Songbird is a media player built on Mozilla technology that some people have described as the Firefox of media players.  The reason for this is because of the growing number of plugins and feathers (skins) that can be applied to the player.   It is a full featured, customizable music experience!

It also includes a range of plugins for popular music ratings sites and blogs that add to your music listening pleasure.  Songbird is not yet available in Ubuntu repositories yet but you can use this script to install it.

Download the script here.  Type the following commands in terminal;

cd ~/Desktop
chmod +x installsongbird.sh
./installsongbird.sh

And we are done!  That’s it. Nice and simple!  To launch Songbird go to Applications – Sound & Video - Songbird.

The first time you launch Songbird, Agree to the License.

Then select the music device support (if any) you would like and click ok.

Removing Songbird
If you wish to remove Songbird, download this script to your desktop and paste these commands in the terminal:
cd ~/Desktop
chmod +x removesongbird.sh
./removesongbird.sh

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