{"id":997,"date":"2009-03-19T18:32:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T02:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/?p=997"},"modified":"2009-03-19T19:43:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T03:43:54","slug":"singing-about-songbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/write-ups\/singing-about-songbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing about Songbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to media management, \u00c2\u00a0iTunes is a staple for handling my music library. A self-professed music junkie, I need a library that’s seamless to navigate, highly organizable, and can accommodate a limitless amount of files in a variety of formats.<\/p>\n

I don’t infrequently tie my needs to any particular brand or product line. Although I love Apple products and require them to function on a daily basis, I \u00c2\u00a0try to switch it up whenever possible by incorporating tools and technologies from a variety of sources.<\/p>\n

And I thought nothing could top iTunes until I discovered what Songbird can do.<\/p>\n

Songbird offers the basic functionality of iTunes \u00c2\u00a0– unrestricted file capacity and unlimited playlists, navigational ease, import\/export options; but tricks it out on many levels.<\/p>\n

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The open-source software offers total customization of your audio player. It offers plug-ins called “add-ons”<\/a> that pull in bonuses while your music plays like concert info, data from last.fm<\/span><\/a>, Shoutcast radio, and more. The MashTape add-on looks for related content like photos, video, and reviews from your bands by pulling in data from Flickr, YouTube, and Amazon. Online digital music store 7Digital recently partnered<\/a> with Songbird to offer full integration. The store, currently in beta, will offer 320 kbps DRM-free MP3 downloads. They also promise to offer custom recommendations in the future based around what you’re playing from your library.<\/p>\n

With all of these features, Songbird is a serious contender in becoming a viable alternative to iTunes. The only major downside is that Songbird doesn’t seamlessly connect to AirTunes allowing wireless playback from Songbird to a home stereo.\u00c2\u00a0 A quick fix is a tool called Airfoil <\/a>from Rogue Amoeba (the same company that created Audio Hijack). Although it will set you back $25 it seems to do the trick.<\/p>\n

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Songbird is an open-source, fully customizable music player built on the open-source media framework Gstreamer<\/a>. You can participate by hacking on the software and trying out new builds before they’re released. \u00c2\u00a0A developer Recipe Book<\/a> offers code snippets for “Featherers” to tinker with.They sell some pretty kick-ass t-shirts too!<\/p>\n

Contribute: http:\/\/getsongbird.com\/contribute\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Get Songbird v 1.1.1 now: http:\/\/getsongbird.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to media management, \u00c2\u00a0iTunes is a staple for handling my music library. A self-professed music junkie, I need a library that’s seamless to navigate, highly organizable, and can accommodate a limitless amount of files in a variety of formats. I don’t infrequently tie my needs to any particular brand or product line. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[78,53],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-write-ups","tag-music","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}