Songbird is a free Media Player with the Songbird Mozilla Add-on developed by almost the same team who created Winamp & Yahoo! Music Engine .
Songbird is also closely integrated with SHOUTcast - the free internet broadcasting tool that could help you become an instantaneous DJ!
Songbird is an Open Source program & has a large developers community working constantly to bring new features & add-ons to Songbird Mozilla .
Songbird is a cross platform media player & can run on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux.
It can play multiple audio formats such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and Windows Media Audio as well as Apple FairPlay - encoded audio on Windows and Mac platforms via QuickTime (authorization takes place in iTunes).
Songbird , being an Open Source media player, is extensible & has a wide variety of add-ons. Here are a few key features of Songbird:
- Able to play Windows Media DRM audio on Windows platforms
- A skinnable interface, via feather
- Media files stored on pages viewed in the browser show up as playable files in Songbird
- Built-in RSS subscription and MP3 file download
- The ability to subscribe to MP3 blogs as playlists
- User-created bookmarks
- Ability to build custom mixes
- Ability to scan the user’s computer for all audio files and add them to a local library
- A configurable and collapsible graphical user interface similar to iTunes, and miniplayer mode
- Keyboard shortcuts & media keyboard support
- Automatic updates
- eMusic integration using the eMusic Integration plugin
- Insound.com and HypeMachine integration
- Microsoft MTP compatible device support
- Edit meta-data tags and save back to file
Users can add features and change functionality in Songbird by installing extensions .
