Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that’s under active development.
We’re working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. There are lots of ways to contribute your time to the project. We’d love your help!
There are several features we’re proud of, but we’ll be the first to admit that others need ironing out, are experimental, or are just plain missing. There’s still a lot to do.
Features:
Media Importing / Exporting
Add media to Songbird by importing from your file system or iTunes. Export your tracks and playlists back into iTunes.
Library Files Organization
Automatically organize the files contained in your library. Consolidate your media in one location. Customize the structure of the folder and file name based on metadata contained in every track.
Watch Folders
Automatically import media from a defined folder.
Library Management
Browse, organize, sort and search your media.
Smart Playlists
Create dynamic playlists that automatically update based on criteria you set.
Album Artwork
Display the currently playing track’s album art and write new artwork back to the file. Automatically fetch missing album art from the web.
Media Playback
Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac.
Gapless Playback & Replay Gain
Skips padding data due to encoding and chains files for gapless playback experience. Adjusts the playback gain appropriately if a track’s metadata contains replay gain information.
GStreamer
Songbird uses GStreamer as the main media playback system, across all platforms.
Web Browser
Songbird includes an integrated web browser with features like bookmarking, tabbed browsing, and more.
Cross Platform
Songbird runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Multi-language Support
Over 25 completed, community-contributed localizations and growing!
Automatic Updates
Always stay up to date using Songbird’s built-in automatic updates.
Custom UI
Make Songbird your own by choosing from dozens of different skins feathers.
Setup Assistant
Quickly setup Songbird for the first time.
Developer Support
Songbird is getting better everyday thanks to its open platform and growing developer community.
Integrated Services:
7digital Music Store
Buy high quality MP3s (320kbps) and get recommendation for new tracks based on your listening habits.
mashTape
Discover Flickr photos, YouTube videos, last.fm biographies, Google news (and more) for the currently playing artist.
Last.fm Scrobbling
Integrated Last.fm support allows you to scrobble, love, and ban your tracks.
Last.fm Radio
Listen to stations based on your Last.fm library, your Songbird library and friends/neighbors’ libraries. Browse the directory to explore tag and artist relationships.
Concert Tickets
Discover upcoming shows in your area based on the artists in your library. Event listings powered by Songkick.
SHOUTcast Radio
Stream music using the integrated SHOUTcast Radio directory.
Customize with Add-ons
Enhance Songbird with community contributed add-ons like MediaFlow or build one of your own.
