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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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Summary: Must Be The MusicMatch
Review: If I had to sum up this software in one word it would be - "Wow". From the minute I purchased it I was completely blown away! If you love technology and music as much as I do, then this is the software for you. You can convert your own music collection into MP3 files with the great of ease. To make things a little easier for yourself I would suggest that you sign on the Internet first to allow the computer to look up the name of the CD, artist, tracks, year, and cover art for your CD. When you place the CD into the CD drive you can review what songs you would like to place on your hard drive, check off the tracks (in the record mode), then covert. It does take practice on how to do this but once you get the swing of it becomes very easy. If your want to get advanced, you can also "tag" each track with additional information like mood, situation, tempo, etc. By breaking it down with such a great level of detail you can have better control of how you want to hear your music based on just a tempo, mood or whatever. Believe me when I say how wonderful it is to have the ability to listen to any kind of music at any given time without having to look for CDs anymore. I just go to my computer click on what songs I want to hear for that particular moment, and just relax. What completely won me over with this software is the fact that you can make CDs and covers effortlessly and quickly. My friends are very impressed with my finished CDs when I come to their homes with complication music for their parties and gatherings. They have a professional finish and wonderful flawless sounds from one track to the next. The magic of this software does not just stop at making music tracks from your CD collection. You can also create voice tracks by hooking up a mic to your computer, or you can hook up your stereo to make old records or tapes into MP3 files. I can go on and on, with what I have done with my MusicMatch but I am sure you get the point by now - just get it you will love it!
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Summary: Must Be The MusicMatch
Review: If I had to sum up this software in one word it would be - "Wow". From the minute I purchased it I was completely blown away! If you love technology and music as much as I do, then this is the software for you. You can convert your own music collection into MP3 files with the great of ease. To make things a little easier for yourself I would suggest that you sign on the Internet first to allow the computer to look up the name of the CD, artist, tracks, year, and cover art for your CD. When you place the CD into the CD drive you can review what songs you would like to place on your hard drive, check off the tracks (in the record mode), then covert. It does take practice on how to do this but once you get the swing of it becomes very easy. If your want to get advanced, you can also "tag" each track with additional information like mood, situation, tempo, etc. By breaking it down with such a great level of detail you can have better control of how you want to hear your music based on just a tempo, mood or whatever. Believe me when I say how wonderful it is to have the ability to listen to any kind of music at any given time without having to look for CDs anymore. I just go to my computer click on what songs I want to hear for that particular moment, and just relax. What completely won me over with this software is the fact that you can make CDs and covers effortlessly and quickly. My friends are very impressed with my finished CDs when I come to their homes with complication music for their parties and gatherings. They have a professional finish and wonderful flawless sounds from one track to the next. The magic of this software does not just stop at making music tracks from your CD collection. You can also create voice tracks by hooking up a mic to your computer, or you can hook up your stereo to make old records or tapes into MP3 files. I can go on and on, with what I have done with my MusicMatch but I am sure you get the point by now - just get it you will love it!
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Summary: get this one instead of version 8!
Review: if you're happy buying cds and now downloading them over the internet through musicmatch's download service, then you should stick with version 7. i found version 8 a step down from version 8. this has absolutely everything that you would want in a media player, you can rip, listen to and burn cds very easily. it has very good track tagging so you don't need to go typing out the names of your mp3s. although some users might not need or want many of the features on musicmatch, i find that musicmatch is the best all-in-one player out there for people with large music collections. I've explored many different media players, including windows media player, but i have always come back to musicmatch.
as for people saying that you had to play the tracks in alphabetical order, this is not true! as long as you have the track number written on the track tag, then you can select an option to play in track order.
as well as its many features, you can also download a programme called evillyrics which is compatible with musicmatch. while you listen to songs, evillyrics will find the lyrics for you and you can view them beside musicmatch. it's brilliant!
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Summary: Excellent, well-rounded product
Review: MusicMatch Jukebox 7.0 is an excellent product. It has made vast improvements over the earlier versions in interface and abilities, like ripping and cd burning. It is very easy to use and organize, and has a smooth and customizable interface. The cd burning extension included is very seamless and can be used for data, mp3, and music cds; I use MMJB for ALL of my cd burning, after mediocre experiences with EasyCD and Nero Burning ROM. However, if you need a digital music editor, this is not one, so do not buy it for editing purposes. It maintains a small window, (which is, of course, expandable for seeing larger portions of the playlist) while still having great functionality. The playlist and control bars can be resized or even detached and moved around the screen to your liking. I haven't used the radio feature very much, and so have no comments on it, but if you need an inexpensive, easy to use cd burning program and a great music player, you should definitely buy MMJB.
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Summary: don't get it!!! trust me...and read this
Review: note: if i could give it negative stars i would have given a -5!
When i got it i thought it would be awesome. I realised the problem right away...
