Songbird Aims to Soar Above iTunes

What Firefox did for web browsers Songbird hopes to do for music media managers.  Taking the control out of the hands of a large corporate entity and putting it into the hands of the people, Songbird brings all the goodies of Firefox into this blackened iTunes-looking interface with such features as cross-platform extensions.  Unlike iTunes, Songbird’s Music Store link gives you the option to purchase from a slew of online vendors but Apple isn’t one of them.  In fact, iPod fans can climb off their chair in their high hopes for an alternative because this won’t sync with your iPod or any other play, right now.  The team is working on DAP integration and hopes to get it working soon.  The Mac version is also being worked on currently.

As to what it does do, it does play lots of current music formats.  Those would consist of, “MPEG Audio (mpga), MPEG Layer 3 (mp3), MP4 Audio (mp4a), Ogg Vorbis, Speex, AAC, WMA, FLAC, and less important: LPCM, ADPCM, AMR,” according to Songbirds FAQ page.

So why isn’t everything working yet? Well this is a proof-in-concept version. It’s a work in motion. The Songbird team wanted to get the manager out the door first and then work on the rest of it. Trust me, when the rest of it is done, this thing is going to rock. Not since WinAmp has there been such an exciting music player upon us. Oh, did I forget to mention those who were part of the WinAmp perfection are also here in the Songbird team?

[tags]open source,itunes,songbird,music manager[/tags]