ported by zjays

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Description: Allows you to view your profile in a display pane, this is best used in the right sidebar display pane.

Last Track Resume 2

Version 1.0.0.2, developed by Bastien Migette, ported by dyedfox

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Description: Resume your last played track on startup.

Lieder Lyrics

Version 1.6.0.0, developed by Simon

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Description: Lyrics from The Lied and Art Song Texts Archive.

The Lied and Art Song Texts Page Archive is an archive of texts used in many, many Lieder and other classical art songs (Kunstlieder, mélodies, canzoni, романсы, canciones, liederen, canções, sånger, laulua, písně, piosenki, etc.) as well as in many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces. The collection currently indexes texts and translations to English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages. The site has frequent updates.

Alternative download and detailed instructions at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1868.

ListPosition

Version 1.1.1.6, developed by rsjtdrjgfuzkfg

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Description: Remembers View-Position in playlists. Because there are some technical problems when accessing the playlists, this AddOn could have problems with alternate MediaViews, the common ones should work (List/Filter/MediaFlow).

LiveTweeter

Version 1.5, developed by GeekShadow

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Description: Allows you to post what you are listening on Twitter, Identi.ca, Skype and Text-file

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mashTape

Version 1.1.8.2223, developed by POTI

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Description: Adds a display pane showing a ton of contextual information about the artist and track you are looking at.

Version: mashtape-nightingale-1.0.1, updated by SteveW 24/10/2012. Rebranded to Nightingale Download

MediaFlow

Version 3.3, developed by JohnM

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Description: Adds a nice album art preview to Nightingale.

Note: This is a repackaged version from songbird without enhancements.

MinimizeToTray++

Version 1.0.9, originally developed by Michael B., Linux fork by christianoguedes, this port by sparhawk

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Description: Minimises the application to the system tray. This is a repackaged version of the Songbird extension without enhancements.

What works: core functionality works well (tested in Ubuntu 11.10 and Xubuntu 11.10). Click the close button or type Alt-4 to minimise to tray.

What doesn't work: some of the preferences do not function (e.g. “always show in tray”); clicking the minimise button doesn't work (in Ubuntu, but does work in Xubuntu), nor does control-q (perhaps expected behaviour?).

MLyrics

Version 1.3.4, developed by LookingMan

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Description: Another way to deal with lyrics

See this page for what is new and for more info http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addons/1928/

Make suggestions and report bugs here http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/suggestions_and_reports_for_mlyrics

Download latest build from here https://github.com/FreeleX/MLyrics/raw/master/MLyrics-latest.xpi (do not forget to change Nightingale language to English (US))

Version 1.0.0, developed by freaktechnik

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Description: Adds mp3skull to the list of search engines

Music Recommendations

Version 1.0.1, developed by necimal, ported by zjays

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Description: Music Recommendations searches for similar artists (powered by Last.fm), and provides links to these artists in your library.

Music Quiz

Version 1.2.4, developed by Mitch and GeekShadow

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Description: Name the song playing in as little time as possible, to score the most points.

New Tab Button

Version 1.2.7, developed by GeekShadow

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Description: Add a new tab button on the toolbar.

Nightingale Developer Tools

Version 0.7.0, build 20120222 developed by POTI updated by GeekShadow

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Description: A collection of essential utilities for feathers designers and extension developers.

Now Playing Art

Version 1.16.0.0, developed by Simon

Updated 22 Jan 2013, Download

Description: NowPlayingArt displays local and web art based on album and artist (=album artist, artist, composer & lyricist) metadata on the playing track at bottom of the service pane. It is highly customisable and handles multiple images, which can be clicked through, scrolled or viewed as a slide show.

Alternative download and detailed instructions at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1677.

Now Playing List 2

Version 1.41, developed by Tuskan360, ported by pedrocarvalho

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Description: Adds a now playing list with ability to drag and drop songs into the queue.

It allows double clicking on Music panel and add to a “real” playlist queue. tested on ver. 1.11.0, Build 0 (20120305120959)

PartyRuffle

Version 0.9.1, developed by abu

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Description: An intelligent playlist that continuously shuffles your music based on recommendations from Last.fm or your own track ratings.

Playlist Export

Version 0.9.6 developed by Wilco ported and updated by johnmurrayvi

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Description: Export your playlists as M3U, M3U8, or PLS files. Note: For the “Select All” button to select every playlist, you must scroll down to the bottom of the list before clicking it. Also, the “Correct Case” option is a bit finicky currently, so if you have this enabled and are having issues exporting some playlists, try disabling it.

Polar Clock

Version 1.0.5.0 , updated 4 December 2012, developed by Simon

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Description:

I couldn't resist making this!

