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Mozilla + iTunes + Rhapsody = Songbird

“As Apple continues to extend its hegemony over the music
industry, a new initiative from an MP3 veteran could provide an
alternative to the vendor lock between iTunes and the iPod
player.

“Songbird is a new music player from a San Francisco startup
with the unique name Pioneers of the Inevitable.

“Its founder and CEO, Rob Lord, was one of the developers on
WinAMP, one of the first MP3 players to hit the Internet in the
late 1990s. AOL would eventually acquire Nullsoft, the developer of
WinAMP in 1999, making it a core part of AOL Music…”

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