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SongBird RC1 is out!

The Open Music Player

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.
We're working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. There are lots of ways to contribute your time to the project. We'd love your help!
There are several features we're proud of, but we'll be the first to admit that others need ironing out, are experimental, or are just plain missing. There's still a lot to do.

Here are the most noteworthy and complete features we’d like to call out in RC1 and get your feedback on:

• Audio Playback: We now use GStreamer as our main media playback system across all platforms - this means higher performance, better reliability, and a platform for much more media-related functionality in the future.
• Album Art: The album artwork feature now supports drag and drop of images, as well as, the ability to toggle between displaying artwork for playing or selected tracks.
• Keyboard Shortcuts: We’ve cleaned up our keyboard shortcuts this release (and added some new ones for power users). Look for the link to a complete list of keyboard shortcuts in the application’s Help menu.
• Smart Playlists: By popular request we’ve implemented the ability to use a smart playlist as a rule within another smart playlist.
• Performance Enhancements: We’ve improved many aspects of the application performance. Most notably, importing media into Songbird is now 2-4x faster.

The RC1 release notes contain additional details about this build including a list of known issues.
As always, please file any issues, bugs, or crashes you find in Bugzilla so that we can address them before 1.0 final!

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Memory usage is pretty damn high at 80Mb of ram, but its pretty responsive, and the fact that there are addons is a big plus IMO. UI is pretty clean too.

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