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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Open source Songbird to begin shipping with millions of MP3 players

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While it doesn't have the name recognition of iTunes, Winamp, or Windows Media Player, Songbird is still an extremely popular piece of software. And it's about to become a whole lot more recognizable: Philips has just agreed to ship branded version of Songbird with millions of GoGear portable media players.

The news is a major win for Songbird and open source software in general. It's also the kind of distribution deal that you don't often hear about for a piece of OSS. I'm still waiting for the day when laptops start showing up on retail shelves with Firefox preinstalled...

It's also a win for Philips, since lower-price MP3 players like theirs are often saddled with substandard software. Songbird gives them a sexy, extensible, and feature-rich application to ship.

Some GoGear players will include Songbird on their internal storage, while others will include an install CD. Initially only a Windows version will be provided - Mac support out-of-the-box is coming soon. I'm not sure that matters a heck of a lot anyway - don't nearly all Mac users buy iPods?

[via TechCrunch]

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