1.4.0b2 Release Notes

CD Rip Support (Windows only)

Songbird can now rip music from audio CDs to the main Songbird library. 

Firmware Update for MSC (Windows only)

Songbird will be able to manage the firmware on selected MSC devices.

CD Rip

• All tracks from a CD are immediately copied to the main Songbird library when the user initiates a Start Rip operation. ( bug 17851)
• Metadata properties not explicitly created during the ripping process are not populated to the main library until the ripped files are rescanned. ( bug 17852)
• Duplicate tracks are added to the main Songbird library when Watch Folders is enabled and tracks are ripped to the watched folder. ( bug 17904)
• Some CD metadata lookups may fail to return data even when the remote database has valid data for that CD. (bug 17912)
• Partially-ripped tracks will sync to devices that are plugged in and set to auto-sync while CDs are being ripped. This may also cause tracks on CDs to rip multiple times.  Users should rip CDs entirely before plugging in their devices to sync them. ( bug 17919, bug 17920)
• Songbird will display an error dialog when a user launches Songbird through the Windows Auto Play dialog.  The error is "Songbird cannot rip your audio CD."  This is not true; Songbird can rip your CD. The error is incorrect. ( bug 17921)
• The CD Lookup results window does not automatically close when the CD is ejected. ( bug 17933)
• The View Metadata option on the CD Rip service pane's contextual menu will not open the metadata editor. ( bug 17935)
• Tracks containing metadata with characters outside the standard Latin-1 set may result in mangled filenames. ( bug 17941)
• The Multiple CD Records Found window does not close when the X in the upper right-hand corner is clicked. ( bug 17946)
• The progress indicator may appear on the wrong track in the CD Rip view when a rip operation was previously performed on a different track of the same CD, and the CD Rip icon in the service pane may not animate. ( bug 17947, bug 17949)
• Data CDs and mounted ISO images will appear as CDs in Songbird. ( bug 17982)
• Ripped tracks will overwrite existing tracks on the filesystem if the name of the two tracks are the same. ( bug 17991)
• The Stop Rip button only stops the rip of the current track. ( bug 17993)
• A manual CD eject may not be recognized. Users will have to return to Songbird and click the Eject CD button. ( bug 18032)
• Changes to the bit rate value in the CD Rip preferences may not persist. ( bug 18043)

MSC: Firmware Updates

• The Vista UAC window will display every time the user clicks on the device node. This should only happen when the user attempts to update the device's firmware. ( bug 17894)
• The Remind Me Later button for firmware update notifications does not trigger a reminder. ( bug 17925)
• Device-specific instructions are not displayed in the firmware reset dialog. ( bug 17929)
• The Eject button should be disabled when devices are in Recovery mode. ( bug 17948)

MSC: Miscellaneous

• The "Add to Library" option in the right-click menu for tracks on MSC devices will not copy those track files to the main Songbird library unless the user also has Manage Files enabled. ( bug 17159)
• A status message stating "1 of 1 items completed" is displayed after removing all items from a device. ( bug 17196)
• Drag and drop of VBR WMA files to a device that supports WMA will sometimes cause Songbird to attempt to transcode those files. Going through this process may break drag and drop application-wide until application restart, and it may also prevent users from importing new items to their library until application restart. ( bug 17217, bug 17492)
• Choosing the "Ignore Device" option from a device's contextual menu may result in a bad title heading on the media tab. ( bug 17891)
• Devices set to automatically sync upon mount may not sync automatically. ( bug 18022)

MTP

• Songbird will sometimes indicate that unsupported files were copied to a device as-is. ( bug 16452, bug 17136, bug 17828)
• Clicking the Cancel button during a transfer may not cancel the transfer. ( bug 17891)
• Localized strings are missing on one of the error dialogs that can appear after a failed MTP sync attempt. ( bug 17896)

Other

• Certain sets of files are not fully imported when copied directly to Songbird's watch folder. ( bug 17072)
• Deleting tracks from the Songbird library when Manage Files is enabled will delete the tracks from the user's hard drive without offering the user a way to opt-out of file deletion. ( bug 17272)
• Changes to some metadata fields made to AAC files in Songbird are not exported to iTunes. ( bug 17576)
• The iTunes agent cannot be killed by the Windows uninstaller when installed through a nightly build or a distribution build. ( bug 17875)

All Platforms

• Dialogs text cropped when OS is using big fonts ( bug 5583)
• Window min/max sizing does not respect DPI ( bug 6956)
• [iPod] Album Artwork switched to wrong music ( bug 7780)
• [metadata-writing] Unable to write metadata to .m4a files ( bug 8812)
• [ipod] 1st Gen iPod shuffle not mounting in Songbird ( bug 10432)
  • Workaround:
    • Go to iPod directory
    • Find "ipod_control" folder and delete it
    • Re-connect the ipod and Songbird will recognize it.
• Paused tracks intermittently increase playcount ( bug 13615)
• iTunes smart playlists aren't imported ( bug 16473)
• The Import Library button inside the Media Import preferences loses its text after being clicked once. ( bug 17988)

Windows Specific

• Cannot playback media items on MTP device from within Songbird app ( bug 8068)
• Some songs display as 0:00 ( bug 9145)
• Same files can be added twice to a device if 2 PCs are used ( bug 9803)

Linux Specific

• [linux] Mini mode position is not remembered when switched back from Full Player ( bug 5938)
• Maximized state is not remembered between feather changes ( bug 9002)
• [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 ( bug 12539)
• Songbird won't play music under Fedora 10/Songbird does not work on Fedora 10 ( bug 15235)

MacOSX Specific

• [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)