When you add tracks to your music library, the tracks are put into alphabetical order. I HATE this. There is no way around it. FOr example: the cd tommy by "the who" has to be played in a certain order for you to understand the story (it's a rock opera if you dind't know) in alphabetical order, it's all messed up. Musicmatch also looks ugly, and is very clunky. I am not a mac person, but i would say that itunes is FAR superior to musicmatch. save yourself the money and download itunes for free. It is SOOOOOOO much better. You'll agree with me if you see both. (trust me)
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Summary: Mediocre, but usable
Review: Overall, this program does fairly well. Most the features are well integrated, and straightforward. Ripping music from a CD is easy, and fairly quick. Same with buring music back onto CDs. The overall soundquality is good. You have a number of options for sorting your music library, so you can find songs by artist, album, album *cover* or song name. The "Music Online" feature automatically connects you to Musicmatch's very thorough database of artists and albums, which is very handy when you need to repair tags or find stray album art. Additionally, the "find" feature is very helpful: just start typing *any* info about the song (Artist, Album, or Title) and Musicmatch will highlight the best match it can find. This is a very handy feature, especially since organization can get very confusing at times.That being said, the major downfall is the music library orgainzation features, or lack thereof. There is no way to create nested lists. When you rip music off a CD, you can automatically create a folder for the artist, and a sub-folder for the album. So if I'm a U2 fan, then I have a U2 directory containing a folder for each U2 album that I own. Unfortunately, Musicmatch cannot handle this. You can sort by *artist*, which means that all of the songs within the artist are displayed in a random order. Or, you can sort by album, which means that various U2 albums will be spread around your library, according to their title. When you sort your library by album covers, the songs within each album are *alphabetized*, instead of sorted by track number. Am I quibbling? Perhaps. These are very easy features to incorporate into software, and yet Musicmatch has been unable to do it. It's a good program for ripping and burning, but not one to use for *regular* interaction with your music library.
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Summary: It's the super-tagging, stupid...
Review: The killer feature for me is the super-tagging option. It's alone worth 8 stars, so go find a good review of something bad, take 3 of those stars, and apply them to this review! (I suggest the DVD Waking Life). Since tags are the key organizing mechanism for mp3 library software, you want them to be accurate. However, if you have a large collection of (completely legal, of course) mp3s, editing each file by hand can quickly take you to the 7th circle of tedium. I've personally begun and abandoned the process many times. Once, I think I stopped to watch round 12 of the NFL draft. Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Super-tagging!11 Simply right-click on a file--or group of files!--select super-tagging, and off you go to a magical fairyland where all your dreams come true. Not really, but you do go to the query results of an online meta-tag database for the filename or title of the selected mp3(s), which is pretty damn magical if you ask me. There, you can select the tag that best matches your song and update it. You'll notice that the software has already highlighted its best guess. Once you've updated, you can even rename the file based on the now-complete tag information. "smith_how_come_so_soon_now.mp3" becomes "The Smiths-Meat is Murder-How Soon is Now.mp3." You even control which fields go into creating the filename! Goodness piled upon goodness. I wouldn't be surprised if the next version had the artist come over to your house, rename your files, tell you a story about the song, perform it, and give you 50% of the royalties. That'd be cool, although I hear Michael Stipe smells kinda funny, and MC Hammer probably needs all his royalties. Buy!
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Summary: It's the super-tagging, stupid...
Review: The killer feature for me is the super-tagging option. It's alone worth 8 stars, so go find a good review of something bad, take 3 of those stars, and apply them to this review! (I suggest the DVD Waking Life). Since tags are the key organizing mechanism for mp3 library software, you want them to be accurate. However, if you have a large collection of (completely legal, of course) mp3s, editing each file by hand can quickly take you to the 7th circle of tedium. I've personally begun and abandoned the process many times. Once, I think I stopped to watch round 12 of the NFL draft. Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Super-tagging!11 Simply right-click on a file--or group of files!--select super-tagging, and off you go to a magical fairyland where all your dreams come true. Not really, but you do go to the query results of an online meta-tag database for the filename or title of the selected mp3(s), which is pretty damn magical if you ask me. There, you can select the tag that best matches your song and update it. You'll notice that the software has already highlighted its best guess. Once you've updated, you can even rename the file based on the now-complete tag information. "smith_how_come_so_soon_now.mp3" becomes "The Smiths-Meat is Murder-How Soon is Now.mp3." You even control which fields go into creating the filename! Goodness piled upon goodness. I wouldn't be surprised if the next version had the artist come over to your house, rename your files, tell you a story about the song, perform it, and give you 50% of the royalties. That'd be cool, although I hear Michael Stipe smells kinda funny, and MC Hammer probably needs all his royalties. Buy!
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Summary: I was happy until...
Review: To make a long story short, I was happy until I had to reinstall musicmatch. The program is fairly feature filled, and has some convenient ways to organize a music collection. However, I originally had purchased the product so that I could use it with my Rio 500 portable player. Unfortunately, they pulled support for the Rio, and removed all the Rio 500 downloads from their site. I pleaded with tech support to e-mail me the drivers, but they refused (this was only a few days after the driver was pulled). I even offered to downgrade to a previous version, if that was the problem. All they said was no, you are out of luck. So my advice is this - don't buy musicmatch, go with something else. They do not stand behind their product.
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