Freemake Music Box is the fourth

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developed by Ellora Assets Corporation and is currently in pre-release status. It is a

freeware Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. There is no agreed-upon set of rights, license, or EULA that defines ''freeware'' unambiguously; every publisher defines its own rules for t ...

program designed to stream free music to users without the need to create an account or set up a subscription.

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Freemake Music Box is a Windows application for searching and listening to

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from the

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. The program indexes music legally posted online. Users can input a query in the search box and the application displayed search results which are divided into songs, albums, and artists. All displayed music tracks are played in sequence with built-in

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player. There are options to loop, pause, stop, and fast forward tracks in the player. The program has the ability to play the

music video A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device ...

related to the current song. Freemake Music Box does not offer any option to download music. The program also has features to build and save playlists of music. It also allows to import local playlists from other media players like

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, etc. It has no support for handheld devices or sharing playlists between users. The program interface is based on

Windows Presentation Foundation Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a free and open-source graphical subsystem (similar to WinForms) originally developed by Microsoft for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications. WPF, previously known as "Avalon", was initia ...

technology. The software runs under

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, and

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and requires

.NET Framework 4.0 Microsoft started development on the .NET Framework in the late 1990s originally under the name of Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS). By late 2001 the first beta versions of .NET 1.0 were released. The first version of .NET Framework was ...

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External links

* {{official website, http://www.freemake.com/free_music_box/ 2011 software Windows-only freeware Windows multimedia software

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