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 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.
Its features include CD ripping and burning, access to Launcast and Yahoo Unlimited, playlist creation, transfer of music to portable devices such as mp3 players and USB flash drives. Also the program allows Yahoo Messenger users to 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.
One can rip songs in a variety of formats including .wav, .mp3, and .wmv. Interestingly, one cannot rip songs in the .wma format, despite the fact that songs purchased from Yahoo are encoded using that format.
The Engine also has a great deal of plugins, which reside on the program's official website below.