And
RealJukebox will shuffle all kinds of digitally stored music: You can load on tracks from your own CDs and you can pull in MP3s from around the Net.
RealNetworks, which drew 69% of its revenue from sales of software licenses, highlighted the success of its
RealJukebox product, the world's most-popular digital music player, which has claimed 12 million users since its launch five months ago.
RealNetworks has unveiled a new service which effectively merges its two most popular consumer programs, RealPlayer and
RealJukebox, into a single, digital media destination.
(AP) - RealNetworks is unveiling RealONE, a music and video player designed to replace the company's three flagship consumer products, RealPlayer,
RealJukebox and GoldPass.
I can manually launch it, but recently downloaded a
Realjukebox file - is this causing me problems?
The more popular of these are
RealJukebox Plus and MusicMatch Jukebox.
It became public some time ago that each copy of RealPlayer, like Windows Media Player, contained a globally unique identifier (GUID) that was transmitted to the provider when the user accessed streaming media.(32) It only recently became known that the same company's
RealJukebox player transmitted information back to its makers including the names of all the CDs the user played, the number of songs recorded on her hard disk, the brand of portable MP3 player she owned, and the music genre she listened to most.(33) The information was tied to a unique identification number that could be mapped to the user's email address via the registration database.
If you want to make your own MP3 files,
RealJukebox Basic (www.real.com) is a good, free bet but it won't let you record at CD quality.
A US-based company called RealNetworks, which developed the
RealJukebox software that allows users to listen to music CDs on their PCs, has apologised for breaching customers' privacy.