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Yahoo! Buys Musicmatch

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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."

3 of 194 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Second rate! by vijaya_chandra · · 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

  2. not in the paid email anymore by ChipMonk · · 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.

  3. Re:Second rate! by frankthechicken · · 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.