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Title: How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: Matthew on April 19, 2004, 02:52:26 pm
Mines www.download.com  ;D
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: LonWar on April 19, 2004, 02:53:52 pm
I read an article for Media Jukebox in CPU magazine.
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: kaiynne on April 19, 2004, 03:31:03 pm
AVSforum should be an option, i am sure quite a few people come from there considering the praise media center gets over there.  That is where i found out BTW.
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: GRAYDOG on April 19, 2004, 03:39:36 pm
I read an article for Media Jukebox in CPU magazine.
Must have read the same review in CPU
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: Nolonemo on April 19, 2004, 04:03:08 pm
Hydrogen Audio mp3 forum
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: cattani on April 19, 2004, 04:07:50 pm
from download.com, i try many jukebox but MC is yhe KING !!!
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: Polonio on April 19, 2004, 04:14:04 pm
I wrote a message in a WinAmp forum. JimH told me about MC's existence. That was 2 years ago.

I am a happy MC user now.
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: pank2002 on April 19, 2004, 04:47:43 pm
iPodlounge
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: Penfold on April 19, 2004, 05:05:12 pm
ditto
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: bebop on April 19, 2004, 06:37:17 pm
found it on a forum as I was trying to find better software for my Nomad Zen.  Tried it, loved it and am still loving it! ;D
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: Marty3d on April 20, 2004, 03:06:51 pm
from betanews.com...it was version 8.x beta...
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: pipsqueak on April 20, 2004, 07:19:09 pm
there was a very good guide to mp3's written a while back, it recommended MJ

http://mp3.radified.com/

pip

[edit - i followed the link in the guide and have never looked back...]
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: Charlemagne 8 on April 20, 2004, 08:18:28 pm
When Napster was being shut down, I started looking for a replacement and came across "AfterNap". It was intended to be a legal alternative to Napster. I Emailed an opinion to who I now know was JimH, never expecting a reply. He did. I've been around ever since. My first version of Media Jukebox was 5.  It has come a very long way.

CVIII
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: paulr on April 20, 2004, 08:26:40 pm
Absolutely no clue how I ended up here!

I was using Musicmatch and I think after they told me that there would be no support for popular-but-not-quite-mainstream codecs (e.g. APE) and  that they would not continue to honor the lifetime upgrade license I had, I was hunting around for a replacement.

Of course, what I found (MC) was much more than a replacement.  After using MC for a bit, I permanently uninstalled MM.
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: xen-uno on April 20, 2004, 08:57:24 pm
Nor I...

This was the first forum I ever joined, though. HA about 6 months later. Player lineage as I remember: RealPlayer>RealJukeBox>MJ/MC 7/8/9/10 (+ WinAmp)

C2cubed...

MJ5 huh? Did it look like an unskinned 7/8? Did you have a 'stache then?

10-27
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: Charlemagne 8 on April 20, 2004, 09:09:13 pm
MJ5 was unstable as hell on my Win98SE system. Maybe others had that same problem.  6 was a little better but I couldn't get it to burn. They were both about as basic as you can get skin-wise. 7 changed everything and it hasn't levelled off yet.

And I've had a moustache ever since one would grow. Some say even before one would grow. It used to be brown but someone has been sneaking in when I'm asleep and bleaching one hair at a time. That must be VERY meticulous work. But it's probably getting easier.

CVIII
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: modelmaker on April 21, 2004, 12:11:08 am
same thing happened to my mustache, I finally sabotaged the guy and shaved it off! Trouble was I didn't recognize the guy in the mirror, (had that mustache since I was 17 - I am now 53).

Found MC via download.com a couple of years ago now.
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: SouthsideIrish on April 21, 2004, 07:39:07 am
Adam Shawley converted me. You could say I was a member of the anti-MC9 crowd who couldn't believe that someone would actually go out and buy a program like this. Then I bought a Gen 3 iPod, and came to the realization that MC9 was a program I couldn't live without. Now I'm an MC10 zealot.

I've seen the light, and the light is MC10!

Bill McNair
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: GHammer on April 21, 2004, 10:39:09 am
If you name a media app for Windows, I've installed it. Some excelled at this or that, some were plain lousy all the way through.

Then about a year ago I came upon MJ 8 and thought I'd give it a try. Saw something on the site about a beta for a Media Center. Started in. Trashed my MP3 tags with that version. Liked the idea of it so well that I stayed and after all this time finally got someone with US dollars to buy me a license.

MC is the best and mainly because the MC crew is so darn responsive. Without that willingness to consider our ideas and desires I'd probably not have stayed with it. But the promise of a better app was always there and most importantly acted upon.
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: JustinChase on April 21, 2004, 11:27:51 am
Did a search on cnet.com for jukebox software, looked at a few, tried Media Jukebox 8, bought it, and have had it ever since.
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: DJMUK on April 21, 2004, 11:32:54 am
At my age my brain can't remember how I found it (MJ7 that was) but I'm glad I did!

David
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: TimB on April 21, 2004, 12:06:25 pm
Kurt at iPodlounge.

-=Tim=-
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: Jaguu on April 21, 2004, 03:53:11 pm
The reason I moved to MJ was that I have a lot of New Age and Meditation music and there was no way to automatically retrieve track info from the net, so I had to enter everything by hand. Windows Media Player was totally inadequate for that purpose as was the handling of the database, so I searched for other MusicJukeboxes in www.cnet.com. The excellent user reviews at that time (MJ7 and 94% users satisfaction) made the decision making easy and I have never regretted it!
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: Dan Da Man on April 21, 2004, 04:12:19 pm
Actually, I think it was years ago I was looking for a program to splice/edit mp3s and found MC's Sound Editor through mp3.com.  After another year of playing around with CDs, I decided to put all my music on hard disks.  Good deal.  And well, it was obvious that MC was the best software for managing music, of course.

Dan "da Man"
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: Link on April 21, 2004, 05:11:57 pm
From Tivo forums.... I got the Home Media Option, and was looking for a program that would work with TIVO - and I got hooked immediatly!
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: sail121j on April 21, 2004, 09:28:30 pm
I started with Musicmatch but after 5000 or so MP3 files, it slowed  down so badly that I had to find something else.  It is a toy really..  After investigating the problem and having no solution, one of the forums suggested I try Media Jukebox... Best thing going.  I have 0ver 16000 music files from my CD collections and it works great.  Keep up the good work.

Jack
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: EpF on April 22, 2004, 03:54:25 pm
I'm one of those people who started out with musicmatch (and like many of them, I REALLY dislike it now!), which I got free with a walkman.  After that, from being online I kept reading statements about JRiver MediaJukebox being the best of its kind, so I ended up at Musicex.  Couldn't believe how comprehensive MC was when I tried it first (I didn't try MJ, as MC seemed more all-encompassing).  I was really surprised at how MC did all the things that musicmatch and winamp didn't, and did everything they did better...  And now IT'S better too!  I'm a happy man!
Title: Re:How did you get to musicex.com?
Post by: Madcow on April 22, 2004, 03:59:42 pm
Bought an iPod at the time when MusicMatch was the bundled app.  Hated MusicMatch with a passion from the very start and scouted around for an alternative.  Found MC recommended at ipodlounge and never looked back.