Songbird 0.5 RC2
Posted by EL1TE on 20 March 2008 - 14:57 · 6 comments & 2808 views
Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet. 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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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Azmodan on 20 Mar 2008 - 19:42
I find funny all those birds, farting around.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by reinhold on 20 Mar 2008 - 23:34
meh. Found out this has a memory footprint like OMG 100megs! and uninstallation ensued.
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by jstillion on 21 Mar 2008 - 02:41
I'm still expecting that in the pre < 1.0 stages.

I'm looking forward for this project to do well but it's still a little tough rough around the edges.

The founder for this project is the ordinal founder behind winamp. He left winamp after AOL took over and due to too much conflict with AOL.

This is one of the few ways I know you can listen to shout cast radio station on a mac.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by BinaryFragger on 22 Mar 2008 - 00:08
At only version 0.5, I agree that Songbird is rough around the edges but it looks promising.

The performance issues remind me of Miro, which like Songbird, use Mozilla's XULRunner. The first time I used Miro, it would slow my entire system to a crawl, but the latest version performs very well (same as how Firefox 3 is faster than Firefox 2). I imagine that Songbird will get similar performance enhancements by the time it reaches version 1.0.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Refuse on 23 Mar 2008 - 10:57
I used it a while back, while it looked cool, it didn't actually do anything useful, and just crashed most of the time...I wish it would work because it sounded like my perfect replacement for iTunes, which I hate so badly.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by ozzieXP on 23 Mar 2008 - 18:34
nice I love songbird
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