What is Musicmatch Jukebox?
Musicmatch Jukebox is a digital music player and library management software originally created by Musicmatch, Inc in 1997 for the Windows operating system. At its peak popularity in the early 2000s, Musicmatch Jukebox was one of the most widely used pieces of software for organizing and playing digital music collections on PCs.
Key features of Musicmatch Jukebox include:
- Playing back various audio formats like MP3, WMA, and WAV
- Ripping CDs to MP3 or WMA formats automatically
- Managing and organizing a digital music library with options for creating playlists, editing ID3 tags, album art etc.
- Internet radio support for streaming radio stations within the app interface
- Syncing portable devices like early MP3 players and transferring music to them
In the early 2000s, Musicmatch Jukebox was often bundled with new PCs and became a popular digital music player before dedicated services like iTunes began dominating. In 2003, Musicmatch Inc. was acquired by Yahoo and the software was rebranded as Yahoo Music Jukebox for some time before being discontinued a few years later.
Kodi, Winamp, Plex, VLC Media Player, MPC-HC, PotPlayer, iTunes, MusicBee, AIMP, foobar2000, MPV, Clementine are some alternatives to Musicmatch Jukebox.