Pioneers of the Inevitable - (Open Source)
Songbird offers a free solution for playing music or movies, having also searching for audio content across websites included.
Songbird is a free media player based on VLC and Mozilla engine, coupled with a drive internet radio streaming (Shoutcast).
It can search for audio content across a wide range of websites offering this type of content and read through a variety of MP3 players (iPod, etc.).
In addition to playlists, upload and library, Songbird offers complete player with add-ons: album art, sync with digital music player (or Apple MTP), playback of protected music (Windows Media playback), alert concerts of favorite artist, last.fm, etc.
Songbird has a simplified interface with navigation tabs and bookmarks and a module subscription music blogs.
Encoding videos and synchronization with smartphones are some new interesting features that Songbird is equipped with.
The following Major Bugs were fixed with the 0.3.1 release:
* [Mac/Linux] Resizing Songbird can make it disappear/display weird (5286)
* [iContent-Disposition filename header are now quoted (5416)
* Bottom tabs made less ugly (5427)
* Find current track & play next track do not work for playlist/library (5490)
* First run dialog does not display list of add-ons or ok/cancel buttons (5493)
* Playlistplayback may overwrite wrong track on metadata update (5509)