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MSN Messenger 7.0 launches with enhanced online music features

msn.bmpMSN Messenger 7.0 launched today. I’ve been using the beta for a while now but this full release ups the ante. Apart from some very sophisticated new audio/video features, it also now allows integration with your iTunes / Windows Media Player playlist. What does this mean? Well, whenever I now play a song, the artist name and title appears next to my IM name on a person’s contact list (alongside a headphone icon). Curious buddies on my list can then click on the track and see album and artist details on MSN Music  along with track samples. Another step forward in the world of online music. I think it’s utterly fantastic. It’s not revolutionary but it’s a neat, compact tidy package which even the most technically adverse can set up. Audioscrobbler is a similar service but it suffers from technical outages and has no IM integration. One thing to watch out for though is the power of the random shuffle. The artist ‘Selfish Cunt’ popped in my random shuffle on iTunes and I only just caught it in time when logged into MSN at work. MK - 'Britain is Shit - Selfish Cunt' as my MSN name would have gone down a treat with some of my colleagues. ;)

Posted on Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 05:31PM by Registered CommenterMK in | Comments6 Comments

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I love the mew messenger, but how did you get it to work with iTunes? I went through the site over and over again and only found instructions for WMP.
April 9, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterJes
Go to tools > options > then under display name there's a tick box 'show song information from.....'. Tick this BUT your message box needs to be blank. If you have something in there - it won't display music. Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes.
April 9, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterMK
Yaaay! Another toy to play with when my broadband is finally up and running (another week away - at least!)

Anyway, I have missed the flashing boxes and "eeh oooh" of Messenger. Now with this upgrade I can play with my new i-Pod at the same time! Coolness!
April 11, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterTrace The Ace
I still can't get it to work. I have the most recent versions of everything too. Maybe the world just hates me.
April 11, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterJes
Any ideas if it works with Winamp? I tend not to use Media player as it's a big bag of poo in my opinion!
April 25, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterEdd
As far as I know, there's currently no 'bridge' between Winamp and MSN Messenger.
April 26, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterMK

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