Songbird

[MagpieRacer]

Just found this neat music player, really awesome, open source with loads of add ons. I got a great add on for it that displays lyrics for the current song in the window, instantly, really cool.

http://getsongbird.com/

 

[nick09]

I had it for a few months already. I don't like the new itunes look either, I liked the old black theme.

 

[Viper_Maniac]

Is it a good alternative to Itunes in terms of syncing with an Ipod? I hate Itunes with a passion.

 

[MagpieRacer]

I would say so yeah. Definately better than itunes.

http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/12

And that is the add on to allow support for synchronizing with ipods.

 

[Viper_Maniac]

Awesome. Anyone use it to know if it works well enough to switch?

 

[nick09]

It does not support a iphone or itouch and does not display album art but I don't need that as I got a 80GB classic 6th gen.

 

[Viper_Maniac]

I have an old 4th Gen Clickwheel mono screen. Hopefully things will work smoothly for me.

 

[nick09]

I have an old 4th Gen Clickwheel mono screen. Hopefully things will work smoothly for me.

It should work, or try rockbox: Clicky

 

[MagpieRacer]

It does not support a iphone or itouch and does not display album art but I don't need that as I got a 80GB classic 6th gen.

Theres an add on for the album art.

 

[nick09]

Theres an add on for the album art.

But does the album art display on the ipod?

 

[MagpieRacer]

Not sure. I dont have an ipod so cant test this.

 

[livemusic]

Version 1.0.0 was released this week. I've been testing it since 0.7 and I think it's evolving nicely. I'm almost replacing Winamp for it.

And besides Windows it's available on Linux and Mac OS too.

 

[nick09]

Someone even made a deb file for it too(Ubuntu OS support). I can update right from the program, so no worries from here.