Some of the improvements are no-brainers, but it’s good to know that they’ve been addressed.
The latest update, version 0.6 for Windows, Power PC Macs, Intel Macs, and Linux, includes the ability to handle turkey-size music collections greater than 10,000 songs, improved memory management, a metadata editor, improved portable player syncing, support for SHOUTcast, and more.
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Songbird)
The code improvements have allowed for smoother scrolling, faster filtering, and just overall better management of music collections of any size. Songbird is well on its way to being a serious jukebox. Other fixes include the previously nonfunctional edit menu joining the land of the living and the introduction of in-page text searching.
As the Songbird-produced cartoon to the left shows, even though the browser is still in beta it’s getting stronger all the time.
With all the hoopla over Opera and the upcoming
Firefox 3 final release, there’s a good chance that Songbird’s baby beta steps will get ignored, but this has been one of the most promising programs being developed, and v0.6 will only whet your appetite.