Songbird
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Songbird
This is a new media player, released on 2/8/2006. it's currently on a 0.5 release, and is tipped to be inline to replace iTunes. It has all the functionality, similar looks and much more. It runs on mozilla, and VLC so it will play pretty much anything. It's currently being developed by a band of experienced, dedicated software developers and designers called the Pioneers of the Inevitable. Their previous hatchlings include Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine.
0.5 Features
Newly added in version 0.5 released on march 26 2008. It features hundreds of bug fixes and the following new features:
- MTP Device support
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. We’ve streamlined the filter picker list and fixed a few bugs that make it easier than ever to navigate your collection.
- New List Background
After several requests from our community we’ve made our Library and Playlist backgrounds easier on your eyes. Keep sending us your ideas, suggestions, and requests, your feedback helps us improve the ‘bird!
- Improved Rating UI
We’ve clarified the rating widget display by showing circles for unrated items and improved usability by allowing you to more easily change or un-rate a track.
- Hot Keys on the Mac
Mac users, you can now use common hot-keys to quit, hide, or open Songbird preferences just like the rest of your applications. We also fixed the issue which allowed the application to be dragged under the menu bar, yay!
- Always on Top
Never lose your Rubberducky Mini Player under a stack of windows! Now you can set it to always be on top. Any Feather developer can expose this feature in their feather
0.2 Features
- all the features of iTunes inc. smart playlists, folder watch, and an iTunes library importer which imports music and playlists
- integrated web search
- plays : MPEG Audio (mpga), MPEG Layer 3 (mp3), MP4 Audio (mp4a), Ogg Vorbis, Speex, AAC, WMA, FLAC, LPCM, ADPCM, AMR
- skinnable (aka feathers), and easy to make your own
- Runs on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows
- Get mixes from the Internet and stay up-to-date with the latest updates, downloads, and casts
- Songbird plays MP3s without leaving the music blog/page, or the song can be added to a playlist and you can continue browsing
- Super Slim Mini-Mode
- Support for Network devices
- support for podcasts, radio, mp3 players inc. ipods
- support for last.fm and other network services
- Growl support
- Current extensions
- Songbird JS API - Create, populate and play a playlist and much more from your Web site.
- XUL Rules - Build deeply integrated web stores into Songbird with Mozilla XUL
External Link
homepage[1]
