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Title: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: JimH on October 05, 2007, 10:24:35 am
14 million cable subscribers can now get digital music with their corn flakes.

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=42827.0
Title: Re: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: hit_ny on October 05, 2007, 10:54:14 am
Great news !!

looking for a pic of this player and best i found was this (http://premiumservices.rr.com/files/roadrunner/tours/musicnet_rr.html) (click the extras tab)

was surpised to see no ipod support at the bottom of this (http://www.timewarnercable.com/CentralNY/Products/Internet/premium.html) page

..but it also says working on mac support  :o

Did i read that right :)
Title: Re: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: KingSparta on October 05, 2007, 01:56:23 pm
Jim Do We Still Need To Use There Version Of MC?

I Would Switch From Yahoo Music For Sure, and I am sure others would also.

If Not, Could You Explain What The Reason For This Would Be? (Don't Just Say Yes Or No, I Phrased This To Be A Open Question).
Title: Re: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: JimH on October 05, 2007, 02:08:58 pm
Jim Do We Still Need To Use There Version Of MC?
It's similar to Yahoo.  You could purchase with their player and play with MC.  We may provide a store in the future.
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I Would Switch From Yahoo Music For Sure, and I am sure others would also.
Thanks.  MediaNetDigital (formerly MusicNet) is the back-end provider of the music for both Yahoo and Road Runner.
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If Not, Could You Explain What The Reason For This Would Be? (Don't Just Say Yes Or No, I Phrased This To Be A Open Question).
In general, any store that uses Windows Media DRM (and this is most of the non-Apple stores) provides music that should work fine in MC.  Is that what you meant?
Title: Re: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: KingSparta on October 05, 2007, 02:27:24 pm
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Is that what you meant?

Well I Was Wondering If There Was A Licensing Limitation\Issue Between You And MediaNetDigital On Why This Is Not Allowed In The Full Version Of MC.

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MediaNetDigital (formerly MusicNet) is the back-end provider of the music for both Yahoo and Road Runner.

I Figured That Out

It's Just That There Player (Yahoo) Is Just "Gal Dang Awful" (A Bit Of Southern Talk There).

Signed A Chimp From N.C.


Title: Re: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: JimH on October 05, 2007, 02:30:09 pm
It's Just That There Player (Yahoo) Is Just "Gal Dang Awful" (A Bit Of Southern Talk There).
It ain't ours.
Title: Re: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: Griff on October 05, 2007, 09:30:20 pm
Pablo's ?
Title: Re: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: JimH on October 06, 2007, 07:10:28 am
I think the Yahoo player came before Yahoo acquired Meedio.  It may be something they bought from a group that left Winamp a few years ago.
Title: Re: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: jack wallstreet on October 06, 2007, 10:10:27 pm
The yahoo music player is an abomination of Musicmatch's jukebox.  Yahoo bought out Musicmatch and killed it, but developed this "thing" in its place.  I am glad it happenned because I discovered J River.
Title: Re: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: JimH on October 07, 2007, 08:11:56 am
The yahoo music player is an abomination of Musicmatch's jukebox.  Yahoo bought out Musicmatch and killed it, but developed this "thing" in its place.  I am glad it happenned because I discovered J River.
Thanks for the kind words.

I don't think that the Yahoo player is related at all to the MusicMatch player, even though the purchase of MusicMatch and the launch of the player weren't far apart.
Title: Re: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: jack wallstreet on October 07, 2007, 11:31:15 am
I concur there isn't much of a relationship.  When the very first trial version of Yahoo came out, a few aspects of the player had a passing resemblence to some features in Musicmatch.  When I complained about the player, Yahoo told me to be patient and they would be putting more features of Musicmatch into the Yahoo player (they didn't).  I assumed that while the Yahoo player was not in any significant way similar to Musicmatch, they must have used some of the same programmers who used a few characteristics here and there.
Title: Re: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: Osho on October 07, 2007, 12:01:45 pm
Great news!!! I really hope that J River Media Player takes off in great strides with Road Runner and even more partnership deals will come for J River in the future.

Congratulations to the entire J River team!

Osho
Title: Re: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: datdude on October 09, 2007, 02:50:48 pm
As long as Media Center does not become the next MusicMatch as far as the company's futures, then I am happy.
Title: Re: Your favorite player now at Time Warner / Road Runner Cable
Post by: Sauzee on October 10, 2007, 09:52:20 am
Well done guys!