Date October 2008

On the Road to 1.0

By raffel raffel Oct 17, 2008 2:07 pm
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I’m excited to announce that Songbird 1.0 will be shipping in approximately a month! This is a big update for us that delivers a slew of improvements that address many of the most common complaints we’ve been hearing from users regarding performance and stability. While we’ll be the first to admit that we still have [...]

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sb_core winners for August/September 2008

By stevel stevel Oct 15, 2008 11:12 am
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Our most recent sb_core period just wrapped up, with Claudio Cherubino getting the most patches (mostly UI-related) committed to SVN.  Tied for second were Alfred Peng (with a series of OpenSolaris build fixes), and Daniel Moreno for his work on the next-generation web playlist scraper.  Give some props to these guys for continuing to make [...]

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nightly mashTapes

By stevel stevel Oct 14, 2008 8:55 am
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(not to be confused with Aus’s mixtapes, which sadly, are not produced nightly) We integrated mashTape into the Songbird source tree a couple of weeks ago, so it’s being built every night automagikally now.  It’s more or less complete, with only a few minor tweaks slated – so we’d love to get some more eyes [...]

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Mixtape 1 (Side A)

By Aus Aus Oct 13, 2008 4:47 pm
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For the past month I’ve enjoyed getting reacquainted with mixing after many months away from the turntables. It had been so long that I had almost forgotten how fun it really was. I also managed to record two short mixes that I decided to put together as a mixtape. Where would I be without high [...]

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Experiences with MTP and Devices

By dbradley dbradley Oct 3, 2008 11:11 am
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I spent the Spring working with Microsoft’s Windows Portable Device API along with others here at Songbird to get MTP support in Songbird. WPD is the API Microsoft provides to allow applications to talk to MTP compliant devices. At first glance it looks simple enough. You have objects that have properties. So you figure you [...]

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