Songbird Media Player Gives You Choice
Songbird is a yet to be released desktop media player that integrates many different music and media services. For now their site is only showing support for Sony Connect, eMusic, Insound, and Odeo, but I believe that they plan to make other services available when it is released. The program is based on the Firefox browser and is being programmed by the some of the team from Winamp and Y! Music Engine.
Yeah… it looks fairly similar to iTunes, but I find it to be a welcome similarity. The one good thing about iTunes is its user interface. On the surface, anyway. The rest of the program is counter intuitive and tries to take over your music collection.
[Songbird] thanks Kaif
Comments
Keith on January 12, 2006 7:41 PM
Hear hear about iTunes! You are quite right. Now, personally I don't buy music from online stores and am quite content with the players I use now, really, but as far as the rest of the internet population goes this could be a good way to consolidate the "things that aren't iTMS" demographic. And if along with that it can provide an alternative to the near-totalitarian management that iTunes tries to foist on the user but still provide the kind of interface that said users fall in love with . . . well hey, we might have us some competition on our hands!
Consider me intriuged.
Reader on January 20, 2006 11:57 AM
The screenshot looks like JRiver Media Center...?
James Huston on January 23, 2006 2:35 PM
You know you have to opt in to allowing iTunes to move and manage your music files right? Otherwise it plays them where they reside.
Reader #2 on July 17, 2006 12:42 PM
It Looks like Black iTunes more than JRiver Media Center.