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New FoxyTunes plug-in: Control and share your music

October 28, 2009 on 11:32 am | In 10 version, 9.0 version, Features | 52 Comments

Our Mac users have had this for awhile, but now our Windows users can also control their music player and share what they’re listening to with friends using Yahoo! Messenger.

The new FoxyTunes from Yahoo! Music plug-in lets you easily control your desktop music player as well as share the track you’re listening to in your Yahoo! Messenger status.

To get started, install the FoxyTunes plug-in, available for users on Yahoo! Messenger 8.1, 9.0 or 10. Once it’s loaded, click the “Select Player” menu and choose from a long list of players that are supported by the plug-in. All the biggies are there – Windows Media Player, iTunes, RealPlayer, Winamp, Musicmatch – plus many more.

When you select a player, it will launch it on your desktop (if it’s not already open). Then use the controls in the FoxyTunes plug-in to begin playing the song, skip to the next song, pause, adjust volume or move ahead in the song by clicking the progress bar.

To share what you’re listening to with your Yahoo! Messenger friends, click the “Share your music” icon (the one with two arrows on it). Be sure the box for “Display current song as your status message” is checked, and then click your status message menu at the top to select the currently playing song from the list. When the next song comes on, your status will automatically update.

Another handy feature in the plug-in is the ability to open and play an audio file from your desktop. Just click the “Play File” icon and choose the song you want to play.

The plug-in also includes quick access to the accompanying music website, FoxyTunes Planet. Click the FoxyTunes Planet button while listening to a track and you’ll go to a page for that artist which includes the latest news, lyrics for the song you’re currently playing, more tracks you can listen to right on the page, plus videos.

When you’re sharing your music via your status message, friends will also be able to click on your status message and be taken to the artist page on FoxyTunes Planet.

To add the FoxyTunes plug-in to your Yahoo! Messenger, visit the plug-in page on the website or click the “Add Plug-ins” button in your main Messenger window and select it from the list.

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager


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  1. Ms. Bacon there appears to be a typo on the plugin page:

    “Last updated:
    Wed, 31 December 1969

    Version:
    1.0 “

    Comment by SGFC — October 28, 2009 #

  2. @SFGC – Wow, this plug-in is an oldie! Thanks for the heads up. I’ll get that updated.

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — October 28, 2009 #

  3. It will not work for me, all I get is an error message telling me “Oops! We’ve had an error. FoxyTunes encountered an issue. Restarting your computer will fix the issue. No rush, whenever you’re ready.” After rebooting I get the same error message.

    Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 64bit
    Messenger 10.0.0.542-us BETA

    Error report page failed repeatedly too

    Comment by sarcastik1 — October 28, 2009 #

  4. Oh good, it trashed the plug-in manager too, now I can’t even uninstall it. Nor can I install or uninstall any other plug-ins.

    Comment by sarcastik1 — October 28, 2009 #

  5. After a Windows alert dialog box informing me of compatibility issues I rebooted a second time, this at least got me another install dialog box from FoxyTunes, although it still didn’t work. A third reboot got it, but I still have no access to the plug-in manager which was working fine right up to the point of installing FoxyTunes.

    Comment by sarcastik1 — October 28, 2009 #

  6. It’s not updating my status!!

    Comment by K — October 29, 2009 #

  7. [...] Yahoo announced the new plugin for yahoo messenger Foxy tunes, which is also a very popular addon for Mozilla Firefox to control your multi media player. [...]

    Pingback by Show Yahoo messenger Status as Current playing Song Foxy Tunes — October 29, 2009 #

  8. @sarcastik1 – please contact us at info@foxytunes.com and we’ll do our best to solve this issue.

    Nimrod Bar
    FoxyTunes

    Comment by Nimrod Bar — October 29, 2009 #

  9. Very god job really need this plug-in to share with my friends a song…but I have installed it and it is not updating my status…please make it work…
    Cheers..

    Comment by Ionutz — October 29, 2009 #

  10. A nice little plug-in. I was looking forward for something like this and it is working as it should. Thanks!

    Comment by robert szombati — October 30, 2009 #

  11. It’s now been 6 restarts of my computer. I have uninstalled, re-installed, then again uninstalled Messenger 10 and downgraded back to Messenger 9. I still have no access to the plug in manager so I can not uninstall this plug-in, uninstall any existing plug-ins or install any new ones. The Plug-in manager is merely a blank window. It worked perfectly before i installed FoxyTunes.

    I recommend avoiding this for now, until the bugs are fixed. It works great but it’s really not worth the collateral damage.

