By mig 
Sep 28, 2007 5:55 pm
![[2007.09.28] Another Nightly to Shoot the Tube](http://www.songbirdnest.com/files/images/73_longboardingbird.png)
http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/wiki/Nightly_Builds
Errr, like, Cowabunga, and uhm, all that other surfer lingo nonsense.
There’s another Blessing! Yay! That should make up for all manner of outrageously bad surfing metaphors to which you may be subjected by this blogpost, right? Of course!
There’s a few bugs with making Subscriptions, right now. And we’re changing their name to “Linked Playlists.” Let us know what you think about all the changes we’ve been making to the Web Playlist, et al.
Now there’s a good clutch of Add-Ons available for 0.3, already:
And file bugs! Please please test this poor little 0.3 till it splutters in the surf. And then test it some more!
And post everything you find to Bugzilla!
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com
mig
By mig
Sep 27, 2007 5:14 pm
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/extensions/detail/57
So we had a bit of an svn “hiccup” (as our VP put it) yesterday, and that’s somewhat delayed us from making another blessing, but I did want to note that we managed to clean up a recent version of the Venkman Javascript Debugger into an .xpi that can be installed into Songbird.
Once installed, you may launch Venkman via a menuitem under the Tools menu.
For any Songbird extensions developers or Songbird-aware website developers out there who are unaware of the value of Venkman, it is similar to a binary debugger in that you can set random breakpoints, view the functions on the call-stack, inspect variables in a scope, step through code line-by-line, etc:
http://www.svendtofte.com/code/learning_venkman/
http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/venkman/faq/venkman-faq.html
http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/venkman/
Keep in mind that if you want to debug your application-level extensions, you must disable Venkman’s “Hide Browser Code” menuitem option to see all of our (and your) code for the application. Otherwise, it will only debug what’s loaded in the main browser pane.
Good luck, Have fun!
mig
By steve 
Sep 21, 2007 10:24 am
Thanks to a little push from Jesse, our IRC channel is now perched at irc.mozilla.org with the rest of the Mozilla flock. Come join us on channel #songbird to chirp about Songbird, the Media Web, or anything else!
For those who don’t know, IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is simply a way to chat online with a group of people. A good introduction to IRC can be found here. You’ll need an IRC client, so if you are using Firefox (you are, right?), we recommend you install the ChatZilla Firefox extension. After it is installed, clicking #songbird should fly you right to our channel.
By roblord 
Sep 17, 2007 1:26 pm
As both Fake Steve Jobs and the real Steve Jobs charismatically attest, Apple handily dominates the Internet digital media commercial markets of music, mobile players (e.g., iPods, iPhone, etc.) and increasingly audiobooks, music videos, TV shows, movies and other segments. Apple has more market-share than all of its competitors combined. And Apple achieved their enviable position by the book, as Ian Rogers points out, by innovating and marketing better than its competitors.
Well, mostly by the book. Apple latest generation of iPods, for example the iPod classic, are hindered with new cryptography that prohibits syncing your music, podcasts, audiobooks, movies and TV shows to your iPod if you choose to use any software other than Apple’s own iTunes. Ouch.
By mig
Sep 13, 2007 6:06 pm
![[2007.09.13] Finally! Another Blessing for your Inspection!](http://www.songbirdnest.com/files/images/70_inspectionbird.png)
http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/wiki/Nightly_Builds
Come help us peer into the depths of the ‘Bird…
It’s been awhile changing things over before they were stable enough to feel comfortable with sharing with all you wonderful folks.
There’s plenty of new art and functionality, the tabs are more stable, the downloads are more friendly, and there’s even starting to be a decent number of Add-Ons available for this 0.3 Nightly.
Remember, Blessed Nightlies are for you to test something relatively stable and tell us what bugs you can still find in it. With your assistance, we’ve closed over 1000 bugs along the way to 0.3 but we know there still must be more to be found.
Please please please help us out by running a Smoketest and filing bugs in Bugzilla as you find them!
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/
Oh and by the way, for those of you who have asked in the past for a Stop button and been told that it will be able to be added as an extension, well, I wrote the extension:
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/extensions/detail/48
Install! Enjoy! File bugs!
mig
