The elves are working overtime to try and get Songbird 0.4 ready to be slipped in under the tree (or Festivus pole) in time. To see what’s new, and what some of the known issues are, check out the Release Notes. In preparation for our big push, and to help ensure the good children all the world-over get the best Songbird 0.4 that could be built, we’ve cut our RC1 release today. So please pretty please download 0.4RC1 and start hammering on it to see what issues we might be missing. Do it for yourself. Do it for us. But more importantly, do it for the children. Won’t you please think of the children?
If you’re an add-on developer, now is a *great* time to test your add-on against 0.4 and make sure it will continue to function in 0.4. If you’re feeling particularly awesome, this would also be an excellent time to read up on display panes, and add support for them to your add-on.
If you find any issues, bugs, crashes, or evil grinches - *please* let us know by filing a bug in our Bugzilla.
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SubscribeiPod support doesn’t seem to work in 0.4rc1 on Linux x86_64. When the add-on tries to install, I get “could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Songbird build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3)”.
Not sure whether I should try and post this as a bug… Or what more information I give about it.
hey syg,
Which version of the iPod add-on are you installing? If you go to http://addons.songbirdnest.com and install the latest iPod Support addon:
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/extensions/detail/52
it should support 0.4rc1 just fine.
If you continue to have issues, could you file a bug with exact steps on how you are able to reproduce this bug? We’d love to figure out what’s going on here.
cheers,
steve
this is fixed with 2.1.5 version of the iPOD Device Support. QA is testing it now..will be out shortly…hang in there!
Mozilla does not make this, it is based on their code.
This is extremely promising, especially for an iTunes junky like myself. Its clunky right now but its understandable with how young the program is. It plays a lot more formats than iTunes which is a plus for anyone who refuses to convert lossy files to lossyer files. I still use iTunes, because not all of my purchases have been converted to “iTunes plus” yet and therefor cannot be authorized to play on Songbird but I see this program becoming as common as Firefox one of these days. It’s damn pretty too. Looks good on Vista.