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Article: MusicMatch Jukebox plus 4.5.(Product Information)
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- Computer Shopper
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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The award for all-around performer goes to MusicMatch Jukebox Plus 4.5. It combines the advanced recording and file-management capabilities of higher-end programs like Siren Jukebox and RealJukebox Plus with the skin diversity and plug-in capabilities of Sonique and Winamp.
The latest version of Jukebox Plus replaces the Xing Technologies encoder with the faster and superior-sounding Fraunhofer encoder. This improvement allows the program to rip tracks from CDs at 12 times the normal speed. MusicMatch has also dropped support for Real Networks' RealAudio format in favor of Microsoft's Windows Media file format. It's not a bad switch because the program's ability ...