Why I buy this one ?
- A media player that offers an easy way to discover, manage, and enjoy music
- Burn, record, and organize your MP3 collection
- Music Center offers faster and easier access to favorite jukebox features
- New slideshow, enhanced visual effects, and MUSICMATCH MX Gold subscription
- Provides everything needed to experience personal fulfillment through music

What our customer's say!

"never again", I've owned several versions of MusicMatch and was very happy with the software, especially the library features. I'm currently using version 8 Deluxe which I expecially liked for the super-tagging capability. BUT every time I start it up these days, I'm informed BY POPUP that my deluxe features have expired and that I need to upgrade to the new version 10 (free) or purchase plus again ($20). There is actually another option of receiving all future Plus upgrades for an additional $40. Frankly, I've been quite happy with ver. 8 and was totally unaware that the Plus features expire -- until this happened.
We can argue all day about the fairness and costs (which I think STINK!) but my overwhelming gripe is that there is no way to get rid of the popup. EVERYTIME I START THE PROGRAM, I HAVE TO DEAL WITH THEIR POPUP! I've searched their website and found no help, personalized tech support is only available for 1 year, and I tried a couple popup blockers to no avail.
I don't care how great their program is, they have no right to repeatedly bombard my system with their STUPID notice to upgrade. Until this problem is fixed, I will never buy another upgrade and will start examining alternatives more seriously, and since Yahoo evidently now owns this software, I'll never again use Yahoo!
YOU BET I'M MAD!!!!!!!

"Yahoo unilaterally disabling paid for features", I'm in the same situation as Briface. I am a paid for Ver 8 customer and also subscribed to their radio service for a couple of years. I go to use my Super Tagging and it is blocked by a popup window telling me my super tagging "subscription" expired. What subscription? I never agreed to any subscription! I PAID for features and now they are unilaterally taking them away!! I can't even rename files from manually entered tag data. This uses none of Musicmatch's resources but is blocked by their stupid popup.

Beware this company. Their business model is to make you think you paid for something, then suddenly take it away from you and offer to reinstate it for a "subscription fee".

Does anyone know how much this subscription costs? There is absolutely nothing on Musicmatch's website and clicking on their popup yields a dead page. They are asking you to sign up for a subscription but they won't tell you how much it costs. Give me a break. I can't believe how sleazy these guys have gotten.

I'm not sure what recourse as usere we have. I may try the BBB like another poster. I think we should all be writing to PC Magazine too to let them know that this "editor's choice winner" of theirs is involved in shady business practices.

"MusicMatch", I agree with all the other reviews. The ONLY reson I bought Musicmatch was for super tagging feature. One came with my laptop. But I went out and bought 8.0 "deluxe" I thought it was deluxe! Now after a year all those features expire. I regret telling everyone how great Music Match was... I really don't know what you buy when you buy this software? I mean who dosen't have a media player. itunes/Windows Media Player etc...? (What's the best alternative? Anyone?)

"Features expire unlees you pay more money", I was very disappointed to find that some of the nice features such as supertagging expire. You don't really buy this product, you lease it. This is a nasty practice that was abandoned years ago by reputable software developers. Don't buy it unless you are willing to pay over and over again for the same features.

"Angry ...yearly renewal required", I've had version 8 for several years. Now, I tried to change a filename and it WON'T LET ME unless I buy an upgrade! Nor will it "tag" files. This is inexcusable. A yearly renewal is required??? This WAS NOT the policy when I purchased the software. Unless you want to renew your "subscription" (this can no longer be considered a purchase), most of your "plus" features will expire. I'm ticked off. Good product, BAD policy.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Would be great, if there were no bugs", This review is in reference to MusicMatch Jukebox Basic 8, 9, 10 and Jukebox Plus! 10.

Great jukebox, lots of cool features, much better than WinAmp. Can rate each song, easily create playlists using AutoDJ, can look up CD info, rips songs easily in any format. Capable of burning songs, but never used this feature. Also comes with a Volume Levelling feature, so that all songs will play at the same volume.

However, this program comes with a lot of bugs, and these bugs were not fixed in its latest version (10). First of all, whenever the program looked up CD info, it would get the info, and then somehow cause my internet service provider to lose its internet connection (I have a dial up modem). So every time I inserted a new CD, if I wanted to get the CD info, I'd have to reconnect with the internet. Very annoying, not to mention time consuming.

Second, I have Windows XP, and when someone logs on as a user other than the administrator, a Runtime Error message box is displayed. This message is caused by MusicMatch Jukebox, and displays when logging on and logging off.

I looked at the faqs on the musicmatch website, and none of them helped me with my issues.

I paid $20 for the Plus edition, so I can get personalized tech support through email. When I tried to request support though, the form I filled out wouldn't go through. I tried several times, and it still didn't work.

