A player developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable
Used by 1100 people for 1197 hours, 16 minutes and 59 seconds
Songbird is a free software media player and web browser developed by a group known as Pioneers of the Inevitable (with members who previously developed for both Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine), with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."
Songbird runs on Mozilla's XULRunner platform, thus capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux. On the Windows and Macintosh platforms, Songbird utilizes the VideoLAN Client for media playback. For Linux & Solaris, Songbird utilizes the GStreamer media framework instead of VideoLAN. The Qtrax client is based on Songbird.
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| Website: | getsongbird.com |
| License: | Open source |
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badly implemented. still worth checking though
why is a watch folder so difficult to include?
itunes seems to not get it either.
I wanted to love you, Songbird, I really did.
I have a problem with a media player that crashes a lot.
Songbird is neat, but for me, it has too many features that I don't really need. I really don't have much need for a music player that can play Youtube videos.
I do have a need for a music player that can play every single format that I currently listen to. Songbird doesn't meet that need, but it can meet it if people write extensions for the various esoteric formats (SPC, PSF, USF, ADX are four examples).
Maybe I'll try again when Songbird makes it to 1.0.
Songbird with its last.fm support and seeqpod integration makes it great for music discovery. However lack of library sharing, the fact that it has some serious bugs, and that keyboard shortcuts seem only to work when they feel like it make it so I would never replace itunes with it.
I like Songbird, I use Songbird, but still its performance isn't good nor does it boast of features (does bloat of memory usage, but nevertheless).
Its ok, but still very buggy. I do like the new interface over the initial release version. Still prefer itunes as my default media player for now.
Not bad, but a complete memory hog
I liked the product, but if you have a huge library like around...2,000 or 3,000 or 4,000 when I began using Songbird, it would freeze up on me.
The idea behind Songbird is brilliant. A music player comparable to Firefox in terms of customization and ease-of-use. I really like the fact it's open source, and everyone can contribute to it (even if you're not a programmer) and the aforementioned customizability. From time to time, it isn be annoying that it's still in development, because it is still buggy, which can cause it to lag, or crash.
Overall, to me this is a keeper, certainly because i want to get rid of Windows Media Player, hate iTunes, and don't really like Winamp.
It's buggy at times, and it's not really intuitive; I mean controlling it is easy and good, but the interface itself and the performance of moving around it is kinda... Goofy. Definitely has room for improvement. It couldn't sync up with my cellphone, I have a Nokia 6280, through Bluetooth, dunno about cable. I do like the fact I can extend it, as I installed a lyric viewer and stuff like that, also it has Last.fm native support so that wasn't a problem, and is all good. It could use with some improvements, also it looks an awful lot like iTunes, which I don't like. Get creative!
Overall it's pretty good. Though I think I'll stick to Amarok when it comes out for Windows.
Finally supports last.fm!
It has some iffy behavior from time to time, but tries really hard to do something about it. I like it because it's not Winamp/iTunes/WMP, can be used for scrobbling (with some glitches) and has evolved for good in the last days. Also, it doesn't swallow as much virtual memory as Firefox or Flock, although it takes more space disk. And still can't use FF or Flock add-ons, its add-ons are special. Besides that, is a good browser/player.
i tried to like this, but just couldn't get used to it, plus it kept crashing on me. :(
i would love to find an alternative to itunes (grr i hate itunes), but sadly i still haven't found one.
a nice winamp/xmms clone would be nice...
0.6 is a great update, although not perfect yet. Keep up the good work guys!!
Get involved people!!
I've found some pretty cools stuff with this thing. I like it a lot, despite it's never ending bugs and usability issues.