A new FoxyTunes Planet release is now public – it adds several nice features that will help you find more great songs by your favorite artists and share them with your friends.

The most important additions are ‘Track View’ and ‘Album and Track Explorer’. In Track View, widgets change dynamically to display content relevant to the currently selected track. Album and Track Explorer allows you to quickly navigate between the artist’s tracks.

You can see an example of the new FoxyTunes Planet features here.

Here’s a more detailed list of the new additions:

Track and Album Explorer
You can now explore each artist on FoxyTunes Planet by their albums or songs. You can sort albums or tracks by their name, popularity, release date etc.

Top albums, top tracks
The artist side bar now displays top albums and top tracks for each artist. Clicking on ‘more’ will open the corresponding album explorer or track explorer window

Track permalink
Up until now you could only share artists on FoxyTunes Planet by sending your friends a link to their page. Now, you can also link to any specific track – just look for a ‘permalink’ label or just copy the URL displayed in your browser address bar while being in Track View.

Twitter integration
In addition to being able to share artists on regular social bookmarking sites, the new release lets you share your music discoveries through Twitter as well

Share videos
Besides sharing artists, you can now share the videos you discover on FoxyTunes Planet through StubleUpon, FaceBook, Twitter and a ton of other services

We really hope you like the new additions, stay tuned for more Foxy stuff soon

As the summer draws to a close and some of us will be heading back to school, Mozilla have created a special version of Firefox for students – it’s called Firefox “Campus Edition”.

We are very excited that FoxyTunes was chosen by Mozilla to be a part of this special Firefox edition.

The Campus Edition is the latest Firefox version that comes bundled with three extensions that students might find useful, convenient and fun. The extensions included are FoxyTunes, StumbleUpon and Zotero.

Here’re a few words about each included extension:

• Zotero is a great tool for students that helps collect, manage, and cite research sources from around the Web
• StumbleUpon – is great for discovering new Web sites that match your interests – starting with fun stuff like photos or videos and all the way to more academics related things such as linguistics and zoology
• FoxyTunes – music is important part of our lives and for many students listening to music while learning increases productivity – and FoxyTunes helps you listen to music conveniently right from your browser. Listening to and discovering new music with FoxyTunes can also be great while taking a break from those long study hours.

There are tons of additional great add-ons for Firefox – extensions that can further improve your browsing experience and make it even more productive, convenient and fun.

You can get the Firefox Campus edition here.

If your schoolmates are still not using Firefox – help us spread the word and let them know about the new Campus Edition and all its cool additions!

Also, we created a nice flyer [PDF] that you can print-out and hang on your school or campus bulletin board.

Click here to get a printable PDF file

As you all know, it’s very important for us to make FoxyTunes truly universal – by supporting as many products, sites and services as possible.

So, today we’re releasing a new FoxyTunes version with many important Signatunes additions:

Thunderbird support – look for the new Signatunes button in your Thunderbird ‘compose’ window. You can now insert music signatures into your Thunderbird mails – both manual and automatic modes are supported

Forums support – you can now add a Signatune to your forum posts! Currently, FoxyTunes supports any forum that uses one of the following software:

• phpBB
• vBulletin
• Invision Power Board
• Web Wiz Forums
• SMF – Simple Machines Forum

LiveJournal support – we had to make a few tweaks, which allowed us to add LiveJournal support to Signatunes

So, check out the latest FoxyTunes version here and enjoy!

VLC is a very popular open source media player. We’ve been getting quite a lot of requests to support it in FoxyTunes, and today we’re releasing a new FoxyTunes version that supports VLC on Windows and Linux.

Before using FoxyTunes with VLC, you’ll need to set-up a few things – just follow the instructions you’ll see when first selecting VLC as a player in FoxyTunes.

So, check the latest FoxyTunes with VLC support and let us know what you think

Our friends over at Mozilla have just launched a great new Facebook application called “Rock Your Firefox“.

The new app allows you to explore more than 2000 Firefox add-on right on Facebook and recommend your favorite ones to your friends!

If you like FoxyTunes and want to let your friends know about how awesome it is, just add it to your favorite add-ons and it will appear on your Facebook newsfeed and profile. This way, you’re not only promoting FoxyTunes but also letting all your friends know that Firefox Really Rocks!

