http://bookshelfapps.com/blog Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:53:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The next major release of SongBook has a totally rewritten startup system. We've done this work because despite our best efforts we still get reports of devices being missed at startup time. It just seems that the discovery process on a mobile device is too unreliable to work every time. ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2010/02/retiring-old-code-iphone-os-2-2-1-and-linn-bute/ As you would expect, we will have an iPad version of SongBook ready for release before the iPad is available for purchase. In the long run we plan on the iPad version being a mix of the features of SongBook Mac and of SongBook touch, but the initial release will ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2010/01/songbook-ipad/ I just completed an upgrade from Twonky 5.0.68 to 5.1.2 on a Mac Mini server. It turned out to be quite a difficult task, in fact I gave up a few days ago and only now got back to it. The first try failed with Twonky going a bit weird ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2010/01/upgrading-twonky-mac/ It's a hard line between stable releases and getting the latest fixes and updates out to people. In the early stages of SongBook development it was important to get updates out as quickly as possible, but now I think that stability is the most important factor. To make this easier to ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2009/12/development-builds-of-songbook-mac/ 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 ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2009/12/songbook-mac-2-0-available-for-download/ We've had a couple of users let us know that they are having trouble with SongBook and older Twonky server installs. Reports so far have been for version 4.4.6 and 4.4.4. We only test with Twonky going back to version 4.4.9 so we did not catch this issue during release ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2009/12/quick-note-songbook-not-compatible-with-older-twonky-servers-4-4-6-or-earlier/ This is mainly for future reference, and will not be of much interest to users who are not interested in technical details, but I did spend a lot of time tracking down this particular issue, so it is worthwhile making a note of it for future reference. SongBook needs access to ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2009/12/songbook-mac-and-network-problems/ Earlier this week Linn ran a survey of DS controllers, and this is the result: If you exclude KinskyDesktop, which is Linn's free software bundled with the DS, you can see that SongBook is the most popular choice for Linn users, in fact it's not that far behind KinskyDesktop. It is ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2009/12/songbook-is-the-most-popular-third-party-linn-ds-controller/ This time the review period was not too bad, 8 working days. Sure beats the 45 days of the last version. This version is mainly a bug fix update, it's main update is to remove the issue that caused some users to see albums listed twice in the library view. We also ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2009/12/songbook-touch-2-2-available/ SongBook hasn't been rejected in a review for a very long time, in fact there was only the first release and then one other that did get rejected, and the second set of rejections were based on misunderstandings on Apples part, so rejections have been very rare. SongBook has been ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2009/12/a-new-strategy-from-apple/