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Yahoo! Music was a brand under which Yahoo! provided music services including Internet radio , a digital music store , music streaming service , media player software , and original programming .
The idea of a dedicated music player was born from Yahoo! audio search engine, which was divided into two segments: audio files openly found on the Web; and licensed music from Yahoo! own music service that can be searched by several criteria (e.g., artist, title, album, etc.) and downloaded for a price, typically $1 per track.
Broadcast.com was an Internet radio company founded as AudioNet in September 1995 by Cameron Christopher Jaeb. Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban later led the company's daily operations which was eventually sold to Yahoo! on April 1, 1999, for $5.7 billion, making it the most expensive acquisition Yahoo! has made. [1]
Yahoo! Music Radio (formerly known as LAUNCHcast ) was an Internet radio service. The service, which featured both an advertising supported free version and a subscription fee -based premium version, allowed users to create personalized Internet radio stations by rating songs selected by a recommender system .
Yahoo! Music Jukebox was the software used for the service. The service required an active Internet connection. It was discontinued on September 30, 2008. [6] [7] The service was praised for its music quality, interface, and cheaper price than competitors. [8] [9]
Yahoo! acquired Launch Media and its LaunchCast internet radio platform in 2001 amid the dot-com bubble; [25] [26] in 2005, the service evolved into Yahoo Music Unlimited, a subscription service that allowed songs to be streamed in DRM-protected Windows Media Audio (WMA), and purchased for an additional fee. [27] [28] Spotify co-founder Daniel ...
Yahoo Voice used the Session Initiation Protocol , GIPS codec and the Dialpad engine for voice transport. After 2008 the service was provided by JAJAH, an external VoIP provider. [3] In July 2012, Yahoo Voice was compromised and 453,491 email addresses and passwords were stolen using SQL injection. A 17 MB text file containing the stolen ...
MusicMatch Jukebox was media player software made by San Diego–based MusicMatch, Inc. It provided the ability to manage digital audio files and playlists, audio file conversion, an online music store, Internet radio, Compact Disc Digital Audio playback, CD ripper capabilities, and managing digital media on portable media players.