Do you have multiple machines around your house that would like to share a centralized server for multi-media? Having such a server for music allows for consolidation, ease of use, and space saving on client PCs. Of course to many users, the idea of setting up a multi-media server sounds like it would be a [...]
Songbird 1.2
The music manager and player Songbird has been released in version 1.2 recently. Several new and interesting features have been added to the program including the ability to sync the music library with Apple’s iTunes software, Last.fm radio support or the automatic organization of all music files on a computer system.
Songbird is able to import [...]
Songbird 0.7 RC1 Released
Following a “Blessed nightly build” which in my testing’s was unusable, the Songbird developers have released Songbird 0.7 Refresh Candidate 1, which I have been able try out, and have been very impressed by.
I continue to use Windows Media Player and Media Monkey for my music collection management, but I watch progress on Songbird and [...]
Songbird – the extendable Media Player
The great thing about Firefox (sorry, one of the great things) is that by being open source other developers can use the code as a starting point to create their own more specialised browsers from.
Flock is one very good example and I’ve written about it on gHacks before. Songbird is another, and I have only [...]
Songbird the ultimate Media Player ?
Songbird is a relatively new open source media player that is build from Mozilla and aims to revolutionize the media player market the same way firefox did to the browser market. Songbird is currently available in revision 0.2 “test flight” and runs on Windows 2000+, Linux and Mac just like firefox. Songbird comes with pretty much the same functionality as iTunes and more, due to the fact that it is based on the same core as firefox you can easily use songbird to browse between websites of radio stations, podcasts and blogs. Which means you play the songs and at the same time read what they have written in the same program.
