Hartwork Blog

The recent release of Songbird 1.0.0 adds a great player to the set of cross-platform Free Software audio players. It’s not my personal 1.0 yet but for now it pushes Rhythmbox back to the substitutes bench.

Official screenshot from the Songbird front page

• Free Software
• Cross-platform
• Library-oriented browsing
• File system-based browsing (through a plugin)
• Last.fm tracking (through a plugin)
• Not ugly

I still miss:

• CDDA playback
• XSPF support
• Visualization plugins
• DSP effect plugins
• Official-tree Gentoo ebuilds

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