Itunes can be used for more things (movies, podcasts in addition to music), and seems to be less cumbersome to use than Musicmatch. OTOH, itunes crashes more often on my xp machine than musicmatch does...
I switched to iTunes because Musicmatch was all-around crappy, especially when burning CDs. It was over a year ago that I last used Musicmatch, but as I recall it sucked at burning CDs -- it took forever and half the time the CDs got screwed up in the process. It didn't organize music very well and didn't do what I wanted re: playlists. Long story short (too late) iTunes made listening to music and burning CDs not a hideous chore, so I'm a fan. However, I have a Mac on which to use iTunes, so I can't speak as to its functionality on a Windows or other machine.
I'm sort of at the opposite end from hilariarex. I finally moved to iTunes, though, because MMJB was choking on the huge number of music files I had to deal with, and all iTunes does is stutter in what is occasionally an amusing fashion. Oh, and keep trying to send me to the iTunes Music Store Of Storiness.
The thing I don't like about MusicMatch is that I have the free version which is very slow and continuously throws popup adverstising at me. Musicmatch insists that I buy the Pro version to make CD burning and music loading faster and to eliminate the popups. On the other hand, all versions of iTunes are free. I like free.
I last used Musicmatch two or three years ago, so it's possible it made a giant leap in quality. But it really sucked then; kludgy and slow at absolutely everything it did.
Mind you, I wasn't very impressed with iTunes either. No interest in the store part of it, and I like my free stuff scattered in different pieces that each do their own thing well.
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Date: 2006-10-04 02:45 pm (UTC)Mind you, I wasn't very impressed with iTunes either. No interest in the store part of it, and I like my free stuff scattered in different pieces that each do their own thing well.