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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
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Downloads:
100,980
- Operating Systems:
Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP
- Additional Requirements:
No additional requirements
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
June 18, 2009
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Publisher's description of Songbird
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.
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Editor's review of Songbird
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- "Browse for tunes"
- Reviewed on: November 7, 2008
- Version reviewed: Songbird 1.2.0
If Firefox and iTunes hooked up, their hatchling could very well be Songbird. Almost ready for prime-time and still a bit 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, and Songbird is now stable enough to take flight for the music-loving, Web-surfing fanatic in all of us.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 118 votes
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Version: Songbird 1.2.0
"A very good WM Player and iTunes alternative"
Pros: Nice clean interface similar to iTunes
Plug-In Support
Integrated Browser
Last.fm Artist BiographiesCons: Doesn't get iPod support out of the box
Needs some tweaking 'cause startup is slowSummary: Making a partition for Windows 7, I moved some music from Vista to 7. Only to not have have my album art and artist information show up in Windows Media Player. So I decided to try out Songbird since I've heard about it from several sites. My album ... read more >>
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 1.2.0
Pros: Not a necessary one
Cons: Not a necessary one
Summary: Not a necessary one
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Version: Songbird 1.2.0
"Great so far but needs some improvements"
Pros: Its free, connects to major networks like tweeter, facebook, shoutcast radio, last fm, can browse web from the player. PLUG-INS are major help to it, more and more will be added with time so there is lots of potential.
Cons: For some reason my zen vision m and song bird player would both crash and would have to reset my mp3 player and restart songbird, tsk tsk, player needs some performance improvements but again its only version 1.2.
Summary: Good player with LOTS of potential in plug ins. Its starting out good but there is room to improve. I will use this for a duplicate library of about 20 GB in case anything goes wrong.
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Version: Songbird 1.2.0
"This is the best music software I have seen so far"
Pros: A huge improvement on iTunes or Windows Media Player. It enables you to easily edit metadata and manage your music collection. Heaps of room for customisation and some extremely useful addons
Cons: Probably still a bit daunting for an absolute beginner.
Summary: Has become one of my essential applications.
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