MP3, FLAC, Ogg and friends (Songbird) in OpenSolaris

UPD: Since OpenSolaris 2008.11 uses old`n`rusty songbird 0.7, I remade this article to use Songbird 1.0 release.

Inability of playing back mp3, flac and online radio was always a blocker for me...but today, I finally found time (30 mins) to resolve this issue for me.

So, what do we have - OpenSolaris 2008.11, Cowon mp3 player with music and AKG headphones.

1.Lets mount mp3 player and grab all music to my homedir:

$ rmformat
Looking for devices...
1. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p0
Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci103c,2803@1a,7/storage@4/disk@0,0
Connected Device: COWON Sy iAUDIO 7 0100
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$ pfexec mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p1 /mnt/mp3_player
$ cp -r /mnt/mp3_player/MUSIC ~/Music


2. While mp3 files are being downloaded, lets install Songbird

Songbird Contributed Builds, thanks to Alfred Peng

2.1 Download, bunzip
2.2 pfexec pkgadd -d {songbird package}
2.3 Binary for Songbird will be in /opt/sfw/bin, so either tune your $PATH, either tune your icon for songbird, or tune both
2.4 Install Gstreamer support for Songbird, open file with Songbird`s Ctrl+o

3. Install mp3 support, as described on a Observatory blog.

4. That`s it! I found Songbird fully support FLAC/MP3/Ogg...i don`t need any more file formats

5. Install Xulmus, a VIM like keybindings and appearance for Songbird

6. Songbird has weird browsing system, so, to have a nice window, with your directory structure - to be able to drag`n`drop stuff from there directly into library/playlists - install Directory Browser by Epskampie. This`ll make life easier

Songbird have fully integrated web browser, so you can install all add-ons through it.

The next step will be ability of playing back mpeg4/hdtv/etc...I just want to play a whole bunch of movies I have

Take care!