Comments on: Makin’ It Faster: Yahoo! Music Jukebox 2.1 Is Here http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/ Digital music products Weblog from the team at Yahoo! Music Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:17:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: jpeirick http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2244 jpeirick Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:28:06 +0000 http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2244 Features notwithstanding, this software brought my machine to its knees a month ago, and will not re-install under any circumstances. Repeated contact with Yahoo "customer service" prove fruitless. I can't even get them to refund the unused part of my unusable prepaid subscription. Corroborating opinions, with similar or identical experiences found here: http://mb.music.yahoo.com/music/Support/threadview?m=tm&bn=mus-ymefeedback&tid=2836&mid=4127&tof=5&rt=2&frt=2&off=1 Features notwithstanding, this software brought my machine to its knees a month ago, and will not re-install under any circumstances. Repeated contact with Yahoo “customer service” prove fruitless.
I can’t even get them to refund the unused part of
my unusable prepaid subscription.
Corroborating opinions, with similar or identical experiences found here:
http://mb.music.yahoo.com/music/Support/threadview?m=tm&bn=mus-ymefeedback&tid=2836&mid=4127&tof=5&rt=2&frt=2&off=1

]]> By: rhodeder http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2169 rhodeder Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:28:38 +0000 http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2169 Im very upset with the missing feature of the limiter in the equalizer. listening to songs with alot of bass sounds scratchy. And dfx seems to be pretty buggy and works on my windows vista installation but not in my xp installation. Also I tryed installing it at work and it wouldnt let me install saying i had less than 64mb of ram when i had 6gb so i had to go back and edit your installation files internal cfg and take out the line of code which says to chk for your system stats and recompile it. It works now though. But i would still like the limiter and dfx bugs fixed. Im very upset with the missing feature of the limiter in the equalizer. listening to songs with alot of bass sounds scratchy. And dfx seems to be pretty buggy and works on my windows vista installation but not in my xp installation. Also I tryed installing it at work and it wouldnt let me install saying i had less than 64mb of ram when i had 6gb so i had to go back and edit your installation files internal cfg and take out the line of code which says to chk for your system stats and recompile it. It works now though. But i would still like the limiter and dfx bugs fixed.

]]> By: stretchboy http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2167 stretchboy Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:03:04 +0000 http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2167 Can we get some support for x64 flavors of XP and Vista? From the forums it appears that there are a number of x64 users lamenting this lack of support. Throw us an update with that yahoo!! Can we get some support for x64 flavors of XP and Vista? From the forums it appears that there are a number of x64 users lamenting this lack of support. Throw us an update with that yahoo!!

]]> By: juggaloG_2000 http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2150 juggaloG_2000 Tue, 29 May 2007 06:20:05 +0000 http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2150 YMJ solved a major problem I had today. I bought some songs from the Zune Marketplace to burn to CD, but, since I run the ZM in a Parallels VM on my iMac, ZM wouldn't burn my CD. Neither would Windows Media Player or Winamp. Fortunately, YMJ did. Thank you for solving my dilemma! YMJ solved a major problem I had today. I bought some songs from the Zune Marketplace to burn to CD, but, since I run the ZM in a Parallels VM on my iMac, ZM wouldn’t burn my CD. Neither would Windows Media Player or Winamp. Fortunately, YMJ did. Thank you for solving my dilemma!

]]> By: dag http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2139 dag Fri, 18 May 2007 05:18:40 +0000 http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2139 What happened to the Podcast plugins for YME? Neither one I have (Yahoo! Podcasts and My Podcasts) seems to work anymore. I see no evidence of updates and the links to the older versions are broken. With each new update in the 2.x series this has gotten worse and now it is completely broken. I hate having to use three different programs for my music and would like to mainly use YME, but can't anymore. What happened to the Podcast plugins for YME? Neither one I have (Yahoo! Podcasts and My Podcasts) seems to work anymore. I see no evidence of updates and the links to the older versions are broken. With each new update in the 2.x series this has gotten worse and now it is completely broken. I hate having to use three different programs for my music and would like to mainly use YME, but can’t anymore.

]]> By: goldeneyes http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2131 goldeneyes Sun, 13 May 2007 15:22:19 +0000 http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2131 @imnlfn - I just stumbled across a preference that solves the problem. In Preferences on the General section make sure your Audio Settings are set to Broadband Connection. When I switch it to Dial Up Connection it sounds bad like I described. Now that it's on Broadband it sounds great! What a relief. @imnlfn - I just stumbled across a preference that solves the problem.

In Preferences on the General section make sure your Audio Settings are set to Broadband Connection.

When I switch it to Dial Up Connection it sounds bad like I described. Now that it’s on Broadband it sounds great! What a relief.

]]> By: goldeneyes http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2130 goldeneyes Sun, 13 May 2007 15:14:42 +0000 http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2130 The sound quality problem with YMJ is unacceptable. When I signed up for this service the sound quality was high and it practically sounded like CD quality. For the past months the quality sounds unpleasant. Bass is not full, treble is tinny. It sounds worse than my FM radio. I don't know if this is about version 2.x but the problem needs to be addressed. Anybody have an answer? The sound quality problem with YMJ is unacceptable. When I signed up for this service the sound quality was high and it practically sounded like CD quality. For the past months the quality sounds unpleasant. Bass is not full, treble is tinny. It sounds worse than my FM radio. I don’t know if this is about version 2.x but the problem needs to be addressed. Anybody have an answer?

]]> By: imnlfn http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2109 imnlfn Tue, 01 May 2007 20:39:29 +0000 http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2109 I don't have the same problem as lart: on my WinXP system, YME is only using about 30MB. I DO agree with goldeneyes, though, that a way to see the bitrate of streams would be nice. All the music I've been streaming lately sounds like it's at about 64K bps and I was beginning to wonder if this was a result of upgrading to YME 2.1. It's really unpleasant and I feel like I'm paying all this money for songs that really don't sound all that good. I don’t have the same problem as lart: on my WinXP system, YME is only using about 30MB.

I DO agree with goldeneyes, though, that a way to see the bitrate of streams would be nice. All the music I’ve been streaming lately sounds like it’s at about 64K bps and I was beginning to wonder if this was a result of upgrading to YME 2.1. It’s really unpleasant and I feel like I’m paying all this money for songs that really don’t sound all that good.

]]> By: lart http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2104 lart Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:52:24 +0000 http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2104 Any idea when yme is going to use less then 120MB of ram when it's just running? I have 2.1 if I start yme check the "commit charge" in task manager it's around 766MB stable if i only quit yme it goes all the way down to 640MB. if I play music before I quit it there's an even larger jump. Another solution that would make me happy is a liteweight lauchcast player. For the most part that's all I use yme for. I know I can go to music.yahoo.com with ie but it's just not the same. Any idea when yme is going to use less then 120MB of ram when it’s just running? I have 2.1 if I start yme check the “commit charge” in task manager it’s around 766MB stable if i only quit yme it goes all the way down to 640MB. if I play music before I quit it there’s an even larger jump.

Another solution that would make me happy is a liteweight lauchcast player. For the most part that’s all I use yme for. I know I can go to music.yahoo.com with ie but it’s just not the same.

]]> By: aham http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2082 aham Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:25:46 +0000 http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/03/makin-it-faster-yahoo-music-jukebox-21-is-here/#comment-2082 all things aside, when are you guys going to support 64 bit? all things aside, when are you guys going to support 64 bit?

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