No, I’m not talking about the yahoos and yobbos that run up and down my street, I’m talking about Yahoo the software company.

I used to use a great music player called Musicmatch JukeBox. Although occasionally a little memory hungry it used to do everything I wanted. About a month ago I had to rebuild my computer from scratch and went to download the program again. To my surprise I found the company had been bought out by Yahoo, but according to them it was business as usual and users would be able to migrate to the new program.

Since the old program was not installed anymore, I wasn’t able to migrate, so had to reinstall. The install program from Yahoo didn’t work and kept sending error reports to Micro$oft. The program needs Windows Media Format Runtime to run and although the installation for this was part of the install program, it was failing to install. I found a separate instance of the program, installed that and then was able to install the Yahoo Jukebox. (But of course the program installs an annoying Yahoo toolbar as well).

Now, I had also been using a new browser based player called Songbird, which is still in development, but needed some functionality that the old Musicmatch Jukebox had. Specifically it was the ability to rename music files according to their MP3 tags and vice versa. Well guess what, in the “upgrade” to Yahoo Jukebox this functionality has been removed. F@#k you very much Yahoo. I am just spent an hour getting your stupid program to load and you have stripped it of the great functionality it once had. Time to find another player. Any suggestions?

Oh, as a PS. I just went to uninstall the offending programs. The Yahoo Jukebox was 30MB and the Yahoo Toolbar was 43MB. What? 43MB for a toolbar? What sort of bloated crapware are they writing here? Grrrr.

(Oh, I was not being prudish with the F-word, it’s just that the filter at work won’t let me get to my homepage if that word is intact.)