FoxyTunes for IE is finally out of beta and is featured today as an Exclusive on CNET Download.com front page!

Also, this new version just received a 5 star rating and a great review by Download.com editors. You can check out FoxyTunes for IE on Download.com here.

More good news – FoxyTunes for Firefox is featured today as the CNET Editor’s pick on their Browsers category front page.

Thanks a lot to the Download.com team for your support!

A new FoxyTunes for Firefox is here and it supports the Rhapsody Online Web player!

If you’re not familiar with Rhapsody, you should really check it out – it has tons of great music, radio stations, playlists and much more (Rhapsody currently works only in the US).

The new FoxyTunes supports the Rhapsody Web Player – it’s a great way to listen to Rhapsody right in your browser. We’ll try to support the standalone Rhapsody jukebox software in the future.

Also new in this version:

• Fetch album covers from your iTunes, if available
• Allow choosing your preferred Amazon store for finding album covers
• Allow disabling automatic fetching of album covers from Amazon
• Additional minor tweaks and bug fixes

As always, you can get the latest FoxyTunes for Firefox here.

Enjoy!

Ever since the first version of FoxyTunes, music lovers have been asking us to support additional players, platforms and browsers.

We’ve been constantly extending FoxyTunes and now it’s time to announce the latest addition:

The first beta of FoxyTunes for Internet Explorer is here!

One of our main goals with FoxyTunes is to make it truly universal. Now, FoxyTunes supports Firefox, IE, Flock, Thunderbird and more than 30 media players on Windows, Linux and MacOS.

As with our popular Firefox extension, now you can play your tunes and Explore the Web of Music while surfing with IE.

Please keep in mind that this version of FoxyTunes is still in beta, so you might see some beta quirks – please let us know if you do. Also, not all of the features of the Firefox version are available – we’ll be adding those in future releases.

We would love to hear any and all of your feedback about this version – please send us your comments, suggestions, questions and bug reports using this form.

Get FoxyTunes for IE here.

P.S. As always – stay tuned for new and cool stuff in upcoming FoxyTunes for Firefox versions!

Congrats to the Firefox team and community on the launch of Firefox 2 and the new Mozilla Add-ons site!

Big thanks to Mike Shaver, Mike Morgan and all the add-ons team for your hard work on the new add-ons site and for including FoxyTunes on the “Recommended Extensions” list.

Keep on rocking!

The new Mozilla recommended add-ons list was covered on TechCrunch!

Finally, the international edition of the latest FoxyTunes is available – get it here!

FoxyTunes is now translated into 29 languages.

Big thanks to all the translators on the BabelZilla team – you guys rock!

Good news!

With the latest version, 2.0.4, FoxyTunes support for Pandora is now restored.

I’d like to thank the Pandora guys, Tom Conrad and Neil Mix for helping get FoxyTunes support for Pandora back on track and helping to make sure that FoxyTunes is compatible with future Pandora versions.

Currently, FoxyTunes can launch Pandora and show what’s playing. Also, the ‘Show Player’ button will find Pandora among all your open tabs or windows and raise it with a click. “Hide Player” will take you back to the tab you were working in before hitting “Show Player”.

If you’re not familiar with Pandora – check it out, you’ll love it!

Get the new FoxyTunes version here.

As you might know, FoxyTunes is fully skinnable. There are more than 12 skins currently available and in total they have more than 600,000 downloads!

Recently, FoxyTunes skins have been updated to better match the new FoxyTunes 2.0 version. If you have a FoxyTunes skin installed, make sure you update to the latest skin version. Below, you can see the beautiful and hugely popular Finespun skin by Joshua Hamilton.

So, check out the FoxyTunes skins here!

If you want to create a cool new skin for FoxyTunes – drop us a line here and we’ll guide you through the process. Also, we are planning to publish a tutorial on creating FoxyTunes skins – so, stay tuned!

FoxyTunes 2.0 is now officially released. We had a great time listening to your feedback and working on this new version of FoxyTunes. I hope you like it as much as we do

As always, you can get FoxyTunes here and it’s now also posted on the Mozilla Addons Site.

As you might know, the new version has a lot of cool features. You can read all about them in our previous posts – here, here and here. Also, there is a screencast demonstrating the new features.

FoxyTunes 2.0 is only the tip of the iceberg. We are working on the next generation of FoxyTunes that will be announced sooner than you might think

Stay tuned!

The new 2.0 Beta is finally here. We received great feedback on the 2.0 Preview version and added some of the most requested features to this new release.

Some of the new stuff:

1. System tray icon for the FoxyTunes Mini
   • Hover on the tray icon to quickly get the Info box, even when the Mini is minimized
   
2. Drag and drop local files and directories to FoxyTunes Mini to start playing them
   • You can also drag and drop them onto the regular FoxyTunes (inside your browser)
   
3. Drag and drop URLs to FoxyTunes to start playing them
4. You can now customize the search engine that performs quick Web searches (Configuration > Customize Web Search)
• More advanced search configuration coming soon
5. The search box in FoxyTunes Mini now also supports search engines installed in Firefox
• This is only available with the upcoming Firefox 2.0
6. Added videos to quick searches, currently searches YouTube
7. Improved the mechanism for displaying album covers
• Display locally saved album covers (Folder.jpg file)
• With Yahoo Music Engine – get album cover from the player
8. FoxyTunes context menus are now configurable
• Also, can be collapsed into a single “compact menu”
9. Many tweaks and minor bug fixes

This 2.0 Beta is now feature complete and will become the 2.0 official version soon.

Get the new FoxyTunes 2.0 Beta here

We are starting a series of Blog posts about some of the less obvious new FoxyTunes 2.0 features.

This is the first post in the series.

InfoBox is a new widget in FoxyTunes 2.0 that shows song info, album art, recent history and more…

Here’s a list of 5 InfoBox features you might have missed:

1. InfoBox “floating” mode
   InfoBox appears when you move your mouse over the ‘note’ button and automatically disappears when you move the mouse away. But what if you want to prevent the InfoBox from disappearing, so you can always see the current album cover, perform a search or browse the recent track history? No worries – InfoBox has a “floating” mode. If you move the InfoBox or use one of its buttons, it will stay put and won’t automatically disappear.
   
2. Recent track history
   Let’s say you hear a nice song on the radio but you’re too busy to check it out. The InfoBox has a list of recently played tracks and you can always return to one of them, see its album cover or perform a search to find out more about the artist or the song.
   
3. Track info panel
   This allows you to see some extended information about the track currently displayed in the InfoBox. You can see the track location (URL or path), the time the song was played at, the media player that played the song and more…
   
4. Album cover finder
   You probably noticed that the InfoBox automatically finds and displays album covers. One nice feature you might have missed is that if the album name is missing, the InfoBox will try to find the album that contains the current song and display its cover. By the way, currently, FoxyTunes searches for the album on Amazon, and clicking on the album cover image will take you directly to the Amazon album page.
   
5. Seek slider
   When InfoBox displays the currently playing track, you’ll see the seek slider that indicates the playback position of the current track and allows seeking to a specific position within this track. This feature is currently available with many (but not all) media players.
   

We’d love to hear your thoughts about the new features.

Get FoxyTunes 2.0