I recently found this while browsing and, I can surely say this is a cool one after trying it. The features are extensible that of course is if you have time to tweak it. So what does songbird do? Songbird plays the Media Web. Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.

Songbird is a player and a platform. Like Firefox, Songbird is an open source, Open Web project built on the Mozilla platform. Songbird provides a public playground for Web media mash-ups by providing developers with both desktop and Web APIs, developer resources and fostering Open Web media standards, to wit, an Open Media Web. Play MP3s without leaving the page. Songbird views Web pages as dynamic playlists to play, save, download or subscribe to.



Songbird plays your music too with all the features you’d expect in a desktop media player. Like Firefox, Songbird’s features may be improved with user installed and contributed cross-platform extensions.

Soon, Web page authors will be able to publish playlists and transfer MP3s into Songbird to build digital music stores like eMusic, music subscription services like Yahoo! Music Unlimited, virtual jamming services like Ninjam, playlist sharing services like WebJay and more.

What digital music formats will Songbird play?
With the QuickTime Playback and Window Media Playback add-ons installed, Songbird can play all the popular music formats including MPEG Audio (mpga), MPEG Layer 3 (mp3), MPEG4 family including FairPlay (m4a, m4v, mp4, m4p, m4b), Ogg Vorbis, Speex, AAC, WMA, WMADRM, FLAC, and less important: LPCM, ADPCM, AMR. If you’re a developer, teach Songbird how to play your favorite format!

What are Songbird’s system requirements?

Windows

* Windows XP, Windows Vista

Minimum Hardware:

* 733 MHz Pentium III CPU (Recommended: 1.5 GHz Pentium IV or comparable)
* At least 256 MB of physical RAM (Recommended: 512 MB)
* At least 40 MB of available space on your hard drive
* 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit Sound Card)
* Speakers or headphones

Linux
Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.

* Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or later with the following libraries or packages:
o glibc 2.3.2 or later
o XFree86-3.3.6 or later
o gtk+2.0 or later
o fontconfig (also known as xft)
o libstdc++6
* Songbird has been tested on Fedora Core 5 and Ubuntu Dapper 6.06.

Minimum Hardware:

* 233 MHz Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ CPU (Recommended: 500 MHz or greater)
* At least 64 MB of physical RAM (Recommended: 128 MB or greater)
* At least 52 MB of available space on your hard drive
* 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit sound card)
* Speakers or headphones

Mac

* Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Minimum Hardware:

* Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or a PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
* At least 256 MB of physical RAM
* At least 61 MB of available space on your hard drive

Performance requirements will scale to the size of the user’s library.


You can always find the latest version here: Get Songbird

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