Songbird 1.2.0 Alpha

Songbird 1.2.0 Alpha offers you a powerful desktop media player mashed-up with the 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.

Major Features:

1. Media Importing: Add media to Songbird by importing from your file system or iTunes.
2. Media Playback: Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac.
3. GStreamer: Songbird uses GStreamer as the main media playback system, across all platforms.
4. Gapless Playback & Replay Gain: Skips padding data due to encoding and chains files for gapless playback experience. Adjusts the playback gain appropriately if a track's metadata contains replay gain information.
5. Album Artwork: Display the currently playing track's album art and write new artwork back to the file. Automatically fetch missing album art from the web.
6. Watch Folders: Automatically import media from a defined folder.
7. Smart Playlist: Create dynamic playlists that automatically update based on criteria you set.
8. Web Browser: Songbird includes an integrated web browser with features like bookmarking, tabbed browsing, and more.
9. Cross Platform: Songbird runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.
10. Multi-language Support: Over 25 completed, community-contributed localizations and growing!
11. Automatic Updates: Always stay up to date using Songbird's built-in automatic updates.
12. Setup Assistant: Quickly setup Songbird for the first time.
13. Custom UI: Make Songbird your own by choosing from dozens of different skins feathers.
14. Library Management: Browse, organize, sort and search your media.
15. Developer Support:Songbird is getting better everyday thanks to its open platform and growing developer community.

WareSeeker Editor