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:
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!
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.
