Songbird is hard op weg volwassen te worden, want gisteren is de eerste release candidate van versie 1.0 uitgekomen. Songbird is een opensource- en crossplatformmediaspeler die door Poti wordt gemaakt, een afkorting voor 'Pioneers of the Inevitable'. Deze groep van ontwikkelaars was eerder betrokken bij Winamp en de Yahoo Music Engine. De belangrijkste verandering in deze release is dat er nu van Gstreamer voor het afspelen van media gebruik wordt gemaakt. Dit zou een betere performance en betrouwbaarheid moeten leveren en, in de toekomst, meer functionaliteit. Het volledige changelog van deze release ziet er als volgt uit:
Improved Audio/Playback FunctionalityUI Experience Improvements
- We now use GStreamer as our main media playback system, across all platforms - giving us higher performance, better reliability, and a platform for much more media-related functionality in the future.
- Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA on Windows; and AAC on Windows and Mac.
Performance Improvements
- Many new keyboard shortcuts added. The list of those supported per platform can be viewed via "Keyboard Shortcuts" selection in the Help menu.
- We’ve refined the column heading property list and made it easier to enable the properties you care about. Just right click on any column heading in a library or playlist to give it a try.
- "Show File" now available for any selected track via File menu or right click on track contextual menu. This provides an easy way to find the media file location on your filesystem.
- Smart Playlists can now be used as rules within other Smart Playlists.
- Ability to show/hide display panes via individual buttons for service pane, bottom and right sidebar display panes
Stability
- Faster Media Importing
- Drastically Faster Search
- Reduced Startup Times
- Snappier Sorting
- Efficient Scrolling of Large Libraries
- Reduced Memory Usage (When importing and using large libraries)
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- Many miscellaneous top crashers were fixed for this release.