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Songbird - Firefox for your ears
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:57 pm
by Alathald
While it's still in beta, Songbird is fairly mature so far as I can tell and it totally ROCKS!! It's like somebody took Firefox, iTunes and WMP, mashed them all together and sprinkled on a bit of attitude. It's fully skin-able and has quite a few really good plug-ins already, not to mention that it's easily integrated into Last.fm. I've been pushing it around a bit and haven't had any real issues so far, I just continue to be more and more impressed with it. Now, I know you guys think I'm this crazy, nut-job open-source advocate but this one is really worth checking out.
http://getsongbird.com/
Re: Songbird - Firefox for your ears
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:40 pm
by martini161
does it do flac? h.264? DOOM?
Re: Songbird - Firefox for your ears
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:28 pm
by Alathald
yes, yes, and really?
My whole collection is FLAC-based and it works fine. As for h.264, it has VLC at it's core in Windows (GStreamer in Linux) and VLC can play most h.264 encoded files so I'd assume Songbird can as well. As for DOOM, I don't think it's currently supported but if you really want it you could always write a plugin
What I find really cool though is that it can play Windows DRM protected files as well as iTunes FairPlay files. I have yet to have issue with it and I haven't even explored the web player aspect of it (what it's "known" for). It just has a really nice interface and it's not a huge resource hog for what it does, all in all, one sweet piece of....software.
