Comments on: Rhapsody launches DRM-free music store, offers 100,000 albums for free

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:12:17 +0000

G, you lost me after competition, I just want Sprint and Groove Mobile to follow suit

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:40:02 +0000

competition is good an this dosn’t reqire the ituns however the old real player client of olld brought me nightmares of aohells portal

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:42:26 +0000

I got a clue about the new service, it’s still $2/song OTA doesn’t say anything about a whole album. This will be a good thing if implemented right and may cause change

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:19:37 +0000

Does that mean Rhapsody can’t be downloaded OTA or is VCast only capable of that

By: Who?

Who? — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:30:50 +0000

BGR obviously has no idea what Rhapsody was before this announcement. It’s primarily a music subscription service where you can stream and download Rhapsody’s entire catalog of 5 million songs for less than the price of a CD per month. Two catches: you can’t download to an iPhone or iPod (I use my AT&T Tilt), and the music will time out if you cancel your subscription (but why you would cancel your subscription if you liked music in the slightest is beyond me). It’s an amazing service. I don’t understand how people can deal with 30 second clips and paying 89 cents or more per song when services like Rhapsody exist.

I’ve been a Rhapsody subscriber since late 2003. I’ve never bought a song on iTunes or Amazon. Never regretted it once.

By: MarkM

MarkM — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:29:39 +0000

Are they using the same 256 kbps VBR bit-rate as Amazon??

By: Roem

Roem — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:09:02 +0000

Thanks, BGR. Got my tunes… now I have to call the stupid number and wait on hold forever to cancel the account…

But what’s a little background music while I answer emails?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:46:23 +0000

Do you have to download funky software though??? I dont trust Rhapsody/Real Networks when it comes to software thats for sure……

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:24:02 +0000

Can songs/albums be purchased and downloaded on the iphone(3g too), vzw and Sprint have allowed this for a while the only new thing for vzw is the price and offering full albums. That’s what I always wanted, buy the whole album instead of packs of songs, to be able to get a new one on the fly

By: jonp

jonp — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:58:43 +0000

when I click on the link to create an account I get a page not found error…

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:07:54 +0000

I like this, it is in line with itunes