So, add Rock Your Firefox app to your Facebook and then add FoxyTunes to your favorite add-ons.

We received amazing feedback on Signatunes, with many people asking to add support for their favorite sites and services.

Today we are adding support for 10 more great services:

• Blogger
• Xanga
• AOL Blogs
• Windows Live Spaces
• Yahoo! 360
• Hi5
• Bebo
• Friendster
• TypePad
• Noteworthy mail

If you already have a FoxyTunes version with Signatunes, just go to FoxyTunes Configuration > Signatunes > Check for Updates and the new sites will be auto-magically supported.

Enjoy!

Today we’re releasing the first phase of what will soon become FoxyTunes 3.0. In this first release we’re introducing a cool new feature called “Signatunes“.

Signatunes allows signing your email messages and blog posts with your currently playing music. Why would you want to do that? Letting your friends know what you were listening to while writing the message is a great way to tell them about your mood, or introduce them to one of your favorite songs. The added music signature is more just a song title – it links to FoxyTunes Planet where your friends can listen to music and learn all there is to know about your favorite artists and songs.

So, how does Signatunes work? FoxyTunes adds a special icon to web mail sites, Blogging services and social networks, such as Facebook, MySpace, Gmail, Yahoo mail, Wordpress and many others. This allows you to add a music signature to your message with a click. There is also an ‘auto-insert’ mode, which allows you to automatically add a Signatune to every message you compose. If you already have a preset signature – don’t worry, Signatune doesn’t replace your existing signature – it’s added to the end of the message following the message body and any existing signatures.

Initially, the following services are supported:

Facebook Notes, Mail	MySpace Blogs
WordPress	Yahoo! Mail
AOL Mail	Hotmail
Gmail	Horde Webmail
SquirrelMail

In the future, we are planning to add Signatunes to many more sites, Blogging and webmail services, forums and so on.

Signatunes is available in the latest version of FoxyTunes for Firefox – check it out and let us know what you think!

Live Earth is a huge music event that is going to take place on Saturday July 7, 2007. It is a series of concerts happening all over the planet with the goal of raising worldwide awareness of the dangers of Global Warming.

More than 150 of the world’s most popular artists and bands are going to perform at Live Earth and 2 billion people are going to follow it on the Internet, TV, radio and mobile.

We are very excited about this upcoming event and its extremely important cause, so we decided to make our humble contribution and create a special page on FoxyTunes Planet dedicated to Live Earth. On this page you can learn more about the event and its artists – you can even watch many of their most popular videos.

So, check out the FoxyTunes Live Earth page and visit the LiveEarth.org site to learn what you can do to help battle the climate crisis and save our Planet.

We all here at FoxyTunes want to express our support for the struggle to save the future of Internet radio.

Today is the “day of silence“, in which Web music broadcasters such as Yahoo, Pandora, Rhapsody, MTV and many others express their protest against the extremely high new Internet radio royalty rates that threaten the future of music as we all envision it.

You can also help the struggle – learn more about the subject and (if you’re in the United States) call your congressional representative today.

Don’t let the music die!

SaveNetRadio.org

Today we’re releasing a cool new Twitter and FoxyTunes integration service – we call it “FoxyTunes Twitter DJ“.

FoxyTunes DJ is a new Twitter channel with music recommendations from a selected group of “FoxyTunes DJs”. Our first featured DJs are:

• Fred Wilson (A VC, Union Square Ventures)
• Chris Messina (Co-founder, Citizen Agency) – we’d also like to thank Chris for his feedback and advice with this new service
• Ouriel Ohayon (Editor, TechCrunch France; General Manager LightSpeed Gemini Internet Lab)
• Jason Herskowitz (Director – Music Products, AOL)

Also, the new service allows all Twitter users to share their favorite songs with the community. Just add FoxyTunesDJ as your Twitter friend, wait for a few moments until FoxyTunesDJ adds you back and use TwittyTunes to send your music recommendations to FoxyTunesDJ by prefixing it with “@FoxyTunesDJ”. All community recommendations will appear on this FoxyTunes Planet page.

One last thing – in order to make posting to FoxyTunesDJ easier – we added a new drop down option to the latest version of TwittyTunes – get it here!