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I’ve been so busy lately, that I didn’t even noticed that the Songbird player got updates. It has now the long awaited and promised graphic equalizer.

Unfortunately, Songbird is not on the offcicial ubuntu repos, but you can install it anyway thanks to the guys at Getdeb who made the package for you. To install it just download the package from HERE and install it with your favourite package manager.

I had at first some problems with this new version, but after a bit of reading, I saw that was a common problem. There some conflict with the package libvisual-0.4-plugins that cause the Sonbird player not to start. This package comes preinstalled in systems with NVIDIA video cards, and for what I have seen, it is not an important part of the system and it has no big dependencies. You most probably want to remove this package if you’re experiencing some problems with this last version.

I tried to add the repositories of the Songbird Nightly Builds, but I found the current version (1.3.0a) quite unstable, and not compatible with most plugins, so I decided to leave the stable 1.2.0 version.

• If you want to try though, here is the repo you need to add to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/songbird-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/songbird-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

• Add the signature by typing in a console:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 5719E347

And now you will always have the lastest development build of Songbird available in your preferred package manager app.