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Download the Songbird player and rock your mobile. Take your music with you, share playlists with friends, watch video, find out when favorite bands play your town, and discover new tracks by hot new artists.
Music - Sync your music on your PC, smart phone or MP3 player. Listen to streaming audio and Internet radio.
Music - Sync your music on your PC, smart phone or MP3 player. Listen to streaming audio and Internet radio.
- Playlists: Build smart playlists, filter and sort your music instantly.
- Downloads: Download and purchase music from popular MP3 sites, including 7digital and Last.fm. Available add-ons accelerate downloads for fast, reliable service.
- CD Ripping:
What's New
Version 1.10.2:
NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Playlist and track sync with Android devices has been improved.
- Added official support for Google/Samsung Nexus S, Samsung Galaxy SII, HTC Evo 3D, and Galaxy Nexus.
- The issue with WMA tracks not being playable after updating to 1.10.1 should be resolved.
- When creating a Smart Playlist with the criteria of "Playlist is Library", Songbird no longer crashes.
- Songbird may crash while mounting a device. ( bug 22960)
- The blue dots that indicate tracks on a device that are not yet in the main library may not display until the line is hovered over. ( bug 23711)
- Video recordings transferred from devices may have a generic name and metadata inside Songbird. ( bug 23826)
- Removable storage in phones (mostly Samsungs) is not always detected if the phone is connected while Songbird is running. ( bug 25336)
Version 1.10.2:
NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Playlist and track sync with Android devices has been improved.
- Added official support for Google/Samsung Nexus S, Samsung Galaxy SII, HTC Evo 3D, and Galaxy Nexus.
- The issue with WMA tracks not being playable after updating to 1.10.1 should be resolved.
- When creating a Smart Playlist with the criteria of more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Songbird User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:40,573 |
| Version Downloads:3,275 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Audio |
| License:Free |
| Date:26 Jan 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Download the Songbird player and rock your mobile. Take your music with you, share playlists with friends, watch video, find out when favorite bands play your town, and discover new tracks by hot new artists.
Music - Sync your music on your PC, smart phone or MP3 player. Listen to streaming audio and Internet radio.
Music - Sync your music on your PC, smart phone or MP3 player. Listen to streaming audio and Internet radio.
- Playlists: Build smart playlists, filter and sort your music instantly.
- Downloads: Download and purchase music from popular MP3 sites, including 7digital and Last.fm. Available add-ons accelerate downloads for fast, reliable service.
- CD Ripping: Get your tracks from your CD collection to your Songbird music library quickly, with our CD Rip add-on.
- Audio formats: Supports MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, WMA, WAV formats.
- Video formats: Supports H.264, Windows Media Video, MPEG4 formats.
- Picture formats: Supports BMP, GIF, JPEG, and PNG formats.
- Transfer: Auto synchronize or manually drag-and-drop files on MSC (Mass Storage Class) and MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) devices.
- Smart load: Intelligently load files depending on available space on the device.
- SD cards: Transfer files to and from device SD cards.
- Transcode: On-the-fly transcoding converts files to play on supported media players.
- Feathers: Customize the look and feel of Songbird with Feathers.
- MediaFlow: Browse your collection by flipping through album.
- mashTape: Bring songs to life for a 360° experience. Load YouTube videos, Last.fm artist biography, Wikipedia discography, GoogleNews updates, and Flickr photos.
- Last.fm: Discover new music.
- Want more? Add your own service or features using the Songbird open source developer's platform.
- Sync: Sync your Songbird library to and from iTunes. Set up watch folders to keep Songbird in sync as your media changes over time.
- Manage media: View and organize media by category such as genre, artist, or album. Edit and view track metadata in various tag formats.
- Downloads: Automatically download tracks from the Web directly into Songbird.
- Album art: View and add album art.
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Joecruzz reviewed on 19 Feb 2012
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Diogo Cocharro reviewed on 10 Feb 2012
great features, nice interface, can be customized with plug ins, can be synced with external devices and has watch folders option! what else do you wish for? forget to mention that is free.
