It’s not a recent discovery. Songbird’s proof-of-concept build has been around for a while. Maybe you use it. Maybe you even use it to listen to stuff on TJE. Maybe you don’t know what it is, and would like some info on what I’m talking about. If you’d like to know more, read on, reader, read on.

The Jason Effect (yes, we’re an organization now, even though it’s only me ;)… it makes this little blurb sound cooler and more respectable) has always supported Firefox, and everything surrounding it. Much like Google, the wonderful people at Mozilla seek to release the hands of the handcuffed browser industry. Who’s latching those hands? Why, Internet Explorer of course. Look at that logo. It even looks like a single handcuff link. It’s got the web in chains.

So now that you’ve decided to get rid of Internet Explorer and get a new browser, you’ll want to get Firefox. But now you can get Firefox in a whole new way. Well, you could have done it before also. But you didn’t want to. Or you didn’t know what it was. But now that you do, you’re intrigued by a web browser/media player. You want something that doesn’t need a new browser window to play each song link on a web page. In fact, you want, when a web page with music loads, to have those files appear in a playlist right below the screen specifically so you can listen to them all at once without clicking a single thing.

Oh, and did I mention it’s made by some of the same people who made Winamp? You’ve probably heard of that one.

Now that you have a small idea of what it is, you know what you want. You want Songbird.

What’s that you say, Jimmy? No you don’t? I can understand your feelings. It’s just a preview build; a mere sample of what’s to come. But it’s worth a look at. It shouldn’t replace your media player just yet. Download it, install it, and go to a web page with it’s nifty built in browser, say, the Maple Story OST on this site. You might like what you see.

Get Songbird. Rock on.