We've discovered countless great new bands and artists by happening upon an mp3 on a website, MySpace page or blog. But finding our way back to the music, pawing through blog posts and bookmarks, makes the process clunkier than we'd like.
Enter Songbird, a desktop/web mashup application that lets you play and organize media from the web in the easiest way we've seen. Go to a website, and Songbird's software will fetch all the media files contained in the page and display them for you as a playlist. Or drag any media from any web page into your library and have it at your fingertips for repeated listening (and viewing -- it handles video just as smoothly).
Songbird also does the basics you'd expect from any media library application (letting you manipulate and play all the media on your computer), is available across all platforms (just like Firefox, on which it's based), and handles every conceivable kind of file (mp3, AAC, WAV, you name it), so it could very well become your go-to dashboard for web media. Plus, we love the adorable design, with its little birdies.
written on Tuesday Jun 26, 2007
media,
interchange,
player.
