Oct 21, 2011 4:25 pm
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:
Enjoy!
Oct 12, 2011 4:33 pm
You guys, we have a super-funny story. It’s about a nasty bug that turned up just when we thought we were done with our 1.10 release.
We were feeling so good about being done with the release that we had the actual final build done and were probably headed towards the beer fridge. “Good times,” we said to one another, “Let’s congratulate ourselves for doing such awesome work to finish this release, which is definitely completely done. Phew! It feels great to finish things!” We then collectively failed to knock on wood, despite having an abundance of it in our office, and here we are today.
“Yo, um, that’s not a very funny story,” you say. Upon rereading it, we concede that it actually is not at all funny.
You may be asking yourself, “What on earth could have possibly happened that would take so long to fix?” Well, we basically had to rewrite how the entire application looks for and reads files off the filesystem. Our existing methods for reading files were not playing nicely with our new device synchronization behavior in one certain instance on Mac which ended up being very important. Nerds, you may want to check out bug 24478 and its friend bugs for the gross details, patches, reviews, hand-wringing, soggy kleenexes, and broken dreams that this bug caused.
So. Here we are. We have a build for you. We’re calling it a beta because we had to make so many invasive changes, but we hope that it ends up being our final 1.10 build. We were so completely sure we were done with 1.10.0 that we had to bump our version numbers up to 1.10.1, so don’t freak out that you missed a 1.10.0 release. There wasn’t one! *sob*
The beta downloads are available on our nightly downloads page for Windows, Mac, and yes, Linux. We will be pushing Mac and Windows updates for those of you who have the 1.10.0b3 version installed on your machines. If you find something grody, please log a bug!
Sep 30, 2011 1:56 pm
Hello fellow birders,
We couldn’t help ourselves after 1.5. We had to make some more performance and memory usage improvements for you! We’re very excited about the progress we’re making and we hope you are as well. As with every release there are also many other bug fixes which we hope you’ll appreciate.
Not to sound like a broken record but we’re always happy to get your feedback so please don’t stop giving it. 
Sep 13, 2011 3:20 pm
Hello fellow birders,
It’s with great pleasure that I announce the availability of our latest Songbird for Android release!
For this release we have focused entirely on memory usage and speed with impressive results. We hope you’re as happy with it as we are.
As always, your feedback is welcome and appreciated! We couldn’t have built such a great product without your input.
Jul 22, 2011 3:37 pm
Hello fellow birders,
It’s time for another Songbird for Android release! New in this release is support for Podcasts.
Podcasts will now show up in their own view. Also, when listening to Podcasts, we’ll automatically bookmark the last position and restore it when you start listening to it again later.
As always there’s a slew of bug fixes and improvements for you to enjoy.
Here’s where you can find the Podcasts view in the app home screen.
