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Daniel Raffel replied on July 15, 2008 02:46 to the question "Can I help maintain support for an unofficial build of Songbird?" in Songbird:

Yes! Please visit our developer forum and let us know you're interested and our build dude will be sure to get in touch with you with more details!

Daniel Raffel asked a question in Songbird on July 15, 2008 02:46:

Can I help maintain support for an unofficial build of Songbird?

Can I help maintain support for an unofficial build of Songbird?

Daniel Raffel set one of Daniel Raffel's replies as an official response to "How can I contribute code to fix bugs specific to the PowerPC architecture?" in Songbird

Daniel Raffel replied on July 15, 2008 02:45 to the question "How can I contribute code to fix bugs specific to the PowerPC architecture?" in Songbird:

While we won't be officially supporting PowerPC builds we do encourage community developers to continue to contribute and maintain their own build if they are interested in doing so. If you're interested, please visit our developer forum.

Daniel Raffel asked a question in Songbird on July 15, 2008 02:45:

How can I contribute code to fix bugs specific to the PowerPC architecture?

How can I contribute code to fix bugs specific to the PowerPC architecture?

Daniel Raffel set one of Daniel Raffel's replies as an official response to "What does dropping support for Songbird for Mac PowerPC mean for other platforms? Are other platforms going to be dropped?" in Songbird

Daniel Raffel replied on July 15, 2008 02:45 to the question "What does dropping support for Songbird for Mac PowerPC mean for other platforms? Are other platforms going to be dropped?" in Songbird:

NO! Unless we see a precipitous drop in active users on any platform, we will continue to support Windows XP/Vista, Linux 32- and 64-bit, and Mac OS X Intel. Again we are making this decision based on our current usage statistics and current engineering resources.

Daniel Raffel asked a question in Songbird on July 15, 2008 02:44:

What does dropping support for Songbird for Mac PowerPC mean for other platforms? Are other platforms going to be dropped?

What does dropping support for Songbird for Mac PowerPC mean for other platforms? Are other platforms going to be dropped?

Daniel Raffel replied on July 15, 2008 02:42 to the question "Why did Songbird stop supporting PowerPC users, does it dislike the Mac?" in Songbird:

We love the Mac, and we have several new Mac Intel machines used for active development. The number of Mac PPC users has dipped below a level that makes sense for us to support.

Daniel Raffel asked a question in Songbird on July 15, 2008 02:42:

Why did Songbird stop supporting PowerPC users, does it dislike the Mac?

Why did Songbird stop supporting PowerPC users, does it dislike the Mac?

Daniel Raffel asked a question in Songbird on July 15, 2008 02:41:

Can I still run Songbird on a PowerPC machine?

Can I still run Songbird on a PowerPC machine?

Daniel Raffel replied on July 15, 2008 02:40 to the question "What does it mean that the Songbird PowerPC (PPC) version is unofficial?" in Songbird:

As an unofficial platform, this effectively means:

* No Songbird QA testubg.
* PPC bugs/issues won't block a future release.
* No Songbird-released PPC builds will be released; if there is community support for such builds, they can be found in our contrib directory.
* No automatic updates from previous releases.
* PPC feature parity may be lagging or lacking in certain areas.

Daniel Raffel set one of Daniel Raffel's replies as an official response to "What does it mean that the Songbird PowerPC (PPC) version is unofficial?" in Songbird

Daniel Raffel asked a question in Songbird on July 15, 2008 02:39:

What does it mean that the Songbird PowerPC (PPC) version is unofficial?

What does it mean that the Songbird PowerPC (PPC) version is unofficial?

danielraffel replied on June 22, 2008 02:47 to the discussion "Why was watch-folders punted for the next release of Songbird?" in Songbird:

We understand watch folders are a highly requested feature and we fully intend to implement them in Songbird!

When we finished engineering planning for the next release and looked at the amount of work we have to do we realized we couldn't commit to implementing all of the Watch Folders components during the next releases timeframe. Unfortunately, we pretty much had no choice but to punt this feature for now. The good news is we will attempt to implement a native file system notifier API during this release so we are planning to lay some critical groundwork for this feature.

While the remaining work for implementing Watch Folders isn't currently scheduled we're hoping to land the feature either as an add-on sometime after this release or one to two releases out from now. When we have a more definitive date for this I'll be sure to update the Roadmap and this thread.

danielraffel replied on June 21, 2008 00:00 to the problem "The lack of the horizontal scrollbar" in Songbird:

What wild timing! One of our engineers was just exploring improvements to the Library and Playlists and got a prototype working with horizontal scrollbars (and columns that resize in more logical ways.) We still have some more work to do to work out a few small kinks but things are looking good that we'll have a fix for this in time for our next release. Thanks for reporting this issue!