Tominator Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.We're working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. There are lots of ways to contribute your time to the project. We'd love your help!There are several features we're proud of, but we'll be the first to admit that others need ironing out, are experimental, or are just plain missing. There's still a lot to do.Homepage: http://www.getsongbird.com/Download: http://s3.amazonaws.com/download.songbirdn...-i686-msvc8.exeRelease Notes: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Release_Notes/1.0.0NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTSImproved Audio/Playback Functionality * We now use GStreamer as our main media playback system, across all platforms - giving us higher performance, better reliability, and a platform for much more media-related functionality in the future. * Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA on Windows; and AAC on Windows and Mac.UI Experience ImprovementsUser experience improvements include these significant visual and functional changes: * Many new keyboard shortcuts added. The list of those supported per platform can be viewed via "Keyboard Shortcuts" selection in the Help menu. * We’ve refined the column heading property list and made it easier to enable the properties you care about. Just right click on any column heading in a library or playlist to give it a try. * "Show File" now available for any selected track via File menu or right click on track contextual menu. This provides an easy way to find the media file location on your filesystem. * Smart Playlists can now be used as rules within other Smart Playlists. * Ability to show/hide display panes via individual buttons for service pane, bottom and right sidebar display panesPerformance ImprovementsThis release provides improved performance: * Faster Media Importing * Drastically Faster Search * Reduced Startup Times * Snappier Sorting * Efficient Scrolling of Large Libraries * Reduced Memory Usage (When importing and using large libraries)StabilityMany miscellaneous top crashers were fixed for this release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalaffa Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Sounds interesting. Thanks :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrVoice Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Hey, thanks for your post! Welcome to our community. We're always interested in open-source programs, so keep 'em coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 Hey, thanks for your post! Welcome to our community. We're always interested in open-source programs, so keep 'em coming! :hi: Thank you! I've actually been a reader of this site for a while, since early 2007. I finally decided to get involved. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 lol, it looks like iTunes:) to NsaneDown btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lite_speed Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 They use Firefox technology... I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this. I've looked at their roadmap, and they've got some pretty neat stuff planned. If this gets enough popularity and people make addons and skins ("feathers" as they're called), I'll switch to this in a heartbeat.It's really nice, but right now it just doesn't have as many features as AIMP. I'll give this a few more months - I can wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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