Songbird the Open Source iTunes?

An anonymous reader writes "Cnet has an interesting story about a company about to release an open source alternative to iTunes. Apparently, the software can be used with a multitude of music services." From the article: "Apple's iTunes is 'like Internet Explorer, if Internet Explorer could only browse Microsoft.com,' Lord said. 'We love Apple, and appreciate and thank them for setting the bar in terms of user experience. But it's inevitable that the market architecture changes as it matures.'"

Comments

Check his petigree..

[msimm]

Sounds like he's got some experience aside from the mouth-piecing. Your's is pure Slashdot quality speculation/nay-saying. Forgive me for not being as impressed. We need something like this and they have something of a background. I wish them the best and I'll hold my judgement until I can noodle around with it.

Re:Songsuck

[laffer1]

Yes, and its great that apple supports windows and mac os. Of my seven computers, i can use iTunes on 4. Great. I don't see them running out and supporting linux, bsd or solaris though with iTunes.

The other factor is apple does not get all windows users with their iTunes support on windows. I had to upgrade my mothers 5 year old pc to xp so she could use it. (Windows ME is not supported) There are still quite a few 9x users out there who can't use iTunes.