Our fine feathered Frenchbirds attended the World Meetings of Free Software (RMLL) in Nantes this week. French localisers and add-on authors Goofy, Thain and GeekShadow (pictured below from left to right) were at the Mozilla booth doing Songbird demos, handing out schwag and spreading the bird word. Thanks guys, you rock!
La Team Frenchbirds
We are flapping to the finish line of being feature code complete for Jackson 5, which means that work on Mass Storage Class support for Windows is coming along nicely. According to Ali, she loaned a device to Georges and got it back filled with French music. That’s definitely a good sign. I wonder if anyone will still talk to me on Get Satisfaction when all of your devices sync simply and intuitively…
Char-siu was tired of working from home and knew that we were having Chinese food for lunch so he decided to do his code-reviews in office today.
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SubscribeFor the Jackson 5 release, will MSC work in MacOs/Linux? And if not, when will these architectures be supported?
I was really excited about the MSC feature, and then I read on the wiki page (hidden all the way at the bottom) that MacOS/Linux will be supported in the “future.” I thought, “that can’t be,” especially since on the roadmap and everywhere else, this feature is listed as “Mass Storage Class” and not “Mass Storage Class for Windows.” Am I mistaken?
What happened to compilations being in Jackson 5? This is such an important feature and it seems to keep getting bumped in favour of lesser features.
@Forest
MSC support requires the implementation of platform specific classes mainly to interface with the native USB API. We’re focusing on Windows first and while we have created an implementation for OS X, we won’t have time to test it properly to claim that it’s supported. We intend to complete the work for OS X and Linux in future releases.
@Georges
Okay, but you still have not answered my question. In which future releases do you intend to complete the work on MSC for OS X and Linux? Will this be something we see completed in the next release, or should I expect to have to wait a year from now, or longer to see this feature implemented?
@forest
That hasn’t been determined yet. I wouldn’t expect to be a year, but, again, we haven’t decided that yet.
@aus
Alright, in the meantime, thanks at least for answering my question.
I love Songbird. I have a Palm Pre smartphone, and the media sync does not work quite correctly, as the iPod control file remains hidden. Is there anyway to correct this, so I can do easy syncing instead of using the Palm as a USB device and dragging and dropping files.
thanks.
I love Songbird too.