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Open source Songbird to begin shipping with millions of MP3 players
The news is a major win for Songbird and open source software in general. It's also the kind of distribution deal that you don't often hear about for a piece of OSS. I'm still waiting for the day when laptops start showing up on retail shelves with Firefox preinstalled...
It's also a win for Philips, since lower-price MP3 players like theirs are often saddled with substandard software. Songbird gives them a sexy, extensible, and feature-rich application to ship.
Some GoGear players will include Songbird on their internal storage, while others will include an install CD. Initially only a Windows version will be provided - Mac support out-of-the-box is coming soon. I'm not sure that matters a heck of a lot anyway - don't nearly all Mac users buy iPods?
[via TechCrunch]
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Subscribe to commentsBlackCoffeeNoSugarJan 5th 2010 10:57AM
I am not an Mac or iPod fan. But honestly, do Philips actually sell "millions of" GoGear media players?
BlackCoffeeNoSugarJan 5th 2010 10:59AM
"a", not "an", sorry!
StormtrooprDaveJan 5th 2010 12:30PM
I'm surprised about this as from my experience Songbird performs too badly to be reliable.
techpopsJan 5th 2010 12:44PM
I want to love the songbird but its UI is a mess. Maybe they'll get some much needed cash from this deal and be able to devote time to making it all pretty and more usable.
I remember the pug ugly Miro came on in leaps and graphical bounds when Mozilla threw some money at them, so there's hope.
ozzzyJan 5th 2010 1:56PM
Songbird lost me when a bug in a post-1.0 release removed songs from my iPod's database.