Musicmatch for Windowsversions higher than Windows XP

[tklrrocket0]

In my opinion, it was a very sad day indeed when the Audio software Musicmatch went to God, because it is
not compatible with any Windows OS later than Windows XP.

At the time and when I was a user of Windows XP, Musicmatch was a terrific piece of Software for Music.
Converting, Adding album covers, Genre, Play Lists, File Name Changing etc. It really was the Burger with
the Lot and I could not find any software that came anywhere near what Musicmatch was.

I like most, went to Windows 7 at the time, but guess what, Musicmatch was not compatible. I think YAHOO bought
Musicmatch and for some crazy reason, they shelved it, leaving the world with nothing to replace it. I do notice
there is still a lot of support for Musicmatch and many questions are asked as to how it can be installed on Windows 10, 11 etc...

I tried everything with disappointment being the result 100% of the time.

Then I came up with a terrific idea and it works. Instead of trying to get Musicmatch to work with later versions
of Windows, I partitioned my Hard Drive with 75% allocated to Windows 10 and installed Windows XP
Service Pack 3 on the other 25%.

Now whenever I activate my PC, I get the choice of Windows 10 or Windows XP. If I need / want to use
Musicmatch, I select Windows XP and bingo, Musicmatch lives once again and works brilliantly.

What I did works well and it may for you tool. It's a bit like going backwards, to go forward!!

I would be so good if some organization could bring it back and have it compatible with Windows whatever.

 

[accwlo]

Thankfully I never experienced of what you "users" goes through; because I was always using winamp 2.81 (best soundEQ) and it works even in W10. No problems at even 1 functionality.
You could use Winamp 5.6 for building your own visual GUI art gallery if you need. But lets be honest - you do not watch music; you experience it.
Therefore my whole music is just sorted in d:\music as all best MP3 ripped by myself in best quality from my hundreds of cassettes and CDs. Just set a playlist and go back to your work duties with rhythm.
About recording - just like all professionals Im using Audacity (you have to add mp3 dll to be able to save as).

 

[Skittler1987]

Musicbee and Mediamonkey does all the things Musicmatch did. Not really that hard to find something to replace it with if you look. Then you also have Winamp as accwlo said and there is also AIMP, and Foobar2000.

 

[wasy]

Mediamonkey is ok but it don't have the feel of Musicmatch. I ran Musicmatch on windows 10 & 11..you do get a pop up saying it can make the system unstable in windows 11.I still ran it,there is nothing like have muisc playing while you surf,dropping a tab and seeing the album art full screen display