Songbird is a free, iTunes-like offering with most of the features you would expect. It is open-source and available for Win/Mac/Linux. iPhone integration isn’t there yet, but other features make this a unique and wonderful music discovery tool.
Built on the Mozilla Firefox framework, Songbird offers myriad add-ons to enhance your listening experience. In addition to things like MASHtape (which displays information about the artist currently playing) and integrated concert listings, the Songbird web browser is just plain built for finding digital music. When you open a webpage, the browser collects direct links to any digital music files and lists them in a separate window frame for convenient download. Even better, you can set up feeds for individual blogs and Songbird will automagically download new tracks to your library as they are posted.
Couple this with Simplify Media, and you can be listening to new tracks almost instantly from anywhere.
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