By jkoshi 
Oct 31, 2006 6:22 pm
Happy Halloween!
Safe Trick-o-Treating!
By jkoshi
Oct 25, 2006 5:13 pm
The votes have been tallied:
Look for our new tshirt in November.
By jkoshi
Oct 23, 2006 5:52 pm
It seems we’ve again fallen behind on supplying the demand for Songbird tshirts. I’m glad everyone likes the design, but like every good thing a new version must prevail. For those who’ve already ordered a DJ shirt, not to worry, we’re doing another short run of them. For everyone else, we’re discontinuing the DJ after they are gone. See the merchtable if you want one.
Please vote for which designs you’d like to see us print below:
Thanks for voting!
Results coming in the next post…
By roblord 
Oct 18, 2006 9:24 pm
Birdonauts to Ground Control:
Today, we proudly launch Songbird 0.2 “Developer Preview”. Start your download now.
Songbird 0.2 is a preview release to let developers and early birds who can’t wait for 1.0 explore Songbird’s potential. Check the release notes.
Songbird has already attracted some birdwatchers. Ross Karchner at Ross Notes says, “It’s like taking iTunes, ripping out the music store, and replacing it with the rest of the internet.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
If you haven’t yet, have a look at our Songbird 0.2 screencast to learn what Songbird can do today: http://songbirdnest.com/screencast
New in 0.2:
- Cross-platform support: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
- Multi-language support: 30+ languages
- Play the Web: Play as you browse, Web pages as playlists
- Developer life-cycle tools: Doxygen, Trac, SVN
Note: We strongly encourage you to completely uninstall all previous versions of Songbird before installing Songbird 0.2, by following these instructions. There are known bugs in Songbird 0.2 RC3 that will not be fixed by simply updating.
Also, if you use the built-in update functionality in Songbird 0.2 RC1 or Songbird 0.2 RC2, it will only update one release at a time (and only one each day unless you manually trigger “Check for Updates…”). Known bugs will also remain until you install Songbird 0.2.
Don’t forget to let us know what you think in our forums.
Major Rob, over and out.
By mig 
Oct 12, 2006 11:32 pm
HOLY SMOKES!!! THERE’S THE FINISH-LINE UP AHEAD!!!
Those of you getting songbird for the first time — or those of you who delete your profiles — will be invited to try out up-to-FOUR (count ‘em!) super slick extensions optionally available for install:
- iTunes Library Importer - by Erik Staats
- Shoutcast Directory List - by Francis Gastellu
- Audioscrobbler Notifier - by Steve Krulewitz
- Wikipedia Artist Display - by Francis Gastellu
Let’s give these outstanding gentlemen a heartfelt round of applause!@
The iTunes Importer will automatically prompt you after restart.
The Shoutcast and Audioscrobbler extensions will install into an “Extensions” folder at the bottom of the folder list in the service pane. Click on them to display their custom user interfaces.
And the Wikipedia window can be opened through an item in the File menu.
None of the extensions actually use the proper API for inserting themselves cleanly into a “final” Songbird UI — but this is just a 0.2, not a final 1.0 distro. On the road to 0.3, we’ll actually start to get that stuff cooked in.
Till then… Enjoy it! Have fun! Get DOWN with your funkybird selves!
mig
ps: Yes, there’s no iTunes importer available on Linux. We know. Think about it.
