Wired News: Napster Goes Mobile
Buying mp3 (or wma or aac or ogg or etc) files still seems like a dumb idea to me. They aren’t high enough quality and they don’t have the sense of permanence that a CD (or even a cassette) has. To me they seem disposable. That’s why I prefer a subscription service like Rhapsody. The only problem is that during the travel time between the computer at home and the computer at work, there is no way to listen to Rhapsody’s songs. Napster has been promising a solution to this for months. Looks like it finally arrives today.
Napster To Go launches Thursday and costs $15 a month. It’s the first digital music service to use Microsoft’s long-anticipated Janus technology, which allows monthly subscribers to take their music with them instead of having to pay for an individual song each time they want something new in their MP3 player.
[via Wired News: Napster Goes Mobile]
Between the constant disappearance/reappearance of songs I love with no explanation given (including the recent loss of one of the greatest Rock ‘n Roll albums ever made: Sticky Fingers), the terrible search function that fails far too often to be dependable, and the lack of notable updates in over a year (come on, guys, the interface wasn’t great a year ago and hasn’t improved a bit in the meantime), it looks like I’m dropping Rhapsody for Napster this month.
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