Eko and Friends

Here's another music player, The Songbird. My first impression to Songbird is: it looks very similar to iTunes. But unlike iTunes, Songbird doesn't lock people from purchasing only from iTunes store. People can choose from multiple sources, include Amazon, Amie St., eMusic and of course the iTunes music store.

If you have an account in the music community site last.fm, it has integrated services with last.fm that allows us to scroble, love, and ban tracks. With an add-on, Songbird able to displays album and artist images from last.fm or we can use MediaFlow add-on to spin through album artworks. Using Songbird, we can know upcoming concerts near our area based on artist in the library.

Songbird support several media formats. It can play MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis files; WMA on Windows, ACC and Fairplay both on Windows and Mac using Gstreamer as main media playback system. It supports extension that allows USB media storage as a portable device where we can manage media on.

I haven't get used to Songbird, but I'll give it a try.