By Aus 
Feb 29, 2008 4:56 pm
One of the big features we’ll be releasing as part of Songbird 0.5 is MTP device support.
MTP, or Media Transfer Protocol, is used by many types of devices these days. It ends up being pretty awesome because it enables device manufacturers to create devices that can all have the same great user experience when interacting with the contents and managing it from Songbird! Sweet.
Initial support for MTP devices includes manually managing the contents of your device, managing playlists and transferring media files to/from your device.
So far we’ve gotten Sansa, Creative, Nokia and HTC devices to work within Songbird. Awesome.
I’d also like to mention the names of all of the engineers that worked on this feature, without their dedication, none of this would’ve been possible. So, without further adieu, here is your MTP device team: Aus, David, Erik, Keisuke, Mark and Steven!
Tell us what you think! 
You can try it out by getting the latest nightly and add-on here.
Aus
P.S. If you are a device manufacturer and you would like Songbird to support your MTP device, do get in touch with us.
By Aus
Nov 29, 2006 8:10 pm
The final version of 0.2.1 has just been released!
You can download it here.
If you want to be hip like all us birders, you can also fire up your 0.2 version of Songbird and let it auto-magically update.
I’d also recommend spinach salad as a possible cure for your turkey overdose. You can even put cranberry sauce on it if you just can’t go without it.
By Aus
Nov 22, 2006 6:52 pm
Before we all started to eat too much and end up in food enduced coma’s, we’d thought we’d put up another nightly to test some more fixes for 0.2.1. Updated VLC to version 0.8.6-test2a, a few fixes here and there.
Head over to the nightly builds page, to pick it up and, do please remember the cranberry sauce this time? I mean, I know you don’t like it, but some people (who shall remain nameless, yes, you know who you are) like their slice of sauce from a can.
There’s sadly no update for Mac Intel yet, problems building the mighty VLC. Enjoy!
Update: [Matt] The Mac Intel nightly is now available. Apparently Automake got confused somewhere between 0.8.6-test1 and 0.8.6-test2.
By Aus
Sep 28, 2006 5:58 pm
Hi everyone!
It seems like we forgot to apply a slew of patches to our mozilla mac power pc sdk which definitely makes the ppc build less than pleasant to work with.
We’ve already fixed this issue and there’s a new installer for Songbird 0.2 RC1 Mac OS X ppc. However, if you downloaded RC1 shortly after it’s release, you might want to download it again.
Here’s how to determine if you should download it again:
- Go to Help -> About Songbird
- Look at the Build ID.
- Original RC1 Build ID - 20060926201339
- Revised RC1 (RC1.1) Build ID - 20060927174319
By Aus
Jun 9, 2006 8:40 pm
Woo! MacOS X Songbird doing the chirpy dance.
The current build of it now plays back thanks to the VLC 0.8.5 plugin on both ppc and intel mac’s. I’ve been trying to hack the QuickTime plugin in there, but, there seems to be a bug preventing me from finishing this right now. It’s unclear as to if it’s just the QuickTime plugins weird re-initialization on SetURL that’s causing issues or that html:embed in a XUL document doesn’t work quite like it’s supposed to. More on this soon…
It still needs a few CSS fixes here and there and we still have quite a few bugs to close before 0.2 but, this playback on Mac thing is a great step in the right direction
