Oh yeah, I almost forgot to warn you-- if you do use the Thompson Winamp plugin to play mp3PRO files, you can forget about MJ reading your ID tags. It will not read them, or use them in any way, thereby nullifying much of the usefulness of MJ. If you are not careful, it will screw up all of the ID tags on your mp3PRO files. If you can live with that,the new MJ is a great program. Just do not allow the program to touch your ID tags, or expect it to use them to help you organize your collection, display notes, etc. MJ uses its own mp3 input plugin to do that.
MusicMatch v 7.2 now has native support for mp3PRO, and it is in many ways a good program. Overall, MJ is far superior, but sad to say it does not play nice with mp3PRO. So, you pays your money, and you makes your choices---.
I am sorry that MJ does not fully support mp3PRO, but I understand that Thompson's licensing fees are outrageous. That certainly has to be an important consideration. Having said that though, how is it that MusicMatch can afford do do so, and MJ cannot? MJ is really a much better program, and I would think that with proper marketing it would have as large or larger subscriber base.
One more point and question-- is it likely that MJ will ever support AAC ? This is said to be the best quality codec going, but to date only Liquid Audio has implemented it in a consumer product--namely, its latest Liquid Player. This player , however, sucks, as it will not even allow you to move encoded files to a second computer without a "passport", requiring you to give them a credit card number. This even if the files are ones you rip from your own CD's.
Talk about unacceptable manipulative behavior.That ranks right up there with Microsoft.