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'''Yahoo Music Engine''' is a free music player released by [[Yahoo]] in [[2005]]. The features are currently complete, although the player is still considered to be in the [[Development stage|Beta stage]] due to minor, miscellaneous glitches. Its appearance is somewhat similar to the ''[[MusicMatch Jukebox]]''. This may be related to the fact that MusicMatch, which developed the Jukebox, was purchased by Yahoo in 2004.

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'''Taekyon''', or '''Taek kyon''' is a traditional Korean

martial art, stemming from [[Soobak]] which was first practiced in [[Korea]] during the [[Koguryo]] dynasty (37 B.C. - A.D. [[668]]).

Its features include CD [[ripping]] and [[CD/DVD authoring|burning]], access to [[Launcast]] and [[Yahoo Unlimited]], playlist creation, transfer of music to portable devices such as [[digital audio player|mp3 players]] and [[USB flash drive]]s. Also the program allows [[Yahoo Messenger]] users to [[streaming media|stream]] music to one another (not to be confused with [[uploading and downloading]] or [[filesharing]]) and browse one another's playlists. Only those subscribed to Yahoo Ultimate are entitled to entire songs, however. Non-subscribers are limited to a thirty second sample.

It spread to the [[Silla]] kingdom and became the bare handed way of fighting of

the [[Hwarang]].

One can rip songs in a variety of formats including [[WAV|.wav]], [[MP3|.mp3]], and [[WMV|.wmv]]. Interestingly, one cannot rip songs in the [[WMA|.wma]] format, despite the fact that songs purchased from Yahoo are encoded using that format.

== Rise and fall ==

At the height of its popularity even the king practiced taek kyon and taek kyon matches were frequent. However, the next king outlawed taek kyon matches, motivated by the gambling which took place around them - where people

would gamble away their wives and houses, thus making it a purely military art. Soobak eventually separated into different segments - grappling, kicking, etc. Taek kyon being one such segment.

The Engine also has a great deal of [[plugin]]s, which reside on the program's official website below.

Taek kyon took a severe blow when [[Neo-Confucianism]] grew in popularity, and then the Japanese occupation damaged the art even more. Taek Kyon has had a

slight resurge in recent days, getting the classification "Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 76" in [[June 1]], [[1983]].

== Techniques ==

Taek kyon movements are very fluid and dance-like with the practitioners constantly moving. It does not have the hard, snap kicks of [[Tae Kwon Do]] but a softer way of generating power.

==External links==

*[http://music.yahoo.com/musicengine Yahoo! Music Engine Official Site]

*[http://www.concentric.net/~sdseong/kmar.vid.tkc.htm KMAR]

*[http://plugins.yme.music.yahoo.com Yahoo! Music Engine Plug-ings]

*[http://www.taekkyon.or.kr/en/ Korean Taekkyon association]

*[http://www.taekkyon.de/ The neutral German taekkyon organisation, links to all taekkyon associations]

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