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vit120555 reviewed on 03 Feb 2012
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Derekcurrie reviewed on 27 Jan 2012
I'm FED UP trying to help them and GIVE UP trying to make sense to them. I am deleting this software from my Macs. I don't respond well to talking to a wall. I tried!
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http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/no_download_allowed
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/unable_to_download_songbird_for_desktop
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/6see4gsit1kfx
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/the_songbird_media_player_for_a_pc_will_not_download
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/songbird_desktop_download_not_working
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/http_403_forbiden_free_download
BTW: I have experienced this problem with the current versions of these Mac web browsers:
OmniWeb
Camino
iCab
Chromium
Safari
Firefox
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No, it's not fixed. Nor has the Songbird forum offered any help. No thanks for your mean spirited reply. Great idea to turn a legitimate problem into a flame war. :-P
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THEE:LEE reviewed on 26 Jan 2012
right now it just can't compete, who knows in the near future it might hold a chance
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Cameraguy5 reviewed on 22 Dec 2011
In to the trash it goes....back to iTunes with no problems.
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Thraddish reviewed on 01 Dec 2011
If anyone has ever dabbled in Linux Songbird very much resembles some of the free music playing apps they offer. I didn't read into the literature but am pretty sure this is a port from linux.
This is an app worth trying.
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Penguirl reviewed on 04 Nov 2011
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http://the-eleven.com/tlegg/files/songbird/
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http://www.the-eleven.com/tlegg/
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Jamdox reviewed on 10 May 2011
IF you have high quality audio files and want decent quality output, you want Songbird.
If you want either of these things, iTunes just simply sucks. It's DRM-laden crapware, slow as hell, bloated, and sounds bad. iTunes is only good for downloading podcasts and syncing ipods. For everything else, use Songbird.
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Does Songbird use its own proprietary sound-producing mechanism (if that's the right term), or is it that Songbird has a better Equalizer...or?
I'd love to hear more about this and your experience. Thanks!
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Songbird must have at least some different codecs from iTunes, since it supportes file formats iTunes does not. So it likely has different codecs in general.
Perhaps more importantly, it does NOT have "sound enhancer" and other such rubbish features, which probably degrade iTunes' output.
This is not to say Songbird couldn't be better. But iTunes has monopolized the mp3 player market on the Mac, and it's not hard to be better than iTunes.
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I've gone back and forth between the two, and sometimes I like Songbird, and sometimes iTunes. It seems to depend on the song, but there's always a definite difference between the sound of the two.
My great "equalizier" (pun intended) is to use Audio Highjack Pro and listen to either (or any sound producing program) via it and it's great "10-Band Eq" setting in "Effects." There are various pre-sets, and the EQ is so damn good it can make just about any sound-producing program I use sound much, much better I even run my browsers through AHPro too, and stuff like YouTube sounds much better, and of course, music stations like Last.FM and Pandora sound way, way better through AHP.
There's a lot to like about Songbird; I use it a regularly, and especially like it for the ShoutCast and Concert capabilities. I agree that iTunes had become very bloated and seems more about being a digital hub than a truly great music player.
Nice talking to you. Thanks for sharing your viewpoints!
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I tested some tracks between the two (as well as using Cog to benchmark with), and also find that Songbird has much better audio qualities than iTunes. There seems to be much better dynamic range and 'presence' from Songbird. I tested MP3, AAC and Apple Lossless. Apple protected AAC's did play, but not very well.
However, I did find that iTunes was slightly better with low bit rate MP3's, but otherwise Songbird is superior.
I'm hoping that one day we can find a way to stream Songbird to remote speakers, then I might actually consider dumping iTunes.
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I hope I'm doing something wrong. How are you supposed to proceed? The initial import didn't bring up all my files.
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I could improvise and help myself via Last.FM – back then, I used some utility to update my Last.FM play count to the iTunes ones.
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