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Songbird is a Web player built from Firefox's browser engine.

Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet. Songbird is a player and a platform. Like Firefox, Songbird is an open source, Open Web project built on the Mozilla platform. 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.

What's New:

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

New UI

* The new UI includes significant visual and functional changes such as:
o A new dedicated tab that contains all of your media content
o Ability to show/hide the service pane when viewing webpages (it's automatically hidden when viewing web content, but a button will allow you to toggle show/hide)
o Ability to choose where the player controls live, the top or bottom of the window, based on user preference (right click on the player control pane to change its location or on some platforms View menu -> Player Controls).
o New look and feel for the Mini Player

Faster Media Scan

* Scanning for media on your local drive is significantly faster.


First Run Wizard

* The wizard will walk you through EULA, media scanning, and installing recommended add-ons when launching the application for the first time. You'll need to create a new profile to be presented with the wizard (since you will not see it if upgrading).


Drag & Drop

* The drag and drop experience in the application has been greatly improved.
* It now supports visual feedback to show you how many items you are dragging.


Smart Playlists

* We now have smart playlist support which not only allows you to create your own customized playlists, but also provide defaults for:
o Highest Rated
o Most Played
o Recently Added
o Recently Played

Album Art

* Songbird can now read, write and display album artwork. There's a new Album Art Display Pane in the bottom of the Service Pane that shows the artwork associated with currently playing track. In the Metadata Editor, you can add, remove and paste artwork to a track - changes will be saved to the file(s) you edit.