Putting out a bird call for our community to assist our QA team in testing Songbird! Announcing a new Songbird QA Home Page which will continuously hatch new/updated information for ongoing testing support. The following information is available to kick off your flight:
- Improve Your Bug Writing: We have posted a recommended New Bug Template to ensure we get the details needed up front to move your bugs along the runway quickly. Information on Common Duplicates for single stop check in on high profile issues we already know about in QA.
- Community Test Runs: Songbird QA is using Litmus to write, run and document testcase execution. We will be setting up ongoing community test runs for you to help make the bird rock solid.
A sanity test run for 1.0rc1 is up and ready for take off …so come on and join the flight in progress! - Helpful Testing HowTos: Check out the Helpful Information section on our QA Home Page to learn how to add Crash Reporter IDs to your bug reports as well as other assistance to support your testing .
So fly on over and give 1.0rc1 a test flight! And enjoy the ride….
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SubscribeThe “New Bug Template” page does not appear to exist?
Songbird reminds me iTunes. But I still run iTunes because there is a good :
EQUALIZER!!!!! ( with amplifier).
That’s the only one ( and strong one) negative point I see in Songbird.
With my best regards,
Sandrine: Equalizer is on the roadmap, but like other things, it needs a lot more time: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Roadmap
@ Mook
The link for the New Bug Template goes to here and loads fine for me.
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/QA/Process/Bugzilla/New_Bug_Template
@ Sandrine & atreiu
The feature request for an Equalizer is known and captured here:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4855
@ mook again.
Oops…URL was correct, but Bug Template page was set to private. Fixed for all to see now. Thanks mook!
Whoo-hoo..Lenny, Angel, Kevin, azmodean all running some community testcases! You go! I’ll chiming in with ya shortly…
Cool beans. I want but can’t have. Why? The laptop I use as my jukebox is an apple G4. You only support Intel. Any plans to port to PPC?
This is amazing BUT there is one very big drawback to using this…memory usage. it is really way too huge.
If you have to change one thig, this is it
I agree with Joedoe, memory usage is way too much… more than 100 MB in Windows XP is far more than WMP wich is a very demanding app already. So until you change this I’ll stick with WMP.
Playback from network shares is *slightly* better in this release, but still pretty horrible. Needs a user tunable pre-buffering control or something. (no guaranteed bandwidth on a network share.) C’mon, iTunes can do this.
Party Shuffle died, too. Must Have.
Can Songbird support .m4a files with chapters, illustrations/images, descriptions and links to the web?
My podcast currently uses .m4a format to provide more than just .MP3 audio.
I would like to support another player instead of only iTunes, but I currently dont see the feature set needed to support e-commerce and web-links on any other player.
Maybe I haven’t looked in the right places?
Are there any others out there?
@ Henry Warwick
Sorry, we no longer officially support PPC. See – http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/07/14/sad-mac-powerpc-no-longer-officially-supported/
BUT a community member created a 0.7.0 PPC build. Hopefully, someone will do it for 1.0.0 when final also. See –
http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/09/08/happy-macs/
@ Joedoe and bongman
We are aware of the memory footprint and have several bugs open to work on this in the future. Bottom line we hear ya!
Feel free to add more data here –
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13371
Thanks!
@ emf
- Can you please enter a bug on your network share issue? Knowing the build #, OS platform used and network share type would help a lot.
- Party share feature is a known request –
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8278
Thanks!
On the subject of an equalizer being available for gstreamer, it looks like gstreamer has a plugin for it: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-plugin-equalizer.html
@Charles-A Rovira: We don’t support the rich feature set that you use for your podcasts, unfortunately. We will play back the audio, but the rest will be ignored. Enhanced podcast support is on our to-do list for a future release.
@jleger
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6879 appears to be very very similar to my problem. I’m using an AFP share instead of an SMB share, though. It’s OSX 10.5.5, songbird 1.0.0rc1, Build 821 (20081103112924).
@tumbleweedius
is it possible to install this on my songbird?
I know this may sound childish… but I installed sonbird way back way… years ago even… and don’t use it because there isn’t an equalizer. EQ for the win!