Yahoo! Music Jukebox 2.2
Put down that watermelon for a second, I’ve got a small Yahoo! Music Jukebox update for you. Jukebox version 2.2 is now available. The big deal in this release is a completely overhauled online interface for . Right away you may notice a new front page for Unlimited that should load a lot faster, larger images on artist pages, and an overall palette that’s a little easier on the eyes. This interface has been re-done almost from scratch to be quicker and more reliable.
Beneath the shiny new surface, though, are some helpful additions in the right-click menu within Unlimited that hopefully make life easier for music lovers:
Auto–Play: Turn this on and turn off the hassle of constantly having to add music to yourqueue. When the list of music in “Now Playing” is over, we’ll keep playing music from Yahoo! Music Unlimited similar to what you were listening to. It’s great for parties, like the July 4th bash you should be at right now (in the U.S. at least). You or your friends can add a few tracks you specifically want to hear, and let us handle the rest.
Recent Searches: We remember the last 20 searches that you’ve done in Unlimited.
Find Other Versions: Navigate to a song page. If it’s not quite the right performance of the song that you were looking for, right-click and select “Find Other Versions” and we’ll automatically search for similar songs and hopefully get you to what you’re looking for.
Under the hood, we’ve also made some performance tweaks. The greatest hits among those are:
• We’ve improved handling of album art lookups for local MP3 tracks
• Fixed a memory leak that would spring when YMJ was playing for a very long time (Goes well with Auto-Play)
• Jukebox 2.2 should now install and run on 64-bit Vista systems (fingers crossed)
• My personal favorite long-term nagging issue: When the player is maximized the close gadget X is now clickable all the way up to the upper right corner of the screen. That’s usability progress!
• Over 100 other various quality fixes
We hope you enjoy these latest enhancements and encourage your on these products. Now get back to that barbecue. It’s time to flip those burgers.
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