Tag: SONGBIRD

The developer pre-release version 0.3 (code named "Bowie") of Songbird, Mozilla's answer to music management, is available now. For the uninitiated, Songbird is an open-source music player, built on the Mozilla's XULRUnner platform (the same platform as Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.), that in their own words "is a desktop media player mashed up with the web." In past releases, the promise of ...

There's a whole flock of programs out there for playing and managing your music collections. But Songbird stands out as an open-source program based on Mozilla. Version 0.2.5 is still a long way from version 1.0, but there's a whole slew of improvements in the latest release. Support for playback of Windows Media and Quicktime files with DRM USB mass storage evice iPod device Web ...

Songbird, the Mozilla-based desktop media player that's been in alpha since last year, has finally moved to beta status - or, as the Songbird crew is calling it, "test flight." Version 0.2 is available for download for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Songbird, as we've mentioned before, is a combination media player and web browser that can connect to almost any audio or video content on the web. When I ...

Songbird, the Mozilla-based web-enabled music player that has occasionally been causing a stir since late last year, has finally opened its source repository to the public, making it a really-and-truly open source project. Songbird is still very alpha software, meaning you shouldn't expect much, especially in the speed and stability departments, but for the brave  today's "not-yet-0.2" ...

Got a tip this morning that Songbird was finally out (meaning versioin 0.1). Songbird is a proof-of-concept for now, an open-source music player built on Mozilla's XULRunner platform. It's like a browser and iTunes mushed together, but better. Why better? Because Songbird connects to almost any video or audio content on the web. The idea is opposite iTunes, where you buy songs from a centralized, ...

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 ...