Bookshelf Apps

SongBook 1.6.2.0 and automatic updates

June 30th, 2009 0

There was a problem with the security of the automatic update mechanism in SongBook Mac.

All updates are digitally signed to ensure that they are not tampered with (or corrupted during download). This process has failed with the latest release due to an incorrect signature file in the 1.5 release.

This means that the existing releases cannot install the new 1.6.2.0 release (or 1.6.1.0). The only way to resolve this issue is to do a manual install of 1.6.2.0. You can do this by downloading from here, and then dragging SongBook.app from your Downloads folder to Applications.

From then on automatic updates will work correctly.

SongBook touch 2.0 In Review

June 20th, 2009 3

SongBook 2.0 has been submitted to Apple for review. In the past this has taken anything from 1 day to 3 weeks to complete, so I cannot tell you exactly when it will be ready for use, but it should be soon. It’s most likely to be between one to two weeks.

Version 2.0 is a major update. I took the opportunity while adding Cara support to make many improvements. The core of this release is the same code as in SongBook Mac 1.6, so with that and our internal and external testing we have had quite a long test cycle on this release.

Rather than list features this time I thought I’d just show you what the new version looks like…

Here’s the updated Library view (not a lot has changed, but the sorting has been improved):

SongBook Library.png

And the Now Playing View:

SongBook Playlist 3.png

The new Horizontal View:

SongBook Play 3.png

And the all new Rooms View:

SongBook Rooms.png

I hope you like it.

SongBook Mac New Release

June 3rd, 2009 2

SongBook Mac 1.6 is now out. This is a major upgrade with a number of new features.

You can now share iTunes music over the network to your Linn DS, and control everything with SongBook touch.

SongBook Mac now supports the upcoming Cara firmware release from Linn. This is the same code that will be in the next SongBook touch release so it is a good chance to test it throughly before Cara is officially released.