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pvh set one of Laura Thomas' replies as an official response to "Grouping various artists albums / compilations" in Songbird

pvh set one of pvh's replies as an official response to "Ipod Touch Support?" in Songbird

pvh replied on July 22, 2009 01:13 to the question "Ipod Touch Support?" in Songbird:

We still do not support the iPhone or the iPod Touch. Apple has made it very clear that they will do whatever is within their power to prevent other software from interoperating with their hardware. (And vice versa, as the Palm Pre folks found out!) We'll continue to hope that Apple chooses to embrace open standards in the future, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

In the mean time, we've implemented 2-way synchronization between iTunes and Songbird, so that at least Songbird users out there have the option of transferring their Songbird playlists onto their Apple devices.

pvh marked one of Koshi's replies in Songbird as useful. Koshi replied to the question "Ipod Touch Support?".

pvh replied on June 29, 2009 23:07 to the idea "Starting a new Add-On Project" in Songbird:

Woo! Thanks Atreiu, and good luck LIB!

pvh replied on January 07, 2009 09:27 to the problem "Songbird's Memory Leak" in Songbird:

This sounds like a slow leak during playback. I think MikeS has been working on this during the current release cycle. Could you please try a nightly build and see if that resolves the issue? (It's working fine for me here!)

Also, we have discovered that some of the add-ons out there really accumulate big memory usage over time. Please help us isolate which add-ons cause memory leakage by testing with no add-ons enabled.

pvh replied on January 02, 2009 18:38 to the question "Controlling Songbird from another computer" in Songbird:

Nobody's written that extension yet, as far as I've seen. Should be a fun one, though. In the mean time, there are other web-based players which are probably more up your alley.

A comment on the idea "Library Rescan with a Right Click" in Songbird:

@Krights, read the rest of the thread. This is now available, just not in that way. Watch folders, coming in the next version, should help also. – pvh, on December 31, 2008 19:03

pvh replied on December 30, 2008 01:20 to the problem ""Sheen.xpi does not contain an install.rdf file" when trying to upload a feathers" in Songbird:

You've probably zipped it so that the install.rdf isn't at the root of the XPI. Could you check to make sure that the contents of the add-on aren't in a folder but are all in the root of the zip file?

pvh replied on December 29, 2008 23:23 to the question "shoutcast doesn't display any stations" in Songbird:

It works for me, sinbad. Have you tried reinstalling the add-on or making a new profile?

pvh set one of preed's replies as an official response to "Nightly update system" in Songbird

A comment on the idea "Automatically organizing music library" in Songbird:

How's the extension going? Any progress to report? – pvh, on December 29, 2008 18:45

A comment on the idea "Automatically organizing music library" in Songbird:

How's the extension going? Any progress to report? – pvh, on December 29, 2008 18:44

pvh set one of pvh's replies as an official response to "Metadata not read on network drives?" in Songbird

pvh replied on December 23, 2008 22:54 to the question "Metadata not read on network drives?" in Songbird:

This appears to be a bug in the TagLib library we use which, during scan, attempts to open the file with read/write permissions and when that fails on a read-only SMB share (and as far as I am aware, only under that circumstance) fails to fall back to opening with just read-only permissions.

Songbird shouldn't be writing anything back without your permission, and furthermore, you can disable all metadata writing everywhere by setting the "songbird.metadata.enableWriting" pref to "false" in about:config.

Hope that helps, and I think we'll probably get to that one with the codename Hendrix release.

pvh replied on December 19, 2008 10:12 to the question "Improved Tags" in Songbird:

Just turn on the advanced tab and you'll see all the properties your system has to offer.

see: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Docs/Pow...

pvh replied on December 19, 2008 10:10 to the question "libxine support" in Songbird:

We just spent a whole bunch of months replacing our media core with gstreamer. Unfortunately, if you want libxine, it's going to have to come from outside the main developer group, since we're more interested in improving functionality at this point than retreading that particular ground again.

pvh marked one of Ian McKellar's replies in Songbird as useful. Ian McKellar replied to the idea "CD Rip / Burn Support". pvh and 4 other people think it's one of the best replies.

pvh set one of pvh's replies as an official response to "Status of EQ" in Songbird

pvh replied on December 19, 2008 09:55 to the question "Status of EQ" in Songbird:

Everybody wants it, nobody's working on it, probably going to be in the release after this one which means roughly April (no promises here, just predictions). Our next release (Hendrix) is already super full of other stuff like watch folders, so there's not much hope for that one which I believe is scheduled for early Feburary.

I'm hoping someone does an EQ add-on before then, but nobody with chops has stepped up. Maybe someone motivated will read this.