Musicmatch on WinXP (VMware Player)

Media Players became all the rage during the XP years. With millions of PC's having giant MP3 collections being the norm by the early 2000's, there were many competing media players. In many ways, it was a very competitive field as many were getting in on the action.
In the late 90's, WinAMP was basically the defacto media player for many users. However, with the release of WMP7, Microsoft's media player became the primary choice for many PC users, with WinAMP largely falling out of favor. However, there was also Sonique, which bit the dust in the dot.com bubble burst.
iTunes for Windows was released in 2003, and while it became very popular on that platform, alongside WMP, which would have been at version 9 by that point. Real got in the media player business with the RealOne Player, and while that one found devouted users, it also never gained mass popularity.
VLC was still in its infancy, so its presence was practically non-existent at this point. Funny for a media player that would eventually dominate, but that is a story for another day. There was also the eJay MP3 player pro, but that had more of a niche following, and of coruse, here we are with Musicmatch here.
It's funny how a player that few have heard of today was basically inescapable in the early 2000's, but that's Musicmatch for you. Musicmatch was a media player made by well...Musicmatch, that offered basically the same features that you would expect from any other media player by that point, like organizing playlist and music, CD ripping, CD playback, internet radio support, and managing digital music on audio devices.
In fact, before the release of the Windows version of iTunes, the iPods generally came bundled with Musicmatch, which could sync with the iPod. Musicmatch eventually launched their own music store. In 2004, the company was acquired by Yahoo!, which killed the Musicmatch services in 2007.
VMware Player 17 is virtualizing a multimedia PC with a single core allocated to it. The host is a Ryzen 5 5500 6-Core processor running at 4.2GHz. There is 512MB's of RAM allocated to it, along with a VESA Compatible display adapter with 3D passthrough acceleration enabled. Windows is running at the screen resolution of 1024 by 768, 32-bit color depth. A Creative Labs SoundBlaster PCI audio adapter is installed along with an AMD PCnet network adapter for ethernet support. There is a CD/DVD-ROM drive and a 40GB HD image with Windows XP SP3 installed.
Songs Used:
Fast A Trip Around The
Moon By Unicorn Heads
(125-150% of Playback Speed)
UA-cam Audio Library
Software Used:
Recorded With OBS Studio
Composed In Kdenlive
Hardware Used:
PC equipped with a
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 CPU
6 Cores Running At 4.2GHz
AMD Radeon RX570 GPU
Windows 11