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Songbird path to Agility - Part II

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Sep 4, 2008 10:40 am
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Previously, we’ve examined the new development practices that the Songbird team adopted to plan and track a release. Everyone on the team was very eager to put them to the test. Unfortunately, at the time, we were still in the middle of the 0.3 release cycle and new work could only be started once that [...]

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Songbird path to Agility - Part I

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Jun 25, 2008 11:05 am
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This is the first post of a 3 part series presenting our experience moving Songbird development to an Agile process.
Drowning in the waterfall
Up until version 0.3, Songbird development had been following a fairly traditional waterfall model. Realizing the ambitious vision of building both a platform and a desktop media player has presented many challenges. A [...]

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Drupal to Wordpress springtime migration

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Apr 23, 2008 11:16 am
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If you’re reading this post, you’ve noticed that we recently migrated our blog system out of Drupal into Wordpress. This is the first step in our initiative to decentralize our various web properties and replace them with loosely coupled systems. Our aim is to make it easier to publish information and increase transparency into [...]

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GStreamer for all, all for GStreamer.

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Jan 30, 2008 5:00 pm
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GStreamer is one of the media core that Songbird currently supports. Today, it is packaged with Linux builds only. On other platforms we currently support VLC (Mac & Windows), Quicktime (Mac) and Windows Media (Windows). We’re considering standardizing on GStreamer as Songbird’s default media core across all the platforms we support.

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Sneak peek at upcoming 0.4 release

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Dec 11, 2007 9:00 pm
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Here it is, bringing a little cheer before the holidays, your first official look at our latest features and improvements for Songbird.

Check it out and report your feedback and bugs. We’re not done yet, so expect some things to be broken. There are known issues currently with the Linux and Mac PPC nightly builds. Please use the latest Windows and Mactel builds for now.

Download the latest Windows and Mac i686 nightly build.

Our core add-ons are now published alongside our nightly builds so you can follow closely our development.

Download the latest iPod and iTunes importer add-ons for your platform.

New features and improvements

  • Display panes that make it friendly for multiple add-ons to be installed in Songbird at once by allowing the user to define which add-on gets displayed by context. More details on these integration points in our developer center.
  • Improved user experience for the iPod including a new iPod Summary Page (requires latest iPod add-on).
  • Library support to return to the web location where a media item originated.
  • Bug free preferences/options.
  • Faster, smoother window resize.

Known issues

All OS Platforms

  • Links in frames clobber the page (5981)
  • UI problems with the resizing and re-arranging of columns in playlists (6147)

iPod Support

  • iPod Touch and the iPhone are not supported at this time.
  • Cannot mount iPod with Linux Fedora OS (6200)
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