{"id":202,"date":"2007-02-27T09:08:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T09:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2007\/02\/27\/the_web_browser\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T09:08:31","slug":"the_web_browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2007\/02\/27\/the_web_browser\/","title":{"rendered":"The web browser as media player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some research on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xulplanet.com\/\">XUL<\/a> for work when I ran across a reference to a Mozilla-based media player called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.songbirdnest.com\/\">Songbird<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I was intrigued by what a read, and after I downloaded and installed the player itself, I was impressed with what I saw.<\/p>\n<p>Songbird treats every web page you visit as a potential playlist. If the browser finds links to MP3 files, it&#8217;ll create a playlist of those files, which you can listen to with a built-in player. It&#8217;s much more convenient than waiting for a QuickTime plug-in to load, and you don&#8217;t have to click through each link to listen.<\/p>\n<p>The media player in Songbird isn&#8217;t just restricted to web sites. It also contains a library to handle files on your computer.<\/p>\n<p>The program is still in development, and the preview available has a number of interface quirks. I noticed an issue with scrolling when viewing an XML file. The browser doesn&#8217;t keep a history, and handling bookmarks in the side bar can be unintuitive. Future features include the ability to rip and burn CDs and synchronizing with playback devices.<\/p>\n<p>When Songbird gets closer to a 1.0 version, it could very well be an incredibly powerful application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songbird treats every web page you visit as a potential playlist. If the browser finds links to MP3 files, it&#8217;ll create a playlist of those files, which you can listen to with a built-in player.<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technophilia-aural"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-3g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}