A wicked cackle sent a shudder across the open-source world, shattered the Apple interns’ glass coffee pots, and was followed by a deafening silence across Silicon Valley. The wicked laughter emanating from Apple’s boardroom was aimed at the do-gooders at Songbird, whose open-source media player was developing into a Firefox-esque rival to iTunes’ Internet Explorer-like dominance.
Unfortunately for the brave stalwarts at Songbird, their iPod add-on last week was affected by a bug that deleted all files from the device when it was connected to the application. Some victims have been claiming that they have lost up to 60-70 GB of music.
Thankfully, the problem only disturbed a minority of users, and Songbird has already fixed the problem*. So, what I'm trying to say is: Songbird is an awesome open-source alternative, and it won't delete your music.
* Thanks marcuslee and heraclitus.
