While we all sit back and wait for iTunes 9 and the rumored support of Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm, Yahoo decided to beat Apple to the punch with a major FoxyTunes update.

FoxyTunes is the browser add-on that gives you the ability to control any media player – iTunes, Last.fm, Pandora, Windows Media Player – while browsing the web. Now the nifty plugin has added its side project, TwittyTunes, as a defaut feature. With the new FoxyTunes you can manually or automatically share the music you#8217;re listening to with the social web.

The FoxyTunes team has built in the ability to share your music with Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, Last.fm, and Yahoo Status. You can manually share with each service by clicking on the share button (the double arrow button) as you listen, adding and customizing text to include, selecting your service(s), and hitting send.

Your status updates will then include a link to the FoxyTunes music page (like this one) for the shared song. You can turn auto-udpates on for Last.fm scrobbling, as well as automatically update your Skype and Yahoo Messenger status with each new song.

While FoxyTunes was already an incredibly useful browser add-on, it#8217;s now a social music service giving us one-click sharing options to our favorite social sites. It#8217;s the features we#8217;ve always wanted from iTunes, but on a much broader scale because it works for any of our favorite media players.

Reviews: Facebook, FoxyTunes, Pandora, Skype, Twitter

Tags: FoxyTunes, itunes, music, social music, twittytunes

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