Songbird is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox, it is built from Mozilla, cross-platform and open source.
A useful variant especially for playing AAC+ streams. Combines Mozilla and VLC so with good plugin options.Worth having if you listening to AAC+ streams.
I've been following this app for the past 6 months, downloading nightly builds, etc, and it's still very buggy (UI bugs mostly). It's a shame because the concept is great (having context to discover new music, etc).
For those who just want to grab the MP3s, go with Peel.
I agree with the previous post.
This is too heavy, too slow and still very buggy.
I have watched the screencast in the developer's website and I really liked what I saw. But there's still a long way...
This is a promising application, but its development is just too slow. How long until a fully functional version? (And lighter too...)
Meanwhile, for MP3 blogs, I prefer Peel:
http://osx.iusethis.com/app/peel
Very promising, but slow as hell. It managed to get both my CPUs running at 100%, and I was not doing much, just browsing emusic.com from its internal browser.
One of those apps that I would "love to love" but..still got a long way to go
Still early, but a useful download none the less. Very interested in seeing what this becomes by the time it reaches 1.0. The user interface would be great if I used windows, but by Mac standards it is extremely ugly. Built by Mozilla, so I expect OS X clone skins (feathers... wtf?) to be available soon enough. Currently Uno doesn't cover up this black eye app.
the new version (0.2) is a big improvement, but it still has ways to go. It seems to only be capable of handling 100 artists, so my first few got cut off from the library.
I've tried it on my mac multiple times and its been buggy and ugly. The look is terible and the web browser bairly works. the music part sucks at importing songs and is just as useless at playing them. It shows promise for linux, but i think people will want to spring for the money to runs itunes in a window than use this turkey
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A useful variant especially for playing AAC+ streams. Combines Mozilla and VLC so with good plugin options.Worth having if you listening to AAC+ streams.
I've been following this app for the past 6 months, downloading nightly builds, etc, and it's still very buggy (UI bugs mostly). It's a shame because the concept is great (having context to discover new music, etc).
For those who just want to grab the MP3s, go with Peel.
Its nice for my Linux Box, but Im too happy with iTunes for my Mac.
I agree with the previous post.
This is too heavy, too slow and still very buggy.
I have watched the screencast in the developer's website and I really liked what I saw. But there's still a long way...
This is a promising application, but its development is just too slow. How long until a fully functional version? (And lighter too...)
Meanwhile, for MP3 blogs, I prefer Peel:
http://osx.iusethis.com/app/peel
Very promising, but slow as hell. It managed to get both my CPUs running at 100%, and I was not doing much, just browsing emusic.com from its internal browser.
One of those apps that I would "love to love" but..still got a long way to go
Still early, but a useful download none the less. Very interested in seeing what this becomes by the time it reaches 1.0. The user interface would be great if I used windows, but by Mac standards it is extremely ugly. Built by Mozilla, so I expect OS X clone skins (feathers... wtf?) to be available soon enough. Currently Uno doesn't cover up this black eye app.
the new version (0.2) is a big improvement, but it still has ways to go. It seems to only be capable of handling 100 artists, so my first few got cut off from the library.
I've tried it on my mac multiple times and its been buggy and ugly. The look is terible and the web browser bairly works. the music part sucks at importing songs and is just as useless at playing them. It shows promise for linux, but i think people will want to spring for the money to runs itunes in a window than use this turkey
New nightly is really aweosme. You can get it here http://developer.songbirdnest.com/nightly/builds/mac/
shows promise, but currently the nightly build (7/20/06) only seems to play mp3s (out of wma, ogg, mp3, and flac)
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