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From the people who brought you FoxyTunes Planet, we introduce Yahoo! Music! Ok, so the Yahoo! Music artist pages have been around for a while, but we just recently retired their predecessor, FoxyTunes Planet. Now when you click the artist and song links in FoxyTunes, you’ll go to Yahoo! Music to discover more stuff about that artist.

You may have noticed that the Yahoo! Music artist pages bear a striking resemblance to FoxyTunes Planet. That’s because the great minds behind FoxyTunes Planet were the same ones who inspired and helped to build the pages on Yahoo! It didn’t make sense to maintain both sites, and now we can focus on making the Yahoo! Music pages even better! Change can be difficult, we know, so if there was a feature on Planet that Yahoo! music lacks, let us know. We can’t promise to add everything, but we will read what you have to say and use your feedback to help decide what we do next.

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Now playing: Punch Brothers – You Are
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Hi everyone, we wanted to send a quick post to let you know there’s a new version of FoxyTunes. With this version, we’ve added support for Yahoo! Updates to TwittyTunes.

To share what you’re listening to with your connections on Yahoo!, turn on auto-updates for Yahoo! Updates by clicking the TwittyTunes button in FoxyTunes.

In addition to this new feature, we’ve included a bunch of fixes and improvements for better support in Firefox 3.6 and we’re restored support for Rhapsody’s web player. If you’re not familiar with Rhapsody’s great service, get to know it here.

That’s it for now. Time to get back to work.
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We wanted to let you know that we’ve released a couple new features for our international users. You can now configure “Quick Searches” in FoxyTunes to point to the Country and language of your choice. From the main menu, just select “Configuration > Quick Searches – Select Country” and then the select your preferred Country.

We’ve also begun to translate our most visited pages on the FoxyTunes website. You can easily change the language of the page using the drop down menu at the bottom right of our site.

We’ve still got some more pages to translate and more languages to offer, so if you don’t see your language, stay tuned!

Download the latest version of FoxyTunes here.

As always, we’d love to hear what you think. Click here to send us some feedback.

Let’s face it, we’re addicted to music. We want our music to be with us wherever we go. Well, now we’ve got one more place you can take your music. The new FoxyTunes plug-in for Yahoo! Messenger puts your music at your fingertips while you’re chatting with your friends.

Just like FoxyTunes for Firefox and Internet Explorer, FoxyTunes for Yahoo! Messenger let’s you control your favorite media players. The plug-in also updates your Messenger status so you can let your friends know what you’re listening to. And, of course, you can use FoxyTunes to help you find more information about the music you’re listening to.

To get the plug-in, visit the Yahoo! Messenger gallery.

You can also get the plug-in from the Plug-ins Manager in Messenger by clicking “Add Plug-ins”.

Let us know what you think. You can send us feedback by clicking here.

We’re back with another FoxyTunes and TwittyTunes update.  With this latest release, we’ve added support for Microsoft’s Zune Software. The Zune Software lets you manage your catalog and discover new music in a way that feels more like a record store than a spreadsheet.  You can check it out by clicking here.

We’ve also updated TwittyTunes in this latest release to include support for Windows Live Messenger.  Now, you can let your friends see what you’re listening to, whether you’re using Yahoo! Messenger or Windows Live Messenger.

That’s it for now.  Tell us what else you’d like to see added to FoxyTunes or just drop us a note with your feedback.

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Thanks
–Dave

More good news – our last release of FoxyTunes we added support for two great music services. Deezer is a music website that provides on-demand, free, and unlimited listening experiences for users around the world. Currently the top music website in France, Deezer has been wowing users across Europe since 2007. You can easily discover and stream an unlimited amount of music for free while still supporting Artists. Deezer shares advertising revenue with artists and content rights holders in order to provide a wonderful (and free) experience to you, the music lover.

We’re big fans of Deezer and are excited to provide support for their service in FoxyTunes. Read more about the integration, in french, on their website. Bienvenue Deezer!

Additionally, we’ve added support for Blip.fm. Blip.fm is a great service that let’s you broadcast your favorite music and playlists to your friends on Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook and many more. You can be your own DJ or listen to your friends’ discoveries all from the convenience of their website. Tell us what additional features you’d like to see.