If there's any interest I might make a version that also runs in the control bar!

The rings are (center to outside): week no, day no, day of week, day of month, month, hour (12 hr clock), minutes, seconds!

Alternative download at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/2034.

Rate Your Library

Version 0.6.1 developed by brudaswen ported by semogj

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Description: This extension helps you to easily rate your whole songbird library.
Whenever you listen to an unrated song you are ask to rate this title. By default the notification pops up after exactly 50 percent of the song, such that you have listened long enough to decide how much you like this song.
You can also define a global hot-key to open the notification manually (Ctrl+Shift+N by default).

RatingFile

Version 1.3.2.6, developed by rsjtdrjgfuzkfg

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Description: This Add-On gives you the opportunity to im-/export Ratings, Play- and Skipcount from/to a file. You can find it in the Tools Menu.

SHOUTcast Radio

Version 1.0.7.2223, developed by POTI / with changes from the Nightingale Community

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Description: Provide a Nightingale-native interface to browse the SHOUTcast radio directory. You can bookmark/favourite stations, filter/search, and view by genre.

Sleep Timer

Version 1.10.0.0, developed by Simon

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Description: Sleeptimer is a customisable sleep timer which shows up in the control pane.

It counts down from a time you set and when the time is up, optionally: - shows a message; - cuts, fades or finishes the playing track; - pauses; - plays a media item/list; - starts an external application; - waits; - closes or returns to the media player.

Alternative download and detailed instructions at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1641.

Smarty Pants

Version 1.2.9, developed by nickm, updated by zjays

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Description: This is a sidebar with functionality similar to Genius from iTunes. You can select one or more tracks in your library and Smarty Pants will find tracks that are similar. It is split up into three tabs, the first shows the songs in your library, which you can play in Songbird or save as a playlist. The second has recommended songs that are not in your library, which can opened and played in last.fm. The third is a list of recommended artists along with albums from those artists that are not in your library.

Smarty Pants will try to process lots of songs and artists to get the best results, but this can be stopped at any time if you are happy with the results.

There is also a toolbar button that will simply generate a playlist for the selected track using some default options.

Version 1.2.9 - Uploaded by zjays September 18, 2012 - Added right-click option in Recommended tab to search for song in mp3skull

Statusbar Clock

Version 1.8.16, developed by Cosmic Cat, updated by GeekShadow

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Description: Display the date and time in your browser's status bar. Or just the date, or just the time, or maybe a cheerful message to brighten someone's day. It's quite customizable.

Songbird/Nightingale remote

Version 1.10.1, developed by 779Media, ported by bensch

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Description: Control your music playing on your host machine from your iPhone or Android device.

The App needed is available for Android. There is also a charged version for iOS.

Requires iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or Android device to be on same wifi network as host machine.

Windows users wishing for iPhone connectivity, must have Bonjour Print Services for Windows installed: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/ port 5353 is open for Bonjour to work correctly

On Ubuntu 9.10

  1. Select “System→Administration→Synaptic Package Manager”
  2. Install “Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility library”
  3. Install SongbirdRemote Add On.

Song notifier

Version 0.6.4, developed by conlan, ported by bensch

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Description: Shows an alert slider when the song changes. Alert can included information about the currently playing song including: Title, Artist, and Album. The text, image, and colors on the alert can be customized.

SoundCloud

Version 1.0.3, developed by kurt ruppel from POTI

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Description: Bringing SoundCloud to Nightingale.

  • Discover
    • Search SoundCloud for tracks.
    • Sort tracks by their play/favorite counts or creation dates.
    • Find tracks by a particular user.
  • Listen
    • Queue tracks up in the play queue.
    • Drop tracks into the playlist of your choosing.
    • Scobble your playback history to Last.fm.
    • Download available tracks as you go.
  • Connect
    • Login to SoundCloud through Songbird.
    • Keep up to date with the people you follow. View their recently posted tracks in the dashboard.
    • Play all your favorites.
    • Follow/Favorite on the fly.
  • Visualize
    • Waveform display pane reveals the shape of the sound, integrating the unique SoundCloud experience into Nightingale.

Splish Splosh

Version 1.12.0.0., developed by Simon

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Description: Splish splosh allows you to remove or change the start-up splash screen and will display any splash screens provided by feathers.

Alternative download and detailed instructions at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1772.

Tagger

Version 0.9.2.4, developed by Horazont, ported by sparhawk Download

Description: Generating, modifying and saving tags (metadata) right in Songbird Nightingale.

