Ok procrastinators, you have just over one week left to submit your entries for our Songbird Demo Video Contest. Don’t forget there are three prizes and so far, only two three contestants. Those are (still) pretty good odds eh? You know you have mad Songbird skillz you want to share with the world, or a favorite add-on that doesn’t get the community love and support it deserves. Feature it in your video and make it a star! Even if you’ve decided that you only have time to work on your Halloween costume between now and October 30th, pop over to our YouTube Group and vote for your favorite entry. A special award will go to the fan favorite. Winners will be announced in the November 5th Birdbath.
Last week I introduced you to Alfred Peng. Another developer new to our flock needs no introduction, assuming you run Firefox. Chances are you have already downloaded Adblock Plus, one of the most useful extensions for Firefox, developed by our own Wladimir Palant. Wlad has been kicking a$$ and taking names on performance related bugs, making Songbird’s speed and stability his number one focus. One of his biggest fans created a wiki page devoted to watching the performance related bugs Wlad has been knocking out, so if you’ve noticed your bird has been gaining some speed, you know who to thank.
Our Frenchbirds attended the JDLL conference last week and spread the bird word. They gave Songbird demonstrations on Windows and Linux and got feedback from users about what types of extensions they’d like to see going forward. France isn’t the only place where Songbird needs a little more shine. Another contributor plans to spread the bird word in Serbia. We’ll take all the help we can get!
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SubscribeThanks Wlad <3
*three contestants
Updated Lenny!
Thanks Laura
Seems like there is a new Wordpress plugin to close comments on a specific date.
I might just have to create a video. With odds this good, I might not have to worry about paying for shipping for a t-shirt!
I’m glad that someone is finally starting to eat away at the “core” problems with songbird. Unfortunately it seems that with each step the songbird team continues to develop awesome new features and addons but there is no one there refining the song bird core, the simple interface to select songs and play them flawlessly. I think to hit main stream the player has to be pretty perfect and fast for those core functions, select, search, play and playlists. Love song bird though and its mission. Keep coding.
@Geekshadow, yeah keeping up with the spam was turning into a full time job.
@IceArdor, so I see you’re playing for 2nd or 3rd place?
Glad to hear about future performance increase – speed issues was the main thing i dropped songbird.
@Jeff: Totally agree on that and I think most Songbird users too. Popular music players are known for their core features (winamp => lightweight, foobar=> sound quality, for example). Hence, many of us expect that a solid base is built first and let plug-ins deal with additional functions.