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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.
* Display panes that make it friendly for multiple add-ons to be installed in Songbird at once by allowing the user to define which add-on gets displayed by context. Read the details on these integration points in our Developer Center.
* The latest generation iPods (the iPod touch/iPhone an exception) are now supported and we have improved the user experience for the iPod including a new iPod Summary Page (requires latest iPod add-on)
* Library support to return to the web location where a media item originated.
* A more comprehensive XUL Periodic Table in the Developer Support Tools Add-On.
* The Web Media History list now defaults with a column indicating the "Source" of the media. You can click on this entry to take you to that source web site.
* Bug free preferences/options.
* List views now retain users sorting preferences and column reordering.
* The popular "JumpTo" feature is back!
* Faster, smoother window resize.
* Many memory leaks fixed.