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This industry-standard, streaming-media player
undergoes a face-lift and emerges with a downloadable music store
and enhanced jukebox capabilities. Though not groundbreaking, the
RealPlayer music store gets a thumbs-up for being easy to use and
offering a flexible DRM policy. The new jukebox features let you
make playlists, rip CDs, burn custom mixes, and listen to hundreds
of online radio stations, The interface, though better than previous
versions, still feels cluttered, sluggish, and confusing. On the
bright side, audio and video quality is crisp and clear. The program
still suffers from the intrusive installation, file-type hijacking,
and upgrade harassment that have plagued it since its inception.
Overall, though, RealPlayer has taken steps in the right direction.
Users of earlier versions certainly should upgrade. |
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Nullsoft has a lot of ground to make up after the
Winamp 3.0 debacle, a dwindling user base, and stiff competition
from Apple's iTunes. Winamp 5 is a huge step in the right direction,
with support for AAC encoding, CD burning, and a robust
file-management system...finally.
New functionality includes
a More Info feature that hunts down biographical information and
options to buy the CD online. We also loved the Internet TV feature
that provides some great music videos or live concert footage.
Another eye-catcher is the excellent collection of visualizations.
The massive catalog of Winamp 2.x and 3.x skins works
with this new version.
One quibble is the lack of an
efficient way to manage the player, media-library, and
playlist-editor windows at the same time. The free version is
feature-rich, but if you want MP3 encoding and full-speed CD
burning, you have to shell out $14.95 for the Pro version. Winamp is
one of our all-time favorite players, though, and version 5 renews
its promise. |
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iTunes, the award-winning digital-jukebox software,
is now available for Mac and Windows. The iTunes Music Store offers
Windows users the same online music store as Mac users, with the
same music catalog, the same personal-use rights, and the same
99-cents-per-song pricing. With music from all five major music
companies and more than 600 independent labels, the iTunes Music
Store catalog now offers more than 1,000,000 songs. Features include
a free download with no hidden charges for extra features, MP3 and
pristine-quality AAC-encoding from audio CDs, smart playlists, more
than 250 free Internet radio stations, and the ability to burn
custom playlists to CDs and MP3 CDs, to burn content to DVDs to back
up an entire music collection, and to share music via Rendezvous
over any network, cross-platform.
New version: Enjoy a
streamlined look, find stuff faster with the new Search Bar, control
kids access with Parental Controls and hear more of what you love
with Smart Shuffle. |
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