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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: September 29, 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 0.2 RC1
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 121 votes
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4 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.2 RC1
Pros: Very nice program, and its only a beta. You can surf the web with it, and it finds music on certain websites.
Cons: It is not very customizable yet, but that will probably change.
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0 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.2 RC1
Pros: better than the newer itunes((has become **** in its latest release)) and takes up less space..plus its made by mozilla who is creator of the famous firefox browser, plus will have extensions like firefox
Cons: still small bugs but sounds better than the newer itunes..some songs still wont play on it but some bugs r expected for a RC version
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2 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.2 RC1
Pros: The concept is great. A browser completely designed for music.
The interface is nice looking. It almost reminds me of iTunes. Only two different skins, but that will change with time.
With time, this program will be great.
Cons: It's only a beta, but I'll talk about the flaws, and see what people think.
Moving forward in your music needs to be smoother. The audio sounds like a disc skipping. It just needs to be smoother, and better done.
Media search was overbearing. For some reason during while the program search my hard drive for music, the computer locked up till it was done.
Right clicking needs to be improved. The program is a music player/browser, but still your only abilities with a right click include adding a file to your library, or playing it and so forth.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.2 RC1
Pros: If Beta Is Great i canT wait for the final version
Cons: Is a great quality sound, but it looks like itunes(that suks)
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.2 RC1
Pros: I like the way the songbird can can play mp4. and other formats.
Cons: I didn't like the similarity to Itunes and i don't see the point of all of the services in the services menu. I think that there isn't much between this and Itunes so i recommend downloading Itunes instead.
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