Songbird 1.1.1

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 1.1.1
File Size:: 12.8 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 10 Mar 2009
Publisher:: Pioneers of the Inevitable
Homepage:: http://www.songbirdnest.com
MD5 Checksum:: 0D20EEFCA2724663474F4A5036798945

* On Demand Fetching of Album Artwork

Songbird can now fetch album artwork from the web at your command. Simply select or right-click a track and choose "Get Album Artwork". You can also select your preferred source of artwork. By default, Songbird will retrieve album art from Last.fm but you can install from other sources such as amazon.com via an add-on.

* MTP Device Support

We fixed many bugs affecting MTP devices on Windows. We've also added the ability to synch authorized Windows Media DRM'ed content to your MTP device. To see if your MTP device is supported, or to report your findings, visit our MTP Device Support page.
Watch Folders
You can choose to watch a folder hierarchy for changes and the content will auto-magically be imported in your library. If a file is removed from the watched folder, the corresponding track will be deleted from your Library.

* Better Sorting

Library sorting supports unicode collation and better handling of leading definite and indefinite articles such as "The" and "a".

* Replay Gain Support (Normalization)

If a track's metadata contains replay gain (including iTunes-specific) information, Songbird will adjust the playback gain appropriately.

* Reduced Installer Packages

We've reduced the installer package size on Mac and Linux by about 45% on each of those platforms.

* Improved Memory Usage/Performance

As part of our project to bring down memory usage in Songbird, we've re-tuned the database to be less greedy with your system's memory. On some memory starved systems, this should actually increase performance, but most users shouldn't notice any difference in searching, sorting, scrolling, filtering, or smart playlists. Users with very large libraries (>100,000 tracks) will see the biggest memory use improvements. If you do find things are more sluggish than you remember, please see Tuning Songbird Memory Usage and try adjusting the page cache size upwards. If you find any problems in these areas, please file a Bugzilla issue against Songbird.

* 7digital MP3 Store Add-on (Beta)

We've partnered with 7digital to bring you the highest quality MP3s (320kbps). You can easily search, purchase, organize and get recommendations directly into Songbird. Just click on the 7digital Music Store node in your Songbird service pane. NOTE: The UK store is fully stocked, but the US and other European stores are still continuing to populate a complete catalog of music. Please file any bugs, issues or suggestions for the 7digital MP3 store specifically in our Bugzilla database.