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Songbird's Update Gives Users Something To Sing About

Songbird, Mozilla's cross-platform media player, got a nice update this week. Aside from a few great performance enhancements like reduced CPU usage during playback, a smaller Mac download size, and configurable library caching, this point release has some dandy new features as well.

Songbird now grabs album artwork to match up with your music. It pulls data from Last.fm by default, but an add-on allows you to use other sources instead.

The library now supports unicode collation, a standard method for inputing names or words in sequential order. The upshot is that Songbird now sorts song titles beginning with words like "The" and "A" much more efficiently.

If you've got music that's chained by Windows Media DRM, Songbird can now sync it with your MTP device. This release also fixes several bugs that affected MTP devices on Windows.

Connect to the 7digital MP3 Store right from Songbird. A portion of every purchase from 7digital goes right back to Mozilla for further Songbird development.

Future plans for the app include additional audio features, WebAPI improvements, customizable toolbars, and conquering the world. Read Kristin's review of Songbird 1.0 to find out why it's such a great media player, check out the blog to see all the new features, or download it and give it a spin.
 

• Windows
• mozilla
• songbird
• last.fm
• music player
• mp3s
• mtp

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