Songbird Extensions Guide - Updated

For those of you who love to use Firefox extensions, you'll love Songbird, an iTunes-like music player, but open source, so you can add all kinds of extensions, using the exact same screen metaphors as Firefox - in fact, I think it's somehow based on FF.  I wonder if the extensions for both will interfere.  Argh, a new software addiction!  Here's my list of extensions.

As with FF, they have an aggressive upgrade path, so extensions compatible with v. 0.5 are labeled with a * (note:  v. 0.6 is on it's way, and already in a stable beta if you want to try it).

Last Update: 04.18.08

ESSENTIAL

• None yet

GOOD BUT NON-ESSENTIAL

• None yet

TRYING

• Adblock Plus - same as in FF, but not updated for v. 0.5 yet
• * Album Art Manager - allow users to grab Album Covers from the Amazon web site
• * eMusic Music Store - Browse and download music from eMusic
• * FaviconizeTab
• * Feathers (skins)
  • * WMP11 - a WMP 11 look alike, it looks like WMP it just doesn't suck like WMP
  • * Zunebird - A feather ('skin') to make Songbird fit in with the Zune theme for Windows XP
• * mashTape -  mix and mash up various web sources for your library enhancing pleasure.
• * Now Playing List - Adds a now playing list with ability to drag and drop songs into the queue
• * QuickTime Playback - Allows you to play FairPlay Audio files in Songbird
• * Stylish - allows you to switch out custom CSS, and load from a bank of user-created views - unfortunately, no styles created for songbird yet!
• * System tray support - Hides the Songbird window and places an icon in the Windows system tray / notification area instead.
• * Tag Cloud View - Experimental Tag Cloud Media Page
• * Wikipedia Extension - Displays the Wikipedia page for the current artist.
• * Windows Media Playback - Allows you to play protected Windows Media Audio files in Songbird

NOT USED MUCH

• None yet

REJECTED

• None yet

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