
SONGBIRD 1.0.0 README
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NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

* Improved Audio/Playback Functionality

We now use GStreamer as our main media playback system, across all platforms 
giving us 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.

* UI Experience Improvements

UI experience improvements include these significant visual and functional
changes:

   - Many new keyboard shortcuts added.  The list of those supported per
     platform can be viewed via "Keyboard Shortcuts" selection in the Help menu.

   - We've refined the column heading property list and made it easier to
     enable the properties you care about. Just right click on any column
     heading in a library or playlist to give it a try.

   - "Show File" now available for any selected track via File menu or right
     click on track contextual menu. This provides an easy way to find the
     media file location on your filesystem.

   - Smart Playlists can now be used as rules within other Smart Playlists.

   - Ability to show/hide display panes via individual buttons for service
     pane, bottom and right sidebar display panes

* Performance Improvements

This release provides improved performance:

   - Faster Media Importing

   - Drastically Faster Search

   - Reduced Startup Times

   - Snappier Sorting

   - Efficient Scrolling of Large Libraries

   - Reduced Memory Usage (when importing and using large libraries)

* Stability

Many miscellaneous top crashers were fixed for this release.

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DOCUMENTATION

The following development documentation is available:

* 1.0.0 Release Notes - Known Issues
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Release_Notes/1.0.0

* Updating Feathers for Songbird 1.0 is
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Maintaining_Add-Ons/Updating_Feathers_for_Songbird_1.0

* Updating Extensions for Songbird 1.0
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Maintaining_Add-Ons/Updating_Extensions_for_Songbird_1.0

* Updated the Media Core APIs to take advantage of GStreamer.
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Maintaining_Add-Ons/Updating_Extensions_for_Songbird_1.0#Media_Core_API_Changes

* Display Panes Documentation
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Getting_Started/Display_Panes

* Webpage API Documentation
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Developer_Intro/Webpage_API

* Add-on API Documentation
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Developer_Intro/Extensions

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For more details, visit Bugzilla at: http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com
