Songbird is a web player, integrating a media player with all
the goodness of Mozilla browser technology. Songbird has an entirely
new and unique set of features and APIs that support the burdgeoning
movement to free up media on the web, eliminating those annoying
vertical media silos and allowing users to have more interactive and
rich media experiences with the web. It's mantra is any media on the
web, to any device; and to this aim, Songbird supports an open device
API to support devices such as MTP, and iPod devices.
This session will explore Songbird, its APIs, and existing cool media
web mashups that break out beyond the traditional media player fold.
We'll show how simple it is to integrate any web service (such as music
blogs, music stores, etc.) into Songbird.
By building on top of one of the best and most extensible open source
web browsers out there, Songbird has made it easy for web developers to
easily integrate their sites into an end user's desktop media player
experience. By leveraging extensions composed of simple plain old HTML
and Javascript, developers can create awesome media web mashups that
extend the user's media player beyond just the desktop. Websites can
take advantage of Songbird's remote Webpage API to allow for seamless
integration all the way from the website to the desktop media player to
the portable music device.