Songbird: A media player built on the Mozilla platform

The Mozilla platform already plays host to a handful of web browsers, an e-mail client, a calendar app, and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting. So what's next? A media player, of course. Songbird is a desktop media player build on the Mozilla platform. The Songbird team is comprised of "digital media innovators whose previous incubations include the Winamp 5 and Y! Music Engine media players and Muse.Net," and they're putting a focus on interoperating with digital media web sites like Odeo and Last.fm, as evidenced by the built-in web browser. Visually, Songbird has more than a passing similarity to iTunes, a criticism which the developers have addressed on their blog, and there are currenly a lot of details missing, like whether it will be open source, what audio (or video?) formats it will support, but it looks like a great project to me. Songbird will be cross-platform and they're aiming for a Windows preview release in mid-December.

[Via Waxy.org]

Tags: audio, mozilla, music, opensource, songbird