Songbird 0.5 was released last week, and, while not technically inconsistent with claims that its RSS parsing had been “improved,” I was disappointed to see that two of my three podcast subscriptions still aren’t coming through. The problem has been migrated to a new bug ticket.
There’s also a new “Media Views” feature, which looks promising. […]

have a proper CoverFlow clone that doesn’t lag or rely on Java (like AlbumApplet), and that allows for custom locations of art on the drive.
monitor folders for new music.
have an integrated BitTorrent client that puts music from trackers directly into your library.
jump to the location in a page where the currently playing mp3 was found.
properly recognize all XML podcasts […]