I’m using quite an old Music Match Juke Box (v7.5) as my CD ripper. The newer one screws up some other apps and is just bigger & bloatier & I have registered this version (I don’t just use freeware, on occasion I will pay for stuff!).

I use my own player “what I wrote” as an MP3 player as MM tends to hog resources, displays the tag name when I want the file name and doesn’t do some of the shuffle effects I want (like play next sequential track when in shuffle mode). Also it saves play lists as text files so it’s easy to manipulate them & doesn’t create weird libraries I never use. Anyway writing your own apps is cool & a CD / MP3 player is so easy with Visual Basic why not?

 However, back to MMJB. The problem I have is that it doesn’t tend to find newer CD & I end up typing in track names (well not typing, cutting & pasting from Amazon CD listings usually). Is there a new CDDB? Can I get MM to look it at it? Has someone declared copyright on track listings so they can’t be accessed?