Songbird 1.0.0

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 1.0.0
File Size:: 11.8 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 02 Dec 2008
Publisher:: Pioneers of the Inevitable
Homepage:: http://www.songbirdnest.com
MD5 Checksum:: 55A205C15D51498E90D090E6DA5C6238

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Improved Audio/Playback Functionality

* We now use GStreamer as our main media playback system, across all platforms - giving us higher performance, better reliability, and a platform for much more media-related functionality in the future.
* Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA on Windows; and AAC on Windows and Mac.

UI Experience Improvements
User experience improvements include these significant visual and functional changes:

* Many new keyboard shortcuts added. The list of those supported per platform can be viewed via "Keyboard Shortcuts" selection in the Help menu.
* WeÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve refined the column heading property list and made it easier to enable the properties you care about. Just right click on any column heading in a library or playlist to give it a try.
* "Show File" now available for any selected track via File menu or right click on track contextual menu. This provides an easy way to find the media file location on your filesystem.
* Smart Playlists can now be used as rules within other Smart Playlists.
* Ability to show/hide display panes via individual buttons for service pane, bottom and right sidebar display panes

Performance Improvements
This release provides improved performance:

* Faster Media Importing
* Drastically Faster Search
* Reduced Startup Times
* Snappier Sorting
* Efficient Scrolling of Large Libraries
* Reduced Memory Usage (When importing and using large libraries)

Stability
Many miscellaneous top crashers were fixed for this release.