0.7.0 RC1 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

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.

All Platforms

• Youtube scraping not supported (5199)
• Need to change the HTTP accept-language tag to match locale (5437)
• EULA/other 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)
  
• [VMware] When Changing VM from windowed resolution to Maximize, SB installer doesn't adapt (8723)
• [metadata-writing] Unable to write metadata to .m4a files (8812)
• [ipod] deviceSummary page reports incorrent number of files deleted from device (9878)
• Metadata for a track doesn't show up until the track is played on any scan other than initial first scan (10098)
• Crash doing Remove All from library (11311)
• Pausing playback causes skipping sound (11386)

Windows Specific

• [QT] erratic playback for protected aac (m4p) files (do not use nsITimer) (2361)
• [VLC] [Win32] Audio muted by system mixer (4054)
  
• 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] crash when closing songbird during a sync (9806)
• [mtp] Songbird lockup on sync of 3 devices at once. (9886)

Linux Specific

• Text cut-off in library, etc, when fonts are in large DPI mode (2496)
• 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)
• [linux] Miniplayer UI weird artifacts with scrolling title/mouse overs (6870)
• [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)

MacOSX Specific

• [QT] erratic playback for protected aac (m4p) files (do not use nsITimer) (2361)
• [Mac] Double clicking on menu bar area should minimize the app (5283)
• [mac] No info for WMA files in library (6129)
• [mac][ipod] iTunes can interfere with mount of iPod in Songbird (6946)
• [mac][ppc] Load of double byte languages (Chinese, Japanese, etc) getting a parsing error (8177)
• [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 (9819)
• [mac] Possible to play two tracks at once, then crash (9835)

DOCUMENTATION

• New! Updating Feathers for 0.7
  
• Display Panes Documentation
• Webpage API Documentation
• Add-on API Documentation
  

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