Thursday, June 19, 2008

Songbird 0.6 Beta - Mash-up of Desktop Web Player, Digital Jukebox, and Web Browser

Songbird 0.6 Beta (Windows, Open Source, 15.2MB) [download via FileHippo] is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox, it is built from Mozilla, cross-platform and open source.

Changes:

  • We have implemented jemalloc as our memory allocator for XULRunner on windows and linux. On these platforms we've been noticing Songbird's memory footprint has reduced between 15-20%.
  • There is a new metadata editor! To check it out select a track and choose cmd/ctrl+e.
  • We now write metadata back to the file.
  • For Windows, the latest MTP add-on has been revved and we're supporting more devices.
  • For all OS platforms, the iPod add-on has been completely rewritten to support our new device API
  • Major performance improvements in the library when scrolling, filtering and importing (we now support much larger libraries too.)
  • For Mac, the latest Quicktime add-ons for ppc and intel greatly improve playback performance for local MP3 and M4A files (no more latency issues before playback begins.)
  • We have added a survey to Help Make Songbird Better in this release. We will use your feedback to improve future versions of the Bird!

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