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stevel started following the idea "Songbird Community Support and Development Competition" in Songbird.

stevel replied on November 21, 2009 02:36 to the question "songbird and android (htc hero in my case)" in Songbird:

FWIW, this is being tracked as bug 18859 and is slated for the Korn release...
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show...

stevel replied on September 23, 2009 16:59 to the question "How i do to put my name on about:credits on translator ?" in Songbird:

Erik: Can you drop me a note (stevel at songbirdnest dot com)? I'll get you added to the list...

stevel replied on August 27, 2009 00:08 to the problem "Mashtape high cpu usage Mac OS" in Songbird:

I've got a fix for this in bug 17474... just awaiting review, and it should land in Kanye. This dropped my MacBook's CPU usage down from 29% to 9%.

stevel replied on August 10, 2009 16:21 to the idea "Support libre.fm" in Songbird:

I don't have a lot of spare time these days so it's not likely to get official development time... but a month or two ago, I hacked up a version of the Last.fm add-on in my spare time to support scrobbling to Libre.fm. At the time the Radio APIs weren't working yet, so that won't work. If you check the Libre.fm wiki you'll find a link to my XPI for Songbird 1.2/1.3a that added that.

It won't work in the latest version of the Last.fm add-on unfortunately due to work I had to do to support Last.fm's authentication/login API.

stevel replied on July 11, 2009 00:03 to the question "Will MSC work in Linux/Mac OS in version 1.4?" in Songbird:

The MSC add-on currently works on OSX as well... but it took substantial developer effort to do so, and only because a few of us working on it were doing it as a side pet project. It won't be shipped officially with OSX support, but we'll probably provide development UNSUPPORTED XPIs for Mac folks to use.

It's non-trivial to port it to other platforms, and we don't currently have the resources to extend it to the Linux platform.. so can't make any firm commitment on when it'd be available for Linux, but if enough users file bugs requesting it, it's certainly something we might consider for the future.

stevel replied on July 02, 2009 21:54 to the problem "Songbird 1.2 and Last.fm authentication BROKEN" in Songbird:

What version of the Last.fm add-on are you using? We released an update last week that addresses authentication issues; can you try grabbing the latest?

stevel replied on June 30, 2009 16:45 to the idea "Greater transparency in the bug process... Less private bugs" in Songbird:

Hey Andrew,
It's sort of difficult because Bugzilla doesn't provide us a way (by default) to give a reason for why a particular bug is marked private or not. You're always welcome to ask on GS (as you did here) or on IRC and we'll try to answer as best we can.

For this specific bug (16669), we're working with a third party partner on a really cool Songbird partnership. Since our workflow is to work on code and attach patches for review to the bug, we don't want to run the risk of accidentally disclosing IP, proprietary code or the exact nature of the partnership (per the partner's request) until the partnership is publicly launched. For Jackson 5 and Kanye, you'll likely see bugs from time to time marked this way until everything is public and we can disclose more about who we're working with.

We really value transparency and openness, and we appreciate all you guys wanting to know more. We're trying to keep as many bugs open as possible, unfortunately from time to time we will need to single specific bugs out as private, as in this case here.

What's really valuable is that 99% of the work we're doing with this partner is finding its way into the core product for all our end users, so they're basically helping to fund open source development (as is common for many open source projects) and helping to make Songbird even better... but in the meantime, they've asked for all of us to be discrete until they've publicly launched.

Hope that helps (somewhat)
cheers,
steve

A comment on the idea "Starting a new Add-On Project" in Songbird:

i <3 atreiu
(in the platonic "I love any developer willing to help other developers" sense of <3) – stevel, on June 29, 2009 22:51

stevel marked one of atreiu's replies in Songbird as useful. atreiu replied to the idea "Starting a new Add-On Project". stevel and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

A comment on the question "Listen to Last.fm radios" in Songbird:

Sorry, there's nothing we can really do. :( We've updated the add-on to use the new Last.fm Radio APIs - but they are still subject to Last.fm's geo & API restrictions, namely: you must be a paying subscriber in order to use the Radio API. – stevel, on June 26, 2009 17:50

stevel replied on June 05, 2009 17:09 to the problem "Addon 1560 - Internal Error 500" in Songbird:

Saebekassebil:
Looks like something has become corrupted in the add-on record. Would you mind doing me a favour and trying to delete it by going to this page:
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addons...
and clicking on the "Delete" link on the right hand side of your 1.0 version?
Once it's deleted, can you update your install.rdf and try removing the <em:developer> field and reuploading it?

cheers,
steve

stevel replied on May 22, 2009 16:52 to the idea "A listening history page with better integration and more information than last.fm" in Songbird:

Really really really cool idea (and great mockups!). I like the idea of making this available as a separate add-on... I don't have the time to do it myself though. :( However, a lot of the data needed to do this is already logged and available through the playback history component (including precise times of each track playback).

If anyone is interested in developing this, ping us on the songbird-dev Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/songbi... and we can point you in the right direction to start.

It'd be really cool to have this built, I know I'd use it :)

stevel started following the idea "A listening history page with better integration and more information than last.fm" in Songbird.

stevel started following the idea "Make a custom media view without any coding abilities" in Songbird.

stevel replied on April 23, 2009 00:20 to the problem "Why doesn't songbird use variables when translating to another language?" in Songbird:

Hi Ricardo - can you tell me which string you're seeing this on? The variables should be substituted properly, so I'd like to try and reproduce the issue.

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stevel replied on March 17, 2009 22:24 to the praise "WHOEVER READS THIS: GIVE ALL YOUR COWORKERS A HIGH FIVE RIGHT NOW" in Songbird:

stevel started following the idea "Smart Party Shuffle?" in Songbird.

stevel set one of stevel's replies as an official response to "How to bookmark a radio MP3 stream?" in Songbird