“Control your music from Firefox”

One of the best Firefox extensions you'll find, FoxyTunes lets you control any media player from your browser.

FoxyTunes is really the ideal add-on if you listen to your music all the time and are tired of switching back and forth between your browser and your media player. The extension fits discreetly at the bottom of your browser window, and includes all the basic playback buttons. You can also have it appear as a floating window, called FoxyTunes Mini. Advanced users will also enjoy being able to control it via keyboard shortcuts.

What makes FoxyTunes such an exceptional add-on though is its customizability. Not only can you add all sorts of skins, but you can also associate with any of the most popular media player, including online services like Last.FM, Pandora or Rhapsody Online. And since Yahoo! has acquired FoxyTunes you'll also now get fresh content from Yahoo! News and Yahoo! Music related to the music you're playing.

Via FoxyTunes Planet, which opens up in a new browser window, you can get search for any track, album or artist and get all sorts of content such as video, articles or audio from your results.

Despite the volume slider not being very precise, FoxyTunes is the ultimate Firefox extension for music lovers. It works with any player and also displays additional content on the music you're playing.

Languages:

English

Recent changes in FoxyTunes Extension:

Post songs from your recent history as a Signatune
Post any song as a Signatune, even without playing it
Support new Gmail and Yahoo Mail versions in Signatunes

OS requirements for FoxyTunes Extension:

OS: Win2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista

Minimum requirements:

Internet Explorer 6 or later
Firefox 1.5 or later

Pros

Works with any player
Keyboard shortcuts
Skinnable and localizable
FoxyTunes Planet

Cons

Volume slider not very precise

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From the publisher of FoxyTunes Extension

FoxyTunes is an Extension for Mozilla Firefox. It also supports the Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Thunderbird. It allows you to control your favorite media player without leaving the browser. The controls are positioned on the status bar or one of the toolbars, so no extra space is wasted. You can control the playback, adjust the volume, and see what's playing.

Check out these great features:

Multiplatform - works on MS Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
Supports many popular media players, will support more players in future versions
Also supports the Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Thunderbird
Position anywhere in the browser - on the status bar or on one of the toolbars
Volume controls
Seek Slider
Configurable keyboard shortcuts
Currently playing track information
Customizable and collapsible
Auto-hide
Skinnable and localizable.
Automatically launch your player when needed
Pop up and hide the player window with a click
Correctly shows track information encoded in any language, supports Unicode
Alarm Clock and Sleep Timer
No third-party controller applications and plugins - everything is done efficiently by the FoxyTunes extension