Earlier, we saw the release of SongBird v.1.0 and a lot of people were extremely impressed with the RC1 release and so when the final release came out, I made use to download it as soon as possible and I've been using it ever since. In a nutshell, this application has got to be the best music player I have ever used in my entire life. I used to be a pretty die-hard Winamp (windows) and Xmms (linux) user but with the maturing of SongBird, it has officially taking the number one spot on my list of music players. It has a full load of features, from basic music library organization to streaming audio. Thanks to it's ability to accept plug-ins just as easily as Firefox does, it can be expanded to do just about anything else you want as well. Most notably, it has plug-ins to add album artwork from Last.FM and there are even plug-ins to give you twitter feed access and a web browser right inside your music player. Now, this isn't to say it's without faults. It's not the fastest loading or lightest playback application around and it also doesn't yet have support for ripping or burning CDs, however, they are expected to be implemented in future releases and I'm sure there will be a number of 3rd party developers making plug-ins to add these features in this release. So, if you're interested in giving it a shot for yourself, it's available cross-platform from GetSongBird.com, make your own opinion on it and let me know what you think of it by leaving a comment at the end of this post.
I will also make a note that it's currently not available on the Ubuntu/Debian app sources and the getsongbird.com site only offers it in a tar.gz format for the linux platform so it can be used on multiple distros. If you want the .deb package for it, point your browser over to this post on Ubuntu Forums where you'll find a link to the deb package made by a third party, I used it, worked fine.
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