Songbird: Web-wide iTunes?

Playlist for the people? It sounds like a tool that would interest a lot of digital-music fans because of its flexibility (something the music industry hasn't provided a lot of yet). The idea is to allow people to make a playlist of tunes that don't just "live" on their computer harddrives, but rather one that pulls together their favorite songs from wherever they are, out on the Web or on their computer. Called "Songbird," it's software "based on much of the same underlying open-source technology as the Firefox Web browser," CNET reports, and it's the brainchild of "digital-music veteran Rob Lord" and the other five people of Pioneers of the Inevitable, the start-up developing it. Lord says iTunes is like the Internet Explorer browser if it could only access Microsoft.com - why he's creating Songbird.