Yahoo! Music JukeBox on WinXP (VMware Workstation 17)

Описание: This one has slipped under the radar. Things can get a bit confusing as often, a lot of these music players often got caught up in the corporate shuffles and mergers, like Nullsoft with its becoming a part of AOL-Time Warner. In the case of the Yahoo! Music Jukebox, it was developed side-by-side with MusicMatch Jukebox, another media player that has been covered on this channel. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004. This idea behind this acquisition was for Yahoo! to get into the digital music market. With this new service, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, the Yahoo! Music Jukebox would be the client to this service.

Now since where in 2025 and where fully aware of iTunes in detail while where in a brain fog when it comes to Yahoo! Music Unlimited, something tells me the latter wasn't successful. Yahoo! later sold its music business to Rhapsody in 2008. This software was released during a very interesting time in computing history. We're seeing the rise of the music services, and the massive competition in that space. iTunes became the 800-pound gorilla in the digital music service, and now many others were responding in there way.

How is the software though? Well, it's like your standard audio software. There is a web portal to Yahoo Music Unlimited, which of course, doesn't work as that service doesn't exist anymore. However, I don't we're missing much though. While its quite functional, it can't do anything that media players like iTunes, WMP, WinAMP, and VLC. However I'm still glad I tried it out though.

Special Thanks to CiTRU5 for archiving this very interesting piece of software.
https://archive.org/details/yahoo-mus...

VirtualBox 7.0 is virtualizing a x86 multimedia PC with two cores allocated to it (host has a AMD Ryzen 5 5500 6-Core Processor), 2GB of RAM, ICH AC97 Audio Adapter, Intel PRO/1000 T Server Ethernet Adapter, 30GB Hard-disk drive, CD-ROM, PS/2 Mouse, and a VESA Compatible Display Adapter. Windows is running at the screen resolution of 1024 by 768, 32-bit color depth. Windows XP SP3 is installed.

Songs Used:
Creeper
Discmasters
https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view...

Yahoo! Music Jukebox (Uploaded and Archived by CiTRU5)
https://archive.org/details/yahoo-mus...

Software Used:
Recorded With OBS Studio
Composed In Kdenlive

Hardware Used:
PC equipped with a
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 CPU
6 Cores Running At 4.2GHz
AMD Radeon RX570 GPU
Windows 11