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| | Songbird is a free software media player and web browser developed by "The Songbird Team," (previously responsible for both Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine), with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."[1] Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ...
This article is about media players in general. ...
A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ...
The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ...
A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML...
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An example of a Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. ...
Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of Time Warner. ...
Yahoo! Music Jukebox is a free music player released by Yahoo! in 2005. ...
Songbird is based on Mozilla's XULRunner platform, thus capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and most distributions of Linux with few modifications. On the Windows and Macintosh platforms, Songbird utilizes the VideoLAN Client plugin for media playback and SQLite for media library organization and storage. For Linux, Songbird utilizes the GStreamer Media Framework instead of the VLC plugin. XULRunner is a product in development which will serve as a runtime environment for XUL applications. ...
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Mac OS X (IPA: ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...
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VLC media player is a free software media player by the VideoLAN project. ...
SQLite is an ACID-compliant relational database management system contained in a relatively small C programming library. ...
GStreamer is a multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject. ...
The first public preview release of Songbird, 0.1 "Hilda," was released February 8, 2006.[2] As of September 21, 2007, the most recent stable build is Songbird 0.3 Developer Pre-release (10/30/07);[3]. In addition to the tested builds, an automated 'nightly build' is released daily,[4] and the source is available for download via subversion[5] to those who desire to compile their own executable. Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ...
In computing, Subversion (SVN) is a version control system (VCS) initiated in 2000 by CollabNet Inc. ...
Features
 Songbird finds media files on a web page As of 26 July 2007, current features are[6]: Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 563 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 721 pixel, file size: 151 KB, MIME type: image/png) Website is http://www. ...
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- Cross platform compatibility with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS X (PPC, Intel) and Linux (Intel).
- Ability to play multiple audio formats, such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and Windows Media Audio.
- Able to play Apple FairPlay encoded audio on Windows and Mac platforms via hooks into Quicktime (Authorization takes place in iTunes)[7][8]
- Able to play Windows Media DRM audio on Windows platforms [7][9]
- A skinnable interface, via feathers.
- Media files stored on pages viewed in the browser show up as playable files in Songbird.
- Built in RSS subscription and MP3 file download.
- The ability to subscribe to mp3 blogs as playlists.
- User created bookmarks.
- Ability to build custom mixes.
- Ability to scan the user's computer for all audio files and add them to a local library.
- An easily configurable and collapsible graphical user interface similar to iTunes, and miniplayer mode.
- Keyboard shortcuts & media keyboard support.
- Automatic updates.
- eMusic integration using the eMusic Integration plugin.
- Insound.com and HypeMachine integration added in 0.3
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MPEG-4 AAC DRM encoding as used in the iTunes Store Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. ...
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FLAC, an acronym for Free Lossless Audio Codec, is a popular file format for audio data compression. ...
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EMusic is an online music store that operates by subscription. ...
EMusic is an online music store that operates by subscription. ...
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Extensions Version 0.2 shipped with two extensions, a DOM Inspector and an Example Extension. More community coded extensions are available on Songbird's extension support page. Known community designed extensions are: Qloud Tagging & Search, eMusic Integration, iTunes Importer, iPod Device, Artist Tracker, Library File Organizer, Audioscrobbler Notifier, Wikipedia Artist Display, SHOUTcast Radio Directory, UnPlug, Adblock Plus (install.rdf must be modified), Taglib metadata handler and Minimize-to-Systemtray. EMusic is an online music store that operates by subscription. ...
This article is about the iTunes application. ...
iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple and launched in October 2001. ...
Audioscrobbler profile of user TheJewel Audioscrobbler is an Internet-based personal profiling system that uses a plugin installed into its users music playing application. ...
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SHOUTcast is a multiplatform freeware digital audio streaming technology developed by Nullsoft. ...
Skins Skins are referred to as "feathers" in the Songbird project. The 0.2.5 release shipped with three feathers: the default dark "Rubberducky" feather (shown above), "Dove", a white iTunes styled skin as well as "Classic" which makes songbird use system buttons and frames, similar to the Firefox default skin. In computing, skins and themes are custom graphical appearances (GUIs) that can be applied to certain software and websites in order to suit the different tastes of different users. ...
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Firefox may refer to: Firefox (novel), written by Craig Thomas, published in 1978 Firefox (film), the 1982 movie starring Clint Eastwood, based on the novel Firefox (arcade game), the laserdisc arcade game based on the movie Mozilla Firefox, a web browser The Red Fox or the Red Panda, based on...
Localization There are currently 55 localizations of Songbird for the 0.2.5 release.
User agent As Songbird has a built-in web browser, it needs a user agent string to identify itself. For example, Songbird responds with the following user agent under an English version of Windows XP An example of a Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. ...
A user agent is the client application used with a particular network protocol; the phrase is most commonly used in reference to those which access the World Wide Web. ...
Windows XP is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ...
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20061018 Songbird/0.2 Deconstructed, a Mozilla client running Windows XP using a 2006 October 18 build of Songbird 0.2 client with an American English locale. The main change from the user agent of the Firefox web browser is replacing "Firefox/..." with "Songbird/...". The Mozilla application framework is a collection of cross-platform software components that make up the Mozilla applications. ...
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Firefox may refer to: Firefox (novel), written by Craig Thomas, published in 1978 Firefox (film), the 1982 movie starring Clint Eastwood, based on the novel Firefox (arcade game), the laserdisc arcade game based on the movie Mozilla Firefox, a web browser The Red Fox or the Red Panda, based on...
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007102613 Songbird/0.3 (20071027125233) Running Songbird 0.3 on Windows XP with an American English locale. Notice how Songbird 0.3 is based on the unstable Gecko 1.9.
Release history | Key: | | Old Version | Current Version | Future Version | | Gecko version | Version | Release date | Significant changes | | 1.8 | 0.1 | February 8, 2006 | | 0.2 | October 18, 2006 | Cross platform compatibility, multi-language support | | 0.2.5 | March 1, 2007 | Windows Media DRM audio playback, Quicktime DRM audio playback, USB mass storage device support, iPod device support, automatic locales downloading and improved OS integration | | 1.9 | 0.3 | October 30, 2007 | Tabbed browsing, API overhaul | is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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