FoxyTunes 3.0 - the Web is your playlist!
FoxyTunes 3.0 for Firefox is finally here!
This version adds a very cool new functionality – it can turn any webpage into a playlist you can play right there on that page – without needing to launch any external media players or programs. How is this possible? With the new Yahoo! Media Player.
What’s Yahoo! Media Player?
Yahoo! Media Player is a really cool music player that lives on the web and can play music found on web pages as a playlist. The player floats ‘above’ the page content, so even if you scroll up and down the page, the player stays at the same position right in front of you.
Up until now, in order to add this player to a web page, you had to be the owner of that page. But what about sites that still haven’t added this to their pages? FoxyTunes to the resque!
Yahoo! Media Player + FoxyTunes = Play any page
The latest version of FoxyTunes enhances any page that has music on it by automatically adding the Yahoo! Media Player to that page. Then, you can conveniently play any track on that page or even the whole page as one big playlist!
Here’s an example – a few songs for you to enjoy:
- Negativland - Richard Nixon Died Today
- Tilly and The Wall - Pot Kettle Black
- Less Than Jake - Does The Lion City Still Roar?
If you have the latest FoxyTunes for Firefox installed, you’ll see a tiny ‘play’ buttons next to each song – just push them and see what happens 
Also, you can already see the Yahoo! Media Player in action on many great music sites, such as Aurgasm, Soul Sides and List of the Day on Yahoo! Music Blogs.
By the way, if you would prefer that FoxyTunes didn’t add the player to webpages, you can always disable this functionality in FoxyTunes ‘configuration’ menu.
Auto Player Switching – Look Ma, No Hands!
The best thing is that once you start playing a webpage with the new Yahoo! Media Player you can instantly control it with FoxyTunes, even while surfing in other tabs or browser windows – just make sure to leave the page that’s currently playing somewhere in the background. And, if you close that page, your FoxyTunes will automatically switch back to your regular media player – be it iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp etc.
We are very excited about this new version of FoxyTunes, and hope you’ll be as excited as we are!
So, check it out here and let us know what you think!
-Alex
June 17th, 2008 at 1:10 am
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June 17th, 2008 at 7:55 am
New features sound good! But it still doesn’t work on 64-bit Vista (at least for me), Firefox always crashes and then Windows complains about Data Execution Prevention…
June 17th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Major bug with Firefox 3 (final release) : Firefox 3 just crashes when using FoxyTunes 3.0.2.1 + WMP11 ! Need tu unactivate FoxyTunes to use Firefox 3 and WMP11 at the same time
June 17th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
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June 19th, 2008 at 12:37 am
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June 20th, 2008 at 1:02 am
buuu
, firefox 3.0 crashes with WMP 11 , please repair this bug
June 29th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Great update - v useful. 2 points:
1) A feature request - to see track progress, so you can fast forward to it. Important in case you accidentally close a tab and I was in the middle of listening to a 30 min podcast, I have to listen to it all again.
2nd - bug noticed with My Yahoo. Y Media Player stops playing the track if you open the white page reader within My Yahoo that opens for some websites. Annoying for same reason as point no. 1 above.
July 17th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Ever planning on resurrecting the Community Recommendations of the Day?
July 25th, 2008 at 1:52 am
good but it have no playlist,if it have playlist it will perfect
August 17th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Is there an upgrade where it would work with KMPlayer coming along?
August 18th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Can’t believe!!!
There is no suport for AIMP!!!
I haven’t found a faster player so far!
Think I’m gonna keep FoxyTunes until u make it work with AIMP! xD
xD
August 18th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I had foxy tunes working, but had to roll back to previous date and now this program will not work.