Basic Info | Songbird | Nightingale |
Current theme | Pink Martini (grey/pink) with custom borders | Blue Monday (blue) with native borders |
Last public version | 2.2 | 1.12.1 |
Last partners version | 1.11.1 | N/A |
Version in dev | No | 2.0 and 1.12.2 |
Users space | GetSatisfaction | Nightingale Forums |
Goodies | No more | Stickers |
Windows | Yes (XP, Vista, Seven) 32-bits |
Mac OS X | Yes 32-bits |
GNU/Linux | No | Yes 32 and 64-bits |
Android App | Yes (closed-source) No more available | No |
iOS App | Yes (closed-source) No more available | No |
Facebook App | Yes (closed-source) No more available | No |
Web App | Yes (closed-source) No more available | No |
Partners | No more | No |
Motto | «Play the Web», «Connecting fans everywhere», «Effortless Music Discovery» | «The tune of life, the tune of yours» |
Owners | POTI, SF | Nightingale Community |
Development | Songbird | Nightingale |
Mozilla Framework version for public version | XULRunner 1.9.2.3 | XULRunner 1.9.2.12 and 1.9.2.3 on Windows |
Mozilla Framework version for version in dev | | XULRunner 1.9.2.12 and 9.0.1 |
GStreamer libraries | Bundled for each OS | Bundled for Windows & Mac, using system for Linux |
Add-ons platform | Developed in Ruby, closed source | In development in PHP |
Unique ID | songbird@songbirdnest.com | nightingale@getnightingale.com |
Namespace | «songbird» |
Localization tool | Translate (self-hosted and written in Ruby) and currently down | Babelzilla and GitHub |
Version Control System | SVN (self-hosted) and currently down | Git (at GitHub) |
Bug tracker | Bugzilla (self hosted) and currently down | GitHub and Wiki |
Code Search | OpenGrok (self hosted) and currently down | OpenGrok (self hosted) |
Wiki | MindTouch (self hosted) and currently down | DokuWiki (self hosted) |
Documentation | Doxygen and currently down | Doxygen |
Features on desktop | Songbird | Nightingale |
Add-ons | Yes |
Watch Folders | Yes |
Play Queue | Yes |
Video support | Yes | Yes (video_codec_support) |
Equalizer | Yes |
Scrobbling | Last.fm add-on bundled |
CD Rip | Closed source add-on based on GEARWorks | Add-on in development based on fre:ac |
DLNA Support | Closed source add-on | No |
Locales | 59 |
Devices support | MTP and MSC devices using closed source add-on | Foldersync add-on built-in |
Playlists | Normal and smarts playlists | Normal, smarts playlists and folders (see playlist_format_support) |
Cover Flow | Add-on in dev |
Bookmarks | No |
iPod support | No |
Podcasts support | No |
Audio File Support | | audio_codec_support |