- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: October 22, 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 :Note: Beta or prerelease software is not intended for inexperienced users, as the software may contain bugs or may potentially damage your system. We strongly recommend that users exercise caution and save all mission-critical data before installing or using this software.
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. The latest 0.2 update adds support for more than 30 languages, the ability to automatically create playlists from Web pages, a mini player, and support for user-created extensions.
Note: You should completely uninstall all previous versions of Songbird before installing Songbird 0.2. There are known bugs in Songbird 0.2 RC3 that will not be fixed by simply updating.
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User reviews of Songbird 0.2
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Version: Songbird 0.2
Pros: works fine . Plays whatever i want to hear and sounds pretty good.
Cons: none yet.
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Version: Songbird 0.2
Pros: It has a nice UI, the inline browsing will be nice and the compatibility with any audio file.
Cons: It's very unstable and will not play all my files. Will wait until V. 1.0 comes out before replacing iTunes.
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Version: Songbird 0.2
"Looks and sounds good,would like to see an equilizer added."
Pros: Looks and sounds good !Will not add the same file twice!
Cons: No equalizer and no device support yet.
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