I ran across songbird, and it appears to offer a lot of funcuality. Even though the program is still a little early in development, it looks good. I like the fact that it is open-source, this should prove to be a major benefit in the near future.

There are some decent extensions already available for download.

A brief description lifted from their site.......

Play music.
Play the Web.™
Songbird™ is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source.


Here is a link.....http://www.songbirdnest.com/features


Mark

Have you tried it? I was under the impression that Songbird relies on QT extensions to play media and that flac support was nonexistant and ogg support is limited. This may have changed, but that was the state of things last year.

Have you tried it? I was under the impression that Songbird relies on QT extensions to play media and that flac support was nonexistant and ogg support is limited. This may have changed, but that was the state of things last year.I just tried it. It looks sweet. Played some Ogg files I hadn't gotten around to transcoding yet. The release notes allude to some VLC underpinnings. It played Fairplay music from the iTS just fine--it picked up my iTunes library in its entirety. It wouldn't play a TV video from the iTS though. It pretended to, but I don't see any video player yet, and no audio.

It pulls content from a lot of sources other than the iTS, and while I didn't plug in an iPod yet (mine's fritzed), it mentions full iPod support. Basically it looks like someone is going up against iTunes, missing some of iTunes niceties (meta data editing, i.e) but adding a lot of features. Here's hoping that some good competition puts some pressure on Apple to speed up the plodding turtle.

Will poke around some more later. It's only at v.2.5, so its got a long way to go to release. It mentions it isn't feature complete, yet. It's built on some Mozilla open source also, so it has an extensible plugin .xpi architecture, and an integrated web browser, so the devs can go crazy.