Hello fellow birders,
We’ve been hard at work adding support for more than 20 languages for this next version. We have translations for most of the application and would like your help to refine them.
We’re using an online translation tool called Crowdin to help with the process. You can find our project here.
For now, the project is by invitation only and does have translation moderation turned on so you’ll need to sign up for an account and ask to join the project. If you already use Facebook or Google you may also use either of those to login. It may take us up to a day to approve your request so please be patient.
There’s also a slew of bug fixes included in this beta and there will be plenty more by the time the final release is complete.
To install this build you will need to enable installing applications from ‘Unknown sources’. This setting can be found under Settings => Applications. This build will upgrade the current 1.2 release and you’ll be able to upgrade out of it when 1.3 final is released. 
If you run into bugs, let us know! Either on the blog or on getsatisfaction.
Thanks again for all your support, we appreciate it very much.
Download the beta.
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Songbird 1.3 Bêta pour Android…
L’équipe de POTI viens de publier une bêta pour la version 1.3 de Songbird sur Android. Celle-ci ajoute plus de 20 langues au logiciel, la plupart des traductions sont disponibles cependant l’équipe de développement fait appel à la communau…
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SubscribeI really liked this software when it first came out, but it really became bogged down with things like video, and now all the focus is on Android. I want my old Bird back that supported Linux and focused on performance and stability.
No project for coming back to Linux?
@SquareWheel
@Pad
Linux builds here : http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Builds/Contributed_Builds
@Aus
I did register for french locale
Official support for Linux.
@SquareWheel, Pad
Stay on topic!
Thanks for making the app available for download via the Songbird website!
It’s great to take advantage of Android’s sideloading feature, especially for those us who don’t (or can’t) use the Android market.
Is there a changelog?
Woo! The playlist adding bug I mentioned before is fixed!
(on a side note, it’d be great to be able to subscribe via e-mail to new comments on this blog so I don’t have to poll posts I care about for new comments)
Also this blog post could be posted on the songbird-l10n instead :
http://groups.google.com/group/songbird-l10n/
Thanks for making the app available for download via the Songbird website!
Hi There…
Thanks for the beta…
Two issue ?
3 press to skip song does not work on earphones.
Phone call answer does not work on earphones.
Running 2.3.4 stock on a Nexus S
Thanks
I would appreciate two more features for the android version:
-> an EQ
-> a selection option for the mediasource folder, because there are much apps and games with sounds for notifications, soundtrack etc on my phone. and i dont want to have them in my songbird selection list.
You are doing a great job.
wonderfull thank you
I am so interested about your posting. Your viewed topic of android that is so important to me also everybody. I gonna view my construction in Camb to all.
Happy to report that the issue with having an empty “Songs” list on my Milestone 2 appears to be fixed. Cheers.
Can someone please tell me how to put all my music from songbird in a folder or is that possible?
Apologies if this has already been covered, but will you be incorporating the “listen to” voice command in an upcoming build?
So, the widget seems to be rendered useless the moment Songbird is killed. Adding a new one fixes all other songbird widgets.
The widget I keep on my lockscreen started to work by itself today, weeks after I did anything with any songbird widgets.
Songbird 1.3b sure loves to get into this freezed state where it has to be killed manually because nothing gets displayed. I have to kill it all the time so I hope you are already aware of that one
(SGS2 stock 2.3.3)
Also I just uploaded new mp3 song to my phone, songbird wont list it, opening it directly in songbird results in app freeze. (Uploaded other songs before with 1.3b though. The song plays just fine in stock player.)
Which takes me to moar feature requests:
- List of recently added songs.
- Being able to select which folder(s) should be scanned for music.
(Btw, I get the Facebook thing, but flickr thingie… someone is actually using that thing? Well I guess someone does, but… oh nevermind >_>)
@phdr_vrba
Hmmm. We haven’t run into this issue at all on phones running 2.3.3. If you are killing the Songbird services manually or using a task killer you shouldn’t. The services will shut down gracefully on their own after a certain amount of time and rebind as necessary. Killing them will cause Android to black list those services because killing them effectively causes them to crash.
I only kill Songbird in case it freezes like that, SGS2 has way too much memory to do it for any other reason
)
Huh.. I’ll try to describe the issue then:
Say I have songbird running in the background, enjoying the power of pop tart cat or something.
Now I try to access it by, say, tapping app shortcut on homescreen (Does not really matter how, tried pretty much everything. Point is, that Songbird UI should get displayed.)
Now it either works just fine, or it gets screwed up. No idea what makes the difference.
Dunno about inner workings of android, but it acts like display buffer simply stops being updated at that moment and all I can see is the screen as it was prior to entering Songbird. And it stays like that until I press homescreen button to leave the app. Tapping the screen anywhere in “frozen” state does nothing. Music is still playing, though.
Retrying to access the app now yields same result until it is killed.
Oh, finally it crashed again so I can play with it some more…
So
Seems like it does nothing for like cca 5-6 seconds, then it goes all black, except for the notification bar, which is still visible.
Not even volume buttons work.
Oooh, now I got “Activity Songbird (in application Songbird) does not respond.” dialogue – thats a new one. Showed up after cca 30s, won’t appear unless I try to tap on the black screen. Choosing “force close” actually got me into working songbird. (Not sure if just some part was restarted or the whole app – the song has already finished by then.)
I will not try the beta version