1.6.0b1 Release Notes

Video Playback

• QuickTime files with zlib compressed headers will not play back on Windows. ( bug 14170)
• Many videos won't pause. ( bug 14911)
• [video][wmv] No audio, plain green window on some test videos ( bug 18752)
• If the user starts playback of a video, then switches to another video while the first video is playing back, Songbird may not resume playback of the first video at its stopping point. ( bug 18910)
• The OSD controls may flicker during playback. ( bug 18867)
• Users may encounter various problems while using the video scrubber. ( bug 18911)
• The video window may open on the wrong monitor on systems with multiple displays attached. ( bug 18916)
• [video] Playback of  H.264 .mov file has audio and video hiccups ( bug 18881)
• Seeking/scrubbing in WMV files may halt video playback. ( bug 18884)
• [videoplayback] Some mp4v .mp4, .3gp, .mov test files play back with blank (green) video screen; majority working ( bug 18943)
• [video] video window context menu can display improperly after window resize ( bug 18957)
• [video] after switching to full screen with CTRL+SHIFT+F overlapping black window appears ( bug 19281)
• Empty time column is displayed until after the video has played. ( bug 19442)
• [videoplayback] Trying to play streams marked as xvid/dvix failing ( bug 19452)
• [videoplayback] Seeking mpeg4/avc (ewcodecs) fails ( bug 19453)
• Playback windows not closing with Alt+F4 ( bug 19537)
• [video][trcode]MSC .mov MJPEG do not transcode/copy to device ( bug 19613)
• sync info for music displays while transcoding video ( bug 19669)
• [trcode] [vista only] File extension isn't changed in Songbird library after transcode ( bug 19670)
• Some videos import to the music library ( bug 19675)
• [msc] video counted as music in device usage bar graph ( bug 19676)

Devices

• [msc] Over-capacity transfer fails silently when device is in a bad state ( bug 17416)
• [mtp][msc] Removing media leaves artist/album folders behind ( bug 18975)
• Removing all copies of a sync'ed playlist track does not remove all copies from device playlist ( bug 19229)
• [mtp] Video node on the Spark when set to MTP mode ( bug 19564)
• [msc] Sync playlist may not display properly on first auto-sync; app restart fixed issue ( bug 19569)
• [msc] Incorrect status text after cancelling a transfer ( bug 19586)
• [msc] Playlists not allowed/written to Spark in MSC mode ( bug 19604)
• [msc][mtp] Transcoding status messages aren't showing ( bug 19643)

All Platforms

• Dialogs text cropped when OS is using big fonts ( bug 5583)
• Window min/max sizing does not respect DPI ( bug 6956)
• Paused tracks intermittently increase playcount ( bug 13615)
• iTunes smart playlists aren't imported ( bug 16473)
• [mashtape] After minimizing Songbird with mashtape video tab in focus, track changes cause Songbird to become maximized ( bug 18379)
• Number of channels in music files are not listed for some of the file ( bug 18451)
• Inconsistent Music Folder naming based on Locale (18484)
• Intermittently when downloading tracks, progress bars stop animating ( bug 18595)
• Certain combinations of codepages and unicode characters may prevent XULRunner from launching (Songbird bug 17467, Mozilla bug 413171, Mozilla bug 469856)
• Changed rating information is not saved into the media file ( bug 18957) Currently, as designed
• [albumart] non-english album artwork not showing in SB/not downloading from gracenote ( bug 19244)
• [artwork] get album art for new addition to library only succeeds fetching 2 of 3 ( bug 19270)

Windows Specific

• CD Rip
  
  • Users must click within the CD Rip media view to activate the CD Rip-specific keyboard shortcuts. ( bug 18267)
  • CDs will occasionally not eject automatically after a successful rip when the auto-eject option is enabled. ( bug 18291)
  • Users must select a track within the CD Rip media view to see the artwork associated with the album. ( bug 18331)
  • The transcoding preferences UI for CD Rip allows users to select unavailable output bitrates for WMA files. The files will be written with the closest available bitrate to the one chosen by the user. ( bug 18242)
  • [cdrip] CD rip to wma crashes Songbird ( bug 19663)
• Devices
  • Songbird changes case of user files on device as compared to media library ( bug 18363)
• Some songs display as 0:00 ( bug 9145)
• Same files can be added twice to a device if 2 PCs are used ( bug 9803)
• Songbird will not recognize USB CD drives plugged in while the application is running. Quit and restart Songbird to mount your CD drive inside the application. ( bug 18033)

• Portugese articles not ignored in sorting ( bug 16301)
• A DRM reference implementation file from Microsoft will not play back. ( bug 18368)
• Performance very slow on 10k file import ( bug 19629)

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)