Songbird 1.0: powerful music player based on Mozilla technologies

9th December 2008

Songbird Project presented the first official version of its open source cross-platform music player called Songbird 1.0.
The package Songbird 1.0 now can boast excellent interface, taken from Mozilla projects, as well as a wide range of add-ons. For the most part, the standard window design of the player is similar to the leading proprietary players of Windows Media Player and Apple iTunes. The design and functionality of the main window are very well elaborated.
Nevertheless, the main features of Songbird 1.0 are hidden inside and also in its addons (more than 70 of them to the moment). Songbird 1.0 contains 6 addons with convenient settings wizards: iPod Device Support, QuickTime Playback, SHOUTcast Radio, Concerts, Last.fm and mashTape. As a result, immediately after installation the package Songbird is ready to synchronize music libraries with portable players of Apple iPod (including the most advanced models), as well as many other devices and cell phones.
Unfortunately, the player has does not support iPhone, iPod Touch and Microsoft Zune so far, but the developers promise to fix these shortcomings in the near future. The add-on SHOUTcast Radio allows listening to Internet radio stations, while the module Last.fm, allows listening to songs from the site Last.fm and searching for songs, using all features that earned global popularity of the site Last.fm.
Another interesting add-on, called Concerts helps to get information from the service Songkick: so you can find schedules of concerts of your favorite performers from your music library. The add-on mashTape allows you to find and download to your PC biographies of artists, their photos and videos.
The player supports Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X & Linux.