Let’s face it, we’re addicted to music. We want our music to be with us wherever we go. Well, now we’ve got one more place you can take your music. The new FoxyTunes plug-in for Yahoo! Messenger puts your music at your fingertips while you’re chatting with your friends.

Just like FoxyTunes for Firefox and Internet Explorer, FoxyTunes for Yahoo! Messenger let’s you control your favorite media players. The plug-in also updates your Messenger status so you can let your friends know what you’re listening to. And, of course, you can use FoxyTunes to help you find more information about the music you’re listening to.

To get the plug-in, visit the Yahoo! Messenger gallery.

You can also get the plug-in from the Plug-ins Manager in Messenger by clicking “Add Plug-ins”.

Let us know what you think. You can send us feedback by clicking here.

We’re back with another FoxyTunes and TwittyTunes update.  With this latest release, we’ve added support for Microsoft’s Zune Software. The Zune Software lets you manage your catalog and discover new music in a way that feels more like a record store than a spreadsheet.  You can check it out by clicking here.

We’ve also updated TwittyTunes in this latest release to include support for Windows Live Messenger.  Now, you can let your friends see what you’re listening to, whether you’re using Yahoo! Messenger or Windows Live Messenger.

That’s it for now.  Tell us what else you’d like to see added to FoxyTunes or just drop us a note with your feedback.

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Thanks
–Dave

More good news – our last release of FoxyTunes we added support for two great music services. Deezer is a music website that provides on-demand, free, and unlimited listening experiences for users around the world. Currently the top music website in France, Deezer has been wowing users across Europe since 2007. You can easily discover and stream an unlimited amount of music for free while still supporting Artists. Deezer shares advertising revenue with artists and content rights holders in order to provide a wonderful (and free) experience to you, the music lover.

We’re big fans of Deezer and are excited to provide support for their service in FoxyTunes. Read more about the integration, in french, on their website. Bienvenue Deezer!

Additionally, we’ve added support for Blip.fm. Blip.fm is a great service that let’s you broadcast your favorite music and playlists to your friends on Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook and many more. You can be your own DJ or listen to your friends’ discoveries all from the convenience of their website. Tell us what additional features you’d like to see.

Please drop us a note with your feedback. We love to hear from you!

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A little over two years ago we embarked on a project called TwittyTunes. This addition to FoxyTunes was an experiment in letting people share what they listen to by posting to Twitter. Over time we’ve received lots of great feedback about TwittyTunes and have seen healthy use in our community. Thank you!

Today we’re excited to announce that TwittyTunes is officially a default feature within FoxyTunes! In addition to Twitter we’ve add support for Facebook, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Last.fm, and Yahoo! Status. With these services we let you share on your own terms – you can manually send messages to your social networks as well as setting up automatic services like Last.fm scrobbling. Install the new FoxyTunes now and begin by clicking on the share button shown below:

FoxyTunes is still the easiest way to share what you’re listening to. With one click you can let your friends on multiple social networks know what you’re listening to.

You can also automatically update your Skype and Yahoo! Messenger statuses while scrobbling directly to Last.fm.

This is a big step in sharing music on the web. It connects you and your friends with your music in real-time across the web. You can discover what your friends are listening to no matter where they listen to it – then get more info about the music through FoxyTunes Planet and Y! Music. Share more and discover great music!

We will be working hard over the coming months to add more services to TwittyTunes and make your sharing experience even simpler and easier. As always, please let us know what you think of this new major version of FoxyTunes. Also, we would love to hear what services should be in our next release. We thrive on your comments.

If you like it, tell your friends!

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If you haven’t heard about Spotify, it’s a new music service gaining popularity in western Europe. Some reviewers have called it the latest and greatest thing to happen to the music industry. Here’s how they describe themselves (we couldn’t agree more):

“Spotify is a new way to enjoy music. Simply download and install, before you know it you’ll be singing along to the genre, artist or song of your choice. With Spotify you are never far away from the song you want.

There are no restrictions in terms of what you can listen to or when. Forget about the hassle of waiting for files to download and fill up your hard drive before you get round to organising them. Spotify is instant, fun and simple.”

We’ve been hard at work on FoxyTunes and we’re proud to announce that in this release you can control Spotify from FireFox on Windows. We will be working hard over the coming months to extend that reach to IE and Mac. In the meantime, please let us know what you think of the feature as well as dropping a note to our friends over at Spotify.

If it’s supported in your country, go get yourself a copy. We hope it crosses the pond sometime soon because it’s a great product and we’re quite addicted to it.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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!