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 Mobile - Web - Media  Tuesday, Oct 03, 2006 11:23:52 AM
Songbird MediaPlayer Raised $1 Million Back in February of this year, I posted a question about "Songbird," asking if it was the "ideal media player."Now, just seven months later, the team behind songbird has built enough traction and progress to attract venture capitalists. The San Francisco-based start-up has raised $1 million in funding, from Atlas Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Songbird is more of a music browser, where you can browse web sites and find music to play, stream online radio, or listen to your own music collection. As you browse sites with music files, Songbird pulls out the links to these files and organizes them in a frame within the application. If you have Songbird installed, browse over to ArtistServer.com - then click on "Site Skins" from the menu (top right corner). Then click on "Dark Tech." This will change the site skin to match the Songbird interface. If you are someone who spends a fair amount of time browsing music sites and blogs, Songbird does have some features you should try out. For example - you can subscribe to a URL, which will download all the media from the given URL, and check for new media based on the schedule you give it. In a way, this feature is like podcasting, except we aren't using RSS feeds as the means of passing media URLs. Songbird works more like a 'scraper' which lifts relevant URLs based on file extensions (I assume). The end result is a simple music subscription, which is great for music fans. Unfortunately, this just pulls down files, I'd like for the application to be able to sniff for an RSS feed on the page, and if found, use that. This way an artist or site owner could include meta-data about the media. Certainly, there's a lot more to Songbird than subscribing to music on Web pages, so take a look. I suggest subscribing to their blog's RSS feed too - the illustrations of their mascot are great! 
http://songbirdnest.com/ Want more info? check out their Screencast: http://www.songbirdnest.com/screencast/ News found here: paidcontent.org More Info Here: venturebeat.com 
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