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

It’s my pleasure to announce that a preview version of FoxyTunes 2.0 is finally here. We’ve been working very hard on this new version, and I hope you’ll be as excited about it as we are!

Get the new FoxyTunes 2.0 preview version

Our goal with FoxyTunes 2.0 is to remove the boundaries between your favorite media players and the Web!

With FoxyTunes 2.0:

• You can listen to music with your media players and see what the Web has to say about what’s playing – lyrics, images, videos, album covers, bios and more – with a single click and without ever leaving your browser!
• You can surf the Web and stream the great music you find – mp3s, podcasts and more, directly to your favorite media players.

You don’t have to install a new media player or a special browser to do all that. FoxyTunes allows you to explore the Web of Music with your favorite media players within your favorite browser.

Our approach with FoxyTunes is:

• Don’t replace, enhance – support the things you already have and love
• Be tiny and unobtrusive – FoxyTunes is there to complement

FoxyTunes 2.0 has many new features, too many to fit into a single post. The main new features are:

1. Web searches – find lyrics, artist images, videos, bios and more, while listening to music with FoxyTunes
2. Info Box – your music “dashboard”. Shows song info, album art, recent history and more…
3. Podcasts and feeds – quickly preview any podcast, stream any or all episodes to your player, and, if you like what you hear, subscribe
4. Web media – find music on the Web pages you visit, and stream it to your media player with a click
5. FoxyTunes Mini – the only music desktop widget with its own tabbed browser!

We created a short screencast demonstrating the new FoxyTunes features – check it out:

This is only the beginning – we are working on great new stuff that will be announced soon…