Date June 2008

Webpage API Development Guide

By stevel stevel

Greg over at Grabb.it (a wicked cool community-contributed music blog) put together a really awesome Songbird development guide to using the Webpage API.
If you’ve been thinking about using the Songbird Webpage API, check out Greg’s guide, and don’t forget to look at the rest of our Webpage API development resources as well!

Songbird Wants Your Crash Reports!

By ali ali

With every release, we’re doing our best to make Songbird more stable. We know, however, from time to time users encounter unexpected hiccups. We genuinely want to address these issues! Here’s how you can help make Songbird better if you notice a problem.
We have put together the following suggested steps that you [...]

Open Sauce

By stevel stevel

For all the peeps looking to make some OS/distro packages out there, we just posted the Songbird 0.6 tarball.
And our first contributed builds are up! Thanks again to Alfred Peng for building and packaging the following Songbird 0.6 OpenSolaris (x86 & SPARC) builds!

x86 SVr4 package
x86 tarball
SPARC SVr4 package
SPARC tarball

Songbird Roadmap Launched

By roblord roblord

Now that you’ve had a chance to try Songbird 0.6, here’s a view to the road ahead.
Today we are launching the Songbird Release Roadmap. Behold the next three Songbird release codenames and themes:

Fugazi: Improve performance and focus on usability.
Genesis: Continue to improve performance and add features consumers expect in a music player.
Hall: Integrate Web services.

The [...]

Firefox Download Day 2008

By jkoshi jkoshi

Attention bird-watchers! It’s Firefox Download Day 2008! Congratulations to the Moz team on a great release. Check out Mozilla’s wonderfully fun new site and download Firefox 3 while you’re there.