You spoke, we have listened and delivered. We are happy to announce that FoxyTunes for Firefox now supports Songbird. This has been in the works for a while because we wanted to give you the best experience possible between the two products. Songbird is a great music player and management tool with a suite of impressive features that any music fan is sure to enjoy.

You can now control Songbird from FoxyTunes in Firefox on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux!

To get started make sure you have the latest version of FoxyTunes for Firefox and Songbird. Then select Songbird from the player or Quick Switch menu in FoxyTunes and follow the on-screen instructions. So easy and fun!

We hope you enjoy rocking out with this new feature. As always, we love to hear your feedback. Please check it out and let us know what you think.

On a side note, you might be wondering why support for Songbird differs from other players that work with FoxyTunes. Well, short answer is that Songbird is still evaluating their public control API and we didn’t want to wait until it was ready. We think that Songbird is a great player and we’ve definitely heard from you, our users, that Songbird support is highly desired. While we wait for an official Songbird Control API we’ve created this add-on that allows us to talk directly to Songbird and give you the control you desire.

If you’d like further support and greater compatibility with Songbird, please let our friends know how much you enjoy this feature.

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The latest update for FoxyTunes adds YouTube to the growing list of supported web players. This addition lets you not only control a single video, but also lets you navigate playlists full of videos. Do all this from the convenience of your FoxyTunes toolbar while you are surfing in other tabs.

Install the latest version and try it out with this Country YouTube playlist. Currently this feature only supports videos on YouTube.com, but we’re looking at ways to support embedded videos as well.

We know that you love your music and that YouTube is becoming a great source for music videos. We hope you enjoy this feature as much as we do.

As always, check it out and let us know what you think!

p.s. We’ve heard your feedback on the new version and the requests for Songbird and are already hard at work on the next update. More news to come shortly.

Following our FoxyTunes for Firefox beta release, we are very happy to announce the latest beta of FoxyTunes for IE!

Get FoxyTunes for Internet Explorer v2.5 Beta

As with the latest FoxyTunes for Firefox beta version we’ve added a slew of new improvements. This version includes many of the enhancements we introduced in the latest FoxyTunes for Firefox. Here’s a list of additions we’ve made just for the IE version:

• Added support for Aimp2 player
• Added support for the KMPlayer player
• Added support for the VLC player
• Support for the latest JRiver player
• Updated the skins, including the “classic” skin

To summarize, this latest version is smarter, simpler and more user friendly - all with the goal of making your music listening in IE even more streamlined and enjoyable!

Hopefully you’re as excited about these enhancements as we are. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Hey everyone, today we’re very happy to announce the beta release of FoxyTunes for Firefox v3.5.

Get FoxyTunes for Firefox v3.5 Beta.

We added a ton of improvements to this next release - we’ve made the controls smarter, updated the default skin and improved the menus so that you can do what you want faster and easier. Even though monitors are getting bigger and cheaper we wanted to ensure that FoxyTunes remains compact and useful.

In total we made over 20 improvements, additions, and tweaks to this version of FoxyTunes (click here for a full list), here are just a few examples:

Better player switching

In order to make using multiple players more seamless we’ve added a quick switch menu that lets you jump to other players, pauses your previous player, and shows you which player you’re currently listening to. We’ve also combined the show/hide buttons into the quick switch button so that easy access is just a toggle away.

Player support updates

We’ve added support for Firefox version 3.1, the latest version of VLC, and the latest version of the foobar2000 player. FoxyTunes is also being smart about the players we show in the “Select Player” menu by only showing ones you’ve installed. The full list of supported players is still accessible under the “more” menu.

Smart + Simple = Better

The big themes of this release are smarter and simpler. We’ve put a lot of hard work and thought into how to improve buttons, menus, how players are controlled, and how we can blend the power of FoxyTunes with a streamlined design.

We’re very excited about this release and wanted to share it with you a little early. Check it out here and let us know what you think!

Update: We’ve fixed a few things relating to Wordpress and Signatunes. Have a look and let us know what else you find.

We are very excited to announce that FoxyTunes has been acquired by Yahoo!

So, what does this mean for you, our loyal user? Basically, it means that if you liked what we’ve done with FoxyTunes in the past, you’ll love what we’ll now be able to achieve being a part of Yahoo!. Read on for more details, and I hope you’ll be as excited as we are!
Why did Yahoo! acquire FoxyTunes?
We’ve been talking to the Yahoo! Music team about deepening our cooperation, and we quickly discovered that not only do they understand and appreciate what we’ve done with FoxyTunes, but they also share our vision of Universality and Openness, and are really prepared to take this vision forward and implement it on the largest scale possible! So, it was clear for everyone that an acquisition made sense, because it would allow us to really join forces and work together on our common vision.

What’s going to happen to FoxyTunes?
The FoxyTunes team will become a part of Yahoo! Music and will continue working on FoxyTunes, adding many great things to our products - you’ll see support for additional media players, integration with many additional music sites and services and much more! Our product roadmap and wishlist are quite long and very exciting, and being a part of Yahoo! will really allow us to make many of the things we’ve been planning a reality. Most importantly, Yahoo! are as committed as we are to preserving the Open spirit of FoxyTunes and embracing all the great music products and services out there.

Will this affect user privacy?
As always, your privacy is very important to us and we’ll never do anything to jeopardize it. You can see our privacy policy here.

What does this mean for FoxyTunes users and partners?
If you’re a FoxyTunes user you’ll still get the same unobtrusive but at the same time rich and universal experience you’ve come to expect from FoxyTunes. If you’re our partner, either existing or potential, rest assured that our philosophy of being open hasn’t changed - if you have a media player, music site or service, or in general if your stuff is of interest to music lovers - we’d be happy to work together! We’re planning to release more info on all the various ways of integrating and working with FoxyTunes in the near future.

We’d like to thank everyone who helped and supported us over the years - our passionate users, great partners, investors and friends - we really couldn’t make it without you. A special thanks goes to Yossi Vardi for his amazing support and for believing in us from the very beginning.

Also, check out Yahoo!’s announcement on Yahoo! Music Blog.

We are very excited to be joining the Yahoo! family and can’t wait to show you all the cool things we’re working on.

Stay Tuned!

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.

Good news, following my previous post, we fixed a few issues and now FoxyTunes can again show what’s playing in your Pandora

You can get the latest FoxyTunes version from here.

Klim Levene, a young Canadian filmmaker has created two cool Firefox ads for the wonderful Firefox Flicks contest.

Klim wrote me to say that he loves FoxyTunes, and his first ad called “Pandora’s Box” features FoxyTunes as one of the benefits of using Firefox. The 3D part of this ad was done by Masha Levene.

The second clip is called “Ahhh, Nerts!”. It makes me laugh each time I see it
You can check out more of Klim’s work on his short films page.

Thanks, Klim!

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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