Software Review: Songbird (of my life)
Songbird according to their site is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox, it is built from Mozilla, cross-platform and open source.
The great guys that are working on Songbird (a very young media player) have tons of experience on their sleeves. Their previous gigs includes Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine.
Songbird beats industry giants Apple iTunes (it has an iTunes media import too) and Microsoft’s Media Player on cross-platform availability. It can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux.
On top of the team’s expertise, their board of advisors are industry heavy-weights (and I’m a fan!):
Aaron Boodman (Greasemonkey), Josh Aas (Mozilla/Firefox), Bart Decrem (Flock Founder).
Some interesting facts about Songbird:
- Hatched: February 7, 2006
- Lots of add-ons (and growing)
- Painless updating/downloading of add-ons. It’s like Mozilla or Firefox since Songbird is made from XUL (Mozilla and Firefox’s User Interface Language).
Related Links: The Joy of XUL, XUL Programmer’s Reference
- Download MP3’s from http://fluxblog.org/ and more sites!
- Multi-language (45+) capability in a click of a mouse.
- Songbird is developer friendly. Count on it here.
- 64-bit support!
- Tab browsing is coming…
I think I’ve said enough. There are more features that I can write about Songbird here, but I’ll leave that to this page.
More screenshots below:
Enjoy downloading and make it your default media player. It has more to offer than the rest.
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