We got a cool new Intel Mac Mini, and I immediately fell in love with it! It’s amazing how something so tiny and elegant can be so powerful and convenient. I’d like to think that our users like FoxyTunes for the same reasons

The first thing we did with our new Mac Mini is to add Intel Mac support to FoxyTunes.

We didn’t forget our Linux users either – our new version better supports the newer Linux distributions, such as Fedora Core 5.

The latest version (1.3.1) contains these and additional fixes and improvements, along with partial Pandora support. You can get the new version here.

As always, we’d really appreciate your feedback!

Good news, following my previous post, we fixed a few issues and now FoxyTunes can again show what’s playing in your Pandora

You can get the latest FoxyTunes version from here.

Klim Levene, a young Canadian filmmaker has created two cool Firefox ads for the wonderful Firefox Flicks contest.

Klim wrote me to say that he loves FoxyTunes, and his first ad called “Pandora’s Box” features FoxyTunes as one of the benefits of using Firefox. The 3D part of this ad was done by Masha Levene.

The second clip is called “Ahhh, Nerts!”. It makes me laugh each time I see it
You can check out more of Klim’s work on his short films page.

Thanks, Klim!

First, if you haven’t heard about Pandora yet, you should definitely give it a try. It’s a great way of discovering new music and I’m sure you’ll love it!

Lately we received many user requests to add Pandora support to FoxyTunes. While listening to Pandora, our users really missed the convenience of always knowing which track is playing. Also, many of them find themselves looking for the Pandora player among many open tabs or windows, when they want to skip a track or change a station.

Basically, our users wanted the same convenience that FoxyTunes provides with their other media players (Winamp, iTunes etc.).

So, we decided to support Pandora in FoxyTunes. Currently, FoxyTunes will allow you to:

1. See what’s playing on your Pandora.
2. Automatically launch the Pandora Web site and by that the embedded Pandora player, if it isn’t already open.
3. Show the Pandora Web player. This is an interesting feature. If Pandora is running in its own window - this will show that window. If Pandora is running in a tab - “show player” will raise that tab. “Hide player” will return you to the tab you were working in before hitting “Show player”.
4. Volume - you can control the volume and mute. This currently controls your system volume (on Windows, Mac and Linux).
5. Multi platform - the controller works (at least partially) on all platforms.

In future versions, we’ll try to allow pausing and skipping tracks right from FoxyTunes, controlling Pandora’s volume instead of the global one and other useful features.

A related new feature - we call it “Quick Player Switching”. It allows you to see which player is selected and switch between the most used players. The icon of the current player is displayed in the FoxyTunes main menu, along with up to three last players used (if any).

I hope you find all this as useful as we do
Get the new FoxyTunes Preview version (1.3) with Pandora support here.

[edit] Looks like Pandora have changed the way the currently playing track is displayed, so FoxyTunes is no longer able to pick that up. We’ll try to get this fixed and keep you updated. Stay tuned
[update] We fixed this - our latest preview version (1.3.1) can again show what’s playing in your Pandora

The international edition of our latest version is out - get it from here.

New translations in this version:

• Romanian by Bogdan Mardare
• Finnish by Akilles
• Frisian by moZes

Big thanks to all the translators - with your help FoxyTunes is now translated into 24 languages.

FoxyTunes was reviewed by Michael Methvin as part of About.com “Firefox Extensions You Can’t Live Without” series and was featured on their front page.

Thanks Michael!

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The FoxyTunes site is now almost 95% whiter than it used to be. Although I liked the old theme, I feel that the new bright look is better. What do you think?