- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
- Date added: December 27, 2009
- Total Downloads: 123,418
- Downloads last week: 903
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 141 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on January 07, 2010
If Firefox and iTunes hooked up, their hatchling could very well be Songbird. Basic usage bugs have gone the way of last season's molting, so this fun app that's part music player, part Web browser, and all about music discovery, management, and playback is ready for every day use.
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, which is not a bad pace. It then asks you which of the preinstalled Songbird extensions you want to load. Most of these, like the iPod, Mass Storage Class, and USB device managers 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 you started. When you're looking at any Web site with MP3s available for download, Songbird will open a new window at the bottom of the main browsing pane. Double-click on a song to play it, and 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. Although it works on Windows 7, it doesn't yet have any Windows 7-specific features. Still, Songbird is more than stable enough to 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, VLC Player, and SQLite. Songbird is open source and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions.
Version 1.2 can auto-organize your music library, two-way iTunes import/export, Last.fm support, and a 10-band equalizer.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.4.3 features bug fixes.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 141 votes
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Version: Songbird 1.4.3
Pros: It is easy to use. The organizing and search reminds of the J.Rivers Jukebox 12, but in my comp it seems to run faster than Jukebox 12.
Cons: Non as of yet.
Summary: It is just a good program and I'd refer it to all my friends.
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Version: Songbird 1.4.3
"Cannot download, incompatible with Windows 7"
Pros: None--can't download
Cons: Could not download it. Incompatible with Windows 7.
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Version: Songbird 1.4.3
"Great music player (Liberation from iTunes and Windows)"
Pros: Works with practically all music players.
Works with LINUX!
Works with network drives.
Nice UICons: S.. L.. O.. W..
If you have a big library, be prepared to wait.
Lays out music on the device the same way iTunes does (i.e., unintuitive).
Cannot seek-and-destroy duplicates (great feature in iTunes).Summary: This can truly be de-facto standard in music manager software. It runs on Linux, Mac and Windows so you're truly free to choose any (or all) platforms. It looks great and supports all music formats.
Songbird for music, VLC for video... ... read more >> -
Version: Songbird 1.4.3
Pros: Ease of use. Lyrics. Ui is like itunes
Cons: None as of yet.
Summary: Works as well with my Droid and Itunes does with my Ipod. Same concept and basically the same look. Highly recommend.
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Version: Songbird 1.4.3
Pros: I like the look and feel to this program and love the lyrics as well.
Cons: I found that when in use it crashes on me from time to time.
Summary: Overall, I highly recommend it. Bit slower but worth it.
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