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dbradley replied on July 09, 2009 15:51 to the idea "Google Summer of Code" in Songbird:

I thought something was done last year. I don't recall the project. Think it's more of people being heads down and not thinking about it when it comes around.

dbradley replied on July 02, 2009 19:02 to the question "Is it possible for Songbird to sync with a Windows mobile device?" in Songbird:

Ideally Songbird would use MTP to sync. There's a few issues. Some have been addressed, but some have not. And I'm not sure if those remaining issues will get addressed in this next release.

This next release will contain MSC support. If the MTP fixes don't make it in. You could disable the MTP extension and let MSC handle your mobile device. If you don't disable MTP, then it's like MTP will prevent MSC from handling your Windows Mobile Device.

A comment on the question "Questions about accessing SQLite db" in Songbird:

Realize the callback mechanism isn't currently used. So I have no idea what shape it is in. Anyway to use that, you'd need to create a JS object that implements the sbIDatabaseQueryCallback interface.

Basically you'd create the object, define the QueryInterface method as:

QueryInterface : QueryInterface: XPCOMUtils.generateQI([Ci.sbIDatabaseQueryCallback])

And then define the methods in your object that are defined by interface as defined here: http://src.songbirdnest.com/source/xr... – dbradley, on June 15, 2009 18:45

dbradley replied on June 15, 2009 18:32 to the problem "itunes export" in Songbird:

When you shutdown Songbird, it "publishes" the changes that occurred while it's running. That's the flash you see. It also launches a process called songbirditunesagent. This process looks for a file called songbird_export.task. This file should be in your C:\Users\[Your user name here]\AppData\Roaming\Songbird2 directory. When iTunes starts it communicates with iTunes and updates it using this file.

So here's some things to check.
1. When you shutdown Songbird. If you go to Task Manager, and under the "Processes" tab do you see the songbirditunesagent.exe listed?
2. If you see the process listed, then statup iTunes. The process should end and be removed from the "Processes" tab in Task Manager.
3. Now, if something bad happened on either of those two steps you may have a itunesexporterrors.txt file in the C:\Users\[Your user name here]\AppData\Roaming\Songbird2 directory. If that file exists, please post it's contents. That might give us some clues as to what is failing.

dbradley replied on April 01, 2009 17:40 to the problem "Songbird has killed all my mp3s!" in Songbird:

The bird gets hungry, obviously you didn't feed yours.

dbradley replied on March 25, 2009 19:47 to the problem "Problem using MTP with Sony NWZ-E438F (delay, sync, playlists...)" in Songbird:

Is anyone able to tell if the missing songs are of a particular format, such as mp3, wav, etc? Or do they just appear to be random misses?

A comment on the problem "Problem using MTP with Sony NWZ-E438F (delay, sync, playlists...)" in Songbird:

But the songs you copy using Explorer do show up on the device, correct? – dbradley, on March 24, 2009 17:45

dbradley replied on March 23, 2009 14:28 to the question "start syncing" in Songbird:

Are you wanting to sync to a device or to a folder? For devices if you click on the device, you will get a page that has a Sync and Manual choices. Selecting Sync and clicking save will cause a sync immediately and whenever Songbird is started with the device connected or the device is connected when Songbird is running it will be sync'd. You can force a sync by clicking the "Sync" button that appears on the top right of that page. It is replaced by an OK button when an operation had completed. It will return when you click that OK button.

If it's a folder then it's automatic, I don't believe there is a way to force a sync there.

dbradley replied on March 20, 2009 15:52 to the question "Does Songbird sync with a Cowon D2 audio?" in Songbird:

Make sure you have it in MTP mode. You can find instructions on the Cowon's MTP setting here

We currently have issues with some MTP devices that don't support the sync partner ID. What happens there, is the device shows up, but there is no library underneath. That should be fixed soon.

dbradley replied on March 19, 2009 18:13 to the question "No Library, No song names, Just numbers" in Songbird:

Unfortunately sometimes the database gets in a bad state. Deleting the profile and reimporting the library is about the only option at that point.

dbradley marked one of Tim's replies in Songbird as useful. Tim replied to the question "No Library, No song names, Just numbers".

dbradley replied on March 19, 2009 13:53 to the idea "Large library support" in Songbird:

Yeah, it's something we've been working to improve with each release. The meta data issue is tracked by Bug 9479

dbradley replied on March 19, 2009 13:47 to the problem "it says ther mus be at least 10mb free for noramlly operation when there is 1750mb free" in Songbird:

Also some devices have device memory and the storage card as two separate storage items. Songbird may be putting items in the device memory instead of the storage card and that might cause the problem.

As Andrew pointed out you can verify this with Windows Explorer by view your device there and seeing if there are two top level storage areas and what their free space is.

dbradley replied on March 19, 2009 01:06 to the problem "Samsung Omnia Verizon not syncing" in Songbird:

ugh, the period got taken as part of the url. Try Bug 14399

dbradley replied on March 13, 2009 17:46 to the problem "Samsung Omnia Verizon not syncing" in Songbird:

Unfortunately a lot of cell phones are blocked by http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show... Should hopefully be addressed by the next release.

dbradley replied on March 02, 2009 04:51 to the question "Sansa View no longer works after sync with Songbird." in Songbird:

Have you tried formatting the device? We've seen this or similar problems before, usually formatting takes care of it.

Should be able to do it on the device with the following steps, then you should be able to sync after that.

1. From the Main Menu, select More > Settings/Options > System Settings > Format.
2. Select Yes.

dbradley replied on March 02, 2009 04:43 to the problem "Zune Tranfer Failure" in Songbird:

What type of files were you trying to transfer? Currently we don't properly identify when files aren't supported by the device and they just don't get transferred.

dbradley replied on February 25, 2009 18:35 to the question "sansa e250 no shows library in songbird" in Songbird:

The fix hasn't been checked in yet, but it might soon. If you add yourself to the cc list to that bug you'll get notified as it progresses. With a patch in the bug, there's a good chance it will get approved and applied and will be in a nightly build soon.

dbradley replied on February 25, 2009 02:14 to the question "sansa e250 no shows library in songbird" in Songbird:

The fix hasn't been checked in yet, but it might soon. If you add yourself to the cc list to that bug you'll get notified as it progresses. With a patch, there's a good chance it will get approved and applied and will be in a nightly build soon.

dbradley replied on February 24, 2009 13:59 to the question "sansa e250 no shows library in songbird" in Songbird:

This is most likely due to this bug http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show... - [mtp] Devices that don't support WPD_DEVICE_PARTNER fail to mount

Probably won't get addressed in this release, but should get addressed in the next.