How to install Songbird Music player on ubuntu

This post was written by admin on August 17, 2009
Posted Under: General

Songbird is a desktop web player built from Mozilla,it supports extensions and skins feathers.
To install Songbird on ubuntu

Then,openup terminal,navigate to the file and move it to /opt (use the filename you downloaded instead” Songbird_1.2.0-1146_linux-x86_64.tar.gz”):

sudo mv Songbird_1.2.0-1146_linux-x86_64.tar.gz /opt

Navigate to /opt,extract it and change owner permissions:

sudo tar xzvf Songbird_1.2.0-1146_linux-x86_64.tar.gz
sudo chown -R yourusrname:yourusrname Songbird

And now go to /opt/Songbird,run it by:

./songbird

To create application menu for songbird

Right click on Applications on the top of your screen and select Edit Menus.

In following screen,select Sound&video at left and click on New Item,then click to Browse…–>File System–>Opt–>Songbird–>songbird.

Next you can click to Applications–>Sound&video->Songbird to start it.

Tags: sound and video

Thanks. This was very helpful. How does one change the icon, though? I don’t have the Songbird icon in my Applications, I have the Menus spring.

Written By Jared Nielsen on April 5th, 2010 @ 1:53 pm

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