Posted on: November 25, 2005 in Music
iTunes + Flock = Songbird
Songbird is an iTunes-ish music player built on top of the mozilla framework (much like that new browser everyone is talking about).
I really want to like this product. I think having an ‘internet aware’ music player could be a great thing. Sure iTunes can play streams and receive podcasts, but I like the idea of browsing a music blog, and pressing a button to listen to all the audio tracks contained on the page. Maybe even saving all the tracks in a playlist for later. I would love to see this integrated with music services like webjay, last.fm and odeo, (much like Flock integrated with Flickr and del.icio.us) and technically, it would probably be pretty easy.
If nothing else, I think this shows how the combination of open frameworks and open api’s can drastically lower the barrier of entry for new products. Have a good idea? Just take a little of this framework, a dab of web services, stir, and instant business 2.0!
November 28th, 2005 at 11:28 am
> browsing a music blog, and pressing a button to listen to all the audio tracks contained on the page.
have you checked out del.icio.us’ new “playtagger” feature? i know it’s not exactly what you’re talking about here, but it’s pretty cool nonetheless.
November 28th, 2005 at 11:36 am
I love this feature. It makes it pretty darn easy to play audio on a site.