Songbird is a fantastic music player which is available for all the major OS platforms like Linux, Windows and OSX. The beauty of the player is it’s like the famous iTunes but takes configuration to a new level with extensions.  You can pimp it up with themes and best of all it’s an open source software which means you get a huge community support. Let’s see how to install and configure songbird for a complete music experience.

Homepage

http://getsongbird.com/

Description

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player.

Users can add features and change functionality in Songbird by installing extensions. Community coded extensions are available on Songbird’s addons support page.

Skins are referred to as “feathers” in Songbird, and give users and artists the ability to change the look of Songbird via an extension which generates a default skin.

Download

Let us download the deb file of songbird from here.

Install and run songbird

1. Once you have downloaded the deb file, installation is pretty simple. Just double click the file to install songbird.
2. You can run songbird by going to Applications > Sound & Video > Songbird.

When you run it for the first time you’ll be greeted with various screens

Following is how the main window of songbird looks like:

In order to install a new theme for songbird, you can go to the following link and click install to install a new theme.

http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addons?category=appearance

To get new extensions in order to customise song bird go to the following link:

http://addons.songbirdnest.com/recommended

We hope this guide makes it easier for you to install songbird on Ubuntu.