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Changelog 4.0.0 -> 4.1.0 | (2008-07-28)

* Updated Media Player Classic to version 6.4.9.1 rev. 72
* Updated ffdshow to revision 2055
* Downgraded Cyberlink MPEG-2 decoder to version 8.1.0.1608 because a few people were having trouble with the newer version
* Updated AC3Filter to version 1.51a
* Updated x264VFW to revision 913
* Updated DirectVobSub to version 2.39
* Removed Indeo audio codec
* Removed Indeo IVF source filter
* Updated MediaInfo Lite to version 0.7.7.4
* Added an index to the FAQ
* Minor changes

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Changelog 3.9.5 -> 4.0.0 | (2008-07-07)

• Updated Media Player Classic to version 6.4.9.1 rev. 55
• Updated Cyberlink MPEG-2 decoder to version 8.1.0.1513
• Updated Updated ffdshow to revision 2035
• Updated Updated DivX to version 6.8.3
• Updated Cyberlink MPEG-2 decoder to version 8.2.0.530
• Updated x264VFW to revision 889
• Updated LAME MP3 ACM codec to version 3.98
• Updated MediaInfo Lite to version 0.7.7.3

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Changelog 3.8.5 -> 3.9.0 | (2008-04-15)

• Updated Media Player Classic to version 6.4.9.1 rev. 49
• Updated ffdshow to revision 1937
• Updated Cyberlink MPEG-2 decoder to version 8.1.0.1513
• Updated madFLAC to version 1.8
• Updated Haali Media Splitter to version 1.8.122.18
• Updated DivX encoder to version 6.8.2.6
• Updated x264VFW to revision 808
• Updated MediaInfo Lite to version 0.7.6.3
• Changed default DivX decoder to ffdshow (on Win2000/XP)

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Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.

Songbird is a player and a platform. Like Firefox, Songbird is an open source, Open Web project built on the Mozilla platform. Songbird provides a public playground for Web media mash-ups by providing developers with both desktop and Web APIs, developer resources and fostering Open Web media standards, to wit, an Open Media Web.

Songbird 0.5 Final has entered the station with hundreds of bug-fixes and several new features:

Windows users have a shiny new MTP Add-on that introduces MTP Device Support! Most portable media players and cell phones integrate the MTP spec so try plugging in your device and share your findings on the MTP Device Compatibility Wiki Page. The extension requires Windows XP-SP2 or Vista, as well as WMP v11.

Media Views
Tired of music players that look like spreadsheets? Media Views provide new ways of displaying, manipulating, exploring, and contextualizing your media library. Songbird ships with two default views: a traditional playlist view, and a second playlist view with three filter panes. Developers can create new Media Views and upload them to the Add-ons site. This example media page replaces the standard playlist filters with tag clouds. To experience your music web 2.0 style, load your library, then select Tag Cloud from the View menu. Click the tags to toggle the filtering on and off.

Improved Filter Picker
Genre, Artist, and Album aren’t the only useful ways to filter your music collection.

The European Commission has fined US computer giant Microsoft for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.

Microsoft must now pay a record 899m euros ($1.4bn; £680.9m) after it failed to comply with a 2004 ruling that it abused its position.

The ruling said that Microsoft was guilty of not providing key code to rival software makers.

EU regulators said the firm was the first to break an EU anti-trust ruling.

The fines come on top of earlier fines of 280m euros imposed in July 2006, and of 497m euros in March 2004.

“Microsoft was the first company in 50 years of EU competition policy that the Commission has had to fine for failure to comply with an antitrust decision,” Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said in a statement.

Future improvements?

An investigation concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in products such as media players, while unfairly linking its Explorer internet browser to its Windows operating system at the expense of rival servers.

The European Court of First Instance upheld this ruling last year, which ordered Microsoft to pay 497m euros for abusing its dominant market position. Last week, the firm announced that it would open up the technology of some of its leading software, including Windows, to make it easier to operate with rivals’ products.

“As we demonstrated last week with our new interoperability principles and specific actions to increase the openness of our products, we are focusing on steps that will improve things for the future,” Microsoft said.

Further cases

But the firm is still being pursued by Brussels.

Last month, the European Commission launched two new anti-competition investigations against Microsoft into similar issues.

Changelog 3.6.5 -> 3.7.0 | (2008-01-23)

* Updated Media Player Classic to version 6.4.9.1 rev. 34
* Updated ffdshow to revision 1805
* Updated x264 VFW codec to revision 721bm
* Updated madFLAC to version 1.7
* Updated FLV splitter to version 1.0.0.4
* Added MONOGRAM AMR splitter (version 0.9.0.1)
* Removed RadLight Musepack filter
* Added MONOGRAM Musepack splitter (version 0.3.1.2)
* Added MONOGRAM Musepack decoder (version 0.9.1.2)
* Changed default MP3 audio audio decoder from Fraunhofer to ffdshow
* Changed default MP1/MP2 audio decoder to ffdshow
* Minor changes

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Microsoft has launched a Windows Media player plugin for Firefox 2.0 that supports Windows XP and Vista. The plugin is compatible with versions of Windows media Player from 6.4 to 11.

There’s a known issue with Firefox version 2.0.0.3 on Windows Vista, where the installer does not work the first time you try it. All you have to do is restart Firefox and then install the plugin again.

It’s good to see Microsoft improving compatibility with a competitor’s product, but we can’t help wonder why it’s taken so long.

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Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP offers great new ways to store and enjoy all your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV. Play it, view it, and sync it to a portable device for enjoying on the go or even share with devices around your home—all from one place.

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