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Open-Source Songbird Challenges iTunes
Thursday, February 9th, 2006 at 2:00 PM - by Brad Cook
As CNET's Jennifer Guevin points out in her article on the subject, viable competition to iTunes seems more remote with each year that Apple dominates the digital music arena. However, this week a group of open-source developers released Songbird, an iTunes alternative that could become the "Firefox of MP3," as project leader Rob Lord described it in another article.
Ms. Guevin pointed out that early responses to Songbird are mixed, but "it's early on, and most people haven't had much time to tinker with the new software yet. But this isn't the kind of software that is meant to knock users' socks off the first time they use it."
The key, she said, is for the open-source community to get involved and mature the software, which Lord envisions being able to eventually tap into a variety of online music stores.
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