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Summary: The worst of 3 different CD-burning programs I've owned.
Review: Despite the overall positive reviews you'll see here, BUYER BEWARE. This software is by far the least user-friendly and most cumbersome CD burning program I've owned. Eventually I had no problems learning how to rip and burn CDs, but it still requires too many steps and clicks to get to the action. My complaints largely center around 2 issues: Burning data CDs and storing track lists. Burning data CDs is truely a pain in the arse using MusicMatch. Programs such as this should have simple drag-and-drop options. But if you're trying to update a data file already on the CD-R, it is not that easy -- it requires extra steps to manually delete the old versions of your data. I have many many data CD-Rs for both work and home, and burning/updating them was an extraordinarily burdensome process. In regards to saving track lists, I'm an audiophile, and I prefer listening to stored tracks in their original track listing order. If you prefer this too, do not buy MusicMatch. It can only store tracks by name (alphabetically), and does not allow you to listen to the tracks in album track # order. This makes listening to classical, jazz, or any other instrumental album really undesirable. It also makes burning music CDs a pain, because you have to drag-and-drop each track in the desired order. This should be automatic! Freeware like Real Player even lets you store tracks in album listing order...Why not this? Ugh.
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Summary: Pretty Good Product
Review: I had no problems installing Jukebox 7 on a Win98SE box and performance was satisfactory. For creating MP3s of jazz and rock, Jukebox works fine and is trouble free. The only quibble I had was that there is no obvious way to generate a single MP3 file from multiple tracks (necessary when making MP3s of long classical pieces). To MusicMatch's credit, they promptly responded to my E-mail and gave me a work-around. The method is clumsy compared to my old CD Creator 4 which I eventually went back to using.
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Summary: O.K.---as far as it goes
Review: I had the free version for years, then upgraded.
The free version is full of bugs. Naturally tech support is arrogant and unhelpful, and basically consists of "buy the upgrade (Jukebox) because that is what we support."
Finally I did buy Jukebox at about version 5 or 6. Unfortunately, most of the same annoying bugs exist, and the tech support is not any better. (The web site help is usually down.)
The worst thing is that the program (both free and purchased) is too stupid to recognize that your computer is already connected to the internet, which is vital to take advantage of the program options and save tons of time when ripping. So easily three-quarters of the time you just quit in frustration from trying to convince ("trick") the program into realizing you ARE on the net already!
Ripping is easiest when the program locates on the web the album & track info. This is very hit and miss. If someone has submitted that info a few days ago (it takes a while to get into the system) up to several months ago (the info often drops out of the system after a few months), then when you put in your CD (and IF the program knows you are connected to the internet), the info pops up right away and you take off ripping. If this is not the case, you spend a lot of time typing in all of the info; worst of all, often the program will send your typing to the net but not enter it into the tracks you are ripping!!! (In this case, you end up going into the tagging feature and retyping it all over again! Plus you really need to go change the actual computer file names as well!---VERY annoying.)
Some other specific comments:
Yes, you do get 5 free burns with the free version---they are worth every cent you pay for them, absolutely nothing! They are terrible, usually full of annoying skips. The good news is that if you buy the upgrade, the burning is very good.
It is true that "suborganizing" is possible in spite of what some have said. In the library you simply click the window/column heading to resort by track number, album, or any other sub-category, just like you would in any program/file window.
It is true that there is a lot of neat tagging info you can enter to have an incredible, comprehensive library with all kinds of background, your own ratings, etc. The bad news is that even a very minor computer crash will wipe all of this work out and you end up with nothing. There is no way to save this info to files, so if your software becomes corrupted and you have to reinstall, you've just lost and wasted all of that time with your great tagging.
Playlists are similarly sensative. While being able to create some super playlists (I've had some thousands of songs long!), you will lose them in a computer crash. (You're supposed to be able to save them as a file that can be backed up, but it doesn't work.) In fact, just upgrading from 7 to 8 or 8 to 9 will destroy your playlists. You have to figure out ways around this annoying problem. I burn CD's for any playlist short enough to fit on one CD (which I can then rip and recreate after a crash). For any long playlists, I end up writing them out, and then physically recreating (a bother but not too bad) after an upgrade.
It is true you have no control over how and where files are ripped. You will end up relabeling, resorting, and re-nesting/imbedding folders to fit a descent organization system; however, I don't know that any program would do this acceptably anyway, you'll want do you own sorting to make things workable. (And you have to delete from your library and re-add any moved files.)
When burning CD's, Jukebox often makes errors about how much will fit on a CD. It will tell you that you still have room, but when you add one more song, during the burn the program will tell you that the disc is full and all songs could not be reocorded! (Worst, the one song that gets dropped off is NOT the last one you added, but a randomly selected one between the first and last!) It's best to do your own math adding up the song times to know how many songs will fit on your CD.
