The Swarm

December 03, 2008

iTunes competitor, open source Songbird released...

TDS Editors

Open Source. Are there two nicer words in all of cyber-speak? We doubt it. Yesterday, Songbird, an open source music player that searches the world’s blogs rather than just one store, officially launched its 1.0 version and promises to give iTunes a run for its buckets of money.

“Today, we’re launching with dozens of integrated services, hundreds of add-ons, and a growing developer community,” exclaimed Songbird’s site at http://getsongbird.com/ where anyone can download a beta version of the player.

According to an article by Wired’s Eliot Van Buskirk , once you locate a song you can, “stream music from those sources directly within the program (try that with iTunes’ browser), purchase whatever music you encounter there that strikes your fancy from multiple sources: Amazon, Amie St., eMusic or iTunes. Or, if a blog or other site offers songs as free downloads, those are gathered neatly at the bottom of the screen as well.”

Hallelujah!

Steve Jobs had no comment for this blog.



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