Songbird Music Player was among the most beloved Open Source project and it still is for many, except for Linux users. Songbird is still open source, but developers behind Songbird have decided to discontinue support for Linux and the concentrate on Mac and Windows versions of Songbird.

Recently, a number of blogs have covered the bad news about Songbird development team halting Linux support for the Songbird music player. The good news is: The project has already been forked.

Songbrid has gained video playback capabilities in the beta for forthcoming 1.5.0 release "Led Zepplin".

Songbird 1.4.1 is out and about and has brought several great changes. Open source shines today.

Slowly but steadily, Mozilla grew into more areas of interest than someone could have previously imagined. Firefox, Thunderbird, Instabird for instant messaging and... Songbird. The latter is a promising audio application some of you might have gotten yourselves accustomed to. The 1.0.0 release launched in the first days of December delivers an impressive arsenal ranging from themes to add-ons.

I had reviewed Songbird close to two years back , and at that time Songbird was impressive but was bug ridden, lacked important features and certain degree of polishing which was expected from an application intended to be used on Desktops.

Linux has a large selection of music players and library organizers available. Here’s a list of five of the best.

"In case you haven’t heard Songbird is a great open source media organizer and content scraper. With a couple of small tweaks you can set it up to anonymously download (backups of your existing) media or stream media from millions of sources online..."