FoxyTubes
| Monday, June 15th, 2009 | --Sean |
I'm sure that record companies shudder to hear this, but YouTube has become an awesome place to listen to music online. It's pretty much guaranteed that if there's a moderately popular song that you like, someone else has already uploaded the official music video, or added a lyrics track, or used it as the background music for their artsy animated film -- instead of having to hunt down the track to download yourself, you can whet your aural appetite just by entering a search request.
Oh, yeah, and there's probably a bunch of legal use cases, too.
Regardless, given YouTube's utility towards listening to music, it only makes sense that FoxyTunes has added in support for controlling YouTube videos from your toolbar. It works perfectly fine for managing a single video, but really shines when you load up a playlist. For instance, I recently watched Wicked and, embarrassing though it may be, I sometimes get a hankering for listening to some quality musical numbers. I can just load a video in an appropriate playlist in another tab, and then go about my work in my other tabs while pretending that the YouTube playlist is just any other collection of songs that I can jump around between (or mute when anyone I'm trying to impress walks by!). It's certainly significantly easier than having to jump back to the tab whenever you need to skip around (though you can do that pretty easily, too, just by clicking the "YouTube" button in the tray) and is a great overall addition to FoxyTunes. Upgrade to the latest version (latest meaning as of May 14th...as you know, I missed a few updates) to try it out!
