What is Song Bird?
Songbird is an opensource music player build on Mozilla technology, VLC Player & SQLite. Purely based on Mozilla’s Gecko engine, the same engine that powers Firefox. Like Firefox, Songbird allows for tabbed browsing, themes and addtions of add-ons to customize the extendibility of your media player. So far packed with more then 90 Add Ons you can customize SongBird as you want.

“Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players” according to Aaron Boodman, Greasemonkey.

SongBird is currently in its early stages but have a very active development teams, this week they released there 1.0 release, powered with an addition in features, performance according to their blog post

• Drastically Faster Search: Searching in Songbird is now anywhere from 10x faster for small libraries to 1000x for large ones.
• Reduced RAM Usage: There’s a 70% reduction in RAM usage when importing and using large (100,000 track) libraries.
• Faster Media Importing: Importing media into Songbird is now 2-4x faster.
• Reduced Startup Times: Large library users (10,000 tracks or more) will notice that Songbird startup times are now twice as fast.
• Efficient Scrolling: Scrolling through your library now uses half the amount of CPU.
• Snappier Sorting: Sorting your library is now 3-4x faster, which adds up to significantly smoother browsing when scrolling and filtering.
• Optimized DB Size: We’ve optimized the database in Songbird and reduced its size by, on average, 60%. This leads to a variety of performance improvements throughout the application.
• Fewer Crashers: We’ve worked hard to identify and fix 11 of the most common crashes in Songbird.

Features of SongBird:

• Mashtapes > Discover Flickr photos, YouTube videos, last.fm biographies, Google news (and more) for the currently playing artist.
• Last.fm scrobbling > Integrated Last.fm support allows you to scrobble, love, and ban your tracks
• Concert Tickets >Discover upcoming shows in your area based on the artists in your library. Event listings powered by Songkick.
• Shoutcast Radio >?Stream music using the integrated SHOUTcast Radio directory.
• Add On’s >Enhance Songbird with community contributed add-ons like MediaFlow or build one of your own.
• Media Importing, add media to songbird by importing from your files , system or iTunes
• Play MP3, FLAC, Vorbis on all platforms, WMP or WMA DRM on windows and AAC and Fairplay on windows or mac
• Create dynamic playlista that automatically update based on criteria you set
• Browse the web with Songbird as it comes with an integrated web browser
• Works on Windows, Linux & Mac
• Multi Language support with over 25 completed languages and growing
• Browse organize and sort and search your media
  

Download Songbird and try it out, also let us know what you think.

Releavent Links:

• SongBird
• Add Ons Songbird
• Why Apple Should be worried about Songbird
• Download.com Songbird
• Wikipedia Songbird

According to the creator

Accessing Wikipedia has never been faster and easier than with the Wikipedia application, designed for easy search, navigation and display of Wikipedia entries. Featuring easy to read custom formatting of pages, quick section browsing, searching, search auto completion and more. Entries load much faster than with the Wikipedia web page, and you can start your search immediately.

Features

• Large, easy to read text
• Fast, loads minimal extra data
• Section browser to quickly jump to any section quickly
• Auto completion searches Wikipedia, so results show up even if it’s not in the article title
• Auto search if page doesn’t exist
• Loads images at a good resolution for the iPhone
• Safari-like page navigation

The application is a freeware and can be downloaded from the official Apple iTunes store.

For further information visit [Wikipanion main page]