What is Music Central 97?

From Wikipedia:

Microsoft Music Central was a music encyclopedia on CD-ROM produced by Microsoft, similar to their Cinemania product and part of the Microsoft Home range. The software featured a selection of biographical articles from the Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music a spin-off of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music written by Colin Larkin (writer); along with album reviews from Q Magazine. The software also included still images and full-motion video clips and featured online updates.

Users had the option of taking an informational 'tour' led by the recorded voice of an artist (or an imitation of their voice, in the case of Little Richard) on their own musical genre. This automatically directed the user to particular articles, and played samples of music.

Users could also browse by artist, album, and genre, or search for particular keywords. There was also a gallery feature to view portraits, album covers, video clips and song clips.

 

Download Music Central 97 for Mac

Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.0 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Architecture: 68K + PPC (FAT)

At least 4MB of free RAM

Mac OS 7.0 - Mac OS 9.2.2

13 inch or larger monitor supporting at least 256 colors mode (8-bits)

 

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II