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2008 Projects
Eno
| Objective: Expand device support, improve performance and respond to community requested features. | |||||
| Release: June '08 | |||||
| Feature | Benefits | Specification | Discuss | Track | Status |
| Devices | |||||
| MTP sync support on Windows | Sync music and playlists to MP3 players and cell phones. | Phase II MTP Support | Device, MTP | multiple | Completed |
| Migrate iPod To new APIs | Sync music and playlists to non-touch iPods. | Migrate iPod to new APIs | Sync, iPod | multiple | Completed |
| Performance | |||||
| Optimize media library performance | Scroll, search, and filter music faster in your media library. Import and manage more media. | Media Library Performance | Library, Performance | multiple | Completed |
| Switch memory allocator for XULRunner on Windows/Linux to jemalloc to reduce memory footprint. | Run Songbird without slowing down the rest of your system. | Performance | bug 9180 | Completed | |
| Group artists with the same name but different capitalizations as one unique value to improve sorting in the filter pane. | Find artists more easily in your media library. | Library | Completed | ||
| Extend the Quicktime Playback Add-On for Mac to pass Mp3 and M4A file playback to the Quicktime core to address VLC's streaming buffer size. | Snappier playback of files on the Mac. | Performance, Mac | bug 8596 | Completed | |
| Community Requests | |||||
| Metadata editor UI | Edit a file's metadata more easily. | Metadata Editor UI | Metadata, UI | multiple | Completed |
| Metadata editing backend | Save metadata changes to your files so changes persist when they are viewed on a device or another computer. | Metadata Editor Backend | Metadata, Device | multiple | Completed |
| Support filter by bitrate and sample rate | Filter and view media by bitrate and sample rate. | bug 6097 | Completed | ||
| Edit menu fixes | Copy, paste, find, find again, etc. using new commands in the edit menu. | Edit Menu Clean Up | Menu, Find | multiple | Completed |
| Contextual menu support while browsing | Right click to pull up a contextual menu while browsing. | Web Page Contextual Menus | Menu | multiple | Completed |
| Clean up View menu | Use the View menu to show or hide display panes, switch Feathers without navigating through multiple nested sub-menus, and use Media Views menu options in a way consistent with how Feathers work. | Clean Up View Menus | Menu, Feathers | multiple | Completed |
| Optimize installing feathers so that the most recently installed feather is automatically loaded after re-start. | Switch feathers more easily. | Feathers, UI | bug 8521 | Completed | |
| SHOUTcast Radio Directory. | Discover, play back, and favorite SHOUTcast radio streams. | Completed | |||
Fugazi
| Objective: Improve performance and focus on usability. | |||||
| Release: August '08 | |||||
| Feature | Benefit | Specification | Discuss | Track | Status |
| Performance | |||||
| Import media and metadata more quickly. | Import your music library and associated metadata faster. | Metadata scan improvements | Performance, Library | Completed | |
| Improve cold-start performance | Launch Songbird in less time. | Cold-start performance | Performance | Completed | |
| On Windows/Linux explore enabling jemalloc in the rest of the application (not just XULRunner). | Reduce Songbird's memory footprint. | Enable jemalloc in rest of app | Performance | Completed | |
| Usability | |||||
| Drag & Drop enhancements that provide visual feedback regarding where things are being dragged to and how many items are part of the operation. | Drag & Drop files more easily and with more feedback from Songbird. | Competitive Drag-and-drop | UI | Completed | |
| First-run redesign focusing on improving the number of dialogs a new user sees when importing or scanning media. | Install Songbird with less clicks and get to the fun stuff faster. | First-run redesign | UI | Completed | |
| New look and feel for Songbird. | Use an easier, more elegant Songbird. | UI/Layout Redesign Work | Feathers, UI | Completed | |
| Smart Playlists | Create Smart Playlists in Songbird like recently added, most played, etc. | Smart Playlists | Playlist | Completed | |
| Enable playback history | Enable Last.FM add-on support by keeping a log of track playback history and extend an API for access to it. | Playback history | Playback History | Completed | |
| Improve Sorting | Enable additional rules to sort media in the Songbird library. | Improve sorting | Sort | Completed | |
| Album Art | View album art in Songbird and save album art to your files so that it persists on devices and other computers. | Album art | Album Art,Device, Metadata | Completed | |
Genesis
| Objective: Continue to improve performance and focus on usability. | |||||
| Release: December '08 | |||||
| Feature | Benefit | Specification | Discuss | Track | Status |
| Performance | |||||
| Performance improvements | Enjoy faster performance in the application. Such as: Improving large library support, making search faster by improving full text search indexing, | Performance improvements | Performance | Completed | |
| Reduce Bugs Responsible for Crashes | Fix the top most frequently occurring application crashes. | Reduce Top Crashers | Completed | ||
| Media Core API | Extend Songbird to work with other Media Cores like GStreamer. | Media Core Work | GStreamer, API | Completed | |
| Expected Features | |||||
| Improve Existing Features | Improve features that already exist in Songbird such as: improving Keyboard Shortcuts, album art support, Support smart playlists as rules within Smart Playlists, Support addon bundle updates, etc | User Experience Improvements | Completed | ||
| Improve Album Art Support | Extend Songbird to support displaying artwork for now selected as well as now playing media. Support importing album art from iTunes import process. | Improve Album Art Support | Completed | ||
| Improve Linux Install Experience | Drive adoption of Songbird on Linux | Improve Linux Install Experience | Completed | ||
| Improve MashTape | Redesign and provide extendable options to get all and/or just some of Mashtape's functionality. Reduce known perf issues. | Improve MashTape | Completed | ||
| Keyboard Shortcuts | Update and/or fix keyboard shortcuts | Keyboard Shortcuts | Completed | ||
| Expose original file | Provide a way for a user to reveal where the item in their library lives on their filesystem | Show Source File | Completed | ||
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