http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/wiki/Nightly_Builds
Unfortunately, we’re having extended issues with our Mac and Linux builds, so we’re only putting our seal of approval on this morning’s Win32 Nightly.
Hopefully we’ll figure out our crossplatform worries soon, but we had to decide that the other 80% of our userbase deserves to be told there’s a build worth trying and posting bugs against.
Things to gaze upon in wonderment:
- Brand New Feathers (sans Repeat/Shuffle buttons).
- Final 0.8.6c VLC version.
- Drag and drop tracks from the internet to your library automatically downloads to your library.
- Playback media on websites requiring HTTP Authentication.
- Playback files served by scripts (that don’t end in a media extension).
- Column picker on the Filter columns to allow you to change your filters (filter by Composer, Genre, whatever).
- Better support for huge (15000+ tracks) libraries.
- YouTube videos scraped from webpages.
- Over 200 Bugs!
And remember: Bugzilla is your friend. Love it, squeeze it, touch it.
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/
mig
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Subscribehey, everything looks really great, except why is there no ‘all’ filter for year? I don’t want to have to sort by year, I just want to pick an artist and see all their songs.
yea, its known, http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3079, I had the same complaint.
If you do make the mistake of selecting a year, ctrl+click will undo the selection
Why is it still not possible to search by album artist? This is far more useful than including album art location as a possible search!
I really hope that this is just an oversight and that version 3.0 will include this.
I knew I shouldn’t have gotten excited about “Better support for huge (15000+ tracks) libraries.”
Tried to add the organized part of my music collection, about 63,000 files. Can’t even complete it, program crashes and Vista gives this error:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Songbird.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 469431c1
Fault Module Name: sbDBEngine.dll
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 46a19218
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000c93e
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.6
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 1259
Additional Information 2: 67211cbc496ae65f9380c03e2cacb9e3
Additional Information 3: 8f60
Additional Information 4: b73abe134efb0ce8def8e75464749982
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Interestingly I couldn’t even import small batches of files after that crash until I nuked the settings folders of Songbird. Even creating a new profile didn’t help.
XUL page switching still leaks memory like a sieve.
I like the new stuff (Web Library sounds exciting) but for the program to be usable for me for anything more then playing with a new version every couple of months these performance issues need to be dealt with.
I’m not sure what you mean?
Search on the library will search across whatever filters are showing, and the “Artist” column is one of them.
You should make a bug item for your 60+k library, so the programmers can work with you directly.
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/
The goal is to support you with that.
Unfortunately, “Artist” is different from “Album Artist”. Take the album “Reanimation”. The Album Artist is listed as Linkin Park as it’s just a bunch of remixes of their songs. But the Artist Field in the metadata lists the artist who did that particular remix. So the song shows up in the library as being by Jay Gordon, since he did the remix, not by Linkin Park, who did the original song. It makes it annoying when you want that entire album listed in a search for “Linkin Park”.
The auto volume levelling feature gets a little frustrating sometimes when the volume suddenly dips in the middle of a song due to the bass or treble levels spiking in the song. Give us bird_users an option to turn it off please.
As MonkeyFit explained, “Artist” and “Album Artist” are different fields. Take Santana’s Supernatural album as an example. Santana is the Album Artist, but not always the Artist. “Love of My Life”, for example, would have “Santana featuring Dave Matthews” as the Artist.
Picking Santana for Artist and Supernatural for Album in Songbird, only picks up those tracks that do not have other featured artists.
Gotcha.
Dunno that we’re recording that metadata information.
You wouldn’t happen to know what the id3v2 tagname is for that?
I use Ogg Vorbis, not mp3, and so this is from Vorbis comments not id3v2 tags, but this information is recorded under “ALBUM ARTIST”.
I did a bit of searching, and according to this thread on the hydrogen audio forums, Album Artist was left out of the id3 specification. It seems that most applications use the BAND tagname for album artist information.
I can confirm that dBpoweramp uses the BAND tag for album artist information when ripping to mp3 (and uses ALBUM ARTIST for Ogg as stated previously).
I think that if Songbird is to become the ‘Firefox of media players’, it should be easily customizable like Firefox. Toolbar buttons should be easily dragged and dropped, so it wouldn’t always just look like a black iTunes.
I want to be able to drag my favorite buttons onto one sleek menu like I do in Firefox. Possibly combine previous track button with back button, next/forward, for simplicity. Keep up the good work.
Thanks,
Thomas
Don’t click Santana, then. If you filter only with album, they all come up. Filtering by the Ultimate Aerosmith album showed all songs, including walk this way featuring Run DMC.
This isn’t a solution, it’s a workaround and not a particularly good one either. Album artist should be implemented.
Yea, we’re on it:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4100
Yea, we’re working on the toolbarization of reality.
However, you can’t mix the player buttons with the browser buttons — both contexts are global and independent.
I do not consider your work on HTTP Authentication complete. It’s great that the bird remembers my username and password for the site, but when I attempt to Play a song, I am required to authenticate again - a major annoyance if I’m attempting to listen to a batch of songs on that page. This is not the case in Firefox - once I’m in, I’m in (of course, Firefox does not let me listen in batch mode).
Oh, well, no, we don’t see that here… once you authenticate and save the L/P in the pw manager, it should work fine.
Perhaps you should file a bug with your exact situation and one of our helpful and friendly programmers will work with you to figure out what’s up?
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com