MusicMatch, Sony Electronics in CD burning deal

Blackbeard used our newssubmit to tell us that MusicMatch has made a deal with Sony Electronics to integrate MusicMatch's Jukebox software into Sony devices enabling people to burn music onto blank compact discs.



Beginning this month, MusicMatch Jukebox will ship with seven lines of internal and external Sony-branded CD-recordable and CD-rewritable drives worldwide. MusicMatch Jukebox will also ship with 12 additional lines of Sony-branded CD-R/RW drives by the end of 2001.

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MusicMatch software has an integrated CD burning feature that lets consumers create their own music CDs, competing directly with RealNetworks Inc.'s , which uses software by Roxio Inc. to enable its users to burn CDs off their computers.

``With the addition of Sony to our list of distribution partners, MusicMatch will now ship with over 60 percent of CD-recordable drives worldwide by year's end,'' said Brotman, noting there are many cases where both MusicMatch software and Roxio software are offered on the same device.

The MusicMatch/Sony deal follows an agreement earlier this week between EMI Group Plc (news - web sites) and Roxio, marking the first time a giant music company was moving to develop a secure way for burning music onto blank CDs.

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