Last week Firefox announced a special edition for college students that includes the Foxytunes plugin, allowing you to listen to music while you browse the web. Inspired, we went on a hunt for more ways to play, learn about and share your favorite tracks while you surf: here are 7 of the best.
allmusic.com Search Toolbar and Popup Menu - The allmusic.com toolbar allows you to conveniently search their site by artist, album, or song. In the latest release, you can also highlight info in a page, right click, and chose to search allmusic.com from the pop-up context menu.
eMusic Toolbar - One of the leading sites for downloading music from independent artists, this toolbar is designed to aid you in finding the music you're looking for. Ease your navigation and get to the parts of the site that matter the most to you quickly.
FoxyTunes - FoxyTunes lets you control virtually any media player on your computer right from your browser as you surf the web. Supports WinAmp, iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine, Pandora, foobar2000, Windows Media Player, Xbox Media Center, Musicmatch, Quintessential, J. River, jetAudio, XMPlay, MediaMonkey, Media Player Classic, Sonique, wxMusik, Real Player, XMMS, Noatun, Juk, Amarok, Music Player Daemon, Rhythmbox and many others. Rated 5/5 on Cnet and a top 15 extension by PC Magazine.
KarClient - Do you ever think, "If only I could sing karaoke as I surf the web...", then this is the extension for you! Record and play back songs at kSolo.com. The site is fully legal and carries a wide selection of styles and genres.
Music Hutch Toolbar - Allows you to shuffle music and videos uploaded to The Music Hutch. Chose to search one or the other and get a quick link to the main site. The site allows you to upload, search, browse, rate and listen to music and watch music videos
Online Music Player - This music player takes up residence in the status-bar and adds the ability to play online mp3s as well as ones stored on your local drive. Will also search and display the lyrics automatically if you want.
TwittyTunes - Works with FoxyTunes to let you send your currently playing tune to your Twitter account. And if not playing music, just use it to send a normal update! Doesn't update automatically, but as you can see,resides in the status bar next to your FoxyTunes for easy access.
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