By Georges Auberger

GStreamer for all

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Mar 3, 2009 8:10 pm
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At the beginning of 2008, we announced our intention to use GStreamer as our main media core. This was no small feat but we were determined to provide Songbird users with a robust, extensible, open media pipeline. Since GStreamer was mainly a Linux project it required us to port it to OS X and Windows, which we [...]

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Songbird 1.1 Beta 2 is Available for Testing

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Feb 25, 2009 2:00 pm
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Songbird 1.1 Beta 2 is now available for download! Here are the most noteworthy and complete features we’d like to call out in this Beta and get your feedback on: Watch Folders You can choose to watch a folder hierarchy for changes and the content will auto-magically be imported in your library. If a file [...]

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Songbird 1.1 Beta 1 is Available for Testing

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Feb 13, 2009 1:14 pm
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Songbird 1.1 Beta 1 is now available for download! Here are the most noteworthy and complete features we’d like to call out in this Beta and get your feedback on: On demand Fetching of Album Artwork: Songbird can now fetch album artwork from the web at your command. Simply select or right-click a track and [...]

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Scheduled network maintenance

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Jan 22, 2009 10:00 am
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@4:00 pm PST Update: All systems are go. We’ll be doing some major network reconfiguration in our data center on Friday January 23. Blog, Wiki, Bugzilla, svn and getsongbird.com will be affected. Those services won’t be available between 7-10 am PST with sporadic outages the rest of the day. Add-ons and Translate site are not [...]

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α, β and other Greek alphabet soup

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Jan 13, 2009 10:04 am
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Now that Songbird has reached the very mature milestone of 1.0, we reflected on our release process and decided it was time to introduce some changes. We decided to adopt a build labeling nomenclature that’s more widely understood. Our goals for build labels were to: Use commonly understood industry terms Accurately reflect the state of the code and phase [...]

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