First look: Songbird 0.6 open source media player
The open source Songbird music player took a big step forward on Friday with the official release of version 0.6, which significantly improves performance, augments support for media player devices, and reduces the program's memory footprint. Another noteworthy new feature is support for editing music metadata.
We tested Songbird 0.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 to see how it compares to other open source media players. Although we encountered some bugs during our testing, the overall Songbird experience proved compelling. It has some unique features and offers a very high level of extensibility.
As Songbird developer Ian McKellar explained during a presentation at LugRadio Live earlier this year, Songbird brings together a web browser and media player so that users can browse their music and play the web. The Songbird player is built with Mozilla technologies such as XUL—the XML-based user interface description language used by the Firefox web browser. This enables developers to modify and extend Songbird with the same techniques used to create Firefox add-ons and themes.
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