Songbird

Song bird is an open source customisable music player. This means that it will always be totaly free and that new features will be added on a regular basis.

It is based on the mozilla platform which means that it can be used on windows, mac and linux.

At the time of writing there are still many features that are not quite up to scratch but these are being worked on. The rest of the features are generally excelent.

Media importing/exporting
Songbird can import/export to/from itunes libraries.

It can also build a library from a folder using tags built into files and re-arrange the folder structure based on track info if asked (see below)

Library Files Organisation
Automatically organises file and folder structure based on the meta-data in each track within one folder of your choice. This means that it creates a centalised repository for all your media. Given that the media info is actually stored in the files it is also excelent for use where the music is stored on a NAS and accessed from multiple computers.

Watch folders and libary management
Automatically imports media from a defined folder. Allows you to browse, organise and sort through your media.

Smart Playlists
Create dynamically updated playlists that are based on a set of rules as to what should be included and in what order, rather than specifying each track.

Album Artwork
Can display and write the album art in the tags within the file and fetch missing album art from the web. The support for storing album art as a jpg in the album's folder is limited at time of writing though.

File support
Songbird supports:
 * MP3, FLAC, Vorbis on all platforms
 * WMA and WMA DRM on Windows
 * AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac