Cool like a Fox
| Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 | --Sean |
First off, let's have a quick moment of silence for Yahoo! Music Unlimited's untimely demise. I always had a few issues with the player, but the service itself was great and really allowed me to explore a variety of different types of music. Given that the price is locked down for a while after we move over to Rhapsody, I suppose I'll survive, but still, we'll miss you, Y!MU.
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Alright, but the good news, as mentioned in that blog post, is that we acquired FoxyTunes, which I had never used before and sort of wish I had. As far as I can judge, FoxyTunes is a browser plugin that hooks into any sort of music player that you care to name and allows you to control it from your browser as well as add internet context to whatever you're listening to (in a nutshell). There's still a lot more playing around for me to do, but one neat feature that you can start messing with without downloading anything is FoxyTunes Planet. It's a music search engine that eventually leads to highly customizable artist pages to pull in all sorts of content about the artist from all sorts of sources. The widgets that you can put onto the page are very interactive and very cool, and the ability to define which ones you see allows you to really create a search experience that works for you.