Songbird 0.5 gets its first release candidate

Brian Dillard, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 @ 2:55 pm

The first release candidate for Songbird 0.5 is now available for download. Songbird, as you may remember is the open-source, Mozilla-based media player/web browser we've been enthused about for the past several months. There are lots of bug-fixes and API changes this time around, but the big news from a UI standpoint is the debut of "Media Pages," which are extensions that rewire the main music-browsing interface using HTML or XUL.

As the Songbird website puts it:

As of this writing, Songbird ships with two default views: a simple traditional playlist view, and a second playlist view incorporating three filter panes across the top for choosing a subset of your music.  Views can be extended via extensions that implement Media Pages.  Developers can easily create new views as HTML pages or XUL pages which provide custom visual interfaces to Songbird libraries, and playlists.

Developers looking to play with Songbird 0.5rc1 will find the following resources useful:

• Announcement
• Release Note
• Tutorial: Getting started with Media Pages

The Songbird team is targeting a final release of 0.5 later this month.

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