Napster

Apr 26 2005

Real Rhapsody To Go to be announced today, report

Newsbreaker Om Malik is reporting tonight that Real Networks will announce ‘Real Rhapsody To Go’ tomorrow at a fancy party in New York City. This is said to be a subscription model with portable songs a la Napster (which has proven to be popular with music pirates). Some details:

  • Free preview (for non-paying members) of up to 25 songs per month. These are full songs not the 30 second previews made popular by iTunes.
  • Microsoft’s Play4Sure DRM built-in, which is funny considering this makes Real a Microsoft customer
  • Possible iPod support

We should know more later today. If history is an indicator, this new service will remain unknown to the general public while the iTunes music store rumbles on.

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Feb 5 2005

How low can Napster go? Desperate much?

I was looking thru the info of Napster to go, just out of curiosity. I clicked on the link for “Look at compatible MP3 players, and it was the standard Dell, Creative, Gateway MP3 players. At the top of the list, they say, “Got an iPod, click here” and when you do it sends you to this page.

That is really really desperate if you ask me.

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