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Boris replied on April 17, 2009 21:35 to the problem "Occasional small skips in song" in Songbird:

Bug #14891 is fixed on trunk.

songbird.mediacore.output.buffertime is set to 2000 ms by default on all the platforms.

That would be good to have a feedback from users who experienced this problem.
You can try the latest 1.2.0a builds at:
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Develope...
and check it with the files you had a problem with? You can comment directly in a bug.
Thanks.

Boris replied on April 17, 2009 21:33 to the question "Some songs keep skipping throughout the song...why?" in Songbird:

Bug #14891 is fixed on trunk.

songbird.mediacore.output.buffertime is set to 2000 ms by default on all the platforms.

tylerstyle,
Can you try the latest 1.2.0a builds and check it with the files you had a problem with? You can comment directly in a bug.
Thanks.

A comment on the problem "songbird doesn't load in ubuntu 8.10" in Songbird:

You just used one of the workarounds.
The problem is with some non-free nVidia beta drivers.
Look at this bug report:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show... – Boris, on April 14, 2009 02:26

Boris replied on April 12, 2009 20:04 to the problem "Songbird 1.1.2 Build 1042 crashes on start in Vista Business due to DEP" in Songbird:

Songbird should work with no problem on any Windows platforms.
What your DEP setting is set to?
Here is the link to help you to find that setting on Windows:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Wind...

Boris replied on April 08, 2009 20:51 to the question "mediacore error: Connection Refused" in Songbird:

Was it always like that with Songbird?
Can you play audio with any other player?

Can you please, go to System->Preferences->Sound and make sure your 'Sound Playback' is set to Autodetect, not to ALSA or PulseAudio.
That might fix the problem...
And make sure, there is no other application running that night usee the same audio output.
Here is a bug in Pulse Audio (I've seen similar one resolved as WontFix for older Fedora 8):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+so...

Another intersting post about Pulsaudio problems on Kubuntu:
http://nexsjournal.blogspot.com/2008/...

Related topic on GetSatisfaction:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...

Boris replied on April 07, 2009 21:26 to the question "songbird previous versions?" in Songbird:

http://developer.songbirdnest.com/bui...

Boris replied on April 02, 2009 22:30 to the question "Is there a way to sort albums in filter pane view by year?" in Songbird:

Currently, there is no way to do it in a library view.

There is a feature suggestion filed in Bugzilla to implement this.
To track the comments on this work item:

1. Go to the "people" box in the upper right hand corner of Bug #14669;
2. Add your email in the "add cc" box;
3. Scroll down and hit commit.

If you don't have a free bugzilla account, signing up is quick and easy and will allow you to share your feedback directly with the development team.
Bug #6744 is kind of similar too....

Thanks.

Boris replied on April 02, 2009 22:14 to the idea "Keyboard shortcut for switching Mini and Main Player" in Songbird:

We have feature suggestion filed in Bugzilla to implement this shortcut.

To track the comments on this work item:
1. Go to the "people" box in the upper right hand corner of Bug #12979;
2. Add your email in the "add cc" box;
3. Scroll down and hit commit.

If you don't have a free bugzilla account, signing up is quick and easy and will allow you to share your feedback directly with the development team.

Boris replied on April 02, 2009 17:59 to the question "What was the last version of Songbird for Intel-based Macs running Tiger and where do I find it?" in Songbird:

Caitlin,

We've never provided separate installers for Tiger vs Leopard.
The only different packages where for PPC and MacIntel.
So, I'm pretty sure you can download .dmg file for Mac Intel nighlty builds at:
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Develope...
or get the Songbird 1.1.1 final build 1018 at:
http://getsongbird.com/
It should run fine on Tiger.

Thanks.

Boris replied on April 02, 2009 04:30 to the question "Batch or automatically "Love" songs with Last.fm" in Songbird:

You can sign uphere

Boris replied on April 02, 2009 04:28 to the question "Batch or automatically "Love" songs with Last.fm" in Songbird:

Sounds interesting!
File a feature suggestion in Songbird Bugzilla.
If you don't have a free Bugzilla account, signing up is quick and easy and will allow you to share your feedback directly with the development team.

Thanks.

Boris replied on April 02, 2009 00:24 to the problem "Possible Genre Corruption when using both SB & iTunes" in Songbird:

This seems to be very common problem according to the number of users replying to this post.
There is one problem for files imported from iTunes which seems to be an iTunes bug, not Songbird.
More info in a Bug #15303

Also, there is a Bug #15971; looking similar (adding numbers in a Genre field) which has nothing to do with iTunes. That one is about to be fixed pretty soon.

So, stay tuned and re-test this issue with the latest builds, when our bug is fixed.

Thanks.

Boris replied on March 31, 2009 21:17 to the question "Songbird pops up when changing track" in Songbird:

rcw003 is aware about this:
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/...

Here is a workaround for this issue posted by the author on add-on summary page:

Turn off your notifications in the preferences for both Saving Lyrics and Notification of no lyrics, and let me know if that stops it, It did on my machine, want to make sure that works to implement a fix.

Boris replied on March 27, 2009 17:59 to the problem "seg fault starting a second instance" in Songbird:

Christopher,

There is a new =Bug #15917 files for this issue.
If you don't have a free bugzilla account, signing up is quick and easy and will allow you to share your feedback directly with the development team.

Boris replied on March 25, 2009 00:03 to the question "buffer overflow detected on startup of 1.1" in Songbird:

Thanks for your prompt reply(being upset doesn't help to make it look nice).

But, if being upset actually helped to fix packman packages(as indicated by users), that's great.

And now when the packages are fixed you're "thinking of withdrawing the openSuSE packages from your server."

regarding 100MB tar.gz?
...it's really growing when being dropped in your test machines...
As far as I can see, our tar.gz are 16.7MB for 32 bits and 17.9MB for 64 bits

Boris replied on March 24, 2009 21:19 to the question "buffer overflow detected on startup of 1.1" in Songbird:

@Toni,

Can you, please, file the bug in our Bugzilla and attach your patch in there?
If you don't have a free bugzilla account, signing up is quick and easy and will allow you to share your feedback directly with the development team.

Thanks.

Boris replied on March 23, 2009 18:34 to the problem "glibc 2.8 detects invalid free() pointer" in Songbird:

@All,
Thanks for all of the useful information in this post.

Bug #15306 remains open to track this issue.

Boris replied on March 18, 2009 21:49 to the question "Window takes focus on new song" in Songbird:

Close right side bar with LyricsMaster in it.

Boris replied on March 14, 2009 05:54 to the question "&servicepane.seeqpodsearch" in Songbird:

This issue was already filed in a Bug #15321
The worth thing that broken node remains in a service pane even after add-on uninstall.

Boris replied on March 14, 2009 05:42 to the question "buffer overflow detected on startup of 1.1" in Songbird:

Nathan,
I understand your concern.
In a same bug report I mentioned that RPM packages provided by Packman are not created by Songbird team.
Songbird team is dedicated to the quality of the product and we will happily debug and fix any problem in rpm packages once we officially support them.

Please, e-mail the package maintainer and tell him that all the packages (even in an open source environment) should be tested, maintained and supported by a package creators/maintainers.

Thanks.