Songbird Developer Preview
Songbird is a free media player and web browser mashup developed by the folks who previously engineered both Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine. Both a media player and a platform, Songbird is built on the Mozilla platform and has a UI that looks very similar to that of the popular iTunes application. Like the Firefox browser, add-ons are available for Songbird that extend the power of the application; there are even add-ons called “feathers” that skin Songbird’s visual appearance. With Songbird, you can play mp3s without leaving the webpage or view web pages like mp3 blogs as playlists that you can save, download, or subscribe to. The application supports both Windows Media DRM audio and Apple FairPlay encoded audio as well as mp3s, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC formats. The recent alpha developer preview release, Songbird 0.4, is meant for testing purposes, but I imagine many web-savvy music enthusiasts will be downloading the app, too.
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Will SB have the longest beta ever? Frustrating– I want it to be stable and mature enough to take over itunes duties on Linux. I’m pretty sure its been at least two years in beta already… well, it is in poor form to complain about gifts, but still.
Hey Now Sarah,
Please keep us posted when this app newer versions are released. It looks good. I used to love winamp.
Thx,
Catto