Date May 2008

iImport, cross-platform iTunes library importer for Songbird

By stevel stevel May 19, 2008 9:51 am
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Just wanted to give a shout-out to Marco’s (SonicSpot on the forums) wicked iImport tool that he wrote to address this thread. iImport is a nice way to maintain an iTunes library on Windows, and have it automatically import into Songbird on Linux, Marco’s tool takes care of munging all the paths into the right [...]

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Add-ons Site Redesign Peep Show

By jim jim May 17, 2008 1:35 pm
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Yes yes y’all! We’re about done with a brand spanking new add-ons site, and we wanted to give you a sneak peek. Here’s what we’re doing and why… We want to make it super easy for people to find and install add-ons they find interesting. To that end, we’ve simplified the UI and added search, [...]

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New 0.6pre Blessed Nightly (the laser edition)

By raffel raffel May 9, 2008 5:45 pm
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Get your weekend started right with the latest Songbird 0.6 blessed nightly! Maybe you’ve already read our post about how Songbird is harder, better, faster, stronger? If not, we encourage any/all to download the latest blessed build and send in feedback and bugs as we work toward our final 0.6 release which ships in early [...]

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Performance Improvements in Songbird 0.6!

By raffel raffel May 9, 2008 5:45 pm
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Over the past few months we’ve heard from a number of users asking us to focus on performance optimizations for the next version of Songbird. Today, we’re excited to share our progress. If you can’t wait for Songbird 0.6 to ship (it lands in early June) you can try our latest blessed nightlies and judge [...]

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Help Make Songbird Better!

By raffel raffel May 9, 2008 2:10 pm
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We’ve been looking for ways to get feedback from active Songbird users because your input helps us make Songbird better. In the next release we’ll be asking users if you’d be willing to take a quick, anonymous survey about the product. The details that follow will only apply to users running 0.6 Final and does [...]

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