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Yahoo had better do something about this. When I purchased Musicmatch Jukebox (MMJB) 2 years ago I had a choice of many other players. It wasn't the streaming service I was interested in. I have satellite radio for that. I didn't want to buy 99 cent songs from them. I have 100's of CD's I uploaded onto my computer. I chose MMJB Because of its features and sound quality.
First, the sound. The new player is inferior to even the stock players that came pre-installed with my OS such as Windows Media Player. The new Yahoo player has only a 5-band Graphic equalizer and presets that only a deaf person can call satisfactory. It's like new radios or bookshelf systems that have these same kind of presets to simplify use for "technically challenged" types. I avoid systems such as these and buy high end equipment so that I may tune my music as I see fit. The sound of the Yahoo player is terrible!
Another feature I liked about the MMJB was the ability to tag my music folders. I could have a CD that was unrecognized and select it from a list and have MMJB title the folder accordingly. This would have come in handy when my hard drive died recently and I had to extract the my music files in no order, (and renamed as recovered file 1 through 8000) from the damaged HD. When I went to reinstall MMJB I was forced to install Yahoo Jukebox instead. Do you think this player can tag and resort my files for me? No. Worthless, non-existent sorting and naming ability.
The third gripe about this this player is It's appearance. I have my computer slick, streamlined, black skins for everything, and most importantly, just the way I like it. MMJB had a choice of skins. I preferred the Black pearl skin which was a feature of the plus version. When I loaded Yahoo Jukebox, it was an ugly silver color with buttons and icons similar to a Fischer-Price play toy with smooth rounded edges so that junior doesn't get cut playing with it. I went to change the skin after I had successfully entered my plus code through the migration assistant and to my surprise, that was the only skin available.
All in all this is a terrible player and anyone who calls the upgrade to Yahoo Jukebox from MMJB a downgrade is correct. Keep those nicknames for it coming such as "Yahoo Jokebox", and "Yahoo Junkbox." If they bought the business and the rights, why can't they give us the same great player instead of this stripped down pile of 90's technology.