Songbird Music Player: Open-Source Challenge to iTunes

Songbird is a yet to be released desktop media player, which has this unique ability of integrating many media and music services. Although iTunes is also an amazing media player which has been the market leader or quite some time now, with Songbird on the market, iTunes will surely be facing some tough competition. This Songbird media player’s programme has been based on the Firefox browser and bears many similarities to the Winamp player, with its innumerable skins and add-ons.

Songbird can be best described as a customisable open source music player. The efforts are being made to develop this media player as a cross platform, non-proprietary extensible tool that has the ability to enable all the new ways to discover, playback as well as manage the music. Songbird media player definitely showcases thoughtful, smart and excessive design. With the help of this software you can now sit back and make maximum of its music browsing functionality. It is quite smart in a way that it checks what music you have listening to and automatically adds that as a link.

Songbird is highly intuitive media player with amazing user interface. The main objectives of this media player are reduced PC RAM usage, faster search, reduced start up times, GStreamer Media Cores on all platforms and last but not the least fast media importing. All the effort is being put to make it better or at power with iTunes.

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