Songbird 1.1.1 Beta 2

[Raine]

Songbird is a Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. It is open source and will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions. Play any MP3 on the Web without leaving the page. It can view Web pages as dynamic playlists that it can play, save, or automatically download every day. It plays your music too. It has all the features you expect in a desktop media player.

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[Kirtikumar]

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.

We're working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. There are lots of ways to contribute your time to the project. We'd love your help!

There are several features we're proud of, but we'll be the first to admit that others need ironing out, are experimental, or are just plain missing. There's still a lot to do.

[Sam.D]

On demand Fetching of Album Artwork:
Songbird can now fetch album artwork from the web at your command. Simply select or right-click a track and choose “Get Album Artwork”. You can also select your preferred source of artwork. By default, Songbird will retrieve album art from Last.fm but you can install other sources such as amazon.com via an add-on.

MTP Device Support:
We fixed many bugs affecting MTP devices on Windows. We’ve also added the ability to synch authorized Windows Media DRM’ed content to your MTP device.

[karunakar]

Features



* Cross-platform compatibility with XP, Vista, Mac OS X v10.5 (x86) and Linux (x86, x86_64). Mac OS X v10.4-10.5 PPC and Windows 2000 are unofficially supported by either 1.0 for PPC[4] or using the official Win32 version to run on 2000.
* Ability to play multiple audio formats, such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Apple Lossless and WMA
* Ability to play Apple FairPlay-encoded audio on Windows and Mac platforms via hooks into QuickTime (authorization takes place in iTunes)[5]
* Ability to play Windows Media DRM audio on Windows platforms[5]
* A skinnable interface, via feathers
* Media files stored on pages viewed in the browser show up as playable files in Songbird
* MP3 file download
* Ability to subscribe to MP3 blogs as playlists
* User-created bookmarks
* Ability to build custom mixes
* Ability to scan the user's computer for all audio files and add them to a local library
* A configurable and collapsible graphical user interface similar to iTunes, and mini-player mode
* Keyboard shortcuts and media keyboard support
* Automatic updates
* eMusic integration using the eMusic Integration plugin
* Last.fm integration via a plugin, complete with love/hate buttons
* Insound.com and HypeMachine integration
* Amie Street integration
* Microsoft MTP compatible device support
* Ability to edit metadata tags and save back to file

[Theo]

People need to recognize that it's not solely a music player it is also a web browser, when you have a music player and a web browser (Firefox) open for a while they begin to use a lot of memory, that's just what happens after a while. Anyways, it seems to run much faster than the old betas, add-ons work good and I can browse the web at a reasonable rate while flipping through my music, it is very intuitive and some people will undoubtedly love it/hate it, but I'll stick with aTunes/Rhythmbox and Firefox.