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Songbird is a free opensource Music player for Linux, Windows and Mac OS Platforms. Songbird provides a public playground for Web media mash-ups by providing developers with both desktop and Web APIs, developer resources and fostering Open Web media standards. The last time we wrote about Songbird here in September was when it was in beta and since then Songbird has grown from strength to strength and is a stable release (1.1.1) with x86 and x64 support.Read More →

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Sockso is a free, open-source, personal music server for everyone! It is a simple and easy to use music server with which you can share your own collection of music with frends online or with people using computers in your home network. A simple GUI on your PC allows you to setup you collections users, webserver settings etc and for the users it is a simple web interface to register or logon and create use playlists and play the music from your collection. If you are behind a firewall at home and are trying to share it over the internet then you need to openRead More →

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get_iplayer is yet another cool command line tool to download or stream any iPlayer programme from the BBC in H.264 (Quicktime/mp4) format, any BBC radio programmes in MP3 or RealAudio format (optionally converted to wav or mp3) and all BBC podcasts in MP3/AAC format. The H.264 feeds from the BBC are higher quality than in the Flash iPlayer (normal quality) or the Wii. It even downloads the BBC subtitles where available and has support for downloading ITV TV programmes.Read More →