FoxyTunes joins Yahoo!
We are very excited to announce that FoxyTunes has been acquired by Yahoo!
So, what does this mean for you, our loyal user? Basically, it means that if you liked what we’ve done with FoxyTunes in the past, you’ll love what we’ll now be able to achieve being a part of Yahoo!. Read on for more details, and I hope you’ll be as excited as we are! 
Why did Yahoo! acquire FoxyTunes?
We’ve been talking to the Yahoo! Music team about deepening our cooperation, and we quickly discovered that not only do they understand and appreciate what we’ve done with FoxyTunes, but they also share our vision of Universality and Openness, and are really prepared to take this vision forward and implement it on the largest scale possible! So, it was clear for everyone that an acquisition made sense, because it would allow us to really join forces and work together on our common vision.
What’s going to happen to FoxyTunes?
The FoxyTunes team will become a part of Yahoo! Music and will continue working on FoxyTunes, adding many great things to our products - you’ll see support for additional media players, integration with many additional music sites and services and much more! Our product roadmap and wishlist are quite long and very exciting, and being a part of Yahoo! will really allow us to make many of the things we’ve been planning a reality. Most importantly, Yahoo! are as committed as we are to preserving the Open spirit of FoxyTunes and embracing all the great music products and services out there.
Will this affect user privacy?
As always, your privacy is very important to us and we’ll never do anything to jeopardize it. You can see our privacy policy here.
What does this mean for FoxyTunes users and partners?
If you’re a FoxyTunes user you’ll still get the same unobtrusive but at the same time rich and universal experience you’ve come to expect from FoxyTunes. If you’re our partner, either existing or potential, rest assured that our philosophy of being open hasn’t changed - if you have a media player, music site or service, or in general if your stuff is of interest to music lovers - we’d be happy to work together! We’re planning to release more info on all the various ways of integrating and working with FoxyTunes in the near future.
We’d like to thank everyone who helped and supported us over the years - our passionate users, great partners, investors and friends - we really couldn’t make it without you. A special thanks goes to Yossi Vardi for his amazing support and for believing in us from the very beginning.
Also, check out Yahoo!’s announcement on Yahoo! Music Blog.
We are very excited to be joining the Yahoo! family and can’t wait to show you all the cool things we’re working on.
Stay Tuned!
February 4th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
mazal tov alex from all the ‘family’
February 4th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Foxytunes and Yahoo! fighting the good fight together…
I was delighted to hear about the Foxytunes-Yahoo! deal. The Israeli media reports 30-40 mil , which is x10 on investment.
I met Alex & Vitaly, brothers and founders, in the summer of 2006, while visiting Israel on another project. A long talk in …
February 4th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Congratulations Alex and the rest of FoxyTunes guys and gals.
from the Geeks at the Garage
February 4th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Mazal tov to Alex & Vitaly and congratulations Yahoo! for recognizing this gem!
February 4th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Alex & Vitaly, congratulations, you’ve done an amazing job and you so deserve this!
February 4th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Mazl tov!!!
February 4th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
so, what about http://lyricwiki.org/ ? much of my favorite songs are not on the yahoo lyrics widget, but they’re on lyrics wiki.
could you at least let us choose between the two? of course, the yahoo widget would be the default one, but i would like the possibility to choose.
thank you!
Adi B.
February 4th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
congrats alex!
February 4th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
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February 4th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Love it! Congrats, but I’ll have to second Adi.B’s comment about lyricwiki. I haven’t had any matches on any of the lyrics I’ve looked for today (which is a lot). Either Yahoo! Music needs to beef up their lyrics database, or you need to re-add lyricwiki as an option.
Thanks!
February 4th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I agree with Adi B.
The possibility to get lyrics with one click was the best thing about foxytunes. Now yahoo music hasn’t most of the lyrics. Bring back lyricwiki!
February 4th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I agree with Nox (and Adi B). Please bring back lyricwiki!
February 4th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Totally! I’m happy that you’re able to join up with Yahoo! but Yahoo! Music’s lyric database is WEAK in comparison to LyricWiki! I can’t believe how few songs are lyricized on Yahoo! Music.
As noted above, please give the option to use LyricWiki… or get Yahoo! Music to open up the ability to post lyrics, as Wiki does. I desperately NEED my lyrics! Pleeeeeease!
February 5th, 2008 at 12:08 am
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February 5th, 2008 at 4:31 am
I just tried to read along to some of my favorite songs and had to find out that the lyrics selection of Yahoo! Music really, _really_ sucks. Bring back LyricsWiki! Especially for foreign language songs there seems to be absolutely _no_ content, and I really hate to see something I really like downgraded without notice!
February 5th, 2008 at 5:50 am
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February 5th, 2008 at 6:21 am
I’m all for capitalism….. congrats but the only feature I really used was http://lyricwiki.org/ either bring it back or i’ll have to look elsewhere…. good luck
February 5th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Congratulations Vitali and Alex!
