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SongBook Mac 1.0 is out!

March 18th, 2009 4

Finally we have made it to version 1.0 of SongBook Mac. You can download 1.0 directly from bookshelfapps.com.

So, how much does it cost? This version is a free release, but it is time limited. The time limit should see you though until Linn’s Cara firmware is out. The update to SongBook that supports Cara will not be free, it’ll cost £49 (US$65). Licenses include up to three installs within the same house, so if you have more than one Mac you only need to pay once.

The web site has not been updated yet with all of the new features in 1.0, this will happen over the next few days.

There’s a lot still to add to SongBook Mac, this release was focused on building a stable platform to add features to later, and in the coming months we plan on adding all sorts of things. The first update of course will be to support Cara. A couple of features missed the 1.0 release, they are shuffle and playlist saving. We left shuffle out as this is a supported feature of the Cara release, so instead of writing it twice we thought it best to leave it for the next release. Playlist saving will come too, for now you can save playlists as m3u files and store them on your MediaServer so everyone can access them.

Some cool things that are in SongBook Mac…

iTunes library access

You can browse your local iTunes library directly in SongBook (including playlists). If your music is in a format that is compatible with your DS you can play it directly through SongBook too (just don’t exit SongBook while listening). No need for Twonky server at all.

Apple Remote Support

If you’ve got one of those tiny Apple remote controls you can use it to control volume, track selection and Play/Pause.

Lots of Album Art

The album art in the playlist view is resizable (small slider on the bottom left). There’s a resizable image for the current trach, and theres both an Album Art view and a CoverFlow view in the Library. All views are filterable too.



And of course your music library is browsable like it never was before. You can sort and filter tracks as well as view by image or text.

So let us know what you think of this release so we can incorporate your suggestions in the next release.

4 Responses

August Harder
April 18th, 2009

hello there
thanks for your great application. I like to play 24bit flac files with twonky and songbook. but the killer app would be to play alac files from my itunes libary without twonky. and exactly that does not work. I have a linn maijk.
I have stored all my files stored in the alac format in itunes. With songbook I see all the directories and the songs. If I want to play the songs they do not show up in the playlist and I am not able to play them.
I would appriciate if you could give me a hint
Regards
August Harder

Jason
April 18th, 2009

This is a bug that I have just been made aware of a few days ago. It’ll be tested and fixed in the next version. This should be out soon.

Wayne Galloway
April 19th, 2009

Hi,

Enjoying Songbook, it certainly is better than the other options on a Mac….

I know its a small thing but is there anyway to have a option to show all of the album art in the now playing window rather than the pseudo CD cover?

Waz

Devin Dahlgren
May 3rd, 2009

I’m really enjoying using the Genius feature in iTunes for building playlist based on a single song. If I understand correctly, iTunes can be played thru Songbook so will the Genius feature work too? That would be really cool!

Cheers,

Devin

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