Comments on: Sneak peek at upcoming 0.4 release

By: jkoshi

jkoshi — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:00:44 +0000

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.”

By: Kometa

Kometa — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:01:35 +0000

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?

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:54:01 +0000

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.

By: endblink

endblink — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:23:23 +0000

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