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Originally posted by LiveSide.net

As of today, Music Mix is available to MSN Messenger 7.5 users as well as Windows Live Messenger 8.0 users. However the geographic restrictions still apply, it is only available to those users who live in USA, France, Germany, Japan and UK (or at least have their Passports set to those locations).

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Originally posted by BetaXP.net

MessengerSays blogger Leah has posted some new information regarding a new activity for Windows Live Messenger beta testers and users. How awesome would it be if two people, in a conversation, could share one playlist? What about sharing a playlist along with the ability to add or remove tracks, skip to the next song, or reshuffle? Well, this is now a reality for Windows Live Messenger users!

How To Use It:

1. Open a conversation window
2. Hit “activities”
3. Select the second one down: Music Mix
4. When the play list opens, add tracks to it and jam away…together!

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• Remember – you’re sharing a play list. If you fastforward, skip, or stop a song, your buddy will hear the same thing you do.
  
• Songs are not actually transferred to your buddy, only a compressed version is temporarily cached on their computer while you mix.   
  
• Playlist file formats are wma, mp3, & wav
  
• Music Mix holds up to 25 songs at a time, each a max of 20MB in size. You must delete songs to add more
  
• Album art info is shown at the top of the activity window only in the US, but obscure songs can sometimes show the wrong album art.
  
  
• The Search button only shows up for songs added by your buddy, clicking it will take you to an MSN Music search for your song

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[*]Currently only available in the US, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK.
[*]Requires WMP 10, which is available for Windows XP and up.
[*]Now available on Windows Live Beta, but VERY SOON  MSN Messenger users will see it show up in their activity menu as well, so keep checking it.

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sounds good an all, but its another lack luster thing that Australians cant use, why doesnt MSN develop something every country can use that doesnt have laws stopping people from using it

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Originally posted by Animal
sounds good an all, but its another lack luster thing that Australians cant use, why doesnt MSN develop something every country can use that doesnt have laws stopping people from using it

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Appears to be down for me at the moment.

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Originally posted by XxRebelSeanxX
their own set of laws. It's not something they can change when they want to. Features made are made, weither or not countries allow those features in their software is their problem, not the MSN team.

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Originally posted by XxRebelSeanxX
their own set of laws. It's not something they can change when they want to. Features made are made, weither or not countries allow those features in their software is their problem, not the MSN team.

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if this is the case, all its gonna do is shove people off to using another messenger client like trillian, why have a messenger with features some can use that you cant? , stupid IMO

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Originally posted by XxRebelSeanxX
their own set of laws. It's not something they can change when they want to. Features made are made, weither or not countries allow those features in their software is their problem, not the MSN team.

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if this is the case, all its gonna do is shove people off to using another messenger client like trillian, why have a messenger with features some can use that you cant? , stupid IMO

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I doubt there will be that many users switching clients because of sharing folders . All you have to do is switch your passport country and you get the extra stuff. Blame the countries governments, not MSN .

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I think Sean was referring to the average computer/MSN user though Animal. Most Australians that will upgrade to WLM won't even notice Sharing Folders if the MSN Messenger team never activate it for us! Also no ones going to notice that all these activities with your contacts aren't available for us either.

The average computer user won't even know what trillian and miranda are and probably would revert back to using MSN Messenger after as i think it would more suit there tastes.

Meh.. it works for mexico

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Originally posted by XxRebelSeanxX
USA, France, Germany, Japan and UK

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Originally posted by XxRebelSeanxX
USA, France, Germany, Japan and UK

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Well it seems to work in Canada

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Originally posted by Chestah
The average computer user won't even know what trillian and miranda are and probably would revert back to using MSN Messenger after as i think it would more suit there tastes.

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Erg, Pretty much everyone I know wouldn't change clients just because
they aren't aloud to use some features... all they have to do is change
their country.  lol, it's now like anyone can do anything about
it, msn isn't gonna not add a few features just because some other
countries can't have it.

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Originally posted by Purity
msn isn't gonna not add a few features just because some other
countries can't have it.

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Originally posted by Animal

true, but MSN has to be fair for all its users, ok if Aissies cant have the sharing folders feature, atleast Microsoft will have to give us aussiees a Just as good feature we can use, if they dont, as i mentioned, people will just go to another Client that has just as much as excellent features in it,

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first of all, your quoting sux   secondly, Maybe you should checkout more forums than just mess.be an this forum just to see how many people hate the UI of Messenger8 , im not just pointing the finger at the Share folders feature,

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Originally posted by Animal
first of all, your quoting sux   secondly, Maybe you should checkout more forums than just mess.be an this forum just to see how many people hate the UI of Messenger8 , im not just pointing the finger at the Share folders feature,

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Originally posted by Animal
first of all, your quoting sux   secondly, Maybe you should checkout more forums than just mess.be an this forum just to see how many people hate the UI of Messenger8 , im not just pointing the finger at the Share folders feature,

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Fixed the quote . I do read a LOT of other forums. I understand the fact that many people do not like the UI. But the MSN team cannot make something every-single-person will like. There is even people who dislike the MSNM UI, that is why people make skins. The UI is fine, but it does need a few tweaks and changes (Mostly all the grey parts). It's a matter of time before the people who do not like it get used to it.

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