{"id":371,"date":"2005-12-22T13:49:48","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T21:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2005-12-23T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T23:36:39","slug":"itunes-faces-open-source-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/22\/itunes-faces-open-source-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Faces Open Source Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iTunes has been dominating the mp3 market in terms of legal music download service. On top of that, I personally also believe that its by far the best music organizing application than most of the software out there. But a new open source challenger just showed up  in the scene &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.songbirdnest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SongBird Media Player<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It sports an interface that looks just like iTunes (what isn&#8217;t?). But it also includes a few features that&#8217;s lacking in iTunes, for good reasons. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/songbird_screenshot.png\" width=\"394\" height=\"274\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"SongBird screen shot\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iTunes has been dominating the mp3 market in terms of legal music download service. On top of that, I personally also believe that its by far the best music organizing application than most of the software out there. But a new open source challenger just showed up in the scene &#8212; SongBird Media Player. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/22\/itunes-faces-open-source-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iTunes Faces Open Source Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-mac-osx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-5Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}