There’s a new add-on that is capable of exploding brains due to its awesomeness, so I’ve been told. The Songbird WebRemote is, according to its author, “A fancy–pants AJAX/JSON driven web interface for Songbird .” It’s new on the scene but already getting some great feedback, so take it for a spin and leave your comments and ratings for Cerial.

We have another community plea for some dev love to build an add-on that would enable APE support. As Mike explained, we worked hard to insure that it was easy to write add-ons that would enable support for additional formats knowing that we wouldn’t be able to focus our development time on all the various formats we don’t currently support. If you need some help getting going, the Developer Center is the place to start.

Speaking of developers, meet Alfred Peng. Alfred joined our team about a month ago by way of OpenSolaris where he worked with SteveL. He wasted no time hopping into Get Satisfaction threads and knocking out bugs so a lot of you probably already noticed he’s a rock star. I asked him what excited him about the project and what he was looking forward to working on. I think you’ll enjoy what he had to say!

As a contributor to the Mozilla community, I’m also a big fan of Mozilla-related products. That’s the initial motivation for the Songbird porting job I did at the first stage. From my perspective, Songbird’s open source strategy, its potential to provide a media player solution to the public, the contribution to the open music movement, lots of positive feedback from the community, and the great team here make me really excited about our future.

I’d really like to see improved performance (tune with DTrace?), improved device support, improved integration with the web service and a smaller memory footprint. The upcoming CD Rip and video (probably in the next release) are also wonderful features. Apart from that, improved add-on availability on Linux/OpenSolaris platform (device support for example) and improved integration on Linux/OpenSolaris (work with Mozilla community to upstream the patches we have) would also be awesome to have.

I do notice some other cool ideas from the community as well, for example, the design for the next generation of MediaFlow, the Songbird awesome bar etc. Those are the things that could help Songbird achieve better success I believe. So thanks for the work! –Alfred Peng