Songbird is a Music Player and a Web Browser combined. It is amazingly stable and easy to use software with plenty of plugins and themes. Songbird employs Mozilla's XULRunner platform, and is thus capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Solaris and GNU/Linux. Here is a quick review and some stunning screenshots of Songbird music player.

Update: Sonbird 1.2 has been released!

Feature List

• 7digital Music Store

• mashTape

• Last.fm scrobbling

• Last.fm Radio

• Plenty of Addons

Songbird utilizes the GStreamer media framework. Songbird is able to get video feeds from youtube, picture feeds from Flicker and can load lyrics as well. And it is infinitely customizable.

Themed Songbird. See Ozzy in the Pictures :-)

Yeah, you guessed it right. That is indeed feeds from Youtube!

Download Songbird 1.2 deb package for Ubuntu

• Download Songbird 1.2 for Ubuntu Jaunty -32 bit

• Download Songbird 1.2 for Ubuntu Jaunty - 64 bit

• Download Songbird 1.2 for Ubuntu Hardy - 32 bit

• Download Songbird 1.2 for Ubuntu hardy - 64 bit

If you are using Ubuntu Intrepid, please visit getdeb download page.

Installation

• Goto Accessories > Terminal and do

sudo dpkg -i path/to/songbird_1.2.0-1~getdeb1_i386.deb

• OR simply double-click on the downloaded deb package to install Songbird.

• That is it, Songbird 1.2 is ready to go. Launch Songbird from Application > Sound and Video > Songbird. Also, take a look at the addons available with Songbird.

Note: If you have an NVIDIA graphics card you may need to remove the libvisual-0.4-plugins package.(sudo apt-get remove libvisual-0.4-plugins)

Isn't it amazing the sheer scale of Free and Open Source softwares available. You have good alternatives like XBMC or Boxee and everything depends on your choice. For installing Songbird for any other distro other than Ubuntu, goto http://www.getsongbird.com/ and download the software. It is Free as in Freedom and as in Free Beer. :-)