0.7.0 Release Notes

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

• The new UI includes significant visual and functional changes such as:
  
  • A new dedicated tab that contains all of your media content
  • Ability to show/hide the service pane when viewing webpages (it's automatically hidden when viewing web content, but a button will allow you to toggle show/hide)
  • Ability to choose where the player controls live, the top or bottom of the window, based on user preference (right click on the player control pane to change its location or on some platforms View menu -> Player Controls).
  • New look and feel for the Mini Player
    

Faster Media Scan

• Scanning for media on your local drive is significantly faster.

• The wizard will walk you through EULA, media scanning, and installing recommended add-ons when launching the application for the first time. You'll need to create a new profile to be presented with the wizard (since you will not see it if upgrading).
  

• The drag and drop experience in the application has been greatly improved.
• It now supports visual feedback to show you how many items you are dragging.
  

• We now have smart playlist support which not only allows you to create your own customized playlists, but also provide defaults for:
• Highest Rated
• Most Played
• Recently Added
• Recently Played

Album Art

• Songbird can now read, write and display album artwork.  There's a new Album Art Display Pane in the bottom of the Service Pane that shows the artwork associated with currently playing track.  In the Metadata Editor, you can add, remove and paste artwork to a track - changes will be saved to the file(s) you edit.
  
  

KNOWN BUGS/ISSUES

Below are the high profile bugs/issues which are known to still be open for this release.  You can also check the Common Duplicates page for lesser profile known issues.

NOTE:

• Feathering problems occur when using a single profile against 0.6 and 0.7 (11298)

All Platforms

• Youtube scraping not supported (5199)
• Need to change the HTTP accept-language tag to match locale (5437)
• Dialogs text cropped when OS is using big fonts (5583)
• Window min/max sizing does not respect DPI (6956)
• [iPod] Album Artwork switched to wrong music (7780)
• Maximize/Restore buttons get confused (8028)
• [scrapper] Media scans occur and show % Found even on non-media sites (8037)
• [podcast] RSS page not displaying properly in SB (8573)
  
• [metadata-writing] Unable to write metadata to .m4a files (8812)
• Playback automatically resumes after computer is returned from standby (9605)
  
• [ipod] deviceSummary page reports incorrent number of files deleted from device (9878)
• [ipod] incorrect capacity-used-by-music & songCount on device itself (10170)
• [ipod] 1st Gen iPod shuffle not mounting in Songbird (10432)
• Temp Solution:
  
• Go to iPod directory
• Find "ipod_control" folder and delete it
• Re-connect the ipod and Songbird will recognize it.
  
• [iTunes Importer] Import the album artwork when importing the library (10526)
  
• Pausing playback causes skipping sound (11386)
• "Always show tab bar" does not always show tab bar (fixed in 0.8.0pre) (11548)
• [ipod] Smart Playlist names aren't synced to iPods (11635)
• [ipod] Smart Playlists don't show up in device node when synced (11636)
• [download] Switch to Download Queue in web playlist does not bring web playlist to front (11701)
  

Windows Specific

• Auto hide task bar is not maximized when SB is maximized (6116)
• [vlc] Play of remote files where connection is dropped causes hang (7874)
• [win][linux] Maximize icon displays always, even when is should be minimize (8031)
• [mtp] metadata for existing media items are off (8068)
• [win] [linux] Songbird collapses when placed on RH dual monitor and Maximized from task bar (8535)
• [mtp][clip] SB does not remember renamed Sansa Clip device (9742)
  
• [mtp] [dups] Same files can be added twice to a device if 2 PCs are used (9803)
  
• [mtp] Songbird lockup on sync of 3 devices at once. (9886)
• [win][Album Art] Paste/Copy from Editor Artwork field to clipboard doesn't work (11761)
  

Linux Specific

• Can't play Songs from .htaccess password protected apache directory (5011)
• [linux] Mini mode position is not remembered when switched back from Full Player (5938)
• [Linux] Maximize window state not retained on Quit/Relaunch (6657)
• Restarting app too quickly after quitting causes a "app is still running dialog" (6671)
• [win][linux] Maximize icon displays always, even when is should be minimize (8031)
• [win] [linux] Songbird collapses when placed on RH dual monitor and Maximized from task bar (8535)
• Maximized state is not remembered between feather changes (9002)
• [ipod][linux] The Mini (7741), Touch Wheel (9041) and Photo (9042) iPod models are not supported.
• [podcast][mac][linux] Play stopped on change of feather (9525)
  
• [mac][linux] Songbird does not play MIDI files (9798)
• [linux] Cannot D&D import files from directory with spaces it path name (9804)
• hash (#) and question mark (?) in filename cause metadata import problems (fixed in 0.8.0pre) (11624)
• [linux][Album Art] Copy from Editor Artwork field to clipboard doesn't work (11761)

MacOSX Specific

• [mac] No info for WMA files in library (6129)
• [mac][ipod] iTunes can interfere with mount of iPod in Songbird (6946)
• [podcast][mac][linux] Play stopped on change of feather (9525)
• [mac][linux] Songbird does not play MIDI files (9798)
• [mac] Mini-player doesn't show up in Spaces (intermittent) (9819)
• [mac] Possible to play two tracks at once, then crash (9835)

DOCUMENTATION

• New! Updating Feathers for 0.7.0
  
• Display Panes Documentation
• Webpage API Documentation
• Add-on API Documentation
  

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