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- SONGBIRD 0.3 RELEASE NOTES
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- NOTICE TO CURRENT (0.2.5 and older) USERS
- Songbird 0.3 requires a new library format and profiles. As such, you won't be able to migrate your old 0.2.5
- libraries and profiles to your new Songbird 0.3 installation. It is possible to install both Songbird 0.2.5 and 0.3
- side-by-side to allow you to continue to access your old libraries and profiles while you setup your new
- Songbird 0.3 installation.Please see the following document for more information on how to do this, and for links
- to download prior Songbird 0.2.5 binaries for your system:
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- http://www.songbirdnest.com/migration-from-0.2.5-to-0.3
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- NOTICE TO MAC USERS
- Some Mac stability seen in our 0.2.5 release was lost due to a major XULRunner update in our application.
- Stay tuned for improvements in future releases.
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- DOCUMENTATION
- The following development documentation is available:
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- Webpage API Documentation
- - Starter Guides and Sample Code located at:
- http://developer.songbirdnest.com/webpage-api
- - Full Webpage API Documentation located at:
- http://developer.songbirdnest.com/webpage-api/docs/0.3/
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- Add-on API Documentation
- - Starter Guides and Sample Code located at:
- http://developer.songbirdnest.com/add-on-api
- - Full Add-on API Documentation located at:
- http://developer.songbirdnest.com/add-on-api/docs/0.3/
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- KNOWN BUGS/ISSUES
- The following high profile bugs are known to still be open for this release:
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- All Platforms
- - 'Edit' menu items are not hooked up (2116)
- - Sort selection is not retained (4516)
- - Index column width can be shrunk to cut off index values (4571)
- - Scan for Media window does not close if target directory empty (4605)
- - Clicking out of 'Subscribe' dialog Hangs songbird (intermittent) (4839)
- - Misc memory leaks still being investigated (4918)
- - Media scan doesn't find files in a folder with "." in the folder name (4965)
- - Audioscrobbler add-on not updated to support this release (5193)
- - File names in "title" column don't display non-ASCII characters correctly (5284)
- - When Repeat All and Shuffle are set on and you start up Songbird clicking play
- does not pick random song (5257)
- - Unicode metadata from ogg files not read properly (5268)
- - iPod extension does not support latest generation iPods (5287)
- - "Open a File..." does not always start playback (5354)
- - Need to change the HTTP accept-language tag to match locale (5437)
- - Chosing "Copy Location" in Web Media History content menu throws error -
- NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER (5459)
- - Playlistplayback may overwrite wrong track on metadata update (5509)
- - Content-Disposition filename header must be quoted (5416)
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- Windows
- - Cannot Right Click while using Songbird to view a website
- - Intermittent Runtime error when doing metascan
- - Crash in playcounts_init with iPod (seen on Vista OS only)
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- Linux
- - No way to have system-wide install, can only install to a single user (3679)
- - Service pane context menu requires right click + hold (4584)
- - Resizing main app window is sluggish/jumps around (5276)
- - [Mac/Linux] Resizing Songbird can make it disappear/display weird (5286)
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- Mac OS X
- - AppleKey + Q Doesn't always Quit (4845)
- - Service pane context menu requires right click + hold (4584)
- - "Cheezy Video Window" cannot be hidden or resized (4706)
- - Disappearing Menu upon start of application (4847)
- - JS Error closing app while Scan Media in progress (5142)
- - Resizing main app window is sluggish/jumps around (5276)
- - Setup and Main windows behind Finder window on First Run (5290)
- - Most keyboard shortcuts unavailable on OS X (5409)
- - Main window not remembering window size between quits (5428)
- - [Mac/Linux] Resizing Songbird can make it disappear/display weird (5286)
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- For more details, visit http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com
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- MAJOR FEATURE BUG FIXES
- The following Major Bugs were fixed since 0.3 RC2 release:
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- - 4926 [Mac] Command-V Paste Doesn't Work in URL text box
- - 5149 [iPod] Should query user when Songbird closed while performing an iPod operation.
- - 5186 [Linux] recommended add-ons are not all visible in firstrun dialog
- - 5197 Thread Leak on playlist element load (views aren't deleted/culled)
- - 5198 Songbird should load a different home page URL on firstrun
- - 5202 Webpage API notification hat missing buttons
- - 5205 combine media item and playlist into one preference / notification type
- - 5221 songbird.hasAccess categories need documentation
- - 5222 Add documentation for security related events
- - 5242 Library items all blank
- - 5269 [iPod] iPod storage capacity and usage not shown.
- - 5288 servicepane playlist node breaks context menu after first use
- - 5292 Protect from null mRealSelection in sbLocalDatabaseTreeView
- - 5294 [iPod] Crash when installing iPod extension from first run.
- - 5298 [Win] Installed text files (gpl.txt, README.txt, etc) have wrong line endings
- - 5300 Reading Metadata files is very very slow (from folders with extended chars?)
- - 5339 iTunes Library importer does not import rating
- - 5343 [Linux] Crash on shutdown @ IPodDeviceSys::ProbeAllDevs
- - 5368 Blank items (media lists) in web media history
- - 5369 songbird.play() can't resume playback from playURL when no webplaylist present
- - 5381 Security modal dialog no longer shows
- - 5388 Column titles in Libraries/Playlists don't reload in new language when language changes
- - 5398 Medialist not taking UI sort into account
- - 5401 Enable property to show dialog when add-on upates are avaible
- - 5402 Software update dialog has link that does not open in Songbird and should.
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