    Comment by sarcastik1 — October 30, 2009 #

  12. @Nimrod Bar – e-mail sent

    Comment by sarcastik1 — October 30, 2009 #

  13. Can someone please direct me to where I can get support for Yahoo Messenger on Blackberry? I see many people complaining on Twitter about not being able to log in through their phones (I have BB Storm recently upgraded to 5.0 OS). I was hoping there might be a blog post about the outage as it’s been days for a number of us!

    Any help would be great. Thanks.

    Comment by Warren — November 1, 2009 #

  14. hi, sarah i cant get the the plugin to work ive tried 3 times i have yahoo messenger 10

    Comment by Jen — November 1, 2009 #

  15. great job it works perfectly..=]

    Comment by koulitz — November 3, 2009 #

  16. Why doesn’t my Yahoo messenger show the note thing?
    it’s just showing this box. What font should I have?

    Comment by Chet — November 3, 2009 #

  17. I’ve installed re-installed restarted my computer and still it doesn’t work I keep getting the error message. I have windows vista 64 bit please help!

    Comment by Brittaney — November 8, 2009 #

  18. I have waited to get a plug in that shows what I am listening to on my yahoo, other than yahoo music. but the foxy tunes do not work. this is what is says : “Oops! We’ve had an error. FoxyTunes encountered an issue. Restarting your computer will fix the issue. No rush, whenever you’re ready.. i also was wondering if you guys continue to send emails out, because its beena long time since I received one, so I had to came and check what is new.

    Comment by Trance — November 10, 2009 #

  19. What makes you think that all of your subscribers will continue to use Yahoo Messenger? I will go to a more pleasant messenger service. You are being too directive Sarah. I don’t appreciate anyone telling me what I must do. You are accustomed to dealing with sheep. I’m not part of the food chain.

    Comment by Bob Brown — November 13, 2009 #

  20. It doesn’t work!

    The error message is: “Oops! We’ve had an error. FoxyTunes encountered an issue. Restarting your computer will fix the issue. No rush, whenever you’re ready.”

    I’ve tried all: restart computer, uninstall ym, reinstall ym.

    I get always the same message.

    Comment by Frion — November 27, 2009 #

  21. My yahoo launchCast plug no longer works and I also get the error message for FoxyTunes. Restarted and reinstalled several times. Nothing works.

    Help!!

    Comment by Faith — December 8, 2009 #

  22. i’m still pissed they released this thing when it clearly does not work on the majority of computer systems – what a frustrating mess!

    no yahoo plug in exists for the simple function of setting your status to what you are playing – seems it somehow requires rocket science

    emailed foxytunes to no avail – they sent a zip patch that they wanted me to unzip to a non-existent folder

    Comment by steve — December 16, 2009 #

  23. Finally! I’ve been wanting to do this so badly and was always frustrated that I had to listen to Yahoo!Music in order to share what I’m listening to!

    It works perfectly to me…so far.

    Thanks!

    Comment by Dee — January 23, 2010 #

  24. It doesn’t work for me though. Here so many times I got this message over and over again.
    “FoxyTunes encountered an issue. Restarting your computer will fix the issue. No rush, whenever you’re ready”

    Is there anybody know how to fix it?

    Comment by Tae Nguyen — January 27, 2010 #

  25. it works for me! thanks!

    Comment by inideedee — February 6, 2010 #

  26. Foxytunes = sucks. “FoxyTunes encountered an issue. Restarting your computer will fix the issue. No rush, whenever you’re ready”

    Comment by Jokko — February 10, 2010 #

  27. work, perfectly on ym 10 after many attempts. Finally..

    Comment by alex — March 15, 2010 #

  28. I am new user to yahoo messenger, its a great too for instant messaging and this is a cool feature.

    Comment by Career Outlook — August 14, 2010 #

  29. well it does not for me… i’m just curious how to fix this
    demmit..!

    Comment by adam — October 14, 2010 #

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  31. this is how to fix this! delete all registry about foxy tunes anh try to install it again:D

    Comment by alex — April 28, 2011 #

  32. I have a message that My father likes yahoo .

    Comment by Buy MBT — June 17, 2011 #

  33. I found a solution to below problem…
    “oops! We’ve encountered an error. Restarting your computer will fix the issue.”

    This may not be the right solution for all similar issues but it worked for me…

    Steps:
    1. Open any contact in yahoo messenger.
    2. Click on “Activities” icon.
    3. Select “View All Activities…”.
    4. Click on “Stop” button corresponding to FoxyTunes plugin.
    5. Click on delete/trash icon corresponding to FoxyTunes plugin. This will prompt for uninstalling Foxy Tunes completely from computer. Follow the steps to uninstall.
    6. Install Foxy Tunes again in the computer. http://messenger.yahoo.com/plugins/view/4001/

    Comment by nadhan — December 27, 2011 #

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