I upgraded to 9 recently. It is nice how easy it is to plug in your key for the free upgrade from one version to another, or from the free version if you have to reinstall after a computer crash. I can't say that there has been any improvements over the versions to the bugs in the BASIC functionality, especially the problem of not recognizing being already connected to the net.
It is true that the program is much better than Windows Media Player, but com'on, what kind of compliment is that? Idiots can make something better than Microsoft. For the last five years I've only used MM, so I have nothing recent to compare to. After all the time and effort of getting used to the quirks of Jukebox, I find myself very reluctant to go through another Huge learning curve-so in a way I'm stuck with Jukebox.
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Summary: Excellent product... versatile and easy to use
Review: I have been a MusicMatch user since version 4, so maybe I am one up on new users, but I find that this program is spectacular! A lot of people have written reviews stating that they can't play songs in order by track number... these people need to open their eyes! MusicMatch allows you to list many different aspects of the tagging information in your library listing (just double click on the library window to edit), among them are MP3 encoding bit rate (so you know what quality the MP3 is) and track number.
If you want to list your songs by track number, you can do it by simply clicking the arrow at the top of the column. If you want to list your MP3s by artist, each of the artist's albums, and by track order within each album, just click the sort arrow at the top of each column in THAT order! How simple is that?
This newest version has a lot of other wonderful features too, such as supper tagging and file renaming (to create standardized file names). It also continues to use MusicMatch's wonderful album-art-as-part-of the-tag feature! I love this! Everytime I listen to an MP3, the album art is displayed on-screen as I listen. This is especially fun when I rip MP3s from old 7" singles, and scan in the original covers! :)
MusicMatch is also fast and reliable: if the error-correction feature is enabled, it will notify you if it had trouble encoding something, which will allow you to verify the quality of THAT encode, without having to double check all of them.
I admit that it is a little big and boxy, but it CAN be minimized during playback, and there are a LOT of easy-to-download skins that are smaller and less boxy than the default skin (frankly, I like BLOOP, but I miss the Paisley skins from versions 4 and 5).
For less than 15 bucks, this product is REALLY fantastic... and if you purchase the lifetime upgrade key, you need never worry about not having the latest version! A+++++!!!!
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Summary: Musicmatch Jukebox is fantastic!
Review: I just purchased Musicmatch Jukebox Plus and I love it. I was shopping around for a audio cd converter to mp3 and found this software to be the best. It does more than just convert audio cd's. It's very user friendly and it's well worth the price.
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Summary: anything else?
Review: i know this may sound dub but do you need anything else to start burning cd's after you get this? thanks.
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Summary: BRILLIANT
Review: I thought that this was a good purchase, mainly because i found that it was so simple to use, i also feel that the mixing aspect was great. The Scan for Media found loads of songs i forgot i even had. I urge you to buy this software as it is outstanding By anybodys standards.
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Summary: Powerful, Yet Easy To Use. Definitely A+ Software
Review: I tried five music management software programs before finding MusicMatch 7.0. Out of the five MusicMatch is by far the best. EasyCD is truly easy, but lacks many important features. Some of its few features don't work well. In extreme contrast is Nero: feature laden but extremely complicated and impossible to figure out even after several evenings studying its catastrophically lengthy documentation. MusicMatch is extremely easy to use, yet is heavily loaded with top-quality features. I especially like its volume leveling, MP3PRO that produces superior sound in half the normal file size, and optional electronic enhancing that produces remarkably improved sound from somewhat poorly recorded or older recordings. One caution: if editing is important to you, be aware that digital editing is MusicMatch's outstanding weakness. MusicMatch's editing capabilities are primitive and severely limited; it can't even edit MP3 files. Overall, however, MusicMatch is magnificent and provides great value for the money.
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Summary: Trying out the new beta version 7.2
Review: I was always happy with Musicmatch Jukebox Plus-but their new version (still in beta) is truly outstanding. I have a very fast burner with buffer under run prevention. When I installed the beta, it recognized my burner right away and identified its speeds. There is a new folder watch function that automatically adds any new tracks to your library, supertagging is improved and it keys the original graphics for each artist and selection. The program is properly configured to respond to your specific needs. In contrast, I had been using Easy CD Creator 5 because it came with my latest burner-and Music Match is much more user friendly. I think it is best for burning,tagging,printing the right graphics and creating your own radio stations based on your library. A true bargain in my book!
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Summary: Great music program
Review: I've been using MM Jukebox for several years now and they keep adding features to improve it. It's easy to use and easy to sort your music. It's always the highest rated player by all the magazines and websites that rate these things. My only question about buying it here would be why? You can download the product directly from their site and it costs less. If you are using the free version now then all you need to do is purchase a product key from them to start using all the features. Must be a new version coming out soon as the price dropped on MusicMatch's web site. Seems they do that right before an update.
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