Mazal tov!
Tak dergat’!
February 5th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Mazal Tov!!!
February 5th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I thought Yahoo Music decided to drop it’s music service?
February 5th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I liked more Lyric wiki. Will be great if you bring it back as a widget.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:06 am
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February 6th, 2008 at 2:33 am
I definitely have to agree that Yahoo music’s selection of lyrics is lacking. Even if they didn’t have the lyrics in their database, it was possible to search for them with one click. It would be nice if something could be done about this.
February 6th, 2008 at 6:14 am
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February 6th, 2008 at 6:29 am
Alex & Vitaly, strashno rad vashemu uspehu!
Cool idea, great implementation and nice exit.
Congrats!
February 7th, 2008 at 3:07 am
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February 8th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Thanks, another extension I have to uninstall…
February 8th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Please bring back LyricWiki. Yahoo’s database is useless, with the music that I listen to.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
My only concern is you may wind up part of Microsoft…
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February 9th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Congratulations, but yeaaah… I’m hoping the lyricwiki comes back soon.
February 9th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Bring back lyricwiki!!!
February 9th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
This is interesting news. Good news for you guys, most definitely. That’s wonderful that a Firefox add-on has gained support from a large corporation. This news is a tribute to the power of Firefox. The drawback I find is Microsoft’s seemingly inevitable acquisition of Yahoo. Hopefully Microsoft won’t touch Yahoo Music or come anywhere near the functionality of this add-on, but I’d really hate to see Yahoo Music or anything related to it get ‘microsofted.’
Secondly, I’d like to reiterate the suggestion of Adi.B. Lyricwiki.org will inevitably be ahead of Yahoo Music simply because its open and user-supported. Lyricwiki.org definitely reigns over Yahoo Music in the non-mainstream music category.
Good luck to you all. This project has made leaps and bounds since its inception and I can’t wait to see what you guys do next.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:35 am
What about the lyrics??? I love foxytunes, especially for infor and lyrics on lots of small indie type bands. Yah, you have sold out your base just like everyone else who develops something that becomes popular and we end up with an inferior soulless product. Get the lyrics working!!!! At least include a web search link!!!!!
February 11th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I love foxytunes, but I have a Zune, so I use the Zune media player mostly. Will support for this ever be added?
February 12th, 2008 at 7:33 am
C’mon, bring back the lyricwiki.org widget - it was your best asset! Yahoo Lyrics is nothing by comparison. I use foxytunes to quickly get to lyrics, and if they’re consistently not there, I not going to bother adding them, I’ll just go straight to where I know them to be. Its such a shame coz foxytune *was* brilliant.
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February 16th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Lyricwiki was the main feature of Foxytunes that I used. I don’t bother using Yahoo Lyric, if I could easily switch do LyricWiki when the song isn’t found.
The power of LyricWiki is just the possibility to add *every* music that I have on my library …
I’m sure Yahoo Lyric would’nt have the lyrics from brazilian indie rock bands that I listen to.
I wish good luck in your business, but PLEASE, bring back Lyricwiki!!!
February 17th, 2008 at 11:08 am
I was wondering why foxytunes couldn’t get any lyrics anymore. Yahoo lyrics obviously doesn’t even come anywhere remotely close to lyricwiki.
That’s 1/3 of the features I used foxytunes for gone :(.
February 20th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I agree with everyone, lyricwiki is a must for foxytunes.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I just want to say it would be just as great if you could copy the lyrics
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:28 am
From looking at http://lyricwiki.org/LyricWiki:General_disclaimer, LyricWiki looks on all accounts to be illegal. If people want illegal lyrics so much, why don’t they start their own sites, like the LyricWiki folks did?
I’ll be on this soapbox for two more seconds. If you, dear reader, wrote a song which — after years of toil — you got a contract with a music publisher to protect, you wouldn’t be so hasty to just give it away to any chimp with a web browser. Ah, but that thinking is too abstract and advanced for some. My apologies.
Yahoo! Lyrics are legal. Period. Good enough.
