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No checkins since June 27th?!

By Preed

Jul 9, 2008 9:54 pm

Community members who are close watchers of our Subversion repository may have noticed that it’s been stuck on revision 9803 for about a week and a half and may have wondered “Hey, what’s up? Are you all on vacation? Maybe still recovering from the Fourth of July?”
Well, I can assure you that all of us [...]

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Get Satisfied

By jkoshi

Jul 1, 2008 3:41 pm

Also filed under Development

Tagged as customerservice, feedback, forums, getsatisfaction, googlegroups

Birdwatchers, as you’ve noticed, we recently made our old forums read-only. While they served us well over the years, we were in need of an upgrade.
In their stead, we will be using Google Groups for our developer forum. As some of you already know, Google Groups provides a simple way to [...]

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Songbird Roadmap Launched

By roblord

Jun 19, 2008 4:32 pm

Also filed under Development

Tagged as Eno, Fugazi, Genesis, Hall, Release, roadmap

Now that you’ve had a chance to try Songbird 0.6, here’s a view to the road ahead.
Today we are launching the Songbird Release Roadmap. Behold the next three Songbird release codenames and themes:

Fugazi: Improve performance and focus on usability.
Genesis: Continue to improve performance and add features consumers expect in a music player.
Hall: Integrate Web services.

The [...]

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Who Wants New Add-ons?

By jon

Jun 11, 2008 6:35 pm

Tagged as Add-ons, discovery

We just added a new feed to the add-ons site called “Newest Songbird Add-ons.” If you subscribe, you’ll get an update anytime someone uploads a new add-on. Subscribe and keep up with the progress!
Are there other feeds you would like to see? We’ve kicked around ideas for “Updated Songbird Add-on” that would [...]

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Performance Improvements in Songbird 0.6!

By raffel

May 9, 2008 5:45 pm

Also filed under Development

Over the past few months we’ve heard from a number of users asking us to focus on performance optimizations for the next version of Songbird. Today, we’re excited to share our progress. If you can’t wait for Songbird 0.6 to ship (it lands in early June) you can try our latest blessed nightlies [...]

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