Well, I asked for a refund, and hopefully I won't have any problem with that. Uninstalled the program from my computer, and I am now using RealPlayer free edition version 10. Performs the same functions as MusicMatch Jukebox, only much more efficiently.

Gave the product 2 stars because of the cool features it has.

Your best bet is to go with Real Player. The only thing Real Player seems to be missing is a volume levelling feature, but its a minor thing to miss.

"Does not work with all Dell computers", I have a Dell XPS with a CDRW and DVD+RAM. The system is working perfectly, but when I install MusicMatch 8 Pro is disables my DVD. Dell support got it working by restoring the system back to right before I installed MusicMatch. Tech support did not
respond to my help request from their online website.



"Works Fine for PCs/MP3s", There is one issue with some MP3 players that can cause endless frustration: some only play MP3s burned to a CD-R or CR-RW in strict alphabetical/numberic order, and that fouls up the order of the albums that you burn, and really messes up the order of tracks in a multi-disk set.

I have used MusicMatch JukeBox 9.0 (upgraded free through MusicMatch from the store-bought 8.0 version) and it works just fine, though (with the fix below). It is a bit quirky, but you can get used to it. All it does, really, is copy audio files to your computer and then allow you to convert them to MP3 formant, and burn to CD-R/CR-RW disks or download to an MP3 player. The interface is not perfect, but you can get used to it pretty quickly IF your computer has enough juice. I gave up on MusicMatch once before on my old computer, but on my new, fast (and surprisely reasonably priced) Dell, it works fine, with one big caveat. On some players (apparently the lower-end, walkman-type CD players), the tracks are burned and played in strict alphabetical/numberic order. Your albums and your CDs with your choices of burned selections play in a seemingly arbitrary order. However, with MusicMatch, there is a fix.

Specify in the Settings in the Recorder feature to name the tracks in the following order: Artist, Album, Track # (you have to check the appropriate boxes and then use the up/down arrows until you get this order; you must have all three elements--trust me after many hours of monkeying around with this). Note that this is the Recorder feature that copies your audio disk's tracks onto the computer, not the Burner feature, which burns tracks onto a blank CD. You won't see any effect from making this election until the audio files are converted to MP3 files; when the audio files are shown on your MusicMatch playlist, they have the complete information but somehow the files are tagged so that when they are converted to MP3 files, the appropriate naming then takes place. That cost me another few hours to figure out.

In this way when the audio files are converted to MP3 files and are burned onto a CD, they are named, for example, Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream - 01, etc., and then Monk's Dream (a specific album) will play in the original album order. After those tracks, then Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser - 01, etc. will play in order (the actual MP3 titles look a bit different than that, but that's the effect). If you burn multi-disk sets, you may have to play with the disks' titles a bit to get this to work, because of the way that MusicMatch edits long titles. For example, if you want to burn your Stan Getz's The Bossa Nova Years, which is on four disks, you might want to manually rename each disk Bossa Nova 1, Bossa Nova 2, etc., since Music Match can cut off the "(1 of 4)," etc. in the title and then everything gets mixed up again.

This took me many very frustrating hours to figure out, and MusicMatch--which is a very good product and apparently a good company--doesn't explain this in any FAQs or online resources, although they do explain that in the Settings on the Burner you also need to uncheck the box that specifies that tracks should be burned in alphabetical order. This is irrelevant, though, since for whatever reason some players only play in alphabetical/numberic order. (The disk will play in the correct order on your computer using MusicMatch, but in Windows Media player on the same computer or on the player the tracks revert to alphabetic/numeric order. Causing one to pull one's hair out in frustration. With the fix above, it works fine.)

"Version 8.2", I've got Version 8.2 and have had none of the problems mentioned in previous reviews. I've tried all the big names (itunes, napster, realjukebox, windows media player) and this is my software of choice.

Faster rip & burn than the others makes it #1 with me!!

"Quirky: When it functions properly, it's decent.", The first MMJ version 7.5 functioned properly. MMJ suggested an upgrade to 8.0 with a fee ($19) and an upgrade key. After the upgrade, MMJ bombed: MMJ Server problems, screen freezes, hangs and plenty of reboots. Because I was able to burn 36 songs, I uninstalled MMJ (the initial downloaded version) and purchased the boxed version for an additional $30. I've downloaded more than 100 great classic songs (another $100) and frankly MMJ needs to modify their software. The boxed version MMJ, with ANOTHER upgrade to download, burned 4 cds and then crashed again. MMJ Tech support frankly wasn't helpful. Online message boards/forums state MMJ is prone to popups, registry corruption and spyware that interferes and/or corrupts MMJ. Jeez gents can't your programmers solve your software issues? MMJ 8.2 is a decent program when it functions. However, in its present form, it's a software crap shoot. I still use MMJ 8.2 plus but I run spyware/adware and registry correction software after 3 uses and each time we find spyware/adware and changes to the windows registry. Jeeez. MMJ fix the glitch; make more money. Satisfy customers.