Songbird hits RC1
November 7th 2008
Pioneers of the Inevitable has made available the first release candidate build of its music jukebox software, Songbird 1.0.
As always, the release notes have a full picture of what's new and / or improved, but a thumbnail sketch looks like this:
• GStreamer is now the media playback system, providing higher performance, better reliability and a platform for much more media-related functionality in the future
• Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA on Windows; and AAC on Windows and Mac.
• Many new keyboard shortcuts added.
• Refined the column heading property list and made it easier to enable relevant properties
• Faster Media Importing
• Drastically Faster Search
• Reduced Startup Times
• Snappier Sorting
• Efficient Scrolling of Large Libraries
• Reduced Memory Usage
Get your copy of Songbirg 1.0 RC1 here (31MB), which is Intel only. However, Songbirg 0.9 is a Universal Binary.
Check out LifeHacker's visual tour and webmonkey's introduction.
