Songbird Release Candidate finally out.

[l0g1c]

http://songbirdnest.com/

Songbird™ is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source.

Been playing with it. Pretty pimp so far. I was just thinking I needed something to keep track of the zillion music blogs I go to, and here it is!

[Turbine]

Its a mac screenshot on the front page, wont be checking that out.

[edit]

Upon further reading, the pictures of the cute little birds convinced me to download it.

[Turbine]

One question:

Can you use songbird to commit property theft? If not, it's useless.

[Dave]

Its a mac screenshot on the front page, wont be checking that out

dumbass

[dmmh]

0.25 is by far better then 0.30

[obsidian]

Upon further reading, the pictures of the cute little birds convinced me to download it.

It looks like most of those little birds are farting.

[Turbine]

Yeah, what is up with that?

[seremtan]

i've been getting a bit sick of foobar, and this looks good but i'll wait for a stable release

[obsidian]

Looks like there's a memory leak in 0.2.5. It keeps sucking up more memory at an astonishing rate. Just installed 0.3 and it seems to be better, hovering at 68-ish MB. Still a little bloated though.

[Transient]

I'll have to try this out. I've been using Winamp for ages now, and could use a change.

[bitWISE]

Hm. Apple, digital music and the web are all the rage right now. But I'm not creative enough to really come up with anything useful to get in on these band-wagons. Wait! I'll take a basic browser and a basic music player, and mash it into a single bloated application. Then I'll hire a good graphical designer so that it appeals to all the nerds stuck up Apple's ass. And I'll host a development blog with constant pre-releases to keep the hype up! Yea! They'll HAVE to download it.

[+JuggerNaut+]

i've been getting a bit sick of foobar, and this looks good but i'll wait for a stable release

rofl.

[seremtan]

i hope you didn't get dirt all over your nice new cowboy suit while you were rolling on the floor laughing

[+JuggerNaut+]

they wear suits? oh.

[l0g1c]

Hm. Apple, digital music and the web are all the rage right now. But I'm not creative enough to really come up with anything useful to get in on these band-wagons. Wait! I'll take a basic browser and a basic music player, and mash it into a single bloated application. Then I'll hire a good graphical designer so that it appeals to all the nerds stuck up Apple's ass. And I'll host a development blog with constant pre-releases to keep the hype up! Yea! They'll HAVE to download it.

Did you even get past the screenshot? It's a cross-platform Mozilla-based app.

After a day's use, my impression is that it seems perfect for browsing music blogs and aggregators because of the mp3 stripping. I wish there was a slim version dedicated to just that function. Amarok is still my music app of choice, but if you're using windows and a fairly beefy machine, this isn't too bad. I personally think the interface is a little clunky, but I'm sure I'll eventually get used to it.

[bitWISE]

Yea, I did. I'm partly just being an ass but at the same time I really don't see the point in merging the two applications.

[Dr_Watson]

i really don't see the point in this either.
looks like niche market software for a niche that i'm no where near. if I had a myspace and frequented my 900 friendz music blogs daily... yeah i might care; but i don't... so tiny little winamp is still everything i need.
In my most cynical blunt opinion, it looks like wasted code for something that should have been a firefox plug-in to scavenge media files and offload them to the associated applications.... you know... what the "media player connectivity" plug-in already does; without the farting fat birds.

[Transient]

I'd have to agree to an extent. This could have been a plugin, but I'll wait for future builds to see how it evolves before writing it off entirely.

[JulesWinnfield]

Songbird apparently plays m4p/itunes purchases. Hrm, have to check it out.

[l0g1c]

Ok, I'm not defending this application, or trying to change anyone's mind here, but I'm going to try dispel some of the misconceptions I'm seeing.

#1 Music Blogs aren't little Jimmy and Jane talking about the latest Hannah Montana CD.

A couple of my favorite music blogs, for example:
Motel de Moka
Music is art

#2 A step above would be an aggregator. When you want to hear something specific. For example, when 7zark7 posted that Bonnie "Prince" Billy video. I wanted to hear more, so I go to Skreemr and type in what I want to see.

I'm somewhat of a music freak, so I'm sure this doesn't appeal to everyone. But if you use the sites like I do, this program is a godsend.

One downside that I found today is that it sucks at doing podcasts. That's okay though, I already have a program that does that.

edit: and to be honest, I've run into a few errors. And I can't seem to delete playlists once they are created.