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Songbird is for Developers

Welcome home Songbird developers. So good to see you. We have prepared developer resources for you: API specifications, how-to guides, sample code, forums and more.

Download Songbird 0.5

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Release Notes

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Report A Bug For Songbird

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Web Developers

Web developers building online music stores & media Web services should refer to our Webpage API guide.

The Webpage API

Visual Designers

Firefox themers, Winamp skinners, visual designers, and artists, please refer to our Feathering guide.

Create Feathers

Extension Gurus

Firefox extension and Winamp plug-in developers, you know what to do, see our Add-ons guide.

Develop Add-ons

Build on the Songbird Platform

Install the Songbird Developer Tools add-on.

Develop Media Web Applications

Songbird's Webpage API enables mashups of your webpages with a desktop media player. Think of the iTunes Store in iTunes. Simply add Javascript snippets to your webpages and leverage Songbird's Webpage API to create an integrated media user experience.

Create Feathers

Feathers paint Songbird's visual appearance. Feathers are simply CSS and a set of images, just like a webpage. Use the Feathers Wizard included in the Songbird Developer Tools add-on to streamline creating and publishing your sweet new feathers.

Develop Add-ons

Add-ons are user installable extensions to Songbird. Want to extend the Songbird experience? Create a cool mashup? Create an add-on then share it with others. Like Firefox, Songbird supports add-ons built with XUL & Javascript.

Contribute to the Songbird Project

You Make Songbird Better

'Bird love isn't limited to technical heads. Translators, designers, bloggers, artists, musicians and more are just as important to Songbird as the technical heads.

DIY FTW

Building Songbird

Songbird, like Firefox, is built on the open source, open standards, open Web championing Mozilla stack. Notice we wrote ‘stack’ rather than ‘platform.’ Ready to get your hands dirty? Endeavor herein.