Does Songbird incorporate video or only audio?
Rob: It plays video as well. Turns out the technology to handle audio and video is similar. We are kind of focused on audio for now. Allen: What was your main motivation to come up with a new media player, when there is real, winamp, windows and so forth? Rob: Most of these media players are focused on the desktop set and then the ones that look out at the network are in this silo model looking at services made by the player. Same thing with the new Microsoft Zune, we believe it will also be in a silo model. What Songbird does that is different is that we are looking to build out the standards and protocols of the mediaweb. So that any service can be delivered to any user who wants it. And the same with devices. So any device can used by any service by any user. Allen: Does Songbird work with iTunes? If not, are there plans to somehow incorporate the two? Rob: Right now no in this country. We will support all of the DRMs that we can but currently not Apple’s fairplay. There are some co
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