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Songbird 1.0 finally released

Niels R. — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:09:56 +0000

After about 2 years of development, we can finally embrace the first major release of Songbird. It’s an open-source media player using the Mozilla Application Framework that has the capability to surf the web and is able to play, queue or subscribe to embedded media from a web page. Video support isn’t all that super, yet!

There is support of portable media devices, although the support of iPod devices is limited. As a (might-be-maybe-we-will-see) future owner of an iPhone, I would love to see Songbird supporting it. I do not like iTunes at all.

And of course… it’s cross platform! So your Mac, Linux box or Windows PC will happy to run it for you.

Official announcement on Songbird Blog.
Mozilla Links has a nice overview of the release here.

UPDATE: After writing this post I searched around a little and came upon this page: 10 Alternatives to iTunes for managing your iPod. Enjoy :o)

Songbird 1.0 Release Candidate 1 is here!

Niels R. — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:16:45 +0000

Check out the Songbird Blog for the announcement of Sonbirg 1.0 RC1.

Songbird 1.0 is coming our way!

Niels R. — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:39:08 +0000

Seems that the developers op my favourite music player are wrapping up for the long awaited 1.0 release! Songbird 1.0 will arrive within a month. It seems that they are jumping from 0.7 to 1.0…

I’m so happy that I want to sing a song!

Announcement on Songbird Blog