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"A team led by ex-Winamp-er Rob Lord today released a preview edition of Songbird, a desktop media player that offers an open source alternative to services like Apple's iTunes and the Windows Media Player. Instead of connecting to one locked store full of DRMmed goods, it can connect to any and all available music (and video) on the internet. Code brains behind the project include people who helped build Winamp, Muse, Yahoo's "Y! Music Engine" media player, and developers from Mozilla Foundation. Initial release is for Windows only, with editions for other OSes to follow in the coming weeks. Built on the same platform as Firefox, Songbird acts like a specialized web browser for music. It sees the online world through MP3-colored glasses -- it looks at an archive of public domain sound files or a music store's catalog, and displays available media for you."

2/8/2006 8:25:13 PM

how about we just make one itunes/ipod thread

there's like 10 new ones every day

2/8/2006 8:27:13 PM

http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/

2/8/2006 8:30:10 PM

Its pretty hot - and I'm glad its in a new thread otherwise I wouldn't have seen it.

2/8/2006 9:00:40 PM

allTunes is the best for buying music

2/8/2006 9:04:46 PM

That's pretty cool. Now Windows users can quit bitching about porting Amarok to Windows which is not ever going to happen.

2/8/2006 9:12:03 PM

another article: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060208-6144.html

2/8/2006 11:05:09 PM