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Wednesday, July 28, 2004

iTunes, Meet Your Musicmatch

TechNewsWorld: "Perennial underdog Musicmatch this week unrolls a new version of its software and online service with what could be the coolest new feature of the year: "Send to a Friend," allowing you to e-mail a 20-song playlist to acquaintances. Those friends can play the songs in full up to three times each, without having to pay a dime or download any music files. Musicmatch, based in San Diego, came up with the first commercially successful jukebox software, for managing a library of digital music files on a computer, back in 1997. Musicmatch Jukebox still stands, in my view, as the most powerful program in a field that now includes iTunes, Microsoft's Windows Media Player and RealNetworks' RealPlayer. On Tuesday, Musicmatch launched Musicmatch Jukebox 9.0 along with an online listening service called On Demand. Subscribers to On Demand, which costs from $7.95 to $9.95 a month, get Send to a Friend."

There is little doubt in my mind that the future of online music is subscription-based. That said, iTunes is still a much nicer player than MusicMatch.

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