HOWTO_Songbird

This short tutorial will guide you through the setup of a working Songbird on Gentoo Linux.

It has been created with Gentoo Linux 2.6.22-r9 and Songbird v0.3.1.

Setting up GStreamer

See also Songbirdnest's SettingUpGStreamer

The following packages are required:

• gstreamer
• gst-plugins-base
• gst-plugins-xvideo
• gst-plugins-x
• gst-plugins-gconf
• gst-plugins-gnomevfs (?)
• gst-plugins-alsa (or gst-plugins-oss or gst-plugins-esd, depending on your audio setup)

The following packages are recommended:

• gst-plugins-ugly
• gst-plugins-faad
• gst-plugins-ffmpeg
• gst-plugins-flac
• gst-plugins-lame
• gst-plugins-mad
• gst-plugins-ogg
• gst-plugins-vorbis
• gst-plugins-pitfdll (?)
• gst-plugins-mpeg2dec
• gst-plugins-theora (?)
• gst-plugins-faac
• gst-plugins-speex (?)

Install them with an usual emerge command

Next you can test GStreamer using the command:

 gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri="file:///path/to/file.mp3"

Running Songbird

I have not yet been able to run Songbird correctly, see also this bug tracker