By roblord 
Jun 27, 2006 1:41 am
Eager birdbuilders, you may now build the bird.
Songbird’s public Subversion tree is open. Initial build instructions have been posted to the Songbird Trac. Developers may download the source via HTTP or BitTorrent. Please report bugs and post patches to Songbird Bugzilla.
Note that this our not-yet-0.2 source code release, which means it is not yet our 0.2 “Developer Preview” release as defined in our Songbird roadmap. The internal birdbuilder team will be substantially changing numerous APIs between now and the 0.2 launch. Eager Songbird extension authors should wait for the 0.2 “Developer Preview” launch.
Finally, Songbird not-yet-0.2 binaries are available for Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux. We’ll frequently update the binaries to reflect the latest source changes.
Build the bird, play the Web.
Rob
Update: Songbird’s not-yet-0.2 has been Dugg! And Slashdotted!
By redfive 
Jun 16, 2006 7:49 pm
Well, let’s see, I was able to get mplayer to load and work via it’s js api from a web page and from a webpage’s iframe (containing a page with the embed). The api was, obviously, visable and calling through to it was no problem.
So I modified our XUL to follow the same layout and it didn’t work. Well, I thought it was probably a “loading plugins in XUL” bug, why don’t I see if the original webpage loads and works. Nope. So now it looks like a “plugins on Linux in XULRunner” bug. At least the problem is getting scoped.
By redfive
Jun 15, 2006 3:17 pm
VLC was being so difficult we took a crack at getting mplayer going. It is coming along okay, but I’m running into issues with visibility of the js api (same as we had with VLC actually). I’ve got a testcase up in a simple HTML page. I can see the API but calling it only forces a reload of the page. Check out bug 274 to see the current status.
In other news, the work mig has been doing to get metadata to show up is working on linux and there is finally metadata for the local tracks.
By redfive
Jun 7, 2006 8:07 pm
Progress is being made. I’ve gotten stable enough to begin thinking about how to get playback working (I think I just need to yum install a library). Which is miles and miles closer then I was just a week ago.