Please drop us a note with your feedback. We love to hear from you!

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A little over two years ago we embarked on a project called TwittyTunes. This addition to FoxyTunes was an experiment in letting people share what they listen to by posting to Twitter. Over time we’ve received lots of great feedback about TwittyTunes and have seen healthy use in our community. Thank you!

Today we’re excited to announce that TwittyTunes is officially a default feature within FoxyTunes! In addition to Twitter we’ve add support for Facebook, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Last.fm, and Yahoo! Status. With these services we let you share on your own terms – you can manually send messages to your social networks as well as setting up automatic services like Last.fm scrobbling. Install the new FoxyTunes now and begin by clicking on the share button shown below:

FoxyTunes is still the easiest way to share what you’re listening to. With one click you can let your friends on multiple social networks know what you’re listening to.

You can also automatically update your Skype and Yahoo! Messenger statuses while scrobbling directly to Last.fm.

This is a big step in sharing music on the web. It connects you and your friends with your music in real-time across the web. You can discover what your friends are listening to no matter where they listen to it – then get more info about the music through FoxyTunes Planet and Y! Music. Share more and discover great music!

We will be working hard over the coming months to add more services to TwittyTunes and make your sharing experience even simpler and easier. As always, please let us know what you think of this new major version of FoxyTunes. Also, we would love to hear what services should be in our next release. We thrive on your comments.

If you like it, tell your friends!

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If you haven’t heard about Spotify, it’s a new music service gaining popularity in western Europe. Some reviewers have called it the latest and greatest thing to happen to the music industry. Here’s how they describe themselves (we couldn’t agree more):

“Spotify is a new way to enjoy music. Simply download and install, before you know it you’ll be singing along to the genre, artist or song of your choice. With Spotify you are never far away from the song you want.

There are no restrictions in terms of what you can listen to or when. Forget about the hassle of waiting for files to download and fill up your hard drive before you get round to organising them. Spotify is instant, fun and simple.”

We’ve been hard at work on FoxyTunes and we’re proud to announce that in this release you can control Spotify from FireFox on Windows. We will be working hard over the coming months to extend that reach to IE and Mac. In the meantime, please let us know what you think of the feature as well as dropping a note to our friends over at Spotify.

If it’s supported in your country, go get yourself a copy. We hope it crosses the pond sometime soon because it’s a great product and we’re quite addicted to it.

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We’re always looking for ways to improve your music experience through FoxyTunes. Some of you might have noticed a cool little feature we put into the latest release of FoxyTunes for FireFox. While you’re listening to your favorite music, you’ve been able to quickly search the web for videos, lyrics, and other info through FoxyTunes.

Now you’re able to search concert tickets through our good friends at Ticketmaster.

Simply click on the Search menu icon (on the left of the track title) and select ‘Tickets’. Like so:

This will then take you to a search results page showing all the latest events that the artist has scheduled. Concerts are one of the best ways to experience your favorite music. Get out, hear a few this summer.

We’re currently working on internationalizing this feature, but wanted to get it out there and hear what you think.

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You spoke, we have listened and delivered. We are happy to announce that FoxyTunes for Firefox now supports Songbird. This has been in the works for a while because we wanted to give you the best experience possible between the two products. Songbird is a great music player and management tool with a suite of impressive features that any music fan is sure to enjoy.

You can now control Songbird from FoxyTunes in Firefox on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux!

To get started make sure you have the latest version of FoxyTunes for Firefox and Songbird. Then select Songbird from the player or Quick Switch menu in FoxyTunes and follow the on-screen instructions. So easy and fun!

We hope you enjoy rocking out with this new feature. As always, we love to hear your feedback. Please check it out and let us know what you think.

On a side note, you might be wondering why support for Songbird differs from other players that work with FoxyTunes. Well, short answer is that Songbird is still evaluating their public control API and we didn’t want to wait until it was ready. We think that Songbird is a great player and we’ve definitely heard from you, our users, that Songbird support is highly desired. While we wait for an official Songbird Control API we’ve created this add-on that allows us to talk directly to Songbird and give you the control you desire.

If you’d like further support and greater compatibility with Songbird, please let our friends know how much you enjoy this feature.

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