Mozilla Songbird a fantastic multimedia player which can play any kind of video, audio formats. I’ve switched to Songbird few weeks back and started exploring it. It’s amazing!! It plays all kind of file formats in my notebook. From MP3, MP4, WAV, AVI, MPG etc. Songbird is built on plugins, which allows you to attach any songbird plugin and play any kind of file format. And cool thing is It also supports IPod sync.

Songbird a Music Mashups

Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. It provides a feature to browser any music, video site, and drag drop any kind of song or video file. So it saves the time of downloading the file through a download manager, and importing the files to a playlist.

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Cool Features

  • Sync with iPod
  • Browse any sites inside Songbird
  • Add any music or video into Songbird while your browse in the Songbird Browser. So you don’t need to download separately and then import into the player.
  • You don’t require any special codecs to play the files. All you need is plugins which you will get in the plugin repository.

Like Mozilla Firefox, Songbird is also released as a OpenSource and evolving as a music platform, where in you can build lots of plugins for playing anykind of media, visualizations etc.Songbird provides a public playground for Web media mash-ups by providing developers with both desktop and Web APIs, developer resources and fostering Open Web media standards, to wit, an Open Media Web.

You can find a handful of add-ons for songbird in the Songbird Nest.

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