May 30, 2008 1:15 pm
Songbird 0.6rc2 is now available for download!
If you’re interested, you can also read the release notes.
New features and changes that we’d appreciate your feedback on include:
Performance improvements such as: support for larger media libraries, smoother scrolling, faster filtering, speedier search; significantly reduced memory footprint on Windows and Linux builds for many common tasks; and [...]
May 28, 2008 6:20 pm
The new add-ons site is (a)live!
We killed the crufty old bugger and worked a little re-animation magic to bring you the healthy 8 pound, 2 ounce site we have today. He babbles more than he talks, but he’s already up and walking around.
As stated previously, our 2 main goals are to make it easier for [...]
May 28, 2008 5:47 pm
For anyone who hasn’t seen JohnM’s MediaFlow add-on, go check it out now! It essentially implements CoverFlow in Songbird using all Javascript & Canvas.
He’s done a lot of nice little things like hooking up the visual browser to always stay in sync with the playlist, and making the album art scroll automatically to the [...]
May 27, 2008 11:30 am
Update @ 3:27pm: it took a bit longer than we expected, but we’re back online!
We’re making some scheduled changes to the servers that host the Songbird Add-ons site today. We expect the site to be down for about two hours. The plan is to take the site offline at approximately 12:00pm (1900h, UTC-8: [...]
May 19, 2008 8:47 pm
As Daniel mentioned, lots of work has gone into metadata support lately. The new editor is looking good, file writing unit tests are passing, and there are only a few bugs left for this release. Thanks for all your help!
Here is a quick summary for fellow metadata nerds:
FORMATS
Songbird uses TagLib 1.5 on all platforms [...]
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