Rhapsody To Acquire Napster 59
tekgoblin writes "Earlier today Rhapsody, the biggest premium on-demand music service in the U.S., announced that they would be acquiring Napster and finalizing the purchase of the company by the end of November. Best Buy, a huge global name in consumer electronics retail, is the current owner of Napster. Best Buy will only be keeping a minority stake after the sale of the company, while Rhapsody will acquire all Napster subscribers and additional assets."
Re:"Rhapsody will acquire all Napster subscribers" (Score:4, Informative)
- I pick what I want to listen to when I want to listen to it.
- The songs are cached so I can listen to them off-line.
- 10 seconds after the desire to hear a particular song not on my playlist I'm listening to it.
- Lots of comedy albums etc, too.
- Rhapsody's music search has been pretty darned good at finding songs I want to hear.
- If I pop onto a new machine I just log in and start listening to my music right away.
- With Napster you pay $60 for a year's access to their music and you get 60 mp3 downloads.
- No ads. Rhapsody's music store recommends songs/albums all the time but there are not banner ads or audio ads.
Show me a free alternative that covers all of these bases (excluding the Mp3 one...) and I'd be happy to try it out.