Songbird Top 40 Project Wants to Integrate Your Favorite Firefox Add-ons
Our favorite almost-there media player, Songbird, has reached another milestone with version 0.4 and a new push to port your favorite Firefox extensions over to Songbird. This week begins what the Songbird team is calling the Songbird Top 40, a six-week campaign to port the 40 most-requested Firefox extensions into Songbird.
For those who haven’t yet stuck a toe in the Songbird waters, the application is one part iTunes and one part Firefox — imagine iTunes with a built-in web browser and MP3 blog scraping tools. Because Songbird uses the same underlying engine as Firefox, with a little tweaking your favorite Firefox extensions will function inside the media player.
There are of course Songbird-specific add-ons, like tools for importing your iTunes Library or managing music on your iPod, but the potential to integrate existing Firefox add-ons has, until now, remained largely theoretical.
However the Top 40 promotional effort has already generated some ports and many more are listed as in development. Some of the Firefox add-ons slated to make their way toward Songbird include AdBlock Plus, AllPeers, Del.icio.us bookmarks, FoxTorrent, and Video DownloadHelper. Those four alone would give Songbird the ability to block ads, integrate your del.icio.us bookmarks, as well as download torrents and videos — not a bad start.
If you’d like to help out with the project, head over the developer page and sign up. You don’t need to be the owner or developer of a Firefox add-on to participate (ah, the magic of open source), though of course some experience developing Firefox add-ons is always a plus.
And don’t forget to grab the Songbird 0.4 update if you haven’t already.
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