Songbird Music Player: Sweet Sounds on Your Desktop
Songbird is a free, open source, and highly customizable music player created by Pioneers of the Inevitable, a group of designers and developers who say they believe in the promise of an open customizable media player.
Well after using the newly released Songbird 1.0 for a few days, I can safely say that promise is well on its way to being realized with a product that's almost a suitable iTunes replacement.
Songbird 1.0 offers most of the standard iTunes / Winamp type functionality you'd expect right out of the box: wide ranging media playback support (including flac), importing, smart playlists, library management, and so on. Based on the same Mozilla engine that powers Firefox, Songbird also sports a seamlessly integrated web browser.
But what really makes Songbird sing are the add-ons, of which there are already more than 300 in such categories as appearance, playback & management, and content & discovery.
