Nightingale (software)

Nightingale

Nightingale 1.8.1 on Linux
Developer(s) Nightingale Community
Initial release December 15, 2011 (2011-12-15)
Stable release 1.12.1 (January 12, 2014 (2014-01-12)) [±]
Written in C++
Operating system Linux, macOS, Windows
Platform x86, x86-64
Type Media player
License GPLv2, MPL, BSD
Website getnightingale.com

Nightingale is a free, open source audio player and web browser based on the Songbird media player source code. As such, Nightingale's engine is based on the Mozilla XULRunner with libraries such as the GStreamer media framework and libtag providing media tagging and playback support, amongst others. Since official support for Linux was dropped by Songbird in April 2010,[1] Linux-using members of the Songbird community diverged and created the project. By contrast to Songbird, which is primarily licensed under the GPLv2 but includes artwork that is not freely distributable,[2] Nightingale is free software, licensed under the GPLv2, with portions under the MPL and BSD licenses.

Although Nightingale has not seen a new release since 2014, it is not considered a dead program. However, most if not all Nightingale developers are no longer actively contributing to its development.[3]

Notable features

Add-ons

Extensions

Users can add features and change functionality in Nightingale by installing extensions. Extensions are similar to the Extensions for the Firefox browser and can be easily ported.[4] Community coded extensions are available on The Nightingale Addons Page.

Skins

Skins are referred to as "feathers" in Nightingale, and give users and artists the ability to change the look of Nightingale via an extension which generates a default skin. Using CSS (and optionally XUL), and an image manipulation program such as Photoshop or GIMP, users are then able to make Nightingale look however they want.

References

  1. ↑ Auberger, Georges (2010-04-02), "Songbird Singing a New Tune", Songbird Blog, Songbird, archived from the original on 2010-09-24, retrieved 2010-04-02
  2. ↑ "Licensing FAQ", Songbird Wiki, Songbird, 2008-07-22, retrieved 2012-07-03
  3. ↑ rsjtdrjgfuzkfg (19 June 2016). "Is Nightingale dead?". getnightingale.com. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Wayner, Peter (19 October 2010). "Top 10 specialty Web browsers you may have missed". InfoWorld. p. 7. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
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