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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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