Songbird is the best music player ever!

My music player of choice has been Winamp for over 10 years. I've tried others, but nothing ever sparked my interest or converted me. iTunes was never something that I liked despite its simplicity and ease of use. Maybe I'm biased, but I never liked that it installed so many helper services in the background just to run the application. No thanks.

Enter the era of Songbird. If you're familiar with Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, you'll know how to use this app immediately. Just add your music and you're good to go. Considering it's currently version 1.0 and changes are still being made, it's a great app for searching, playing, discovering, and organizing your music.

I really enjoy the instant search. Just start typing and results automatically appear. The platform is extensible, so plugins are constantly being released. It will display song lyrics, post your played songs via rss, give you coverflow, show local upcoming concerts of your artists, display news and images of the artist playing, and even download suggested songs too.

It will even manage your iPod too, so you're not stuck with iTunes any longer.

Get Songbird!

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