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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: July 24, 2008
- Total Downloads: 103,417
- Downloads last week: 261
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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: Seth Rosenblatt on November 07, 2008
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, and Songbird is now 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 0.6 adds better support for large libraries, smoothing scrolling through libraries, faster filtering, speedier search, improvement memory managment, and new features like metadata writing, better MTPSync support, and the ability to find text on Web pages.
Version 0.6.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
What's new in this version:
Version 0.6.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of Songbird 0.6.1
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 121 votes
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Version: Songbird 0.6.1
Pros: Music Browsing; great idea; presentation needs some work.
Cons: It's slow; not really user friendly, and doesn't have any of the functionality I was expecting.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.6.1
Pros: A lot like Itunes but faster to load and easier to use. Some nice skins and plug ins. Lots of radio. Its is also a browser - makes looking for music easy.
Cons: No equalizer which may turn off some people (they do have plans to add one). I however, have a tin ear so it makes no difference to me.
Summary: This is a very nice player and will remind you of a cross between Itunes and Firefox. This may sound complicated but it's not - it's very easy to use.The original skin (which they call "feathers") is sort of dark. I like the Itunes skin but plenty ... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.6.1
Pros: It is a great music program, I love using songbird
Cons: I wish that I could have preset radio stations rather than having to look them up all the time. Its kind of annoying, other that that songbird is perfect.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.6.1
Pros: Like a mix of Mozilla Firefox and iTunes, add-ons are great, music sounds wonderful
Cons: Can't play or rip CDs (yet)
Summary: A great alternative to iTunes (when you're able to rip CDs).
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Songbird 0.6.1
"Best iTunes runner-up I've seen so far."
Pros: I like iTunes a lot and I've used it a lot, but what I absolutely hate about it is the incredible amount of RAM it takes up on my computer. This app doesn't take up half as much and supports plug-ins, iPods, and even your current iTunes music.
Cons: Looks great to me!
Summary: Yeah so this is great. it DOES import your current iTunes music, doesn't take up as much memory, supports plugins, and it still works with your iPod. I highly recommend this as a replacement to iTunes.
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