De ontwikkelaars van Songbird hebben in de vorm van 0.4 RC1 een nieuwe bètaversie van de muziekspeler uitgebracht. Songbird is een opensource en crossplatform muziekspeler die gebruikmaakt van XULRunner en VLC. De speler kan onder meer mp3-, wma-, aac-, ogg- en flac-bestanden afspelen. Songbird wordt ontwikkeld met de gedachte om tegengewicht te bieden aan programma's zoals Apple iTunes en Windows Media Player. Het is niet alleen in staat om muziekbestanden, lokale playlists en muziekdatabases draaien, maar kan ook muziekbestanden, playlists en muziekdatabases die op het web staan afspelen. Daarnaast is de functionaliteit van Songbird met behulp van extensions uit te breiden. Een overzicht van alle huidige en te verwachten features staat op deze pagina. Hieronder staat het changelog van Songbird 0.4 RC1
The following are new features and improvements for the 0.4RC1 release:Known Bugs/Issues:
- Display panes that make it friendly for multiple add-ons to be installed in Songbird at once by allowing the user to define which add-on gets displayed by context. Read the details on these integration points in our Developer Center.
- The latest generation iPods (the iPod touch/iPhone an exception) are now supported and we have improved the user experience for the iPod including a new iPod Summary Page (requires latest iPod add-on)
- Library support to return to the web location where a media item originated.
- Bug free preferences/options.
- List views now retain users sorting preferences and column reordering.
- The popular "JumpTo" feature is back!
- Faster, smoother window resize.
- Many memory leaks fixed.
All PlatformsWindows Specific
- 'Edit' menu items not hooked up (2116)
- Index column width can be shrunk to cut off index values (4571)
- Audioscrobbler add-on not updated to support this release (5193)
- Songs with special characters are not sorted correctly (5373)
- Need to change the HTTP accept-language tag to match locale (5437)
- [iTunes Importer] Scanning for media duplicates track entries (5465)
- [iPod] Need to support the iPod Touch/iPhone (6389)
- Default addons in first run install Setup Option does not allow uncheck of Developer Support Tools add-on (6406)
Linux Specific
- Uninstalling app will uninstall non-Songbird files/directories in same folder (6367)
MacOSX Specific
- No way to have system-wide install (can only install to a single user) (3679)
- Service pane context menu requires right click + hold (4584)
- Can't play video on Songbird (crashes with undefined symbol: gst_x_overlay_get_type) (6157)
- [Linux Fedora 32 and 64 bit] Cannot mount iPOD (6200)
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- Clicking Pause/Play on the main pane can sometimes take several seconds to respond (4137)
- Service pane context menu requires right click + hold (4584)
- "Cheezy Video Window" cannot be hidden or resized (4706)
- AppleKey + Q Doesn't always Quit (4845)
- Most keyboard shortcuts unavailable on OS X (5409)