Today we’re releasing a few updates - a new version of FoxyTunes for Firefox and several enhancements to FoxyTunes Planet.

Following our mission to support any media players you might be using, the latest FoxyTunes for Firefox now supports AIMP2 and The KMPlayer media players. Stay tuned for more popular players being supported in the near future

We are also launching several enhancements on the FoxyTunes Planet website – first, there’s a whole new Yahoo! Music Videos widget, so now you have a choice between YouTube and Yahoo! Music video catalogs. The Rhapsody widget has been enhanced to play the top artist tracks right there on the page using the FoxyPlayer. We also tweaked the page layout a bit, and while we had to disable the Yahoo! Image Search and Hype Machine widgets for now, we’re definitely planning to add tons of cool new stuff to the pages in the near future. Finally, you no longer need to create an account and login to persist your widget layout and settings – so if you want to tweak anything in the new layout, feel free to do it without logging in.

Hope you like the new Foxy stuff, 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.

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!

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!

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.

First, if you haven’t heard about Pandora yet, you should definitely give it a try. It’s a great way of discovering new music and I’m sure you’ll love it!

Lately we received many user requests to add Pandora support to FoxyTunes. While listening to Pandora, our users really missed the convenience of always knowing which track is playing. Also, many of them find themselves looking for the Pandora player among many open tabs or windows, when they want to skip a track or change a station.

Basically, our users wanted the same convenience that FoxyTunes provides with their other media players (Winamp, iTunes etc.).

So, we decided to support Pandora in FoxyTunes. Currently, FoxyTunes will allow you to:

1. See what’s playing on your Pandora.
2. Automatically launch the Pandora Web site and by that the embedded Pandora player, if it isn’t already open.
3. Show the Pandora Web player. This is an interesting feature. If Pandora is running in its own window - this will show that window. If Pandora is running in a tab - “show player” will raise that tab. “Hide player” will return you to the tab you were working in before hitting “Show player”.
4. Volume - you can control the volume and mute. This currently controls your system volume (on Windows, Mac and Linux).
5. Multi platform - the controller works (at least partially) on all platforms.

In future versions, we’ll try to allow pausing and skipping tracks right from FoxyTunes, controlling Pandora’s volume instead of the global one and other useful features.

A related new feature - we call it “Quick Player Switching”. It allows you to see which player is selected and switch between the most used players. The icon of the current player is displayed in the FoxyTunes main menu, along with up to three last players used (if any).

I hope you find all this as useful as we do
Get the new FoxyTunes Preview version (1.3) with Pandora support here.

[edit] Looks like Pandora have changed the way the currently playing track is displayed, so FoxyTunes is no longer able to pick that up. We’ll try to get this fixed and keep you updated. Stay tuned
[update] We fixed this - our latest preview version (1.3.1) can again show what’s playing in your Pandora

FoxyTunes was reviewed by Michael Methvin as part of About.com “Firefox Extensions You Can’t Live Without” series and was featured on their front page.

Thanks Michael!

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Some highlights from the FoxyTunes past:

• The new FoxyTunes 1.2 is now public! Version 1.2 adds Firefox 1.5 compatibility, support for Yahoo! Music Engine and several other tweaks and improvements. FoxyTunes 1.2 is released as a CNET Download.com Exclusive and is featured on Download.com front page.
  December 1, 2005

• FoxyTunes is awarded with Softpedia Pick Award and receives a 5 star rating. Also, FoxyTunes receives “100% CLEAN” Softpedia certification for being completely clean of any spyware and other malicious code.
  September 29, 2005

• FoxyTunes receives Download.com’s top “Our Favorite Freeware” Editors’ Pick and is featured on the Download.com front page.
  August 10, 2005

• FoxyTunes and ColorZilla are named by PC Magazine as two of the Top 15 Firefox Extensions.
  February 2, 2005

• A new version of FoxyTunes is available. Version 1.1 adds Unicode support, seek slider, alarm clock, sleep timer and more. A complete list of the new features can be found here.I would like to thank The Extensions Mirror for helping bring this version of FoxyTunes to all the existing users.
  January 17, 2005

• FoxyTunes is named as one of Top Download Picks of 2004 by PC World.
  January 3, 2005

• ChattyTunes - a plugin for the ChatZilla IRC client released.
  The plugin was written by David Corry and Gijs Kruitbosch.
  November 6, 2004

• FoxyTunes supports many popular media players on three major platforms - Windows, Linux and Mac OS and works with all the main Mozilla products - Firefox, Thunderbird and the Mozilla Suite.
  October 22, 2004