MusicMatch's New Song

I just received an update from MusicMatch. They say the problem I experienced with e-mailing a playlist was probably caused by my cookie settings in Internet Explorer. If your security settings are too high or you use a cookie-munching utility, you'll experience the problem I did. The solution, they say, is to lower your cookie security settings.

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Don't you just love it when the solution to a problem is to make your computer more vulnerable to attack?

A Musicmatch Response: If you are experiencing this cookie problem, you don?t have to lower your global cookie security settings. You only need to specify Musicmatch as a Web site to accept cookies from.

All you have to do is go into Internet Explorer / Tools / Internet Options / Privacy, then go to the "Web Sites" box below the "Settings" box and click "edit." Next, add http://www.musicmatch.com/ and click "allow." You'll then need to close all IE windows and relaunch IE for this setting to take affect.

This simple solution will not make your computer more vulnerable to attack, and you?ll soon be experiencing the joys using Musicmatch On Demand to share music with friends.

Or you could just use iTunes on a Mac on not worry about it.

I'm seriously thinking about getting me one of them $999,- iBooks as a worryfree wireless internet acces point.
Friend of mine has one, and he doesn't even have (nor needs apparantly) a virus checker on it, if you can believe that.

Yes, Imagine using a computer (Mac) and not worrying about virus and such.

I welcome MusicMatch, although I use iTunes because compitition is always good.

I know of dozens of friends and relatives who have Macs (including my family with several) and no one has (nor needs) a virus checker, adware blocker, spyware blocker etc. It's one less thing to worry about.

Macs are lame. You might have one app for what you need to do - but there are always a number of great apps that do the same on WIndows. Mac is into propriety hardware and software - so they are no better than Windows in the morality category. The only reasons Virus makers go after Windows is because it is on 95 percent of all computers! MAC has had security problems too.

Mac users always talk about security and stability issues on WIndows...uh..hellooo. RUn a firewall and get a decent antivirus...

Macs are are also WAY too expensive. I don't need to look cool. I don't need a mac.

Why would I want to RENT my music? I can see no reason to pay for music I don't own.

First off the viruses that were created for OS X, were made by universities to prove that is was possible. Second the firewall is already turned on(out of the box) on a mac, windows will only aquire this with SP2. third, Mac OS X is much more secure do to it's Unix underpinnings such as TRUE permissions, which Windows attempts to complete. As for costing more, true they do cost more initially, but most of the cost saving that have been associated with macs(yes stereotypes of these sorts do exist for apple) are the built in features(iLife 04', and any other app that most users need), and the longevity of a Mac. One last thing proprietery is not always a bad thing and for 80% of the world, Apple would suit them well, Windows has so many problems not because it is bad programming(although I bet that is a large cause) but because of it's horizontal archetechture, it must run on anything, where as apple can release an OS and only have to add support for 6 different CD Burners opposed to 600 or 8 different types of RAM opposed to 800. Concerning games I would definatly choose a PC, but then again Halo was originally created for Macs, until M$ bought Bungie.

We have overlooked Mac for a long time. The first thing: ANY OS can be attacked by virues, the matter is how many people want to do that. Next, any OS can have GREAT SOFTWARE, if there are some who write it. The matter with Windows is that 95% of the world relies upon it, everyone is familiar with it and they start feeling boring about it. Windows also have better hardware compatibility (it's undeniable). On the software side, we can not blame Microsoft, they don't make all apps alone, there's a whole bunch of companies doing it. They did make good software, right (believe or not, it's Windows XP)

We have overlooked Mac for a long time. The first thing: ANY OS can be attacked by virues, the matter is how many people want to do that. Next, any OS can have GREAT SOFTWARE, if there are some who write it. The matter with Windows is that 95% of the world relies upon it, everyone is familiar with it and they start feeling boring about it. Windows also have better hardware compatibility (it's undeniable). On the software side, we can not blame Microsoft, they don't make all apps alone, there's a whole bunch of companies doing it. They did make good software, right (believe or not, it's Windows XP)

We have overlooked Mac for a long time. The first thing: ANY OS can be attacked by virues, the matter is how many people want to do that. Next, any OS can have GREAT SOFTWARE, if there are some who write it. The matter with Windows is that 95% of the world relies upon it, everyone is familiar with it and they start feeling boring about it. Windows also have better hardware compatibility (it's undeniable). On the software side, we can not blame Microsoft, they don't make all apps alone, there's a whole bunch of companies doing it. They did make good software, right (believe or not, it's Windows XP)

here's my problem w/MusicMatch, whose service i used up until a few weeks ago ... it doesn't support my iRiver player. so, in order to load 'em (if i so desire), I have to burn the songs to CD then rip 'em back as MP3s. (It points out everything that's wrong w/the legal download sites, if you ask me.)

I agree that renting music is pointless. I have never been able to get musicmatch to work anyway. I love iTunes and plan on sticking with it!

I have used musicmatch for years, but at the upgrade to mmjb9, I found that the skins offered were ugly and limited and I couldn't get rid of that 'new feature' rhapsody. Its really junk and I found a site that gave me the mmjb8.2 back. Now I'm happy again. Essentially mmjb is a good functional music file program, but I personally like flexibility so the new versions force you to do it their way.

Can you share with us the site where you can get the old skin. The one they give are so ugly

This new version of MM bites. 9 pushes downloads on you, you can't resize the window, you get three skins that are ugly and the same, you can no longer download any skins at all. I HATE IT. I'm a longtime user with lifetime upgrades and I have never seen MM do anything as horrid as this. Stay away from it. It's poison.

If it looks,sounds, smells like a duck, it probibly is a Gateway. 40 gbs for under $400.oo is apples draw. I use music match and with the up grade you can use an outside sorce to record to hard drive...Cassette,records,even 8tracks, t.v. ect. any way all is will with transforming to cd or mp3. thanks guys.

I had the same issues with the new version of mmjb9 - the skins are awful and 8 was way better - mmbj emailed me the link to download the old version - bring back the good ol' 8.2!
you'll find all the old downloads here:
http://partners.musicmatch.com/archives
Hope this helps the others out there who have had problems with mmjb9 -
MMJB: dont make things "better" by making them worse