Last month, we curled up with a pair of headphones and a 1.0 release candidate of Songbird, an open-source media player based on Mozilla technology. As a cross-platform music player built with Mozilla’s trademark extensibility in mind, Songbird soared with its integration of services like concert ticket notifiers, lyric downloading, and artist bios. Today the official Songbird 1.0 is shipping, and it even supports DRM-protected iTunes Store files, so we took another look at the feature roadmap and how the final version shaped up.

First look: can Songbird 1.0 replace iTunes, WMP?.

So I have been using itunes for a little while now and I feel like i got a pretty good handle on managing my music through itunes. I know that a lot of people do not feel the same way at all around here. I was wondering why you think itunes sucks? And what your using instead? I know that there are a lot of alternatives out there songbird, play, foobar, winamp.

I just prefer iTunes because in my opinion it has the best podcast support, the best store hands down, and its the easiest way to organize your music, download album art, and create playlists. I also share it between multiple profiles, my girlfriend and I share a common library so we can share playcounts, purchases, and we just like to share in general. I understand my needs are special, and thats why I choose the right tool for the job.

Let me know what you guys use and what you think of itunes in general. Its the big guy on the block now so id like to hear your thoughts.

thesixtyone is an experimental game that transforms listening to new music into a fun, massively multiplayer adventure.

Despite the incredible wave of creativity that’s happening in music, most people have a difficult time overcoming their underlying “musical inertia” — why bother with the typical tediousness of music discovery when you can fall back into the comfortable familiarity of your iTunes collection?

thesixtyone – massively multiplayer music discovery.

Have a listen to some of their songs on their myspace page. Personally, I’m fond of Mating Ritual 1 and Welcome to the Circle but truth be told, they’re all amazing awesome and filled with awesomeness that I have yet to witness on this planet.