A Darker iTunes.

Have you ever wish iTunes was black? I havn't. But if you have, or just plain-ol' don't like iTunes, then here is another free music library/player with A LOT of potential. It's called Songbird and it looks like a cross-platform (thats Linux too) iTunes clone. At the moment it is still in beta (version 0.1 to be exact) and is available for download for the Windows platform as a Proof-of-Conecept version. What separates it from iTunes, besies its colour and few interface tweaks, is that it has been built on the Firefox engine, is open source, and is extensible. This means that, like Firefox, anyone can create Songbird extensions that can add a great deal more functionality. Hopefully someone will be able to make an extension that gives Songbird the ability to sync with iPods. This way it could actually be an iTunes killer. One final and emphasized feature is Songbird's ability to play any song from any website. You can use Songbird as a browser and when you load a page with playable songs on it, Songbird will display a little window at the bottom displaying all the songs you can play. You can then play them in Songbird like you would any other file; this is a NICE feature. I don't have Windows and can therefore not test it out, but if anyone would like to, please let me know how you find it, either by commenting on this post, or be emailing me at leseeley [at] gmail.com.