Download Songbird 0.2.5

Songbird is an open source and cross platform music player that uses Mozillas XULRunner and VLC, and can play mp3, wma, aac, ogg and flac files, among others. The player is being developed with the idea of ​​offering a counterweight to programs such as Apple iTunes and Windows Media Player. Songbird is able to run not only music files, local playlists and music databases, but also play music files, playlists and music databases located anywhere on the web. In addition, the functionality of Songbird can be expanded using extensions. The developers pushed Songbird 0.2.5 out of the nest a few days ago and provided the following announcement:

Welcome again! We’ve whipped up a number of new features and tossed them into the stewpot for you, to give you a fresh load of functionality and whet your appetite for our 0.3 release. Work on the next version of the database schema and the new library APIs has been proceeding on the svn trunk alongside the new functionality on the 0.2 branch.

We’ve got a new schedule and we’re going to overhaul it one more time and then update the roadmaps for you.

Features:

The point of a feature refresh is to put more power in the hands of you dear people. To this end, we’re working not only to improve the player but to also improve the community. And since we’re empowered by the Mozilla technology, we’re starting to take the first tentative steps of blending the community into the player.

Website:

• Addons
  • – Add-Ons (Extensions & Feathers) website.
  • You can install Extensions and Feathers directly from the site within Songbird.
• internationalization
  • – Localization website.
  • Songbird now lists and downloads available locales directly from the website.
  • Locales will now upgrade separately from the app – New translations available immediately.

application:

• New Default Bundle (you may opt out)
  • iPod Device (linux/osx/win32)
  • USB Mass Storage Device (win32)
  • Quicktime DRM Audio Playback (osx/win32)
  • Windows Media DRM Audio Playback (win32)
• New Features
  • Commandline Handling – You can launch us with media from your OS, now.
  • Classic “Plucked” Feathers – Runs Songbird in your native OS chrome.
  • Web Library – A filterable list of all the mp3 files you’ve seen while surfing.
  • HTML Subscriptions – Now view the subscribed webpage along with the media tracks.
  • Linux Fullscreen Video – Because we all know video-in-a-dinky-window sucks. # With many thanks to Eternalsword, a member of our community who volunteered to help create this feature.
  • New Tools Menu – We moved “Extensions…” to “Add-Ons…” and “Preferences…” to “Options…”
• Major Bug Fixes
  • Bug 572 – Dragging the window on Linux no longer loses the mouse off the window.
  • Bug 1731 – Download playlist handles errors and redirects better.
  • All bugs fixed for 0.2.5
  • All bugs that “must” be fixed for 0.3

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The following files can be downloaded:
Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Linux i686
Linux x86_64
Mac OS X – Power PC
Mac OS X – Intel