0.5 RC2 Release Notes

Check out our second official candidate release toward our goal to release Songbird 0.5 as Final later this month. We are asking that our dedicated open source community try this candidate build out and provide feedback and bugs. Happy bug Hunting!

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS
The following are new features and improvements for the 0.5RC2 release:

• New Device API with initial MTP Device Support Add-on. We encourage you to provide feedback on your experience with your favorite MTP device. Please see our MTP Device Compatibility Feedback page.
• Extensible Library Views now enable developers to create add-ons that add additional library views in Songbird (6456)
• Improved shuffle algorithm (754)
• Added Mac menu/key command support (4845) for:
  • Hide Songbird (Command-H)
  • Hide Others (Command-Option-H)
  • Show All
  • Preferences... (Command-,)
  • Quit Songbird (Command-Q)
• Improved RSS playlists support/parsing (5774)
• Notification to let Linux users know they need to add the GStreamer plugin (6427)
• Added "Source" column to downloads playlist (6356)

KNOWN BUGS/ISSUES
The following high profile bugs are known to still be open for this release:

All Platforms

• Songs with special characters are not sorted correctly (74)
• '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)
• Need to change the HTTP accept-language tag to match locale (5437)
• [ipod] adding/removing media items and status display happen in wrong order (6294)
• Window min/max sizing does not respect DPI (6956)
• Maximize/Restore Buttons Confused (8028)
• [scrapper] Media scans occur and show % Found even on non-media sites (8037)
• [scrapper] Downloading new media shows complete in UI though not complete (8172)

Windows Specific

• [QT] erratic playback for protected aac (m4p) files (do not use nsITimer) (2361)
• Auto hide task bar is not maximized when SB is maximized (6116)
• QuickTime add-on does not play Fairplay files with a Flash file in the mainwin (7263)
• [vlc] Play of remote files where connection is dropped causes hang (7874)
• [ipod] Multiple Fairplay warning dialog boxes (7913)
• [ipod] [mtp] Can't drag and drop media items from OS to device (7975)
• [win][linux] Maximize icon displays always, even when is should be minimize (8031)
• [mtp] metadata for existing media items are off (8068)
• Couldn't load XPCOM error trying to launch Songbird (8082)
• [mtp] [device] [crash] songbird crashes when device is unplugged while busy (8130)
• [Win XP]App crash on XP attempting to download to network folder (8207)

Linux Specific

• Text cut-off in library, etc, when fonts are in large DPI mode (2496)
• No way to have system-wide install (can only install to a single user) (3679)
• Restarting app too quickly after quitting causes a "app is still running dialog" (6671)
• Drag & Drop of folder of media onto app no working (6792)
• [win][linux] Maximize icon displays always, even when is should be minimize (8031)
• [iPod] 3rd Gen Nano will not unmount/eject (8069)

MacOSX Specific

• [QT] erratic playback for protected aac (m4p) files (do not use nsITimer) (2361)
• "Cheezy Video Window" cannot be hidden or resized (4706)
• Most keyboard shortcuts unavailable on OS X (5409)
• [mac][ipod] iTunes can interfere with mount of iPod in Songbird (6946)
• QuickTime add-on does not play Fairplay files with a Flash file in the mainwin (7263)
• [mac][ppc] Load of double byte languages (Chinese, Japanese, etc) getting a parsing error (8177)

DOCUMENTATION
The following development documentation is available:

• Display Panes Documentation
• Webpage API Documentation
• Add-on API Documentation

For more details, visit: http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com