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11 Apr 12
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First, as with Firefox, you can download extensions to make Songbird look and act the way you want it. In fact, this is Songbird’s biggest advantage as far as I can see – the open-source platform. I’ve still to delve deeper into the lengthy extensions list
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extensions for iPod support, and the ability to play protected Windows Media files and Quicktime files. The extensions box is virtually identical in design to the Firefox version :
Secondly, again taking a leaf out of Firefox’s book, you can have tabs open up for web browsing within Songbird so in theory, you could look at your favourite webpages while playing songs (particularly useful if you need to search online for lyrics while a song is playing, for example)
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not limited to one file format.
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Fourth, and this is a neat one – you can shrink it to a basic version!
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Play Anything : MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, WMA, and more.
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39 languages.
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Integrated Web Search
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Mac, Linux and Windows.
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Play the Web
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Play web pages as playlists and view any web page as a playlist.
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One problem I have found is that you cannot run iTunes music files on both iTunes and Songbird at the same time. So if you want to run iTunes music on Songbird, you must first de-authorize and uninstall iTunes from your computer. This is the hated DRM copy protection at work, not the fault of Songbird.
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the project is still very much in beta development)
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looking extremely good so far.
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biggest strength is in throwing open the source code and inviting developers to make new features and improve existing ones.
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Face it, Foobar is the best music player there has been for years and still reigns supreme. I have tried them all and while Winamp is still decent the BO player by Bang Olufsen is about the only piece of software that compares to Foobar in sound quality.
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As far as Songbird goes, it is a resource hog and runs like garbage on my quad core 6gb rig,
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the one glaring feature it lacks but is very important is to have the cursor follow playback when you are in shuffle mode
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sound better than winamp and has potential but unfortunately it isnt even close to being half as good as Foobar at this point in time.
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Songbird worked HORRIBLY for me
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It hogged more than 50% of my CPU. iTunes at its WORST only takes up 10%. Maybe it’s because I’m on a PPC and it was a weird port, but still…
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Swiftweasel
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lack of standard media player features, such as video capability and equalizer settings
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Quintessential Media Player beta 5
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