Songbird – Playing the music, playing the web
Songbird is an open source web music player built on Mozilla platform, like Firefox. People are calling it “the Firefox of music players”. Music is easy to discover through music blogs (e.g. scissorkick), mp3 search engines (e.g. SkreemR, eSpew) and Hype Music. Songbird is still in development phase (developer pre-release version 0.3 is available at the moment).
Few interesting facts about Songbird are:
- Sequoia Capital of Apple, Yahoo!, Google and PayPal success are lead venture capital investor.
- Songbird has development team of 16 developers which include media player experts from Nullsoft (Winamp) and Web browser experts from Netscape and Mozilla (Firefox).
- 500k+ users and developers have installed Songbird so far.
The rest of the facts are available in Songbird Owner’s Manual.
And here is the low resolution video preview (higher resolution video is available at http://songbirdnest.com/screencast):
It’s clearly obvious that Songbird will push away classic desktop media players like Winamp and Windows media player.
Get your birdie by clicking on the next icon:
TIP: Songbird is easy to install in new Ubuntu. Follow these three steps:
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get your bird at http://download.songbirdnest.com/installer/linux/i686/Songbird_0.3_linux-i686.tar.gz
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extract it in folder: /home/your_user_name/songbird
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go to the same folder where you extracted your files, and open file named “songbird”
Complete steps are available at http://www.howtoforge.com/installing_songbird_on_ubuntu_gutsy_gibbon.
Songbird 0.3 high resolution screenshots:
