Songbird 0.7 RC1 is out: Mozilla-based music player is growing up

Filed under: Audio, Internet, Mozilla, Open Source

Songbird 0.7 RC1 is out: Mozilla-based music player is growing up

by Brad Linder Aug 4th 2008

Songbird, the music player built on Mozilla is inching a bit closer towards a 1.0 release. Last night the developers pushed Songbird 0.7 Release Candidate 1 out of the nest, and it includes a whole slew of updates including improved memory usage, UI refinements, and a new setup assistant that makes it easy to import media libraries and configure Songbird to work with an iPod or other portable media player.

Here are a few more of the changes:

Support for iTunes-like smart playlists
Optional concert calendar displays upcoming shows in your area based on the artists in your music library
Last.fm support allows you to scrobble tracks
Now uses GStreamer as the media core
Faster metadata scanning

If you haven't used Songbird before, here are a few others reasons you might want to check it out. First, it's kind of like having a cross-platform version of iTunes that runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux but also supports multiple tabs. Second, you can use Songbird as a web browser and when you visit pages with links to MP3 files like The Hype Machine, Songbird will automatically detect the music files and bring up links for you to play those tracks.

The latest version seems much faster and more stable than earlier versions.

[via gHacks]

Tags: itunes, media-player, music, songbird, songbird-0.7, songbird-0.7-rc1

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

HunterA3 said 2:12PM on 8-04-2008

Songbird is a great media player, I just wish they would have made podcasting and portable media player syncing a higher priority.

Wolfsvein said 4:28PM on 8-04-2008

Yeah, but I think winamp is able to do this and more.

slackjaw said 4:48PM on 8-04-2008

What happened to the feature that when Songbird detected a song in a web page, that it would allow you to download it?
That was the single greatest feature ever.

Joao Almeida said 7:43PM on 8-06-2008

iPod support still needs improvement, but it's looking more promising by each released version

Riddle said 9:37PM on 8-26-2008

I love songbird for organizing music. It just sucks that it doesn't support video and image syncing with the iPod.

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