Roxio to relaunch Napster this year

[tgpo]

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0302/25.napster.php

[defense]

very interesting article, but I think Roxio's making a big business mistake. First, Napster is yesterday's news, and when Roxio does relaunch it will probably be crap, just like Roxio's burning software. There are too many sites right now which make Napster look like child's play. Roxio is negotiating with these record companies and are going to have to inevitabley pay millions to them in order for the RIAA to allow Napster to exist. My prediction is that when Roxio launches the rebirth of Napster, it will have a very early funeral.

[tgpo]

Roxio Toast Titanium is a great burning software. So I know they do make good products.

[defense]

Roxio Toast Titanium is a great burning software. So I know they do make good products.

Are you referring to burning CD and Data? If so, their platinum version was damn good at that as well. But what about VCD, SVCD, DVD?

To me, their software is garbage for that. I feel burning software should be able to handle all formats equally as great to be considered excellent.

[tgpo]

It'll burn all of those just fine.

[Greg12]

perhaps they r only good on the Mac

[tgpo]

are you talking about post-burn?

[dbaker6165]

When I went to college in 98 and napster first came out... it was pure bliss... I was able to get almost any song I want... with no strings attached!

The BS music downloading apps they got now come with advertisements, spyware, and are jus simply not as accurate as napster.

Napster was so great man... the only thing that comes close to Napster is audiogalaxy's new program called rapsody but that cost's money.

I miss napster

[rhegedus]

Roxio Toast Titanium is a great burning software. So I know they do make good products.

Have you tried Easy CD Creator or Videopack? One false move and windows doesn't see your drives any more.....time for a format and fresh OS install. Happened 3 times before I junked them and moved to Nero. Best thing I ever did (until Nero goes wrong.......).

Regards,

Rob

[rhegedus]

Napster was so great man... the only thing that comes close to Napster is audiogalaxy's new program called rapsody but that cost's money.

I miss napster

Try WinMX www.winmx.com

Regards,

Rob

[defense]

Napster was so great man... the only thing that comes close to Napster is audiogalaxy's new program called rapsody but that cost's money.

I miss napster

lol..as far as Napster goes, it was great, for music. When it came to other things It was average at best. Kazaa blows Napster out of the water. If you're concerned about spyware or adware, then you probably shouldn't be using those p2p programs in the first place. Kazaa lite has no adware, and maybe some spyware here and there, but I can live with that. I can get anything on KazaaLite that I could on Napster, but even much much more.

Have you tried Easy CD Creator or Videopack? One false move and windows doesn't see your drives any more.....time for a format and fresh OS install. Happened 3 times before I junked them and moved to Nero. Best thing I ever did (until Nero goes wrong.......).

Regards,

Rob

Yea, that is true, and pretty much what I was saying. I dumped Roxio long ago and went with Nero temporarily, until I realized their upgrades were more like downgrades. Went with RecordNow Max and haven't had a single burning problem since and haven't looked back!

[mattscholey]

Napster was great 2 years ago, when it was last up and online. Since then Kazaa and WinMX have come out beating Napster in every single way.

The main advantages of Kazaa and WinMX is the ability to download any sort of file (be it movies, music, software, pictures, documents, ...) and you can resume downloads. I can remember the frustration using Napster after waiting and waiting to download a song (then I only had a 56k modem) you'd find that the person who your getting it off would cancel it, or for some other reason it would fail, and you'd have to start all over again. In Kazaa or WinMX you can just hit the resume button and start from wherever you were before the download failed.

And Kazaa and WinMX are free. Why is anyone going to pay for Napster, when they can get something much better for free!

Get Kazaa at www.kazaa.com (with adware and spyware). KazaaLite www.kazaalite.com apparently has no adware but I've never tried it.

Get WinMX at www.winmx.com. I don't think it has any adware or spyware, but it's not as easy to use as Kazaa.

Matt

[MOVIEGEEK]

And Kazaa and WinMX are free. Why is anyone going to pay for Napster, when they can get something much better for free!

Because the new Napster has worked out a deal with the RIAA
and those two you mentioned will be getting a subpeona from them in the future.

[mattscholey]

those two you mentioned will be getting a subpeona from them in the future.

Your right there about Kazaa - there not gonna stay up forever. WinMX however is different. The main WinMX server you connect to will also go down, but with WinMX theres a huge list of other servers you can connect to which allow you to share any sort of files, and these servers aren't controlled by WinMX, making it a lot more difficult for the RIAA or whoever to track them down and take them offline.

Matt

[Greg12]

Napster at a time had file resume, however they dropped the feature for some reason.