FoxAmp Firefox extension integrates Winamp into browser

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FoxAmp Firefox extension integrates Winamp into browser

June 28, 2004

More and more cool Mozilla Firefox extensions seem to be popping up nowadays. FoxAmp is a Firefox extension that integrates (to an extent) Winamp into the Firefox browser. It adds several buttons into your statusbar, allowing you to play, stop, pause, and change tracks.

There isn’t any indication of which track is being played (umm, beyond listening and recognizing it with your sense of hearing, that is), which I got around with the Lounge skin that I’m currently using (it displays a small window for a short while indicating the track name when a new track is played).

Still, a very cool tool added to my list of favorite extensions.

Posted by Chu Yeow at June 28, 2004 SGT |

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Now if only someone would make one that works with iTunes… it wouldn’t be that hard either if JS could hook into COM, since iTunes has COM bindings.

If there was such an extension, I could easily convince some of my itunes-using friends to use fx, to get over the missing feature in itunes to always keep the app on top (something winamp *does* have, which imho, makes this a useless extension, even if it is cool, because you can just keep the app on top, above yout titlebar, see what’s playing, and have access to the whole app).

jason

Posted by: Jason on June 28, 2004 9am

WinAMP in Firefox? @_@||| Why…

Posted by: minghong on June 28, 2004 10am

Interesting that they uploaded it to UMO. They claimed previously that every extension would need to have their source code checked before uploading, and I honestly disbelieve that they’ve done it.

Posted by: Anonymous on June 28, 2004 5pm

I would love integration like this with iTunes.

Posted by: Orrin on June 29, 2004 5am

I have what I think is a cool FireFox extension called “Lookahead” - it can be found at my URL given here (I don’t know - some places don’t want URLs given in the comment I guess)

It will give you Google search results like “I feel lucky” but for up to ten results (configurable).

Try it out - I spent a lot of time on it and I would like some people to try it and tell me if they like it…

Posted by: B Rintoul on June 29, 2004 2pm

Will be very cool if in the status bar also you get the song scrolled and much much better if also you can click it and load the winamp playlist….

Posted by: Nehemoth on July 12, 2004 2am

hmm…just installed it…looks great n all…but it leaves my winamp up….might as well just use winamp =\

awesome otherwise…cant wait for updates or skin-personalized

Posted by: Jumpy on August 15, 2004 1pm

[quote]hmm…just installed it…looks great n all…but it leaves my winamp up….might as well just use winamp =\

awesome otherwise…cant wait for updates or skin-personalized[/quote]

You must hide winamp for yourselft…
Go to Option>preferences >General Preferences and Uncheck Taskbar and System Tray. Down to File Types and Uncheck System Tray…and Voila

Posted by: Nehemoth on August 16, 2004 12am

Do a search for FoxyTunes. It’s a Firefox plugin that works with the newest Firefox that works with WMP, Winamp 5.x, iTunes, and a billion other audio players.

Posted by: Ian on October 21, 2004 8am

I have a problem when i try to watch some videos in my internet browser, it always ask me for a windows media player plug in, that firefox can’t find, i don’t like microsoft windows media player, i just noly want to know how to make winamp my video player and that this integret with my internet browser

Posted by: OJ on March 28, 2008 1pm

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