MusicMatch jazzes up Jukebox

MusicMatch, a music software company, announced on Tuesday a new version of its Jukebox with on-demand streaming.

Jukebox 9.0 features a search engine for browsing tracks and lets people rank searches by popularity, the company said. The feature is designed to let customers buy and manage music that's downloaded, recorded from CD or streamed on demand in one place.

MusicMatch said subscribers can legally share complete playlists or individual songs, which recipients can listen to up to three times without subscribing to the service.

The on-demand service is available for $7.95 per month when billed annually, $8.95 per month for quarterly billing or $9.95 when billed monthly. Songs can be downloaded for 99 cents each, while most albums cost $9.99, the company said. Access to the company's online radio service is free.

The software can be downloaded from the company's Web site. While Jukebox 9.0 is free, the premium version, called Jukebox Plus, costs $19.99. This version includes faster ripping and burning speeds.

MusicMatch is among the growing number of players in digital music sales, which is currently dominated by Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store. In March, Apple said that about 2.5 million songs are being downloaded every week from the online store.

Dell recently launched a promotion giving a $100 discount to customers who return their Apple iPod and buy its Digital Jukebox. The Dell product comes with 25 free downloads from MusicMatch.

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Yah but does it still blow like hurricane Andrew?
by Jonathan July 27, 2004 9:45 AM PDT
I purchased MM last fall when the latest version came out with support for their online store. The software has some nice features but overall its sucks. BADLY. Its slow, its sluggish, it crashes, it hogs the CPU. In short it's a really bad music player. Heck the only reason I purchased the software was for the slick method of tagging my MP3's but even that couldn't keep it from blowing like gale force winds. That's why I turned to iTunes and haven't looked back since. OK so I've looked back whishing for some of the cooler features from MM but I can live without them as long as the app is stable and fast.
If they want to add a feature how about they add the feature of not sucking so badly. Seriously. I'm at a loss as to how you get to version 8 of a piece of software and still have it perform so badly. (And yes I've used this on multiple systems. 2 desktops and 2 laptops. It's NOT my computer.)
My only possible explanation is that they are so freaking focused on adding crap to the player they no longer are working on getting the basic player to a point of being good. Small tip to MM: Get the software up to par before you start slapping crap onto/into it. Microsoft too has pulled this features first everything else last game. Look where it's gotten them in the last couple of years.
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