FoxyTunes 2.0 - Connecting Web and Music
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:
- Web searches - find lyrics, artist images, videos, bios and more, while listening to music with FoxyTunes
- Info Box - your music “dashboard”. Shows song info, album art, recent history and more…
- Podcasts and feeds - quickly preview any podcast, stream any or all episodes to your player, and, if you like what you hear, subscribe
- Web media - find music on the Web pages you visit, and stream it to your media player with a click
- 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…
June 26th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Amazing.
I didn’t think this extension could get much better but this is light years ahead of 1.x. It’s going to take me a week just to sample everything it can do.
June 26th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
I concur with Webb.
Awesome. I even blogged about it, and that I hardly do
June 27th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
You’ll add a support for discogs.com for searching discographies ;o) Pls
June 28th, 2006 at 10:12 am
One of the best extensions for firefox, in my opinion. And with all the neat things 2.0 can do, it’s going to stay at the top \:D/
June 28th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Wow, this is awesome. And do you know what would be even ‘awesomer’? If I could switch search to use my FF search plugins instead! That way we can have any search engines we want.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Looks very cool, indeed. Unfortunately though I’m not getting the progress bar in the infobox.
I’m using foobar2000 0.92, Firefox 1.5.0.4 and obviously Foxytunes 2.0 Preview 1.
Is that a bug? Or isn’t the progress bar supported with foobar2000?
btw, this is one of the few extensions I couldn’t live without. keep it up.
June 29th, 2006 at 6:19 am
Just got a link from the site admin for my thread (found in the wishlist section, under my same alias name).
I was so impressed that they replied to both my email and thread about my ideas, but to actually have something that is better than what I (and many) expected just shows the brilliance of the dedicated FoxyTunes team.
Support the greatest extension ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Such a shame that I don’t actually have my own internet at home :-(, I’ve got to use a family relatives and wait until I get back to Uni! ;-
July 1st, 2006 at 3:49 am
Cool.It’s very useful.I really love it.good job.
Excuse me .My poor english.
July 1st, 2006 at 11:09 am
so cool
this expasion find d covers of brazilian music
fantastic !
July 1st, 2006 at 12:43 pm
@larryni
Yeah, I’d like to see some ability to customize the search engines.
July 3rd, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Webb, larryni: customizing the search engines is definitely planned
asdiomar: currently, the seek slider isn’t implemented for foobar2000
Thanks for your kind words, guys
July 4th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Wonderful extension, I just spent hours listening to music and reading stuff.
One addition that would be worthwhile, would be the ability to search your own catalogue by track, artist or album from a right-click on a blocked text on a web page. Right now, you can only search the web not your own catalogue. For example, while reading Wikipedia articles about an artist, I would allow us to start playing that artist right away. That feature would also be useful when reading about a specific song like “Dancing in the streets” I could quickly find out that I have 3 versions, one by Martha and the Vandellas, one by Van Hallen and the one with Bowie and Jagger and then chose which one I’d like to play. I know that it is not an easy one but that’s only a suggestion. Thanks again for this great extension…
July 5th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
Hey alex,
Was wondering how the album-art feature works. I have all the album art in the correct locations, but it only displays the foxytunes cover. Perhaps having that option customizable? Or is it getting the data from the media player?
July 5th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
@erissiva: currently, we are getting the album art from amazon. the next beta (will be out soon) will also look in your local folders for the album cover image files. can you please drop us a note at http://www.foxytunes.com/feedback.html with some details about your setup - we’ll see if we can further improve this.
July 5th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
It’s great! I’ve been playing with it all day. This is now the best extension for firefox, ever. I too have given it a plug on my blog.
P.S. -Though I definitely concur with the customizing search engines thing. I’d rather use Google than Ask.
July 28th, 2006 at 2:52 am
sorry, but the preview simply won’t install for me
it says “installing” anfd then simply won’t appear in the extensions…last stable firefox…
July 28th, 2006 at 3:07 am
eugene: looks like it might be a firefox problem… please drop us a note to http://www.foxytunes.com/feedback.html and we’ll sort it out
July 28th, 2006 at 7:52 am
One of the best extension for firefox.
The only extension with so many cool features for music lovers.
A complete application in itself.
Great tool.
Adding a auto - lyrics scroll (Similar to evil lyrics s/w) will add another 100 stars to this 1000 starred extension.
September 21st, 2006 at 4:35 pm
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September 23rd, 2006 at 11:38 am
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September 24th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant,
however I know you can cycle through the tracks you have recently played, but I would like to see a play button on this option to play any tracks that you have already played!
would be highly appreciated,
and it would be nice to see some funky new skins, fraid I don’t have time to try this.
September 24th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
I would also like to see a function for queing tracks
September 26th, 2006 at 10:16 am
Great, well until I got the new iTunes. Now it only says its idle.
Would be great if it got sorted!!
October 1st, 2006 at 4:54 am
foxytunes has gota be the best extension i have installed on firefox!!! well done!
one thing i recon that can be added to make it perfect is a play timer, telling how long the song is and how much has been played, if u cn add that it will be the best thing invented!!!
October 15th, 2006 at 1:30 am
Is there a way to save Track/Song Information History in a file?
October 20th, 2006 at 1:20 am
Greatest extention ever! Especially since WMP is a CPU hogger, and winamp isn’t stable running on XP, it’d be awesome if foxytunes can streamcast you’re playlist with others similar to shoutcast
November 26th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
I really hate not to be able to play anything. I feel so frustrated!!!
I click on search…Nothing! (not highlighted or the link to anywhere!
I’m happy for those that can get the music, but I’m not one of them.
Monik.
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:07 am
@MoniK - drop us a line to http://foxytunes.com/feedback.html and we’ll help you