Machavel Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Play music. Play the Web. Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet. Songbird is a player and a platform. Like Firefox, Songbird is an open source, Open Web project built on the Mozilla platform. Songbird provides a public playground for Web media mash-ups by providing developers with both desktop and Web APIs, developer resources and fostering Open Web media standards, to wit, an Open Media Web. New in 0.5 0.5 Final has entered the station with hundreds of bug-fixes and several new features: MTP Device supportMTP Device support Windows users have a shiny new MTP Add-on that introduces MTP Device Support! Most portable media players and cell phones integrate the MTP spec so try plugging in your device and share your findings on the MTP Device Compatibility Wiki Page. The extension requires Windows XP-SP2 or Vista, as well as WMP v11. Media ViewsMedia Views Tired of music players that look like spreadsheets? Media Views provide new ways of displaying, manipulating, exploring, and contextualizing your media library. Songbird ships with two default views: a traditional playlist view, and a second playlist view with three filter panes. Developers can create new Media Views and upload them to the Add-ons site. This example media page replaces the standard playlist filters with tag clouds. To experience your music web 2.0 style, load your library, then select Tag Cloud from the View menu. Click the tags to toggle the filtering on and off. Improved Filter PickerImproved Filter Picker Genre, Artist, and Album aren’t the only useful ways to filter your music collection. We’ve streamlined the filter picker list and fixed a few bugs that make it easier than ever to navigate your collection. New List BackgroundNew List Background After several requests from our community we’ve made our Library and Playlist backgrounds easier on your eyes. Keep sending us your ideas, suggestions, and requests, your feedback helps us improve the ‘bird! Improved Rating UI We’ve clarified the rating widget display by showing circles for unrated items and improved usability by allowing you to more easily change or un-rate a track. Hot Keys on the MacHot Keys on the Mac Mac users, you can now use common hot-keys to quit, hide, or open Songbird preferences just like the rest of your applications. We also fixed the issue which allowed the application to be dragged under the menu bar, yay! Always on TopAlways on Top Never lose your Rubberducky Mini Player under a stack of windows! Now you can set it to always be on top. Any Feather developer can expose this feature in their feather. Developer Resources New Webpage API Events and ListenersNew Webpage API Events and Listeners The Webpage API features new events you can observe. The events, and examples on how you can observe them, are detailed here. Media Views GuideMedia Views Guide We’ve created a Media Views guide to help you get started. Download: (Size: 33.8 MB) http://www.tnctr.com/s/?X6ic[/CODE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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