Songbird new version 0.7-RC2

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Description: Songbird is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox, it is built from Mozilla, cross-platform and open source.

* Cross Platform - Windows, Mac, Linux
* 30+ languages
* 64-bit support
* Play as you browse
* Web pages as playlists
* Now with video hack!

Change Log:
Here are the most noteworthy features we'd like to call out in RC2 and get your feedback on:

* Smart Playlists: Create playlists that automatically update based on criteria you set.
* Album Art: Read, write and display album artwork. Theres a new Album Art Display Pane in the bottom of the Service Pane that shows the artwork associated with currently playing track. In the Metadata Editor, you can add, remove, cut, copy and paste artwork to a track - changes will be saved to the file(s) you edit.

FAQ:
1.What is Songbird?
I don't get it. What is Songbird, and what can it do. Is it just another media player?
Songbird plays the Media Web. Play MP3s without leaving the page. Songbird views Web pages as dynamic playlists to play, save, download or subscribe to.

Songbird plays your music too with all the features you’d expect in a desktop media player. Like Firefox, Songbird's features may be improved with user installed and contributed cross-platform extensions.

Soon, Web page authors will be able to publish playlists and transfer MP3s into Songbird to build digital music stores like eMusic, music subscription services like Yahoo! Music Unlimited, virtual jamming services like Ninjam, playlist sharing services like WebJay and more.
Does songbird play video's from my iTunes/iPod? I'm sick of the fact that iTunes is crash happy, and I want to give up on it.
How large of a library does Songbird work with (mine is only about 20,000 tracks)?
Also, I have AirTunes speakers set up, are you planning on having those work in the future?

2.What digital music formats will Songbird play?
What music formats does Songbird support?
With the QuickTime Playback and Window Media Playback add-ons installed, Songbird can play all the popular music formats including MPEG Audio (mpga), MPEG Layer 3 (mp3), MPEG4 family including FairPlay (m4a, m4v, mp4, m4p, m4b), Ogg Vorbis, Speex, AAC, WMA, WMADRM, FLAC, and less important: LPCM, ADPCM, AMR. If you're a developer, teach Songbird how to play your favorite format!

3.Will Songbird work with my favorite portable music device?
I've got a portable MP3 player - will Songbird support it and allow me to sync with it?
Yes! There are two popular extensions to add support for USB Mass Storage capable players, as well as iPods

4.What are Songbird's system requirements?
What system requirements does Songbird have for the various OS/platforms it supports?

Windows
* Windows XP, Windows Vista
Minimum Hardware:
* 733 MHz Pentium III CPU (Recommended: 1.5 GHz Pentium IV or comparable)
* At least 256 MB of physical RAM (Recommended: 512 MB)
* At least 40 MB of available space on your hard drive
* 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit Sound Card)
* Speakers or headphones
Linux

Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.
* Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or later with the following libraries or packages:
o glibc 2.3.2 or later
o XFree86-3.3.6 or later
o gtk+2.0 or later
o fontconfig (also known as xft)
o libstdc++6
# Songbird has been tested on Fedora Core 5 and Ubuntu Dapper 6.06.
Minimum Hardware:
* 233 MHz Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ CPU (Recommended: 500 MHz or greater)
* At least 64 MB of physical RAM (Recommended: 128 MB or greater)
* At least 52 MB of available space on your hard drive
* 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit sound card)
* Speakers or headphones
Mac
* Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Minimum Hardware:
* Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or a PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
* At least 256 MB of physical RAM
* At least 61 MB of available space on your hard drive

5.How are Songbird and Qtrax related?
Glad you asked. :) Songbird (our company name is POTI, Inc.) makes a desktop media player called the Songbird Player. Qtrax licensed the Songbird Player, added the Qtrax brand, changed the look, and then integrated the Qtrax advertising supported music download service. If you speak geek, Songbird is a software platform providing open API's to allow seamless integration of devices and services into a desktop media player using markup, Javascript, CSS and other Web developer tools.

Songbird doesn't own or operate the Qtrax music service, and we're sorry to report that we can't fix your problems. If you have issues with the Qtrax service or the Qtrax player, you'll need to chat with Qtrax.

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