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Getting Started With the Yahoo! Music Jukebox

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What Is LAUNCHcast Radio?

LAUNCHcast Radio is a free streaming music service. You can create your own customized station—My Station—tailored to your tastes. Rate artists and albums highly to hear them often and ban the ones you don't like. You can also listen to the extensive LAUNCHcast collection of pre-programmed stations.

Example of a LAUNCHcast Radio display.Enlarge

With the free LAUNCHcast Radio service, you can listen to up to 600 songs per month without any restrictions. After 600 songs in a month, if you still want to listen to the free service, some restrictions are in force until the beginning of the next month:

  • Your customized station isn't available.
  • You can't skip songs.
  • Only low (mono) audio quality is available.

You can bypass all of these restrictions with LAUNCHcast Plus.

What Is LAUNCHcast Plus Premium Radio?

LAUNCHcast Plus is a premium version of the standard LAUNCHcast Radio offering. Although it is automatically included with each Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscription, you can also upgrade to it separately. With LAUNCHcast Plus, you get additional features such as influencers, subscribers, and moods, as well as unlimited skipping of songs and unlimited access to your customized LAUNCHcast station.

 

Here’s How

  1. Launch the Yahoo! Music Jukebox and sign in. (Remind me how.)

  2. To access LAUNCHcast Radio, click LAUNCHcast Radio in the left navigation pane.

    Click the LAUNCHcast Radio link to access LAUNCHcast Radio.

    Depending on your subscription status, you'll see the LAUNCHcast Radio or LAUNCHcast Plus page in the Yahoo! Music Jukebox center pane.

    To learn more about using LAUNCHcast Radio, hold the cursor over red dots in the picture below.

    The LAUNCHcast Radio displayEnlarge Select a genre or theme to browse the available stations. This area displays information about your customized station. This area lists stations that you’ve listened to recently. You can try a featured station in this area. Click here for more listening options. Select a genre or theme to browse the available stations. This area displays information about your customized station. This area lists stations that you’ve listened to recently. You can try a featured station in this area. Click here for more listening options.

  3. When you find a station that you'd like to listen to, click the Play button.

    Click the Play button to start streaming the station.

    LAUNCHcast Radio begins streaming the selected station.

    Note: Only LAUNCHcast Plus users can listen to the stations marked with the LAUNCHcast Plus icon plus sign.

 

What’s Next

Customize your own station, rate your favorite artists and songs, then sit back and let LAUNCHcast Radio play the music you like anytime you're online.

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Words to Know

  • Influencer: Yahoo! Music members who you want to influence the music played on your LAUNCHcast Radio station and in My Recommendations.
  • Mood: a profile you can set up to listen to your customized LAUNCHcast Radio station filtered by one or more genres. When you listen to that mood, you hear music within the genres you selected.
  • Rating: information that a member provides about how much he likes a particular song, artist, or album. Yahoo! Music bases its recommendations on a member’s previous ratings.
  • Stream: to play music from a server (for example, over the Internet) rather than from source files on your computer or from a CD.
  • Subscriber: a LAUNCHcast user who has chosen you to influence his or her LAUNCHcast Radio station. Songs, artists, and albums that you rate highly are periodically included on your subscribers’ playlists.