Comments on: New 0.6pre Blessed Nightly (the laser edition)

By: john

john — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:47:06 +0000

any chance of piclens integration for mediaflow album art covers and buying new music ? Seems like a perfect fit

By: Preed

Preed — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:22:32 +0000

@Steven:

It depends on how much you’re compiling; right now, we’re using jemalloc at the XULRunner level, so if you use the binaries in our vendor-binaries area, you should be able to use the same compiler you always have.

If you want to rebuild your own XULRunner with Songbird’s patches, you will need Visual Studio 8 SP1 to compile, so the custom CRT patch will apply correctly against the CRT sources.

By: Daniel Raffel

Daniel Raffel — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:05:39 +0000

@Jaman
Great suggestion, a number of users have asked for the ability to set their IM status using Songbird. We’ve noted your request as another vote for this functionality. Thanks for your feedback. We’ll work on prioritizing this into our Roadmap as well as engaging the community to see if someone can take this project on before we can get to it!

By: steven

steven — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:38:18 +0000

Since it now uses jemalloc does this mean that visual studio sp1 professional will be required to build from src?

By: Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:44:13 +0000

>>The listener for MSN Messenger?

Not a bad idea. I hope the folks who develop Adium for Mac OS X do something similar. “We don’t all use bloody iTunes!!”

By: Jaman

Jaman — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:19:03 +0000

A very good player, but some simple features, where are?

The listener for MSN Messenger?

A lot of people wants it, they likes SongBird, but don’t use it becouse of this.

Why we cut out a big part of the customers for a simple add-on?

This is not the only one, it was just an example.

But i think that we must “think” more in a “commercial” view.

To help the OpenSource software, we must give people what they want, not what we think they must use.

Yes this software gives us the security we need, but 70% of computer users, wants a simple interface and some stupid things, befor a thing like security that the doesn’t live time by time.

Over all, It’s only my opinion..

By: sili

sili — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:06:42 +0000

Doug: I had the same problem with the newest nightly of the iPod extension. Try the 20080509 nightly, this more or less works for me.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:55:21 +0000

Looks great, but having trouble with ipod xpi. Downloaded ipod xpi and installed, but it caused Songbird to be unstable and wouldn’t startup. Disabled the add-on in safe mode, then restarted.

By: pvh

pvh — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:15:54 +0000

@ Doug,

Songbird imports the iTunes library, supports almost all iPods except the iPhone and iPod Touch. As for the HTC Touch, we don’t officially support it, but it might work with one of our device support add-ons.

Vivek, CPU usage has improved. We still have improvements to make, particularly during media scan, but I think you’ll find that CPU usage is better in 0.6 than 0.5. Please remember that some add-ons increase Songbird CPU usage significantly.

@pm:

Yes, this is a known issue and is scheduled to be fixed, though I can’t say for certain how soon we will get to it.

By: pm

pm — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:59:15 +0000

Much better than before

But when I scan a new directory Songbird half-freezes the whole pc on Windows. Is this a known problem?