Songbird for Netbooks
Songbird is a free a software audio player and web browser founded by Rob Lord and developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable (with members who previously developed for both Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine), with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."
Songbird utilizes the cross-platform frameworks, Mozilla's XULRunner and GStreamer media framework, and largely capable of running onMicrosoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Solaris,Linux and Netbooks.
In January 2010, Philips announced they will ship a personalized version of Songbird with some of their line of portable audio video players.
Features
- Multi-platform compatibility with Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS X v10.5 (x86, x86-64) and netbooks
- Ability to play multiple audio formats, such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Apple Lossless and WMA
- Ability to play Windows Media DRM audio on Windows platforms
- A skinnable interface, via feathers
- Media files stored on pages viewed in the browser show up as playable files in Songbird
- MP3 file download
- Ability to subscribe to MP3 blogs as playlists
- User-created bookmarks
- Ability to build custom mixes
- Ability to scan the user's computer for all audio files and add them to a local library
- A configurable and collapsible graphical user interface similar to iTunes, and mini-player mode
- Keyboard shortcuts and media keyboard support
- Automatic updates
Other Free Netbook Software
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Requirements:
- Intel Pentium 233 Mhz (or equivalent processor, such as AMD) or better
- Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
- Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
- 64 MB of RAM
- Adobe Flash Player
