Songbird is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins (feathers).
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.
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Here are some key features of "Songbird":
Media Importing:
· Add media to Songbird by importing from your file system or iTunes.
Media Playback:
· Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac.
GStreamer:
· Songbird now uses GStreamer as our main media playback system, across all platforms.
Smart Playlists:
· Create dynamic playlists that automatically update based on criteria you set.
Web Browser:
· Songbird includes an integrated web browser with features like bookmarking, tabbed browsing, and more.
Multi-language Support:
· Over 25 completed, community-contributed localizations and growing!
Setup Assistant:
· Quickly setup Songbird for the first time.
Custom UI:
· Make Songbird your own by choosing from dozens of different skins feathers.
Library Management:
· Browse, organize, sort and search your media.
Device Support:
· Songbird's device support is limited. The Device Support wiki has additional details about what's supported. Apple iPhones, iPod Touch and Microsoft Zune devices are not yet supported.
Metadata Management:
· Songbird supports reading from and writing metadata to many music file formats. We still need to support the ability to fetch additional metadata from popular lookup services.
Album Artwork:
· Display the currently playing track's album art and write new artwork back to the file. We still need to support album art fetching.
Performance & Stability:
· Improving the performance and stability of Songbird is an ongoing focus. Each release we set aside dedicated cycles to ensure we're making progress.
Requirements:
· At least 512 MB of physical RAM
· At least 100 MB of available space on your hard drive
· Speakers or headphones
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Push music to wireless devices, like speakers and televisions
· Act as a media server allowing wireless devices to pull from your Songbird library