First, if you haven’t tried Last.fm yet, you should definitely check it out – it’s a great service that can help you discover a lot of new music.

We really like Last.fm and from the many emails we received asking for Last.fm Player support in FoxyTunes, it’s pretty clear that you like it too!

So, with the latest version of FoxyTunes for Firefox, you get one click access to your Last.fm player right from the browser.

The new FoxyTunes will let you:

• See what’s playing in your Last.fm player
• Skip tracks and control the volume
• Launch and show your Last.fm player with one click

You can get the new FoxyTunes version with Last.fm Player support here.

We’ll be adding Last.fm Player support to FoxyTunes for IE soon.

P.S. Our new site, FoxyTunes Planet, has a cool Last.fm widget – sign up for the private beta and check it out!

[edit] A tiny clarification: this version of FoxyTunes supports the Last.fm Player. It doesn’t submit your song info to Last.fm and doesn’t replace any Audioscrobbler plugins.

As you all know, FoxyTunes is a universal music browser add-on that supports more than 30 great media players and music services – iTunes, Winamp, Pandora, Rhapsody and Amarok are only a few examples and the list is always growing.

With FoxyTunes, you can have the same music experience no matter which music player you’re using. FoxyTunes gives you the freedom to use your favorite players from within your favorite browser and does all the integration work behinds the scenes.

We took the same principles of integration and universality to a completely new level by creating a new Web site – we’re calling it the “FoxyTunes Planet”.

FoxyTunes Planet is a Universal Music Mashup. The Planet, along with the FoxyTunes browser add-on connects between your favorite media players and great music sites and services.

Today we are launching the Planet in an invitation-based private beta. It’s not public yet for two reasons – first, we want to make sure that the new site can handle the load of all the FoxyTunes users. Also, we want to get your feedback and make additional improvements before publicly launching the new site.

Currently, we are inviting a limited number of FoxyTunes users to the private beta. If you’d like to join the private beta and help us shape the next generation of FoxyTunes – sign up here.

Much more to come soon – stay tuned!