Songbird

December 11th, 2007

For all you music lovers out there I’d like to introduce you to a new beta software that may make finding new music easier. The software is “Songbird” and you can get it over at http://www.songbirdnest.com.

Songbird is a mash-up of sorts, it is built on the mozilla/firefox browser, a built-in RSS Feed reader, and a media player. Here is an example of how it works:

So you have found a website or blog that reviews new music and has links to mp3’s to listen to and you want to be able to grab these songs automatically without having to click on each link individually. On a mac you could do this with an automator workflow but with Songbird you can download only the ones you want or all an listen to them right there. If it’s a blog you can subscribe to the feed in Songbird and download the songs automatically as the feed gets updated.

I’ve just spent a little time with this application and I’m sure it does more than I know about and the fact that it is still in beta means it will only get better with time. I’ve been working on a automator workflow that will take the downloaded songs and import them into itunes automatically, tag them with “new music” (or something), add them to a playlist and have it sync to my ipod. But I’m still working on that part. I can’t seem to get the songs into itunes automatically. I have run the workflow on selected files currently.

Anyway, check out Songbird and let me know what you think.

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