Log in

View Full Version : Songbird Open Source Media Player

Chris Gohlke
11-26-2005, 02:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.songbirdnest.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.songbirdnest.com/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Songbird is a complete desktop media player or "jukebox" with a uniquely open approach to Internet digital media network services. Songbird is developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable, a small, chirpy team of digital media innovators whose previous incubations include the Winamp 5 and Y! Music Engine media players and Muse.Net, a location-independent digital media network service acquired by Yahoo!. "</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/songbird-odeo-20051111_3.jpg" /><br /><br />If you are itching for an open source alternative to Windows Media Player, this project should have a new toy for you to try out in the next few weeks.
jeffd
11-26-2005, 04:16 AM
neat on the open source part! Saddly I lothe juke box programs. Sometimes it can be such a pain to get smooth perfect video playback going on, especialy if like me you are on a rather underpowered laptop, so I need as least of a resource intensive player as possible. Also in general when I want to play a movie, or que some music, I don't want to load a large player that not only takes time to load, but consumes a fare amount of memory at the same time.
hockeyref24
11-26-2005, 06:13 AM
Can you sync an ipod with this?
Zack Mahdavi
11-26-2005, 06:49 AM
Is it me, or does the interface look almost exactly like iTunes? Look at the top portion of the application.. and the sidebar.
Felix Torres
11-26-2005, 01:36 PM
Is it me, or does the interface look almost exactly like iTunes? Look at the top portion of the application.. and the sidebar.

The sidebar is a WMP-style file-tree structure.
So its half iTunes half WMP.
What? You expected something original?

Its all about reverse-engineeing other people's products; its easier to copy other people's efforts (MS, Apple, Adobe, SUN, AT&amp;T) than going to the trouble of designing something original from scratch.
&lt;shrug>
"Me too" products don't usually inspire me one way or another...

I'm comfortable with WMP10 as is and while I don't particularly care for Apple's design philosophy, at least they *usually* do their own designs.