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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.
All Platforms
* Dialogs text cropped when OS is using big fonts ( bug 5583)
* Window min/max sizing does not respect DPI ( bug 6956)
* [iPod] Album Artwork switched to wrong music ( bug 7780)
* [metadata-writing] Unable to write metadata to .m4a files ( bug 8812)
* [ipod] 1st Gen iPod shuffle not mounting in Songbird ( bug 10432)
* [key] Spacebar to play after contextual menu Pause not working ( bug 12937)
* Intermittent. Paused tracks inconsistently increase playcount ( bug 13615)
* [gstreamer] Restarting MP3 by dragging progress slider to the start outputs silence for a while ( bug 15425)
* [watchfolders] Can get duplicate songs after renaming watch folder in new path ( bug 15538)
* 7digital Music Store
o Add Track/Add Album buttons should change UI on selection ( bug 15361)
Windows Specific
* [mtp] Cannot playback media items on MTP device from within Songbird app ( bug 8068)
* Some songs display as 0:00 ( bug 9145)
* [mtp] [dups] Same files can be added twice to a device if 2 PCs are used ( bug 9803)