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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!

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

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

One question:

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

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

dumbass

0.25 is by far better then 0.30

Turbine wrote: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.

Yeah, what is up with that?

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

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.

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

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.

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

rofl.

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

they wear suits? oh.

bitWISE wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.