Songbird Blog » Sightings http://blog.songbirdnest.com Play music. Play the Web. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:55:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Portable Songbird 1.2! http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2009/08/18/portable-songbird-12/ http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2009/08/18/portable-songbird-12/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:37:01 +0000 stevel http://blog.songbirdnest.com/?p=1584 Everybody give some props to the gang over at PortableApps.com… cause they just released Portable Songbird 1.2!  These guys have been hammering away with development and beta builds of portable Songbird for a while now, and have just done the final release of 1.2 today.  If you’re looking for a way to load up a USB flash drive with Songbird and some tunes to bring with you to whatever Windows machine you’re on (ahem, I’m looking at you college computer lab and corporate enterprise users), then look no further.  Go grab a copy of Portable Songbird 1.2 and start getting your tunage on.

]]> http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2009/08/18/portable-songbird-12/feed/ 15 Open sourcing the iPod add-on http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2009/08/05/open-sourcing-the-ipod-add-on/ http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2009/08/05/open-sourcing-the-ipod-add-on/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:35:12 +0000 stevel http://blog.songbirdnest.com/?p=1453 icon-ipodAs many of you know, supporting the iPod devices has been a continual game of catchup for Songbird (and anyone else attempting to build on top of Apple’s closed iPod APIs). As Apple releases new models, there are inevitably new wrinkles to the protocol that unfortunately make it harder and harder to reverse engineer and support. In our last release, in an effort to build something more sustainable and supportable, we moved to supporting iTunes Import/Export and now encourage our iPod and iPhone users to use that mechanism to support better syncing with their devices.

This is more than just keeping up with The Joneses iTunes. It’s a seamless way to ensure you’re getting the firmware updates you need from iTunes and the music you discover on Songbird all onto your device safely and easily.

To this end, we’ve decided to open source our existing iPod Device Support add-on. Built upon the great efforts of the libgpod crew, our iPod add-on still supports a good range of iPod devices. Given our limited resources, we’ve decided to support iTunes Import/Export with our own development time, while opening the source to our iPod add-on to the community so other developers can extend and enhance it. If you have bug fixes, or patches to the iPod add-on, please submit them via our Bugzilla, and we’ll happily review and accept patches to the add-on.

This also means QA won’t be testing against iPods anymore so we’ll need your support to help keep us in the loop on what’s working and what’s not. Let us know when you break new ground and build it against the new open source iPod library that is rumored to work with iPod Touch/iPhones [SUCCESS] or when we bust something in a new release [FAIL] and we’ll update the iPod Device Support page accordingly.

Ready to get started? Grab the source code and get going! If you want to build the extension on Windows, you’ll need to add

ac_add_options --with-extensions=default,ipod

to your songbird.config file after you download the DDK. If you need a little help to get the ball rolling, hop into the Songbird Developers Google Group and we’ll do what we can to help.

It’s a little tough watching our iPod add-on leave the nest, but we know you’ll take good care of it.

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  • More Songbird tweets – http://snurl.com/4twkj #
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  • Original “Amana Style” feather — beautiful — http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addons/1341 #
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  • Ubuntu users, check the Warm Pastels (Gonzo) feather: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1330 #
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  • Happy Macs! Songbird 0.7 Mac/PPC build now up thanks to our kickass dev community: http://tinyurl.com/5myocy #
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  • VistaBird feather by Josh looking good. http://snurl.com/3nnbx #
  • 400+ Songbird 0.7 beta tweets http://snurl.com/3nrjp #
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  • Songbird 0.7 beta reviews are in! Webmonkey’s review is thorough, well-written. Thx Scott G. http://is.gd/1W3i #
  • Songbird hax0rs, need a project? Songbird community calls for an Album View: http://is.gd/1W70 #
  • Ubiquity 0.1 == Greasemonkey 2.0. Huge props to Moz Labs! http://is.gd/1Wns #
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  • songbirdteam friendfeed updated. http://is.gd/1GYL #
    • ]]>     http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/08/24/songbirdteam-tweets-for-the-week-of-2008-08-24/feed/ 8     ars technica on ianloic on songbird http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/04/16/ars-technica-on-ianloic-on-songbird/ http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/04/16/ars-technica-on-ianloic-on-songbird/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:07:33 +0000 stevel http://blog.songbirdnest.com/?p=361 ryan over at ars technica blogged about ian’s talk @ LUG Radio Live this past weekend where ian talked about the need for a user agent (ahem, Songbird) for the media web.

    ryan seemed to grok things spot-on with accurate critique as well as understanding the premise of what we’re shooting for. i like that he specifically pointed out our upstream work (e.g. our contributions to GStreamer, and Mozilla) and the promise of the webpage API in terms of breaking down silo’d music services.

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