Yahoo! Buys Musicmatch

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 14, 2004 @06:43AM from the do-you-ehar-what-i-hear dept.

coyotegestalt writes "According to PC World, Yahoo! has just finalized a deal to buy Musicmatch (both its On Demand and download services) for $160 million. More details at IBD. This is a major narrowing of the online music market."

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Re:Branching out by LostCluster · 2004-09-14 06:55 · Score: 2, Informative

Yahoo always has been in the business of branching out and becoming a "web portal" rather than a search engine. That's why they've got e-mail, fanatasy football games, a music news site, an IM client, and all sorts of other things in their brand image.

It's Google who always stayed as a search engine only and is making newsworthy branch out efforts in the form of GMail and such.
Re:Second rate! by vijaya_chandra · 2004-09-14 07:00 · Score: 5, Informative

You might be trying to be funny.
But Yahoo! doesn't definitely mean just the search engine.
They do have other good services like mail and messenger. While gmail might have stolen have a big chunk of their email base, their messenger is definitely not sub-par (not that it'd matter much for users of gaim)

Add things like launch, games, news, groups, geocities, mobile .... and you have a pretty impressive list
not in the paid email anymore by ChipMonk · 2004-09-14 07:06 · Score: 4, Informative

I have a paid Yahoo email account. I haven't seen a big obnoxious ad in my email interface since they re-vamped and upped their quotas earlier this year.
Re:Fine, as long as they dontt "Yahoo!" it! by Zorilla · 2004-09-14 07:20 · Score: 3, Informative

I actually test installed 9.0 a few days ago. Instead of one 40 MB process, there's four or five 9 MB processes for just one instance of MusicMatch Jukebox. That and the 5 seconds it takes to load is enough to discredit it being a lean, mean app.

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Re:Integrating with instant messenger? by metalpet · 2004-09-14 07:56 · Score: 3, Informative

You should check the latest yahoo messenger client, as it already integrates with launchast radio.
It also lets you put what song you're listening to in your online status, so your friends can appreciate how hip you are, or something.
As a bonus, if a friend clicks on your status, he gets to hear a bit of the song you're hearing.
Re:Second rate! by frankthechicken · 2004-09-14 09:17 · Score: 4, Informative

Have you tried Foobar 2000(I would recommend the Special Install)?

It has excellent tagging capabilities, and more than a few useful plug-ins.

Their forum's quite useful as well.
Re:Second rate! by 3terrabyte · 2004-09-14 09:38 · Score: 3, Informative

I may be wrong, because I have only used it on other people's machines, but I think the reason why it has such great internet tagging features is becaues Music Match licenses AllMusic.com's database. You get album art, titles, genre, the whole thing.
Personally, due to the *ahem* huge amount of mp3's I deal with, I personally tag and rename all my mine manually with Tag & Rename.
It connects to CDDB or FreeDB or Allmusic. It takes a little longer than the close-your-eyes and hope MusicMatch is correct, but then I know it's tagged correctly.

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