Songbird Media Player

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Originally Posted by manasecret

Hmm it sounds interesting. The best sounding part for me is the automatic looking up the Wiki articles on artists.

You said you've been looking for a replacement for iTunes -- what about iTunes turned you off out of curiosity? And does Songbird fix what you don't like about iTunes?

The only thing holding me back from going into this Songbird is because of the things I like about iTunes. I like the sharing of songs, I like the way playlists and smart playlists are done and can also be shared, I like the rankings, and I like the overall simplicity with usability. I also started using an alarm clock in conjunction with iTunes. (Hmm I guess I like quite a few things... ) You said Songbird syncs with iPods, so does it also have these iTunes functionalities?

What I don't like about iTunes is that it seems to hog a lot of my memory and CPU time. Also, I'd like for this Wiki thing.

iTunes has just gotten too bloated. My whole system lags between song changes and it's really just unacceptable that playing something as simple as an MP3 file should have such an impact on my PC's performance.

I honestly haven't bothered with Sharing. As for playlists and ease of use, it feels pretty close to an iTunes clone as far as navigation and the like is concerned. You can rate your songs with a bar to the right of the songs (sort of like the stars on iTunes).

You can sync it with your iPod with an extension but I honestly haven't done it yet to look at it - I'll play around with it more later. At this point though, I'm happy to give up a number of features if it means I still have the ease of use with better performance. And I'm just not concerned about features yet - it's a developers release to show off the application. More features will be added into the base program later and tons more through extensions.

I moreover just posted it here to show that something better is coming.