I have been at FOSSCamp for the last two days learning about all kinds of great FOSS. One outstanding piece of software that Jorge showed me was Songbird. After five minutes of playing with it I could not contain my excitement. Jorge told me to pause my excitement and pulled me into a room to meet Stephen Lau, a Songbird developer. Apparently I made an impression once my enthusiasm was unpaused and Stephen blogged about the incident that you are able to read below or the full post here.
At the end of that session Jorge brought a few folks over who had just installed Songbird for the first time who had some really great praise and comments for us. It’s super gratifying to have someone come up who has just installed Songbird for the first time and gets it… especially having worked so hard on it for the past year. We got lots of warm praise and supportive words for getting Songbird into Ubuntu’s repositories.
Songbird first impressed me with Itunes library import. It pulled over all my music, playlists, music rating, and more. Then it offered to keep my misic in sync with what ever I put into my Itunes library. Next it knocked my socks off with features like concerts, last.fm album art, song lyrics, & SHOUTcast support. The application just works and offers me more then Itunes ever has. I don’t think I have a reason to launch Itunes ever again so it can just hit the road.