- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: February 08, 2006
- Total Downloads: 91,772
- Downloads last week: 357
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 121 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
If Firefox and iTunes hooked up, their hatchling could very well be Songbird. Although it's in beta and plenty buggy, it's also a very fun app that's part music player, part Web browser, and all about music discovery, management, and playback.
During installation, it'll ask if you want to load your iTunes music directory or another media directory, or perform the task later. Processing 5,000 songs took about 3 minutes, not a bad pace. It then asks you which of the pre-installed Songbird extensions you want to load. Most of these, like the iPod and USB device manager, only make the app stronger.
The left sidebar provides quick links to bookmarks, downloads, your music library in an iTunes-style interface, and several music discovery Web sites to get your started. When you're looking at any Web site with MP3s available for download, Songbird will open a new window at the bottom main browsing pane. Double-click on a song to play it, while links on the right let you purchase the track from Amazon, iTunes, eMusic, and Amie St. They also tell you the format of the track--MP3 or AAC, for example, and provide a blog link for more info.
Songbird has a growing library of extensions, and support is slowly growing for those written originally for Firefox. Many of the improvements from the last version make for a dramatic change, but Songbird is definitely a beta: caveat emptor. Still, it could really take flight for the music-loving, Web-surfing fanatic in all of us.
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Publisher's description
From Pioneers of the Inevitable :Songbird is a media browser and Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. Songbird is open source and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions.
Note;This is a preview release, a proof-of-concept, so there are many things still missing.
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User reviews of Songbird 0.1
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 121 votes
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4 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.1
Pros: ive tried and had a look and it looks good for a Beta so im looking forward for when a more stable version comes out
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.1
Pros: it works for starters lol, nice black interface look, podcasts, burn music, rip music, watch folders, extensions (comming soon)
Cons: its a tad bit slow sometimes..and the when program re-opones from skin, bits of the program are unreadable as it takes the space of your resolution up.
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1 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.1
Pros: none
Cons: will not run at all
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.1
"too early to dnload, needs improvement."
Pros: GOOD START FOR HEARING MUSIC
Cons: NEED TO MANAGE AREAS OF CONTROLLING WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.1
Pros: It may be a Proof-Of-Concept, but it works, and well too. If they continue, this may well become my main media player
Cons: Sadly the music infotags editing parts are rather rough around the edges, and it's awkward they way it's implemented, but this is just the first release!
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