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1.9.0b2 Release Notes

    Songbird 1.9.0b2 (build 1876) is supported on Windows XP, WIndows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.5, and Mac OS X 10.6.

    NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

    • Firmware update support for the Philips GoGear Connect
    • An always-available, on-the-fly playlist queueing feature
    • 7digital music store addon redesign
    • Performance improvements
      • Faster search and filtering
      • Quicker metadata editing when changing several files simultaneously

    KNOWN BUGS/ISSUES IN 1.9.0b2

    Device Support

    • Tracks with a .asf extension will not sync or transcode to devices. ( bug 22026)
    • Re-syncing a track with changed metadata will not update the metadata on the device. ( bug 22241)
    • Selecting the "Don't Remove Photos" checkbox will not disable photo sync. ( bug 22381)
    • Attempting multiple over-capacity sync operations may cause an application crash. ( bug 21746)
    • Using the option to automatically sync playlists to a device may cause Songbird to delete photos on some HTC devices. ( bug 22077)
    • Running the Get Artwork command against tracks on an MTP device will cause a "Get Artwork" playlist to be written and saved to the device. ( bug 22243)
    • The error dialog that displays after a failed attempt to restore a Philips device to factory settings may display too briefly, or it may contain incomplete information. ( bug 22699, bug 22702)


    Play Queue

    • The Play/Pause option in the Play Queue's context menu does not toggle to the Pause state when a track is playing. ( bug 22366)
    • Sort order is not carried over when dragging and dropping tracks from the library or from a playlist to the Play Queue. ( bug 22377)
    • Drag and drop operations containing several thousand tracks may cause an "Unresponsive Script" warning to display. ( bug 22379)
    • When the artwork display pane is in "Now Selected" mode, artwork is not displayed for items selected in the Play Queue. ( bug 22234)
    • Dragging tracks directly from the Desktop into the Play Queue may result in those items being added to the Songbird library without any visible metadata in the library view. ( bug 22405)
    • The fifth star in the rating field of the Play Queue will be cut off if the vertical scroll bar is displayed. ( bug 22436)
    • Clicking the Play button in the faceplate does not start playback of the focused track in the Play Queue. ( bug 22384)


    Playback

    • Playback rapidly skips through some AIFF tracks ( bug 22205)


    CD Rip

    • [cdrip] user-populated Artist and Album metadata doesn't result in artwork display ( bug 21750)
    • Songbird crashes when quit during rip; CD is un-ejectable. ( bug 22389)
    • On Mac, ripping a CD while an MSC device is plugged in and set to auto-sync will result in sync errors for cdda:// tracks showing up when the user navigates to the device summary pane. Functionality is not affected. ( bug 22596)


    UI

    • The splash screen is not displaying during application launch. ( bug 22686)
    • Album art will not be displayed for tracks that were imported during the first run of Songbird if the current profile was created through the Profile Manager. ( bug 22056)
    • Window does not stay maximized when restarting Songbird ( bug 22275)
    • Feathers created using the current version of Songbird Developer Tools will be missing the top title bar on Mac. ( bug 22207)
    • The video controller overlay may separate from, and move behind, the video playback window on Mac. ( bug 22288)
    • On Windows, web pages with very long titles may push the title bar menu items off the edge of the application. ( bug 22707)

    OTHER 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 playback of DRM-encrypted files, make sure you have gone to the store from which you purchased your tracks to learn how to authorize your computer to play them.  Songbird will be able to play DRM-encrypted tracks as soon as your machine has been authorized.
    • The following are not yet supported by Songbird (will be planned for future releases):
      • Podcast Subscriptions and Playback, CD Burn
    All Platforms
    Media Import, Export, and Download
    • iTunes smart playlists aren't imported ( bug 16473)
    • The pause/resume download function for music downloads will fail to resume the download after it is paused. ( bug 20793)
    • Intermittently when downloading tracks, progress bars stop animating ( bug 18595)
    Media Lists
    • Some songs display as 0:00 ( bug 9145)
    • Portugese articles not ignored in sorting ( bug 16301)
    • m3u playlists that are synced to Symbian-based phones may appear empty when browsed through the phone's interface. The playlist's tracks will still be present on the device. ( bug 20964)
    Metadata
    • Comments added to mp3 files within Songbird may not be imported and displayed within iTunes. ( bug 19914)
    • Device library metadata may not completely load when plugging in a Nokia N85 in MTP mode. ( bug 21566)
    Performance
    • Video streaming gets slow and choppy when fetching artwork and playing tracks ( bug 20652)
    • Library browsing may be slow on extremely large libraries ( bug 21385)
    UI
    • Text in some dialogs may be cropped or cut off if the OS is configured to use large fonts. ( bug 5583)
    • Window min/max sizing does not respect DPI ( bug 6956)
    • Paused tracks intermittently increase playcount ( bug 13615)
    • Songbird may not display the number of channels in some audio files. ( bug 18451)
    • Removed search engines are not removed from the search options UI. ( bug 20847)
    Video
    • The play/pause controller incorrectly changes state when seeking through a video. ( bug 19904)
    • The Time column for a video may be empty until after the video has played. ( bug 19442)
    Miscellaneous
    • Certain combinations of codepages and unicode characters may prevent XULRunner from launching (Songbird bug 17467, Mozilla bug 413171, Mozilla bug 469856)
    Device Support
    General Sync
    • Same files can be added twice to a device if 2 PCs are used ( bug 9803)
    • When transferring a playlist to a device that doesn't support playlists, a playlist node will appear briefly underneath the device node while the playlist's contents are synced to the device. The playlist node will disappear once the sync is complete. ( bug 21054)
    • Songbird may freeze for a few seconds when mounting a device when the Songbird library is extremely large (50K+ tracks). ( bug 20985)
    • m3u playlists that are synced to Symbian-based phones may appear empty when browsed through the phone's interface. The playlist's tracks will still be present on the device. ( bug 20964)
    • Device library metadata may not completely load when plugging in a Nokia N85 in MTP mode. ( bug 21566)
    Transcoding
    • The device summary page progress header may not display when performing an audio-only transfer using drag and drop. ( bug 20030)
    • The "Other" category on the device summary page will increase when the device is in MSC mode and a video is being transcoded to that device. The display will correct itself once the video has finished transcoding. ( bug 21035)
    Windows Specific
    Windows 7
    • Show Desktop hides the entire Songbird window. ( bug 16293)
    Video
    • QuickTime files with zlib compressed headers will not play back on Windows. ( bug 14170)
    • The video window may open on the wrong monitor on systems with multiple displays attached. ( bug 18916)
    CD Rip
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • [mgtlibrary] manage files location set to dvd doesn't write nor does it error ( bug 19196)
    • CD's not detected in Windows 7 X64. ( bug 19246)
    • Songbird may not be able to write ripped tracks to a network-mounted filesystem. ( bug 20691)
    • The Size column of the library will not contain any data for tracks ripped from CDs. ( bug 21487)
    Miscellaneous
    • First application quit takes over 15 seconds to complete ( bug 19857)
    Mac OS X Specific
    Media Import, Export, and Download
    • Manually re-importing an already-imported iTunes library may cause some podcasts to be removed from the Songbird library. ( bug 21441)
    Playback
    • Songbird does not play MIDI files ( bug 9798)
    Miscellaneous
    • Mini-player doesn't show up in Spaces (intermittent) ( bug 9819)
    • Keyboard shortcuts for Play/Pause, Next/previous track not shown in Control menu ( bug 12922)
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