Sneak peek at upcoming 0.4 release

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Dec 11, 2007 9:00 pm Permalink
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Here it is, bringing a little cheer before the holidays, your first official look at our latest features and improvements for Songbird.

Check it out and report your feedback and bugs. We’re not done yet, so expect some things to be broken. There are known issues currently with the Linux and Mac PPC nightly builds. Please use the latest Windows and Mactel builds for now.

Download the latest Windows and Mac i686 nightly build.

Our core add-ons are now published alongside our nightly builds so you can follow closely our development.

Download the latest iPod and iTunes importer add-ons for your platform.

New features and improvements

  • Display panes that make it friendly for multiple add-ons to be installed in Songbird at once by allowing the user to define which add-on gets displayed by context. More details on these integration points in our developer center.
  • Improved user experience for the iPod including a new iPod Summary Page (requires latest iPod add-on).
  • Library support to return to the web location where a media item originated.
  • Bug free preferences/options.
  • Faster, smoother window resize.

Known issues

All OS Platforms

  • Links in frames clobber the page (5981)
  • UI problems with the resizing and re-arranging of columns in playlists (6147)

iPod Support

  • iPod Touch and the iPhone are not supported at this time.
  • Cannot mount iPod with Linux Fedora OS (6200)
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  1. endblink Dec 11, 2007 11:23 pm Permalink

    Adding bitrate information would be INCREDIBLY sweet. (Visible when song is playing, sort by, visible when streaming from sites, etc.)

  2. Matt Dec 12, 2007 10:54 am Permalink

    Hey endblink, that’s a good idea. We’re close to supporting that now, but aren’t able to pull bit rate information out of our media cores just yet.

    If you file an enhancement bug at http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com we’ll let you know when it is ready.

  3. Kometa Dec 13, 2007 7:01 pm Permalink

    I’d like a straight answer this time as t whether or not the team is working on Zune support. Every time someone asks the question it gets ignored.

    Have you begun working on Zune compatibility and support?

  4. jkoshi Dec 14, 2007 8:00 am Permalink

    Kometa, The straight answer is no, we’re not focused yet on the Zune. We are, however, focused on device support beyond the iPod, and in upcoming releases, we’ll be looking to incorporate MTP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol) support for portable devices.

    But MTP won’t automatically mean Zune support unfortunately it seems, (from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune) “Zune supports the Windows Media DRM (WMDRM) digital rights management system incompatible with other DRM systems and not part of the PlaysForSure platform or program.[14][15] Multimedia content is transferred though Media Transfer Protocol (MTP); however, its proprietary MTP extensions (“MTPZ”) place an interoperability barrier between the Zune and previous MTP-based software.”