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Songbird Flies Today

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the free-as-a-bird dept.

fr1kk writes to tell us that with the recent advent of a preview version for the new open source response to iTunes, Songbird, BoingBoing has taken a few minutes to interview team lead Rob Lord. While this program may be a great alternative to the DRM ridden iTunes and Windows Media Player platforms it is still only a Windows release. The good news is that by being open source that will (hopefully) not last very long. The Songbird site appears to be swamped right now, but there are several different mirrors available to download the client.

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  1. Not invented yet? by mccalli · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article: Songbird can connect to any a la carte media store -- downloadable music, radio, video, P2P networks, and classes of services that haven't been created yet.

    It can connect to classes of service that haven't been invented yet? Impressive. I shall go away and ponder the transdimensional time-travelling inplications of this statement. Over a large brandy.

    Cheers,
    Ian

  2. wonderful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's always nice to see someone doing what's been done before, only prettier, with a GPL, no support and random crashes.

  3. We Need an Extension by jgbishop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there a SongSomething extension to rename this program? I prefer Songfox to Songbird...

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