Yahoo!Unlimited Tips for Rhapsody (v2) Users
If you’re trying out Y!U as a replacement for Rhapsody (and if you’re a Rhapsody user, I think you should give Y!U a shot) and you’re not a “Rhapsody to go” user, these 2 steps might make things a little more comfortable for you:
1. when you install, check the “do not index my music at this time” option. If you have Y!U index the music on your harddrive, the “my music” option in Y!U will have both the music on your hard drive and the Y!U music you’ve added. While some may like this, it drove me nuts trying to find a song I added via Y!U among the thousands of songs already on my machine.
2. if you’re not going to use Y!U while disconnected from the internet (disconnected from the internet? what does that mean, anyway? people still do that?), open the preferences before you listen to any music, go the the Y! Unlimited tab and set “When I Add a Selection to My Music” option to “Bookmark It”. By default, it is set to download the music to your computer, which is great if you’re using a laptop (or transferring playlists to a portable device), but if not, you’re going to end up with a few gigs of music over the course of a few days (hours?) of use. It is a bit slower to stream them then to play the local copies (and this is the only place where Y!U lags behind Rhapsody, which keeps a 1GB cache file on your machine to speed up streaming), but I use a subscription music service because I don’t want to have a local copy of every freaking song in the universe. If I wanted every song I ever listened to on my hard drive, I’d use Shareza, wouldn’t I?
Tags: Music
May 25th, 2005 at 3:20 pm
Is there a way to transfer Rhapsody’s library over to Y!U? I’ve used rhapsody for years and can’t imagine rebuilding that library on another service. Thanks
May 25th, 2005 at 5:53 pm
Not that I know of. I think there will be the ability to search for songs programmatically via Y!MU at some point, so someone could write a program that did this for you if there was a way to get those song lists out of Rhapsody in a usable format.
I definitely know what you mean, though. I have a couple years of items added to my Rhapsody library, too. That is actually part of what made me switch to Yahoo… all the songs I’ve added over the years that have been yanked from Rhapsody and are now 30-second previews instead of just being skipped.