Digital Home Thoughts: Musicmatch 9.0 to include "Send to Friend"

"On Demand subscribers can share play lists of songs assembled from the 600,000-track library, eclectic mixes or complete albums, by clicking the ``Send to'' button and entering an e-mail address. The friend receives an e-mail listing the tracks in your playlist. There's one catch: recipients must install Musicmatch Jukebox 9.0 if it's not already on their computers; the Send to a Friend e-mails include a download link. Recipients must also have a high-speed Internet connection. With the software installed, recipients only need to a hit a button labeled ``Click here to listen to this playlist.'' They can run through the playlist three times, getting near-CD-quality audio."



This new "Send to a Friend" feature is very interesting. This should help drive traffic to Musicmatch when people can listen to music for free and then click on a link to buy the music directly from Musicmatch. iTunes has had a feature where you can send links to people, but they can't listen to the whole song.

There is no download link to MMJB9 yet, but I'm sure it will be available soon.