Thanks to some really hard work by our own rsjtdrjgfuzkfg, Nightingale now supports the current/vanilla version of TagLib! For all of our users, this means better ID3 tag support, and a lot fewer problems and bugs with tags and importing your music in general. For our Linux users, this means that Nightingale will automatically build against your distro’s TagLib package. If you maintain Nightingale packages, please update them to require TagLib>=1.8 before your next build of sb-trunk-oldxul.
We plan on releasing official builds (a new version) as soon as we get the build process working 100% on Windows and Mac with our new dependencies. Once the transition is complete, you can be sure the next version of Nightingale will be coming your way!
Other Upgrades and News
In other news, the only two dependencies left to convert to use those provided by the host distribution on Linux are SQLite and XULRunner. Both are in progress, and we welcome any help and support you can provide in speeding up the process. This work not only benefits Linux users, but will also provide Windows and Mac users with much more stable, efficient, and fast versions of the dependencies, all making for a better Nightingale.
Great! I’m sooo horny to play with the next version.
Great…can’t wait for this..! Does this mean We are also merging most changes (at least stability ones) from upstream SB ?
Yes, indeed! We merge anything from the upstream SB that is released under an open license (which means most of everything, except DLNA).
When will the final version be released?
No definite date, but the next version will for sure be using it! Give it a try with one of the testing builds or build sb-trunk-oldxul to check it out!
test build will be great…How many blockers pending ?
Just a couple…we need to get the deps building properly on Mac, and we need to get the taglib flac albumart code done…then we’ll have a release 🙂
Feel free to join in if you can help…even if you can’t, hop on the forums and talk to us about what you’d like to see Nightingale become.