Songbird 0.2.5
Posted by Emil Protalinski on 04 March 2007 - 17:32 · 8 comments & 3133 views
Songbird™ 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.

Features:
  • Play Anything: MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, WMA, and more. Can you teach Songbird to sing?
  • Pick Feathers: Choose from the two included themes: Rubberducky or Dove. You can even make one yourself.
  • Control the Flow: Play, Pause, Previous, Next, Volume, Mute, Seek, Three Repeat Modes, and Shuffle.
  • Multi-Task: Quickly switch between tasks using the buttons to the right of the dashboard display.
  • Organize Your Library: Filter your collection by Genre, Artist, Album, and Song or Search-As-You-Type.
  • Scan Your Computer for Music: Songbird will find your music and add it to your collection for you.
  • Super Slim Mini-Mode: Use the mini-mode for basic controls while keeping Songbird out of the way.
  • Multi-Language Support: Songbird comes in 39 languages. Be a localizer and see Songbird in your language!
  • Build Custom Mixes: Drag-and-drop songs from the Library or another playlist to create your own custom mixes.
  • Make Smart Mixes: Criteria-based playlists that are always up-to-date with your current collection.
  • Dynamic Mixes: Get mixes from the Internet and stay up-to-date with the latest updates, downloads, and casts.
  • Play In Place: Songbird plays MP3s without leaving the page.
  • Play the Web: Play web pages as playlists and view any web page as a playlist.
  • Set Music Watch Folders: Tell Songbird to watch a folder for new music and it will automatically add new tracks to your collection
  • Integrated Web Search: Search the web from the context of your collection or tell Songbird to search on the currently playing track.
  • Cross-Platform: Runs on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.
  • XUL Rules: Build deeply integrated web stores into Songbird with Mozilla XUL.
  • Songbird JS API: Create, populate and play a playlist and much more from your Web site.
Changelog:
  • New Default Bundle (you may opt-out)
    • iPod Device (linux/osx/win32)
    • USB Mass Storage Device (win32)
    • Quicktime DRM Audio Playback (osx/win32)
    • Windows Media DRM Audio Playback (win32)
  • New Features
    • Commandline Handling - You can launch us with media from your OS, now.
    • Classic "Plucked" Feathers - Runs Songbird in your native OS chrome.
    • Web Library - A filterable list of all the mp3 files you've seen while surfing.
    • HTML Subscriptions - Now view the subscribed webpage along with the media tracks.
    • New Tools Menu - We moved "Extensions..." to "Add-Ons..." and "Preferences..." to "Options..."
  • Major Bugfixes
    • Dragging the window on Linux no longer loses the mouse off the window.
    • Download playlist handles errors and redirects better.
Download: Songbird 0.2.5
Screenshot: >> Click here <<
Link: Home Page | Forum Discussion (Thanks Apul)


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by wctaiwan on 04 Mar 2007 - 17:37
Homer- rips your eyeballs out

Nice... But that's just yet another piece of bloatware... imo.

wctaiwan
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by David3k on 04 Mar 2007 - 18:28
This looks promising. They just need to work on the interface a bit but overall, it's not bad.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by cardg on 04 Mar 2007 - 19:47
(On the screenshot)
Franz Ferdinand, Arcade Fire, Bloc Party...
Not bad han?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by garconcn on 04 Mar 2007 - 20:57
Looks good! I will give a try
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by ZEROarmy on 04 Mar 2007 - 21:15
I've been using it for a while. It's still pretty buggy, but I like it overall. The program is pretty bloated though, not as bad as iTunes, but still pretty bad. It installs a ridiculous amount of files on your computer, but that's because it does so much stuff. It's a web browser and has VLC built in and Quicktime and such. I wish they would make a music only version to slim it down.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by +Chokes on 05 Mar 2007 - 02:22
Its a good app but without an EQ this is useless
so ill download it when it have an good EQ.....
i hate hear my music if i cant equalise it and im not the only one....
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by Naughty Dog on 05 Mar 2007 - 06:58
Another iTunes but not a bad start. I'll wait until the 1.x's come out.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by Lare2 on 05 Mar 2007 - 07:46
I still feel this app slow and heavy but that may be because have been using Billy Player for so long
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