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Songbird for Android – v1.5.2 Now Available

By redfive redfive Oct 21, 2011 4:25 pm
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In our relentless quest to squash bugs and improve things under the hood, we’ve just posted a new update on the android market that addresses a number of minor issues. These include: no more unexpected playback happening when you get a notification! flickr photostream now more stable numerous other minor bugs Enjoy!

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Songbird 1.7 and Philips Songbird

By redfive redfive Jun 3, 2010 6:05 pm
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After an extended incubation in beta-land, Songbird 1.7 is ready to leap from the nest and wing away. Download it here. The new Philips Songbird is also available, included with the latest Philips GoGear devices on sale now at Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon and other stores across the U.S. Enhancements with this release include: Expanded Device [...]

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Translation changes coming

By redfive redfive Nov 16, 2009 6:12 pm
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As part of the video work currently in progress we’re going to be abstracting a  bunch of strings away from “Music” or “Track” to things like “Item” or “Media”. It’s going to be scores of strings most likely (we’re still figuring it out over in bug 18105) and will have an impact on translators. Specifically [...]

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Webpage API change to viewable/hidden properties

By redfive redfive Oct 29, 2008 6:18 pm
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We’ve been working hard to clean up the user interaction this cycle. Towards that end we landed some work a few weeks ago to clean up the column picker for libraries and playlists. You may have noticed in our current nightly builds that you have a slimmed down context menu instead of the old column [...]

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Crash cart stat! We have a dead lock!

By redfive redfive Feb 29, 2008 11:35 am
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I spent the better part of the last 2 weeks tracking down a deadlock in our
Database Engine. It’s a little disheartening spending so long on a problem and then having the fix be a simple ‘move this line of code 4 lines higher’ kind of thing. But on the good side I learned a LOT about how our dbengine code works and refreshed my memory on locks and monitors.

For more details follow on to my full post…

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