@ paul, I’d like to welcome you to our community of “it-getters.” We are committed to choice in the marketplace and Songbird is our opportunity to not only change the way we interact with music, but provide new ways for artists and consumers to interact with each other. Thanks for you continued support.

With version 0.5 I am amazed. I haven’t tried hooking up my iPod, but thats not anything that I’m too concerned with right now. What really is amazing about Songbird is how I see it as a new revolution in how we audiophiles cruise on the web. I see Songbird as the ultimate audio web browser. You can read and read and listen to what other people are listening to and read what they have to say and then reply. Its a great new window to communication and the art of unsigned and even some (don’t tell the RIAA) signed music groups. I love it and I’m telling everyone to check it out. Songbird is the next step for those who love audio, a beautiful interface, the speed of Mozillla Firefox, and intellectual interaction. What Songbird, even as a half-release version 0.5, has going for it is brilliance. Please don’t lose the direction of what I see as the goal of the program – to bring listeners together and to bring new exciting music to those with real ears for talent and keep the big industry from screwing things up and throwing the music biz into Wal-Mart economics. Brilliant.

gadzooks. that’s a diagram of a modified De Lorean DMC-12, the sports car made in Belfast – same city as apt-X, the lossless audio compression algorithm. both ahead of their time.