Date June 2006

Friday Rockout

By jkoshi jkoshi Jun 30, 2006 7:31 pm
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New Nightlies for all platforms.
Happy FourthO’July Weekend!

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Linux stability in the works

By redfive redfive Jun 27, 2006 10:06 pm
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I’ve just posted a patch over there: http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=188 that is drastically improving my stability on FC5. It’s a big change to a core piece of our functionality and I’m having some of the rest of the team take a hammer to it for a bit before I land it.

If you are crashing all over the place ( particularly with JS_GC in your stack ) and are inclined to applying a patch, or are just one of those helpful people who like to test patches, throw that patch at your Bird and comment in the bug if you see improvements/regressions etc.

I should be landing it Wed afternoon.

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Songbird not-yet-0.2 source and binaries available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux

By roblord roblord Jun 27, 2006 1:41 am
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Eager birdbuilders, you may now build the bird.

Songbird’s public Subversion tree is open. Initial build instructions have been posted to the Songbird Trac. Developers may download the source via HTTP or BitTorrent. Please report bugs and post patches to Songbird Bugzilla.

Note that this our not-yet-0.2 source code release, which means it is not yet our 0.2 “Developer Preview” release as defined in our Songbird roadmap. The internal birdbuilder team will be substantially changing numerous APIs between now and the 0.2 launch. Eager Songbird extension authors should wait for the 0.2 “Developer Preview” launch.

Finally, Songbird not-yet-0.2 binaries are available for Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux. We’ll frequently update the binaries to reflect the latest source changes.

Build the bird, play the Web.
Rob

Update: Songbird’s not-yet-0.2 has been Dugg! And Slashdotted!

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Washington Post on the Media Web

By roblord roblord Jun 26, 2006 8:13 am
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“Because the Internet has changed how people discover and share music, the rules of marketing it and the hierarchy of who determines what’s hot have also changed. As radio-music listenership declines, the industry finds itself spending more time courting a broader field of tastemakers who, through Web sites, are popularizing songs that never get radio play. The primary tool in this transition is the playlist — a sequence of tracks posted on blogs or shared on music purchase sites such as iTunes.”

Read the full article on WashingtonPost.com.

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mplayer status

By redfive redfive Jun 16, 2006 7:49 pm
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Well, let’s see, I was able to get mplayer to load and work via it’s js api from a web page and from a webpage’s iframe (containing a page with the embed). The api was, obviously, visable and calling through to it was no problem.

So I modified our XUL to follow the same layout and it didn’t work. Well, I thought it was probably a “loading plugins in XUL” bug, why don’t I see if the original webpage loads and works. Nope. So now it looks like a “plugins on Linux in XULRunner” bug. At least the problem is getting scoped.

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