Songbird - audiopleer, based on the engine of the popular browser Firefox. It is focused on playing music files not only from the hard drive, but also from the network. For design, Songbird - music player is not so much as a musical web browser ... Songbird can work with a variety of formats of music files and music services. It is possible to create a multimedia library, which will organize all music computer in single file, while it can include songs that are in active network playlist.

Search for new tracks in the web by using line searches, implemented in analogy with Firefox. Songbird offers ten search engines. You enter the name of the missing girl songs, after which the search results are automatically added to the playlist Web. Transfer of selected elements in the music library completes the preservation of music.

During the first launch the program asks to specify the folder in which you want to search for music in order to make a single playlist. This process lasts a few seconds, then you can proceed to work with the music library. As a bonus, you can track changes in some locations. For example, if you download music from the Internet, it will be automatically added to the collection.

You can choose to subscribe to any resource. It appears as a separate play list with constantly updated data. By default, the list is updated once a day.

In addition to standard playlists, Songbird allows you to organize the "smart playlists". List of playable tracks compiled on the basis of a complex search query. You can specify any number of search criteria with a variety of conditions of entry, and then limit the duration of the playing list and make it flexible sorting.

Songbird can play Internet radio stations, visit the online stores with music, search for audio and data in blogs. This allows you to permanently assign a program title "music browser.

Songbird interface can operate in two modes. Awkward working application window is minimized in a compact strip, which provided only information about the current composition and means of navigation on the current playlist. Feathered theme music browser, developed in the metaphor of a "change of feathers" - the so-called support developers themes. All themes have names associated with birds. By default, Songbird looks like a "coal drake. The distribution included another theme, which makes the program look like a "white dove". Frankly, to catch these similarities the average brain is very difficult, but the desire of authors to give some kind of technology skins so romantic aura is to be welcomed.

From the Firefox songbird taken API plug-ins. At the time of writing the article on the official site you can download six extensions. Certainly, as in the case of the browser, most of the specialized functions will be given at the mercy of third party developers.

Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Seven
Language: Multilanguage
Released: 2010