1.0.0 RC3 Release Notes

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Improved Audio/Playback Functionality

• 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.
  

UI Experience Improvements
User experience improvements include these significant visual and functional changes:

• 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
  

Performance Improvements
This release provides improved performance:

• 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)
  

Stability
Many miscellaneous top crashers were fixed for this release.

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: For play of DRM files, make sure you have gone to store where you purchased your DRM tracks from to learn how to authorize your computer to play that those tracks.  Songbird will be able to play those tracks as soon as your machine has been authorized.

All Platforms

• Youtube scraping not supported ( bug 5199)
• Need to change the HTTP accept-language tag to match locale ( bug 5437)
• Dialogs text cropped when OS is using big fonts ( bug 5583)
• [iPod] Need to support the iPod Touch/iPhone ( bug 6389)
• Window min/max sizing does not respect DPI( bug 6956)
• [iPod] Album Artwork switched to wrong music ( bug 7780)
• [podcast] RSS page not displaying properly in SB ( bug 8573)
  
• [metadata-writing] Unable to write metadata to .m4a files ( bug 8812)
• Playback automatically resumes after computer is returned from standby ( bug 9605)
  
• [ipod] deviceSummary page reports incorrent number of files deleted from device ( bug 9878)
• [ipod] incorrect capacity-used-by-music & songCount on device itself ( bug 10170)
• [ipod] 1st Gen iPod shuffle not mounting in Songbird ( bug 10432)
• Temp Solution:
  
• Go to iPod directory
• Find "ipod_control" folder and delete it
• Re-connect the ipod and Songbird will recognize it.
  
• [ipod] Smart Playlist names aren't synced to iPods ( bug 11635)
• [ipod] Smart Playlists don't show up in device node when synced ( bug 11636)
• Paused tracks inconsistently increase playcount ( bug 13615)

Windows Specific

• Auto hide task bar is not maximized when SB is maximized ( bug 6116)
• [vlc] Play of remote files where connection is dropped causes hang ( bug 7874)
• [mtp] metadata for existing media items are off ( bug 8068)
• Some songs display as 0:00 ( bug 9145)
• [mtp][clip] SB does not remember renamed Sansa Clip device ( bug 9742)
  
• [mtp] [dups] Same files can be added twice to a device if 2 PCs are used ( bug 9803)
  
• [mtp] Songbird lockup on sync of 3 devices at once ( bug 9886)
• [win] Seek button displays wrong time in track on pause/play( bug 13174)
• [mtp] Mediacore Error on playback of media items on MTP device from within Songbird app ( bug 13336)

Linux Specific

• Window resizing broken on some dual head configurations ( bug 2108)
• Can't play Songs from .htaccess password protected apache directory ( bug 5011)
• [linux] Mini mode position is not remembered when switched back from Full Player ( bug 5938)
• [Linux] Maximize window state not retained on Quit/Relaunch ( bug 6657)
• Restarting app too quickly after quitting causes a "app is still running dialog" ( bug 6671)
• Maximized state is not remembered between feather changes ( bug 9002)
• [ipod][linux] The Mini ( bug 7741), Touch Wheel ( bug 9041) and Photo ( bug 9042) iPod models are not and will never be supported.
• [podcast][mac][linux] Play stopped on change of feather ( bug 9525)
  
• [mac][linux] Songbird does not play MIDI files ( bug 9798)
• [linux] Cannot D&D import files from directory with spaces it path name ( bug 9804)
• [linux] Files from SMB shares cannot be played (12539)}})
• [linux64] Songbird hanging on shutdown ( bug 13159)
• NOTE: Ensure ALSA install is at least version alsa-lib-1.0.17-2.fc9
• [linux] "Opening 'songbird' " cancel dialog not functional/cannot close ( bug 13656)
• NOTE: Double clicking on the Songbird shell script in Nautilus on Linux may cause a dialod to appear asking if you want to run or edit the shell script.  If  you want to avoid this dialog, go into Edit -> Preferences for Nautilus and, under the behavior tab, select 'Run executable text files when they are opened'.
  

MacOSX Specific

• [mac] No info for WMA files in library ( bug 6129)
• [mac][ipod] iTunes can interfere with mount of iPod in Songbird ( bug 6946)
• [podcast][mac][linux] Play stopped on change of feather ( bug 9525)
• [mac][linux] Songbird does not play MIDI files ( bug 9798)
• [mac] Mini-player doesn't show up in Spaces (intermittent) ( bug 9819)
• [key][mac] Keyboard shortcuts for Play/Pause, Next/previous track not shown in Control menu ( bug 12922)

DOCUMENTATION

• Updating Feathers for Songbird 1.0
• Updating Extensions for Songbird 1.0
• Updated the Media Core APIs to Take Advantage of GStreamer
  
• Display Panes Documentation
• Webpage API Documentation
• Add-on API Documentation
  

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