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		<title>Meanwhile, in the day job</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McKellar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago my role at Songbird shifted a little. Up till then I was working on the core product, fixing bugs and adding features across the whole product as part of the bird engineering team. Since we started working on 0.7 (aka Fugazi) I moved into a group initially called strategic development [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple of months ago my role at <a href="http://www.songbirdnest.com/">Songbird</a> shifted a little. Up till then I was working on the core product, fixing bugs and adding features across the whole product as part of the bird engineering team. Since we started working on 0.7 (aka Fugazi) I moved into a group initially called <em>strategic development</em> which then split and merged with the design and product group.</p>
<p>We've been looking through feedback from our users, primarily through surveys to determine what features we can add that will address most users' feature requests. Doing this outside engineering has been great since they can focus on improving the core product, keeping a clear vision of what the product we want should be, while we're working directly from end-user feedback.</p>
<p>My first project was a new <a href="http://last.fm/">Last.fm</a> addon using our new playback history API. It was installed by default for all Songbird 0.7 users so it's had <a href="http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/106">quite a bit of use</a>, <a title="Get Satisfaction threads tagged 'lastfm'" href="http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/tags/lastfm">some good feedback</a>, <a title="Closed Last.fm bugs from bugzilla.songbirdnest.com" href="http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&amp;short_desc=&amp;product=Add-Ons&amp;component=Last.fm&amp;long_desc_type=substring&amp;long_desc=&amp;bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&amp;bug_file_loc=&amp;status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&amp;status_whiteboard=&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=&amp;bug_status=RESOLVED&amp;bug_status=VERIFIED&amp;bug_status=CLOSED&amp;emailassigned_to1=1&amp;emailtype1=substring&amp;email1=&amp;emailassigned_to2=1&amp;emailreporter2=1&amp;emailqa_contact2=1&amp;emailcc2=1&amp;emailtype2=substring&amp;email2=&amp;bugidtype=include&amp;bug_id=&amp;votes=&amp;chfieldfrom=&amp;chfieldto=Now&amp;chfieldvalue=&amp;cmdtype=doit&amp;order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&amp;field0-0-0=noop&amp;type0-0-0=noop&amp;value0-0-0=">some bug fixes</a> and now <a href="http://www.babelzilla.org/index.php?option=com_wts&amp;Itemid=88&amp;extension=4174&amp;type=lang">some translations</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/106"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-68" title="Last.fm Addon Screenshot" src="http://ianloic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/lastfm-screenshot_medium.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>My next project was taking <a title="Georges Auberger" href="http://auberger.com/">Georges</a>' <a title="Seeqpod Playable Search" href="http://www.seeqpod.com/">Seeqpod</a> <a title="Songbird Seeqpod Addon" href="http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1267">addon</a>, updating it and getting it ready for inclusion in Songbird. It wasn't ready for Fugazi, but hopefully it'll be ready for Genesis (our next release). Seeqpod is an MP3 search engine and our addon attempts to integrate it nicely into Songbird. I streamed a lot of random music while developing it. I spent a whole day listening to 80s Metallica.</p>
<p><a href="http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1267"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-72" title="SeeqPod Addon" src="http://ianloic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/seeqpodscreenshot_large-300x215.png" alt="" width="300" height="215" /></a></p>
<p>Now I'm working on better music store integration using Songbird's <a href="http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Developer_Intro/Webpage_API">Web Page API</a>.</p>
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