Plenty of GOOD NEWS this morning in the world of digital music. First Amazon MP3 launches in the UK, and now awesome media player Songbird hits version 1.0. Songbird, as I've said before, is one of my favourite music clients. Although it's currently being neglected in favour of Spotify, it remains my player of choice for actual MP3 files. Why? Because it's so wonderfully intuitive and feature-packed, as well as being open-source. The new version brings massive performance improvements, loads of UI tweaks, better search and sorting, and better ability to cope with big libraries (full of completely legally-acquired MP3s, I'm sure). If you're still using iTunes to play music, then I strongly recommend you give this a try. You won't be disappointed. Songbird Related posts: 5 good reasons to try Songbird | Try Spotify, too