Hello Dirty Birds, it’s time for some preening. I tell you, feathers have been so ruffled over our 1.2 release I feel like I’m molting! A flock of issues cropped up on our manage music feature that sadly were not detected in all of our beta testing. Turns out we just weren’t being bad enough to our test flight birds and a lot of you unwittingly became members of our extended QA team. While we know that it’s no fun being test case birdies, we really do appreciate you posting the problems you found and filing bugs against those issues. It’s never our intention to bust your bird but when feathers go flying your participation in the process is the key to our little music player taking flight in the future and we are grateful to you for it.

While we wait for bug fixes and feature requests to roll in we’ve documented your findings and indicated how to prevent issues or repair the damage in our Importing & Managing Your Music page. Thanks to Michael Purses for his efforts so all of your suffering was not in vain. Also a huge thank you to Andrew Luecke who effectively diagnosed and triaged many of your reports on Get Satisfaction over the weekend. These guys are two outstanding members of a phenomenal community.

Speaking of our network of super duper peeps, it looks like there’s a new ideator in the house. What? Ideator is totally a word…

TheParadox2 has been collaborating with longtime songbird ideator, Murphy on an awesome idea: the awesomest awesome bar! Even more exciting for you add-on developers looking for your next project, atrieu has some pointers for getting the awesomeness under way.

What’s more awesome than an awesome bar? How about a pimped out pony? Ali called for glitter and streamers and GeekShadow and atrieu delivered. So sparkly.

Amidst the crunch of pushing Isan out of the nest last week, we all took a long lunch and walked the 2 blocks to beautiful AT&T Park where we enjoyed an afternoon outside, hot dogs, peanuts, garlic fries and most importantly, beer. The Giants lost, but it still beat the lunches we’d been eating at our desks up until then.