So 28 days later we find that the political season keeps on its inexorable course, as does our progress toward this fantastic 0.5 release:

http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/wiki/Nightly_Builds

So, then, what’s been done for 0.5, you ask? Well, you can examine in detail all 300ish fixed items straight from our Bugzilla, or you can just read the following bulletpoint list:

• New MTP Device Support Add-on (for Windows)

• Supports MTP and USB Mass Storage devices
• http://addons.songbirdnest.com/extensions/detail/172
• (Requires XP-SP2 or Vista, as well as WMP v11)

• With full featured status page and sync function
• http://addons.songbirdnest.com/extensions/detail/52

• Built into the app, but activated by add-ons:
• http://addons.songbirdnest.com/extensions/detail/170

Now, you should all know what “Blessings” mean — these are still not done yet, not even “Beta,” and we announce them because we need your help testing out the functionality before we release it fully.

We especially need your help with MTP devices under Windows, since we only have so many available here for testing (lots, actually, but still only a small percentage of all the possible players, phones, memory sticks, et al, out in the world today).

We’ve made a page on our wiki with instructions for people to test their MTP devices and either fill out bugzilla bugs or report that everything is working fine:

http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/index.php/MTP_Device_Compatibility

If you have an MTP device, please check that page and help us out!

ALSO, remember, tomorrow and every morning thereafter will find even newer (and hopefully better) Nightly builds of the application and the default set of add-ons. So if it’s Thursday or later when you’re reading this, do please try to get the latest Nightlies and not the blessed build. We’re at the point where we’re fixing lots of little things (and the occasional big monster) every day, so it’s worth updating to see if the bug you’re about to report has already been fixed, right?

http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com

mig

ps: Oh yes. One last humble request. Please try to set the ‘version’ field in Bugzilla to either 0.4 Final or 0.5 Nightly, depending on the one you’re testing. It’s somewhat confusing to us when the cookie is remembering that the last bug you submitted was for, say, 0.3 RC1 or something. Thanks!

RC2 soon, very soon, but we thought we get this into your hot little hands now…

http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/wiki/Nightly_Builds

B-b-b-b-b-u-u-t-t-t w-w-w-e-e s-s-s-t-t-i-i-l-l-l n-n-n-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-d-d y-y-y-o-o-o-u-u-r-r-r h-h-h-e-e-l-l-p-p t-t-o-o-o t-t-t-e-e-e-s-s-t-t-t!

http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com

The bugs are still in there, and we’ll keep on hammering as you keep on finding!

mig