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.
NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS
The following are new features and improvements for the Songbird 0.5 release:
* New Device API with initial MTP Device Support Add-on. We encourage you to provide feedback on your experience with your favorite MTP device. Please see our MTP Device Compatibility Feedback page.
* Extensible Library Views now enable developers to create add-ons that add additional library views in Songbird (6456)
* Improved shuffle algorithm (754)
* Added Mac menu/key command support (4845) for:
o Hide Songbird (Command-H)
o Hide Others (Command-Option-H)
o Show All
o Preferences... (Command-,)
o Quit Songbird (Command-Q)
* Improved RSS playlists support/parsing (5774)
* Notification to let Linux users know they need to add the GStreamer plugin (6427)
* Added "Source" column to downloads playlist (6356)