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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."

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  1. Musicmatch was good by helmespc · · Score: 0, Troll

    Musicmatch was good... when it was free... They added CD burning and crap to it... and it became totally ruined... you just can't beat Winamp these days... and iTunes is bloated trash as well... if you don't want to use the music store and/or iPod functionality... its a little excessive and takes up a ton of memory...

  2. Re:blah by metlin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not really. Please stop trolling.

    I can never really understand why the Slashdot crowd goes all out for Apple, when some of their policies are just as shitty.

    Apple is trying to tie you down to their hardware, and their music service while good, is not the only one nor is it the best.

    Try Microsoft's online music service. It's much better than Apple's. Apple had a good ride because they were the first - I'll hand that to them. Nothing more. When better services come (and yes, Microsoft's service seems *much* better - go have a look) along, Apple will fall back and not care about it's existing users. Think it hasn't happened before?

    All Apple does is come up with new technologies, use them while they're new and dump them once they're done. Sometimes I think that if Steve Jobs invited some of the Mac-heads to hell, everyone will follow him.

    Barring some very unYahoo-like innovation

    Excuse me? Yahoo in and of itself was an innovation. When nobody cared about webhosting, they acquired Geocities. And they broke into the IM market long before even Microsoft cared to notice.