Songbird aka Mozilla’s attempt to steal market share from Apple and Microsoft
So Firefox is slowly but surely replacing Internet Exporer on windows computers and iTunes is replacing Windows Media Player. And by the end of the year will Apple have to worry about new competition? iTunes is much better at playing music then WMP (at least its easier to setup playlists and use in my opinion) but will Songbird come in like iTunes did or like Firefox did?
I am guna guess like iTunes. Though its not like iTunes in shipping with some peoples favorite MP3 Player instead its a totally free (even GPL) and cross-platform media player! Not only this though but it promises to bring web2.0 to your media player in the form of easy to use features around mp3 blogs. I think Songbird is guna have a strong start once the name gets out its good quality and runs of the native codecs (gstreamer on linux) and from what I have seen its just as customizable as other media players (more so in many cases) as it allows add-ons (Extentions) and Feathers (themes) to be changed just like firefox. I think its guna be interesting what happens though when it gets to beta (right now Alpha) and more of the Linux people start looking at it more. Currently Amarok is one of the biggest Media players for Linux and mostly because of its neat little feature though I don’t think they compare to Songbird sadly. In windows I know it will be replacing iTunes on my computer (never liked WinAmp really).
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Hey, leave us a post in our forums… what do you think is the killer Amarok feature that makes everyone use it?
(Actually, Songbird is developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable, a startup formed to be the wind beneath the Bird’s wings as it fledges and leaves the nest. We do work closely with the Moz folks, however, and absolutely love them to eetsy beetsy pieces)
Hey, cool tips. Perhaps I’ll buy a bottle of beer to that man from that forum who told me to visit your site
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