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:04 am
Will Foxytunes be available as a plug-in to Yahoo Messenger so I can share my songs with people I IM with? Thanks
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:14 am
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February 24th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
the decision to move to Yahoo! music has degraded the foxytunes experience, in my opinion to the point that the application doesn’t even adequately fulfill an important function anymore. i never once had a problem finding the lyrics for a song when it was through lyricwiki, and it was the most important function that foxytunes fulfilled for me. however, now that the lyrics are based on Yahoo, i have never once been able to find the lyrics of a song i want through foxytunes. ever. and there is no option to find the lyrics through lyricwiki, either. it’s either yahoo’s terrible selection or nothing. although it’s reasonable to get a paycheck for all of the work you’ve done to create a great application, it should not come at the expense of the most important services that the application used to provide.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Please, bring lyricwiki back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 26th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
I agree with everyone about bringing back LyricWiki, but I understand that Yahoo! Music would much rather have you be using Yahoo! Database. So maybe if you could cut a deal with them and add it as an option for the Lyric widget. That would be great, but I hope we can all understand if you can’t. Also, either mine or Yahoo!’s encryption is messed up and all apostrophe ” ‘ ” characters chow up as gibberish. That said, we can’t add lyrics to Yahoo! Music. I would be a contributor when a song I love doesn’t show up. Unfortunately, I don’t listen to “current” artists like, um, “Flo Rider” and don’t get lyrics from the songs that I do listen to, like Carbon Leaf, which has maybe 1.5 album’s worth of lyrics, although I think they have 5 or 6 now. Now I am ranting and will be quiet soon, but unless my now-ridiculous demands are met, I will eat a puppy. Did I say eat a puppy? I meant go straight to LyricWiki. No puppy eating there.
February 29th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Definately agree with the everyone’s comments about lyricwiki… that was the best widget imo… yahoo lyrics is nowhere near as comprehensive. Maybe it could be set so that it would search lyricwiki only if there wasn’t a result for the track in yahoo lyrics?
I don’t use foxytunes planet anywhere near as much as I used to
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:42 pm
The loss of LyricWiki is a retrograde step. Please bring it back at least as an option. Like everyone else, I don’t get any return from Yahoo Lyrics. It’s an embarrassment.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Bring back lyricwiki!
March 25th, 2008 at 2:52 am
I HOPE THAT IT ALL GOOD
March 25th, 2008 at 2:54 am
IT ALL GOOD
March 26th, 2008 at 5:47 am
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March 27th, 2008 at 10:51 am
I don’t use foxytunes as much anymore because lyrics from yahoo music are really bad. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten lyrics from them. Do you need to configure something?
“Lyrics not found”
What a skrew up. Please fix.
April 27th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Kudos!
May 8th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Definitely all for capitalism like many others have noted here. But I too, am EXTREMELY disappointed that you dissolved your provision of access to lyricwiki COMPLETELY. I agree strongly with those who suggested that FoxyTunes instead use Yahoo’s (poor!) lyrics service first, with Lyricwiki filling -albeit there are a lot of them to fill; at least for now - in the cracks. I am definitely part of the party that is subsequently using foxytunes about 30% less because there are now no lyrics (I have yet to successfully find ANY lyrics at all with Yahoo’s service….. Of course… this can be fixed… now that Microsoft has gone soft on Yahoo, maybe you can negotiate a bit! BRING BACK LYRICWIKI!!!
May 8th, 2008 at 9:56 am
So you sold out to Yahoo!!!
Hope you got plenty for it, because before I read that I thought it was cool.
Not now.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:58 am
I had even posted in the Foxytunes forum about the gross inability of Yahoo lyrics, but to no avail. Guys, Foxytunes is a great utility, don’t let your loyal fans wander to some other site. At least, post a response!
May 21st, 2008 at 9:01 am
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June 5th, 2008 at 6:02 am
How do I remove this bullshit yahoo media player spyware? Sellouts. What next, it will disable google and auto-redirect everything to yahoo? Yahoo was dead 5 years ago.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
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July 4th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Just curious to see how much they sold out for.
Not for billions but millions. Ridiculous.
Internet advertising ~ blah blah. Sick of the ads myself.
Google’s going overboard with this.
Maybe Google will crash and burn like Yahoo one day.
Yahoo could have been a Google but they tried to have there hands in too many things.
Think Yahoo even had Yahoo dial up at some point.
Or do they still?
Funny.
What happened to those dang AOL cds in the weekly mail?
Couldn’t even throw them out fast enough.
July 9th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
i agree that yahoo tried to get their hands in too many things, but i also think that they do a lot of them better than google n microsoft, like email, gmail is ok, but yahoo UI is flawless, as for search i use both yahoo n google and they usually come back with same results, so music bussiness wise yahoo is the greatest of the big three, and if microsoft didnt have the msn messenger itd be already extinct in the internet market…
Congrats on the yahoo deal! im sure great things will be done with foxytunes with yahoo’s support
Go Yahoo! u can still make a comeback
August 11th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Me da gusto por yahoo! que siga adelante y veo que la fusion sera un grande la musica…
Viva Yahoo!!
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September 25th, 2008 at 3:28 am
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October 20th, 2008 at 10:01 am
SO why is it now that since this happened that Signature function no longer works in Yahoo mail?
I no longer have the button as an option but if I go to Gmail it works and the button shows up?
October 21st, 2008 at 3:07 am
Anyone here knows another firefox addon that uses Lyricwiki?
November 28th, 2008 at 5:12 am
you should have made it possible to search for lyrics, videos, images, etc of the current track( being played by the player controlled by foxytunes )using Google search rather than yahoo search. Hope you will include it also…Thanks