Last week saw the launch of a new piece of open source software that could be set to give iTunes a run for it’s money. Music player/manager ‘Songbird‘ promises to be highly customisable (it’s from the folks who brought you Winamp), includes a Mozilla tabbed web browser, supports more formats and won’t be badgering you to buy loads of DRM protected mp3s – while keeping all the user friendly elements of the Apple program. It looks pretty identical too:
It’s still early days but Songbird already has some pretty useful plugins available for Last.fm, remote control support and album art finders. Whether it will best it’s well-established rival remains to be seen; but such a non-commercial alternative can only be good news for mp3 hoarders of the world.
