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Songbird

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With a focus on fans, Songbird personalizes music content from the artists you love the most. Share your own photos with artists and other fans or discover new artists, all while listening to your music on your computer. Free download for PC!.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows
Discontinued

Songbird’s operations and associated services was discontinued on June 28, 2013. The source code can be still downloaded from Mozilla Development Center.

2.8 / 5 Avg rating (8)
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Features

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  1.  Portable
  2.  Playlists management
  3.  iPhone/iPod sync
  4.  Integrated Web Browser
  5.  Artwork
  6.  Music Library

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Comment summary: Songbird receives mixed reviews from users. While some appreciate its ambition, extensibility, and plugins, many criticize it for being a resource hog, lacking essential features such as podcast and iPod support, and having an unstable performance. Although praised for its potential and user interface, users express dissatisfaction with its sluggishness and its eventual cessation of Linux support. Alternatives like MusicBee and Winamp are often suggested for better stability and features.
Top Positive Comment
Fry_McFly
Aug 31, 2020
1

I miss Songbird. There is no other software like this. "Play the music, play the web" was the slogan of the Songbird project/team. It pretty well nails down what Songbird was capable of. It has all the nice and comfortable features of a Mozilla web browser + the features of (for example) iTunes. Apart from that it was a really good looking and usable software. It's a pity that this idea didn't catch on and there is no software of this kind that is still supported/developed.

Top Negative Comment
manwithcake
Jan 3, 2012
0

Do yourself a favor and try MusicBee (Windows) or Guayadeque/Gmusicbrowser (Linux). Songbird is...well...if it's a bird, it doesn't fly and as for songs...it doesn't sing.

DarkRedman
Aug 29, 2019
0

It has a lof of interesting plugins to find lyrics or know a bit about the band, smart playlists, nice looking interface.

Kinst
May 30, 2011
0

Songbird's gotten progressively worse ever since they dropped iPod support. Then Linux support, the web-features that were supposed to sell Songbird, and it isn't getting any slimmer or faster (SLOOOWWW). Had higher hopes for Songbird...but it just fizzled out.

landroni
Apr 9, 2011
0

I added a 'like' for Songbird, but only for the Android version. I tried it on the desktop (on Linux) and it looks strange (read: crap).

endolith
Jan 9, 2011
-1

If you don't like Apple's software, why are you buying their products? Isn't integration with their software the only real benefit they have over competitors?

endolith
Jan 7, 2011
-1

I don't understand why people are buying Apple iPods and then complaining that software other than Apple iTunes doesn't support their proprietary interfaces.

buhyabum
Oct 16, 2012

iDevices are the overwhelmingly dominant portable music players in the current market. Although somewhat subjective, it generally has to do with the fact that Apple makes the best-built, most aesthetically pleasing, and best-supported (warranty-wise) devices today. When a certain kind of hardware dominates the market the way iDevices do at the moment, it's incumbent upon software developers to, as a practical matter, make software that supports that hardware. My complaint with Songbird is that it used to work with iDevices, but has since decided not to support them. Which begs the question why they make a Mac version of their software at all.

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What is Songbird?

Songbird was an open-source customizable music player that is now dead. It is based on the Mozilla platform and the ability to customize the program is huge. Its successor is Nightingale icon Nightingale.

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    US flagMozilla
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.8
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 37 comments and reviews about Songbird, and it has gotten 409 likes

Songbird was added to AlternativeTo by zteff on Mar 1, 2009 and this page was last updated Aug 30, 2019.