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I have!

Here are my thoughts:

Thumbs Up:
- Relatively strong catalog... better selection of non-Britney-Spears stuff than Napster!
- Starts streaming pretty quickly, and I think the streams sound pretty decent.
- The least expensive of the all-you-can-listen-to services; $8/month with an annual subscription.
- 7 day free trial, 30 day money-back-guarantee.
- MM lets you easily (and legally!) share any playlist with friends... and (at least in theory) they can play the full-length tracks of the first 20 songs in each playlist three times (after that they get 30 second snippets).  I say "at least in theory" because at least when I tested this by sending the songs to a friend (who, as the system works, then had to download the lousy MM player), he was only able to play 30 second snippets .  But, at least in concept, this is a super cool advantage of MM over the other services and really facilitates discovery

Thumbs Down:
- Can only stream; no tethered downloads (it's like Rhapsody)
- HORRIBLE interface; I cannot understand why so many people like the MusicMatch player.  It's still bloated, it loads and runs slowly on my fast machine, and the UI was clearly "designed" by a team of folks with, uh,  seriously short attention spans (I could be even more cruel, but you get the idea).
- And, like Rhapsody, you must use MM's player; you can't access the streams otherwise.  Ack!

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Anyone else used MM On Demand?  What are your thoughts?