A New Way to Listen to the Web

As many music lovers know, MP3 blogs are one of the best ways to discover music, new and old. But hunting-and-downloading your way through hundreds of posts on thousands and thousands of blogs can be time consuming. Now there's a new application that could change the way we listen to our favorite websites.

Enter Songbird.

Songbird is a new application (developed by the same team behind Winamp) that lets you stream all the MP3s found on a webpage, without having to dig through the site and download each file individually.

It looks like a mash-up between a web-browser and a media player, and the open-source application is still in its development stage. But early adapters can download the software and start trying it out right away.

An enthusiastic user recently posted a comment about Songbird on the art and design blog Design Observer:

I use the amazing music browser Songbird which allows me to hit "play" and hear all the songs posted on a given web page. I listen to my favorite music blogs while at work, where the connection speed makes it all work beautifully. My faves are Aquarium Drunkard and Derek's Daily 45s, a blog where the author is posting an mp3 of a vinyl single from his vast collection pretty much every day. Songbird turns it into a massive jukebox of classic soul, r&b, rockabilly and garage rock. Essential! (I don't work for Songbird, I'm just a booster.)

Thanks to Word of Mouth listener Vanessa in Concord, NH, for sending us this link. If you have a tip for the Word of Mouth blog, send it our way.

(Photo by Brian Moore)