Hints on usage: Since Songbird dropped the “Manage files” preference in version 1.10, this add-on allows a similar functionality. Unfortunately it's not quite a “clever” as the original, bundled preference. For example, if you are tagging by name of artist/song/etc., it gets confused if there are slashes in the title (e.g. AC/DC), creating additional subdirectories. Apart from this, it appears to work well.

TagNinja

Version 1.0.0.0, developed by lukas_skywalker

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Description: Tag your files easily. Let TN get the information for you. Approve it. Done. Click the tag button left to the search field to tag the currently selected album. This release is experimental. It could mess up your tags. But it probably won't.

Tester Tools

Version 1.0, Ported and updated from Songbird Nightly Tester Tools by stevew

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Description: A port of the Songbird Nightly Tester Tools.

Total time and size statusbar

Version 0.6.4, developed by alfred, ported by bensch

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Description: The status bar to show the item count, total time and total size in the library and playlists.

Track Art Fetcher

Version 1.6.0.0, developed by Simon

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Description: Fetches art work from a track's primary image property and from the directory where the track is located.

Alternative download and detailed instructions at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1838.

Unity Integration

Version 1.1.2 (tested only for 32-bit Ubuntu), developed by LookingMan

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Description: Provides integration into Ubuntu Unity (Sound Menu, Hide on close, Notifications)

Please check README if you installing for the first time.

Find more info, make suggestions and report bugs here http://forum.getnightingale.com/thread-554.html

Download latest build from here https://github.com/FreeleX/UnityIntegration/raw/master/UnityIntegration-latest.xpi

Vandelay Industries

Version 1.2.8, developed by nickm

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Description: adds a menu item to the tools menu to let you import play counts, metatdata, and loved tracks from last.fm.

Web Window

Version 0.4, developed by GeekShadow

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Description: Allow you to open a new browsing window, using the new window toolbar button or “Tools” menu. Code is based on “mybrowser”

Wikipedia Extension

Version 1.2.5b, developed by POTI

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Description: Displays the Wikipedia entry from en.wikipedia.org for the artist currently playing in Nightingale. Wikipedia displays in the bottom content pane by default.

Note: Modified to show the Nightingale Wiki page when nothing is playing instead of the SB one.

WhirlyBird

Version 0.1.1, developed by abu

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Description: Adds an album art preview media page that is based on the MediaFlow addon originally created by John Marshall. This addon works nicely with the PartyRuffle addon.

Zippy (developers tool)

Version 1.10.0.0, developed by Simon

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Description: Adds easy-to-hit toolbar buttons to:

- restart Songbird/Nightingale (if developers tools are installed)

- refresh UI (if developers tools are installed)

- open error console

- open DOM inspector (if DOM inspector is installed)

- make XPI files for selected add-on(s)

- compile IDLs into XPTs

- force exit.

Alternative download and detailed instructions at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1722.

Feathers

Big Beat

Version 1.2.1.0, developed by dyedfox

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Description: orange and grey feather.

Features: Support for: MLyrics, mashTape.

Songbird link including screenshot.

Chlorophyll

Version 0.7.3.7, Developed by Kieran

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Description: A soothing green feather inspired by nature.

Features: support for mashtape.

Songbird link including screenshot.

Chromibird

Version 2.2, developed by boosh for Songbird, ported by Sparhawk.

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Description: A feather based on Google Chrome on Windows

Comment: one of the few ported feathers based on a light background with dark text.

Songbird link including screenshot.

itune nightingale

Version 1.0.0, developed by cyrcox

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Description: itunes Skin for Songbird and Nightingale of course

Songbird link including screenshot.

Noct

Version 1.2, developed by alittlemurkling

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Description: A black and cyan feather inspired by Android 4.0.

New in 1.2: Made the theme a bit darker, added a trough to the seekbar, and removed most of the gradients.

Songbird link including screenshot.

piasa

Version 0.2 developed by Timmythepirate

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Description: The default Nightingale with a copper/orange color added.

simplyBlack

Version 2.4.4.6, developed by rsjtdrjgfuzkfg

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Description: A dark version of the old gonzo-feather with some changes in the mini-player, and the implementation of the new purpleRain features, like the new panes. Includes netbook- and native-mode.

In Progress

  • LiveTweeter → Issue 82 (to track down changes) It's likely to be renamed Nightingale Share
  • Native feather → LIB53 work, still need improvements
  • Libre.fm → Support broken in latest Last.fm add-on (see Bug 25403)
  • Blue-Glow → A feather converted from Blue-Fusion for Songbird which requires some improvements.
  • MediaFlow → Will come. Sadly the old one won't work anymore.

More info

add-ons.txt · Last modified: 2013/05/03 21:27 by zjays