Musicmatch Jukebox
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| Developed by | Yahoo! / Musicmatch Inc. |
| Initial release | ? |
| Written in | ? |
| OS | Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | ? |
| Genre | Media player |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.musicmatch.com |
Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Yahoo! Musicmatch, Inc, is an audio player that manages a digital audio library. It contains an online music store, Internet radio, CD playback and ripping software, and other features commonly found in jukebox software.
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[edit] Musicmatch
Musicmatch is the former company (founded in 1997) that developed the Musicmatch Jukebox software. Their other products included Musicmatch Radio, Musicmatch Music Store, and Musicmatch On Demand. The original Musicmatch name and brand were developed by Creative Multimedia and were part of a series of media-oriented online resources, including Moviematch.
On September 14, 2004 Yahoo! announced that it was going to acquire Musicmatch. The acquisition was completed on October 19, 2004 for a reported price of US $160 million.
[edit] Yahoo!
As of Musicmatch 10.1, Yahoo! branding was incorporated. The former logo has been replaced by a pure Yahoo! purple logo, and the Y! Music logo replaces the location of the Musicmatch logo elsewhere in the product. The Music Store now uses Yahoo! IDs for authentication. Version 10.1 of the Jukebox is no longer available on the Musicmatch website. In its place, the website now offers the Yahoo! Music Jukebox. In mid 2007 Yahoo! began migrating Musicmatch users to the Yahoo! Music Jukebox with plans to discontinue the Musicmatch service on August 31, 2007. Many Musicmatch purists are disappointed that Yahoo has stripped the latest Jukebox of some of its best features like file renaming and consider the migration anything but an upgrade[1].
Yahoo has disabled the Super tagging function that automatically analyzes songs and assigns tag elements (Artist, Album, Track Name and Number). However the Musicmatch 10.1 can still be used to modify tags for a single song or groups of songs and then rename files based on those tag elements. The software remains highly functional for tagging and organize music.
A very interesting method has been employed by Yahoo to get users of Musicmatch Jukebox 10 to upgrade to Yahoo Music Jukebox. Yahoo is quietly accessing end users Musicmatch installs and modifying them make the program nagware, regardless of whether they have checked or unchecked the "Check for upgrades" box in programs setting. Once a Musicmatch has been modified by Yahoo it will nag to upgrade every time the program runs and there is no way to undo this except by renaming / removing certain program files within the Musicmatch directory or by rolling back from a backup. There is no "No Thanks" when the nagware is activated and this happens even if you have the "paid for" plus version.
[edit] Partnerships
Musicmatch Jukebox was provided on most Dell consumer computers as Dell Jukebox by Musicmatch. As such, the branded version contains Dell logos, integration with Dell Digital DJ, and integration with Dell's Media Experience product, and a co-branded music store (Dell Music Store).
Musicmatch Jukebox was also provided to Earthlink customers as Earthlink Jukebox by Musicmatch. It is similar to the Dell product, except that it is still based on the older Musicmatch Jukebox 9.0 product. The effect of the Musicmatch/Yahoo! merger on this co-branding agreement is unknown at this time.
[edit] Apple iPod and Musicmatch
On July 17, 2002 Apple introduced the first iPod for Windows, which included the Musicmatch Jukebox to manage the user's music library and transfer music to the iPod. With the introduction of iTunes for Windows on October 16, 2003 they stopped bundling the Musicmatch software.
[edit] Software
The Jukebox has a graphical interface and allows users to manage a catalogue of digital music, as well as CD and stream-based audio. It has a fairly advanced AutoDJ but has been noted as having a longer boot-up time than other players. A free version is available at the website. The Plus version includes faster rip and burn times, exportable tables and tech support, as well as a "Super-Tagging" function that fetches for tags and album art and attaches them to the song file. These features were all meant to be incentives to upgrade from the free version, which lacks them. Of course, an alternate approach is using other free tools or software pre-installed on many new PCs to actually rip and burn music, while using MusicMatch to manage a library of those music files.
Despite some early reliability issues, Musicmatch 10 is a very stable and versatile program that has good tagging and search functions. As a music library player it is adequate with excellent library viewing and searching functions. It allows searchable and customizable fields and multi-track tag editing. It is, however, now rendered virtually worthless due to Yahoo! removing perhaps its most useful and catching feature, 'super-tagging', rather than improving it, much to the disappointment of great numbers of users who had paid just to use this feature.
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