Songbird 新一代Web2.0音乐播放器

Songbird is a cool music player, which is based on the open source web-browser Firefox. (Genius Idea!)
I knew it when it was just an idea. But at that time it was more like an music player to compete with iTunes with its alike interface.
After several preview versions as 0.1, it seemed have nothing new to the iTunes.
Today, my cognition is completely changed, as the Songbird 0.2 released.

Songbird是一款相当酷的基于Mozilla Firefox浏览器核心的音乐播放器（这个想法太coooool了）。
尽管在它一个测试预览版都未发布的时候在下就知道了，并订阅了其blog的RSS，但是最初的Songbird的热点似乎都在与iTunes的模仿上，而音乐功能未见新筹。测试了几个0.1版本的预览版，感觉都没有什么新颖之处。
然而，现在0.2版本释出了，让人瞠目结舌。
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As the Songbird 0.2 shows, it’s not a general music player,
it turned to focus on the web 2.0 play.
Why iTunes is so popular is mostly for its online services, and as we’ve known, iTunes 7.0 pays more attentions on the stream-media support, especially the PODCAST.
From the picture above, we can figured out that Songbird is more powerful than that.
‘Cause it has the famous browser core ( Songbird 0.2 is Firefox 2.0 beta2 based),
it can use like a browser, to surf between Music stations, like Music stores, Music collection sites, Music Blogs, Podcast Blogs.
When browsing those pages, Songbird would scan the music media on page, and make a Web Playlist automatically, which can be played, downloaded, added to fixed playlist and local library.

正如上图所示，Songbird 0.2的改进是相当震撼的，从一个仿照iTunes的流行播放器，一下子转变为了一个Web2.0的划时代播放器。
正如大家知道的iTunes的火热正是由于其许多相关的在线服务，而新推出的iTunes 7.0更是加强了流行的Podcast服务，和一些著名的新闻、广播和音乐网站联合推广iTunes的Podcast订阅服务。
然而，这一切相比Songbird 0.2所带来的体验实在是不值得一提，Songbird 0.2利用其Firefox著名浏览器的核心（0.2版本经测试是使用的Firefox 2.0 beta2的核心）使其变成了一个强劲的“网络冲浪播放器”，它会自动搜索所在页面的所有音乐文件，然后自动在下方和左侧栏生成网页音乐播放列表（自动解析音乐信息）。你可以将列表中的音乐播放、加入本地列表、加入本地音乐库，当然还可以直接下载。
如此一来，Songbird确实成了Web2.0时代浏览各种音乐集合站、论坛、博客、播客的利器。当然在下更愿意用享受这个词。

Besides, Songbird 0.2 integrated many famous music search engines, like Google Music. And several music blogs, stores, podcast, and radio bookmarks.

此外，Songbird 0.2还集成了许多优秀的音乐服务站点，包括音乐博客、音乐商店、播客和广播；更重要的是还集成了许多音乐搜索引擎，比如这个Google的：

Furthermore, as you setting up Songbird, you can pick the Audioscrobbler extension as a music social network. (Sounds more 2eb 2.0)

当你安装Songbird 2.0的时候还有两个扩展可以选择安装，一个是Wikipedia的搜索引擎，一个就是这个Audioscrobbler社会性音乐网络。（和del.icio.us类似？还没有测试，不过感觉更加web 2.0了吧）