Ring in the new year with Songbird 0.4!
By astroerph 
Dec 27, 2007 5:45 pm
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Ring in the new year with Songbird 0.4!
Us birders have been giving Santa’s hardworking elves a run for their cookies this holiday season, and we’re ready to release a final Songbird 0.4 for Developers just in time to ring in the new year.
Download it from the Songbird Developer Center.
It’s been less than 2 months since we released Songbird 0.3 and introduced our new open development platform, but we’ve built in a few new juicy tidbits that we couldn’t wait to get out. In particular, check out the following new features:
Songbird display panes allow add-on developers to easily populate specific panes in the user interface with their own content, while providing the user a consistent and flexible way to interact with add-ons that use them.
Improved iPod support (via the default-distributed iPod add-on) makes significant improvements to the UI, and now supports all iPods except the touch and phone. (Expect to see more iPod improvements, as well as support for other devices in 0.5+.)
General tuning of the application’s quality and stability is becoming a greater focus as we look toward our end-user debut. With this release, we’ve cleaned up the options dialog, playlist and library sorting and reordering, media download error states, Web media history, and a bunch of bugs.
A comprehensive XUL periodic table – including Songbird-specific elements – is now available for add-on developers and feathers creators as part of the default-distributed Songbird Developer Tools add-on.
Play count and skip tracking is now implemented for all of you looking to do your own smart-playlist-like features and Audioscrobbler-like library mining.
For more, check out the release notes.
Our new year’s resolution is to release early and often, so you can expect similarly quick cycles throughout 2008.
Happy New Year!
The Songbird Team
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Checking in with Songbird….
Songbird is basically what would happen if iTunes and Firefox got together and made some sweet love’n. However Songbird isn’t some sort of bastard offspring, it’s had it’s gene’s manipulated to remove walled garden of iTun…
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Subscribegood job… display panes are lovely
I hope some cool addons appear soon
I am using 0.4rc2 but when I check for updates from the menu it says there aren’t any. Why is that?
Using OS X 10.4.11 PPC by the way.
Updates for previous versions are not live yet. You can download the final 0.4 version directly from http://songbirdnest.com/download or check again after 1/1/08 when the updates go live.