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.
Jul 21, 2011 2:52 pm
It’s been a rough couple of weeks over on the add-ons site. The once-manageable trickle of comments spam on individual add-ons exploded into a deluge of ads for shoes and cheap handbags. We apologize to all of you who’ve been on the receiving end of this, especially to the add-on developers whose add-on pages were so heavily hit.
We’re tackling this in a couple of separate stages. We just rolled out stage one, which is to temporarily disable commenting on the add-ons site. Add-ons can still be uploaded, downloaded, and rated — the only functionality we’ve removed is the ability to comment. This is not an ideal solution, nor is it a long-term solution. It was, however, a very quick and direct way to immediately stop the problem.
A few of you have asked us why we don’t just use a captcha. Funny story: we’ve had one for years! It appears during our account signup process, and all of the spam we’re seeing is coming from newly generated accounts who successfully make it through the captcha as part of signing up. We use Google’s reCAPTCHA. A little bit of searching tells us that reCAPTCHA isn’t as mighty as it once was, so we’re going to investigate alternatives. Once we identify a route forward, we’ll roll that out as stage two and get comments re-enabled.
Again, we’re sorry for the mess! It bums us out, too.
Jul 14, 2011 4:18 pm
Hello! We fixed a few additional bugs from our previous beta 2 build for the Songbird Desktop client. A full run-down of those bugs is available in the Release Notes. Those of you with the b2 build will be able to update to b3 using the Check for Updates mechanism in the application. Shiny new 1.10.0b3 installers (yes, including the Linux installer) are up on the Nightly Builds page.
Developers: documentation on the new Playlist Commands interface is available and posted here on our wiki: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Recipe_Book/Extensions_and_Core/Playlist_Buttons_(aka_Playlist_Commands). Let us know if you run into questions or concerns.
Let’s communicate! Bugzilla! Get Satisfaction! Yay!
Jul 1, 2011 4:01 pm
Hello fellow birders,
It’s with great pleasure that I announce the release of Songbird v1.3 for Android. For this release we focused primarily on localizations. We now support 26 languages. Yowza! There’s also a boatload of bug fixes. Sweet!
As always, we really want your feedback and help. We are looking for any suggestions you have for the translations. If you find strings that you don’t agree with please go to our online translation tool and suggest better ones.
The online tool we use is called Crowdin. To submit translations you will have to request to be invited into the translation group for the language you wish to help with. You can request to be invited here. Logging in is easy using your Facebook or Google account. If you don’t have either of those you can create an account with Crowdin.
As usual, it may take a few hours for the Android Market page to refresh if browsing from your desktop. If you want to update as soon as possible, please view the page from your Android device.
p.s. Happy 4th!
Jun 13, 2011 11:47 pm
Hello fellow birders,
We’ve been hard at work adding support for more than 20 languages for this next version. We have translations for most of the application and would like your help to refine them.
We’re using an online translation tool called Crowdin to help with the process. You can find our project here.
For now, the project is by invitation only and does have translation moderation turned on so you’ll need to sign up for an account and ask to join the project. If you already use Facebook or Google you may also use either of those to login. It may take us up to a day to approve your request so please be patient.
There’s also a slew of bug fixes included in this beta and there will be plenty more by the time the final release is complete.
To install this build you will need to enable installing applications from ‘Unknown sources’. This setting can be found under Settings => Applications. This build will upgrade the current 1.2 release and you’ll be able to upgrade out of it when 1.3 final is released.
If you run into bugs, let us know! Either on the blog or on getsatisfaction.
Thanks again for all your support, we appreciate it very much.
Download the beta.
