Over the years, iTunes has been accepted as a necessary evil between media players.

However, the open source project called Songbird, ever since its conception, has been providing some stiff competition for iTunes. In fact, most people believe that at this rate it won’t be long before it overtakes iTunes and becomes the most influential media player around.

Songbird was first released in 2006 by the creators of Mozilla Firefox, Winamp and Netscape Navigator, The Pioneers of the Inevitable. Lets a take a look at why Songbird is so highly rated by everyone.