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Songbird at LugRadio Live

By ianloic ianloic Apr 10, 2008 3:28 pm
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I’ll be talking about Songbird, Linux and the Media Web at LugRadio Live USA this weekend. The conference is being held all weekend at the Metreon in San Francisco and you can get in for the low low price of ten dollars! My session is at 2pm on Sunday but there’s a ton of other [...]

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API Design

By ianloic ianloic Mar 14, 2008 5:05 pm
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One of the things we’re most excited about is giving developers APIs that they can use to do cool stuff with their music. Having an API is only half the battle though — having an API that’s awesome is more of a challenge but more rewarding too. I’ve been on a mission to find a [...]

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Greased birds

By ianloic ianloic Oct 26, 2007 2:31 pm
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Greasing up.

While I’ve been waiting for builds I’ve been playing with getting one of the most useful Firefox extensions working in Songbird. I’m talking about Greasemonkey. It turned out to not be as straight-forward as I was hoping so we made a few changes to the bird now it’s not so bad. Porting other Firefox extensions is probably pretty similar.

I pasted the patch but I’ll to my best to explain it in a way that might be helpful for people trying to port other extensions.

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Tabs in Songbird

By ianloic ianloic Mar 28, 2007 8:55 pm
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Tabs in Songbird

I just committed the initial tab browsing support for Songbird. To play with it grab a nightly, and middle-click on something in the service pane. We haven’t finalized the tab behavior or appearance yet but we’re pretty excited about the possibilities.

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