• Scan for media hangs on certain files. (10191)
• 0.5 -> 0.5.1 -> 0.6 complete upgrade causes Media Core Error failure upon 0.6 launch (10307)
• taglib not packaged properly (10338)

• Brand new features include:
  • A new Metadata Editor that allows you to make changes to your media and write the edits back to the file(s)
  • A Shoutcast Radio directory integrated directly into Songbird that makes it easy to discover and stream music
  • New contextual menu options in the browser component of Songbird.
• Performance improvements include:
  • Support for larger media libraries
  • Smoother scrolling
  • Faster filtering
  • Speedier search
  • The latest Quicktime add-on greatly improves playback performance for local MP3 and M4A files (no more latency issues before playback begins.)
• Improved ease of use through:
  • Adding the ability to search for text within a webpage using cmd/ctrl + f
  • Enabling the Edit menu options - Copy, Paste, Select All and Delete now work
  • Providing a way to filter and sort your library by bit rate
  • Making the View menu options more intuitive
  • It is now easier to switch feathers
  • You can hide/show display panes
  • Feathers can now be auto-loaded after being installed by choosing the option to restart the application
  • The scan for media and metadata reading progress meters are now modal to prevent scenarios where the application can lockup during these intensive tasks - we will be improving the flow in the next release so it's not two dialogs.
• Improved device support:
  • iPod performance has been greatly improved.

Songbird 0.5 Release Notes
It's here! Our official Songbird 0.5 Release. As we continue down the road toward 1.0, we ask that our dedicated open source community use this latest release and provide feedback and bugs. Let's work together to make Songbird rock solid!

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

The following are new features and improvements for the Songbird 0.5 release:

• New Device API with initial MTP Device Support Add-on. We encourage you to provide feedback on your experience with your favorite MTP device. Please see our MTP Device Compatibility Feedback page.
• Extensible Library Views now enable developers to create add-ons that add additional library views in Songbird (6456)
• Improved shuffle algorithm (754)
• Added Mac menu/key command support (4845) for:
• Hide Songbird (Command-H)
• Hide Others (Command-Option-H)
• Show All
• Preferences... (Command-,)
• Quit Songbird (Command-Q)
• Improved RSS playlists support/parsing (5774)
• Notification to let Linux users know they need to add the GStreamer plugin (6427)
• Added "Source" column to downloads playlist (6356)
• KNOWN BUGS/ISSUES
• The following high profile bugs are known to still be open for this release:

All Platforms

• Songs with special characters are not sorted correctly (74)
• 'Edit' menu items not hooked up (2116)
• Index column width can be shrunk to cut off index values (4571)
• Audioscrobbler add-on not updated to support this release (5193)
• Need to change the HTTP accept-language tag to match locale (5437)
• [ipod] adding/removing media items and status display happen in wrong order (6294)
• Window min/max sizing does not respect DPI (6956)
• Maximize/Restore buttons get confused (8028)
• [scrapper] Media scans occur and show % Found even on non-media sites (8037)

MacOSX Specific

• [QT] erratic playback for protected aac (m4p) files (do not use nsITimer) (2361)
• "Cheezy Video Window" cannot be hidden or resized (4706)
• Most keyboard shortcuts unavailable on OS X (5409)
• [mac][ipod] iTunes can interfere with mount of iPod in Songbird (6946)
• QuickTime add-on does not play Fairplay files with a Flash file in the mainwin (7263)
• [mac][ppc] Load of double byte languages (Chinese, Japanese, etc) getting a parsing error (8177)

DOCUMENTATION

The following development documentation is available:

• Display Panes Documentation
• Webpage API Documentation
• Add-on API Documentation
• For more details, visit: http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com

Release notes.

• [Mac/Linux] Resizing Songbird can make it disappear/display weird (5286)
• [iContent-Disposition filename header are now quoted (5416)
• Bottom tabs made less ugly (5427)
• Find current track & play next track do not work for playlist/library (5490)
• First run dialog does not display list of add-ons or ok/cancel buttons (5493)
• Playlistplayback may overwrite wrong track on metadata update (5509)

• New Songbird Webpage API
• New Songbird Add-on API
• New Songbird Feathers API

• Cross-platform support: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
• Multi-language support: 30+ languages
• Play the Web: Play as you browse, Web pages as playlists
• Developer life-cycle tools: Doxygen, Trac, SVN