Bookshelf Apps

SongBook Mac 2.0 available for download

December 21st, 2009 0

SongBook Mac 2.0 is out. For existing users this is a free upgrade. We normally charge for major release updates, but this one’s free to say thanks to the users that supported us in the early days of SongBook.

In order to provide a complete solution for Mac users, SongBook now includes a high quality CD ripping function. This uses AccurateRip to ensure bit-perfect CD extraction every time. Extraction is tailored to UPNP MediaServer requirements and supports lossless formats such as FLAC and Apple Lossless. Album art can be embedded, or stored as a Folder.jpg file specifically for use with Twonky servers. At the last minute I realised that this is not ideal for Naim Uniti users, who could probably use this feature, but they need to encode in MP3 format. We’ll be adding MP3 format support soon, it was always on the roadmap, but now it’s more important.

We’ve added a lot of user interface improvements too. There’s a volume slider in the Mac menu bar now, available any time SongBook is open. Some things have moved around from older versions, but still should be easy to find.

My favourite new feature is the flexible song selection. You can select and album and add it directly to the playlist (either with drag and drop or with the toolbar button) and all the tracks will be added. If the shuffle switch is pressed these will be added in a random order. You can Command-Click to select more than one album, choosing your favourite from a Genre for example, and then add all the tracks, all shuffled together. That’s impossible to do any other way.

We’ve also worked more on device support. There is Naim HDX and Uniti support in this release, and improvements in the UPNP support. We now support the Roku SoundBridge as well.

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