MusicMatch not working

[peterg77]

I can record and process vinyl recordings to digital fine, but MusicMatch returns either false track data results or no results at all. Some of my music is not well-known - Jonathan Edwards, McGuinness Flint, Hawk - but when I tried recording Sticky Finbgers by the Stones, MusicMatch still failed to recognize a single track.

I did not download the Yahoo toolbar - could this in any way be related to the problem? Or is there something else going wrong?

[peterg77]

MusicMatch is not a Roxio product.

Wondering why you come to a Roxio Support Board about a problem with Musicmatch Jukebox?

Do you know how to use Google?

cd

 

I came to the Roxio Support Board because while I was evaluating Roxio's vinyl to digital conversion utility, a Roxio feature - apparently utilizing third-party MusicMatch - offers to assign ID3 tag data fields.

 

I have used and written about MusicMatch in the past and know it can work beautifully. But in this instance, it did not identify a single song recorded through the Roxio program.

 

I have no way of knowing if this is a Roxio or MusicMatch problem or if there is another factor related to my system setup at fault.

 

I came here for help because, well, that's what I thought the Roxio community was here for.

 

I searched Google before placing my inquiry here, incidentally, and found nothing on this problem. And that means either I have some unique circumstance here, or it may mean that since I am using Roxio's brand new Creator 2010 package I may have stumbled on an issue that no one else has yet encountered.

 

Any assistance on this matter would be appreciated since I am reviewing this program and am on deadline. The Roxio public relations office is, as you may know, closed on the weekend so I had nowhere else to turn but here until Monday.

 

Peter Grad

 

[cdanteek]

I came to the Roxio Support Board because while I was evaluating Roxio's vinyl to digital conversion utility, a Roxio feature - apparently utilizing third-party MusicMatch - offers to assign ID3 tag data fields.

 

I have used and written about MusicMatch in the past and know it can work beautifully. But in this instance, it did not identify a single song recorded through the Roxio program.

 

I have no way of knowing if this is a Roxio or MusicMatch problem or if there is another factor related to my system setup at fault.

 

I came here for help because, well, that's what I thought the Roxio community was here for.

 

I searched Google before placing my inquiry here, incidentally, and found nothing on this problem. And that means either I have some unique circumstance here, or it may mean that since I am using Roxio's brand new Creator 2010 package I may have stumbled on an issue that no one else has yet encountered.

 

Any assistance on this matter would be appreciated since I am reviewing this program and am on deadline. The Roxio public relations office is, as you may know, closed on the weekend so I had nowhere else to turn but here until Monday.

 

Peter Grad

 

 

Did you read the paragraph I posted?

 

Do you understand how that function in Musicmatch and gracenote works?

 

I don't have a copy of 'Roxio's vinyl to digital conversion utility' is there any option in that software to access gracenote?

 

http://www.gracenote.com/search/album_deta...6c&tui_tag=

 

Yahoo has disabled the Super tagging function that automatically analyzes songs and assigns tag elements (Artist, Album, Track Name and Number). However, Musicmatch 10.1 can still be used to modify tags for a single song or groups of songs and then rename files based on those tag elements. The software remains highly functional for tagging and organizing music.

 

 

About MusicMatch Jukebox :

 

Musicmatch is the former company (founded in 1997) that developed the Musicmatch Jukebox software. Jukebox was added to the software name when the dynamic playlist feature-set was added to the software. Subsequent products included Musicmatch Radio, Musicmatch Music Store, and Musicmatch On Demand. The original Musicmatch name and brand were developed by Creative Multimedia and were part of a series of media-oriented online resources, including Moviematch.

 

On September 14, 2004 Yahoo! announced that it was going to acquire Musicmatch. The acquisition was completed on October 19, 2004 for a reported price of US $160 million.

 

The Jukebox has a skinnable, graphical interface and allows users to manage a catalogue of digital music, as well as CD and stream-based audio. It has a fairly advanced AutoDJ but has been noted as having a longer boot-up time than other players. The Plus version includes faster rip and burn times, exportable tables and tech support, as well as a "Super-Tagging" function that fetches for tags and album art and attaches them to the song file, allows you to customize the art and tags for any files in a directory, or rename files based upon the tags already stored in the files. These features, and others, were meant to be incentives to upgrade from the free version, which lacks them. The upgrade is done by entering a serial number which must past a local validity test.

 

Musicmatch 7 added the ability to record from "Mixer In" if a full duplex sound card is installed. Musicmatch (versions 9 and earlier) is well equipped to transfer LP records and streaming audio to MP3 as it has the ability to listen for silences of customizable level (percentage of original volume) and duration (in seconds). This allows Musicmatch to split a ripped LP into tracks automatically and to stop recording after playback of a stream was complete. A delayed recording start was also of benefit when recording streams.

 

Many long-time Musicmatch users never updated to Yahoo Musicmatch preferring to stay with Musicmatch 9 or 10. Starting with Musicmatch 10, several key features began to be removed. While 10 added several features related to listing online radio through Musicmatch services, a bug eliminated the ability to split tracks when recording from Mixer-in. The Yahoo Musicmatch version dropped the much favored 'super-tagging' feature. Registration keys for Musicmatch Jukebox Plus still function. However no new versions of Musicmatch (or Yahoo! Jukebox) are available for download. Yahoo! now offers Rhapsody in partnership with RealNetworks.

 

cd

[peterg77]

Did you read the paragraph I posted?

 

Do you understand how that function in Musicmatch and gracenote works?

 

I don't have a copy of 'Roxio's vinyl to digital conversion utility' is there any option in that software to access gracenote?

 

http://www.gracenote.com/search/album_deta...6c&tui_tag=

 

cd

 

I uninstalled both Roxio Creator 2010 and Roxio Easy VHS to DVD (which duplicates many of all Creator 2010 features), reinstalled Creator 2010 and tried MusicID (which I incorrectly referred to as MusicMatch) again. It worked this time.

 

I did read all of your text. Thank you for the quoted materials.

 

My concern wasn't with how to use Creator via Yahoo or other means; I was using Roxio 2010's Digitize LPs and Tapes feature and a button labeled Tags opens an audio tags window containing a button labeled MuscID, which is supposed to fill out several ID fields. It failed to work properly in every test I initially made. But after resintallation, MusicID did work successfully, not perfectly, but it did recognize a number of songs. There must have been an installation issue causing my initial problem.

 

[cdanteek]

I can record and process vinyl recordings to digital fine, but MusicMatch returns either false track data results or no results at all. Some of my music is not well-known - Jonathan Edwards, McGuinness Flint, Hawk - but when I tried recording Sticky Finbgers by the Stones, MusicMatch still failed to recognize a single track.

I did not download the Yahoo toolbar - could this in any way be related to the problem? Or is there something else going wrong?

MusicMatch is not a Roxio product.

 

Wondering why you come to a Roxio Support Board about a problem with Musicmatch Jukebox?

 

Yahoo has disabled the Super tagging function that automatically analyzes songs and assigns tag elements (Artist, Album, Track Name and Number). However, Musicmatch 10.1 can still be used to modify tags for a single song or groups of songs and then rename files based on those tag elements. The software remains highly functional for tagging and organizing music.

 

Do you know how to use Google?

 

cd