Invention of the YEAR according to Time Mag.

[ebenton]

I have been a subscriber to listen.com Rhapsody for a little while now. A couple of weeks ago I downloaded Itunes. I compared (not in any great depth) the songs available for downloading on each, and there doesn't seem to be that much difference. The major difference is that you pay to burn the songs with both, but you pay $9.95 a month for Rhapsody, and with Itunes, you only pay when you burn them.

However, with Itunes, you only get a sample snippet of the song when you want to listen to it. With Rhapsody, since you subscribe, you can listen to an entire song without burning it, and not pay anything extra.

[jaxxboss]

You show very clearly that you don't get it. Again. Have a nice day.

Wow, Nice retort. I guess the next thing out of your mouth is calling me a poopy head. Grow up and get with the game plan.

[Styro]

I have been a subscriber to listen.com Rhapsody for a little while now. <snip> With Rhapsody, since you subscribe, you can listen to an entire song without burning it, and not pay anything extra.

File this under "different strokes for different folks" dept.

I find subscription plans to be a hassle. If music is involved then, for me, the subscription plan doesn't work at all. If they don't have anything I like, then the payment is burned money. If I only download a few songs, then the payment is burned money. In this economy I don't have enough money to go out and burn it on a subsciption service that may or may not provide the product and services I require.

The 30-second sample is annoying, but is of good quality. I wish they would randomize the samples on a song - some samples don't have enough subject in the sample (ever try to tell if a song by an unknown, to you, vocal artist is good if the sample only contains 5-seconds of singing? argh!). Three 30-second samples per song would greatly help. Each click on the play sample would play the next sample.

-- Styro

[garybob]

Soemthing to be aware of mind you. It appears to be only available to those of you who live in the USA. I'm from the UK and it says not available in this country, doh! So it appears that it is available in a country that tries to prosecute grannies and kids for file sharing, but not in Europe where things aren't quite as draconian, YET.