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Working tree for the community fork of Songbird, Nightingale. If building, use the sb-trunk-oldxul (development) or nightingale-1.11 (stable) branches for now. The master branch is based on the current Songbird trunk, and is being upgraded to use Gecko/XULRunner 15+, and therefore will not build *yet*. All help in terms of patches and pull reque…

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Nightingale is a community based fork of the Songbird Media player
distributed under the GNU GPL and portions (XULRunner and Mozilla libs)
licensed under the Mozilla MPL/BSD license. 

The goal of Nightingale is to create a Media Player, which will 
eventually use only system libraries to conserve space. Currently, some
libraries are still bundled, but progress is being made to change this 
fact.

This git tree is the Songbird trunk, rebranded for Nightingale. It's a 
reflection of what our Xul 6+ releases will be like.

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Notes:
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*To build, you need to have all of the gstreamer0.10 packages for your 
distro, svn, wget, and git (if pulling the tree down) installed, 
as well as the usual dependencies for building software upon your 
distro.

*If it gets python errors, make sure you have python2 installed,
and try the build.sh script again.

*If it doesn't play music, you'll need to copy /usr/lib/gstreamer0.10/*
into compiled-dist-linux-[your arch]/dist/gst-plugins and then 
rerun nightingale. It should then play music.

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Building:
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If on Linux, simply run the build.sh script. It will download the deps
and build the app for you. You'll generally need the usual build deps
for most software packages, though.

Ubuntu and Debian users should note you'll need:
libdbus-glib-1-dev
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev

More information can be gleaned from the Songbird wiki:

Windows: https://tinyurl.com/3jfo6lv
Mac: https://tinyurl.com/3bwg8e3
Linux: https://tinyurl.com/3kh3gk8

and also on the Nightingale wiki:

Windows: https://tinyurl.com/ce3anjo
Mac: https://tinyurl.com/ckca4no
Linux: https://tinyurl.com/d569knt

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Configure Options:
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  ac_add_options (option here)
  
  --enable-debug                        whether or not to compile debug
  --enable-jars                         whether or not to create jars
  --enable-installer                    whether or not to make installer
  --enable-official                     whether or not to official build
  --enable-nightly                      whether or not to nightly build
  --enable-tests                        whether or not to build tests
  --enable-update-channel=CHANNEL       which update channel to use
  --enable-breakpad                     whether or not to enable breakpad
  --enable-static                       single-component static build
  --enable-compiler-environment-checks  only allow supported compilers

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Contributions:
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To join in and help, please visit https://forum.getnightingale.com/
or jump into #nightingale on irc.mozilla.org.

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Contributors:
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* Steven Bengtson - Stevo
* Janek Bevendorff - Manko10
* Downward
* Lukas Diener - Lukas_Skywalker
* Matt Dwyer - MattSD
* Martin Giger - freaktechnik
* Geoffrey Gates - Timmythepi