Mozilla Songbird has been upgraded to 0.5 and added few new features like MTP Device support, Media Views, Improved Filter picker etc.
Mozilla Songbird is completely plugin based media playerhas been started it’s grab in the music player market which is occupied by Winamp, iTunes , Realplayer etc. The newly introduced features are awesome and this cool UI features are good enough to change the other media players thoughts on UI stuffs.
MTP Device support
Windows users have a shiny new MTP Add-on that introduces MTP Device Support! Most portable media players and cell phones integrate the MTP spec so try plugging in your device and share your findings on the MTP Device Compatibility Wiki Page.
Media Views
Media Views provide new ways of displaying, manipulating, exploring, and contextualizing your media library.
This Media Views allows you to develop your own way to visualizingthe media library. You can create the plugins for media view and plug it in the Songbird and visualize your media. One simple example is creating Tag clouds for your media similar to tag clouds in blog.
Complete list of features
- Media Views
- Improved Filter Picker
- MTP Device support
- New List background
- Improved Rating UI
- Always on Top
- Hotkeys on Mac
Also the developer resources have been featured with this release.