Songbird 0.7 Beta

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.

Title:: Songbird 0.7 Beta
File Size:: 16.2 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 20 Aug 2008
Publisher:: Pioneers of the Inevitable
Homepage:: http://www.songbirdnest.com
MD5 Checksum:: AB730EF5284F23A63726AE8253FD3269

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

New UI

* The new UI includes significant visual and functional changes such as:
o A new dedicated tab that contains all of your media content
o Ability to show/hide the service pane when viewing webpages (it's automatically hidden when viewing web content, but a button will allow you to toggle show/hide)
o Ability to choose where the player controls live, the top or bottom of the window, based on user preference (right click on the player control pane to change its location or on some platforms View menu -> Player Controls).
o New look and feel for the Mini Player

Faster Media Scan

* Scanning for media on your local drive is significantly faster.

First Run Wizard

* The wizard will walk you through EULA, media scanning, and installing recommended add-ons when launching the application for the first time. You'll need to create a new profile to be presented with the wizard (since you will not see it if upgrading).

Drag & Drop

* The drag and drop experience in the application has been greatly improved.
* It now supports visual feedback to show you how many items you are dragging.

Smart Playlists

* We now have smart playlist support which not only allows you to create your own customized playlists, but also provide defaults for:
o Highest Rated
o Most Played
o Recently Added
o Recently Played

Album Art

* Songbird can now read, write and display album artwork. There's a new Album Art Display Pane in the bottom of the Service Pane that shows the artwork associated with currently playing track. In the Metadata Editor, you can add, remove and paste artwork to a track - changes will be saved to the file(s) you edit.