It's Getting Better All The Time

[Birdstrike]

RHAPSODY.com I was skeptical. I refused to pay for internet music. But 350K tracks and growing. Every Pink Floyd album. Even Quicksilver. Everything? No, not yet. But a good, solid cross-section of music. No screwed up streams (deliberate or otherwise). With a decent soundcard (mine's Audigy) you can record the stream or get Replay Radio to record it. I now work out of a cubicle without a window. I have music I want to hear on demand 24x7 for $9 a month. First week free tryout. Tell me why this won't work?

 

[bigD]

I've been using Apple's new service. No monthly fee, and .99 per song. Not everything is there yet, but it's got a decent selection, and all downloads are 200KB+ per second, so the songs come down in just a minute or two. Plus you can preview every song instantaneously. Once the song is downloaded, you can do with it what you want (except share it, of course!). They don't have any draconian restrictions.

It's just Mac at the moment, but PC support will be out soon, I hear. I like seeing these kinds of services. It's so much better than paying 16 bucks for a CD, when only a third of the songs are worth a crap. Now you just pay for what you actually listen to.

 

[Birdstrike]

Question For AvBug

Good pick, D. I would go IPOD in a second if it supported Windows. Hopefully soon. I guess a CD/MP3 collection will soon be obsolete whe you can stream or download on demand for peanuts.

Hey Avbug, what's an MP3?

 

[CStricker]

Birdstrike,
The iPod does support Windows! The software used to sync isn't iTunes though, since iTunes is Mac only.

http://www.apple.com/ipod/