Rhapsody on Mac

[Bob Knob]

Has anyone noticed this...
http://www.real.com/rhapsody/mac

Real has been spamming one of my email accounts for the last six hours about it.

 

[thegreatluke]

Has anyone noticed this...
http://www.real.com/rhapsody/mac

Real has been spamming one of my email accounts for the last six hours about it.

Sounds great - as long as you have enough money to pay Rhapsody to keep your music until the end of time.
Let's look at some costs - (I believe it's US$14.95 a month, right?)
One year of Rhapsody - US$179.40
Two years of Rhapsody - US$358.80
Five years of Rhapsody - US$897
Ten years of Rhapsody - US$1,794
Thirty years of Rhapsody - US$5,382
Fifty years of Rhapsody - US$8,970

So if you want to keep your music for more than a couple years, you're going to have to pay big.
Lessee... how much do you have to pay to keep your iTunes music? Oh, yeah, $0.

 

[FadeToBlack]

Sounds great - as long as you have enough money to pay Rhapsody to keep your music until the end of time.
Let's look at some costs - (I believe it's US$14.95 a month, right?)
One year of Rhapsody - US$179.40
Two years of Rhapsody - US$358.80
Five years of Rhapsody - US$897
Ten years of Rhapsody - US$1,794
Thirty years of Rhapsody - US$5,382
Fifty years of Rhapsody - US$8,970

So if you want to keep your music for more than a couple years, you're going to have to pay big.
Lessee... how much do you have to pay to keep your iTunes music? Oh, yeah, $0.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up. Out of all of the online music providers, iTMS is the best. Myself, I prefer having the actual CD, but that's just my opinion. I like having the album art, lyrics, etc. Plus, I just love collecting CD's.

 

[voiceofreason]

No doubt music rental is expensive, but it does have its place. If you listen to a lot of music and want to find new artists this can be a better deal than iTMS. It is more flexible. If you are a casual listener or you know what you want, iTMS can't be beat.

This is no different than cable/satellite TV for which most of us shell out $40-80/month. You don't get to keep any of those shows for eternity (at least not yet in an easy to do mass market fashion like iTMS) without an additional fee.

 

[dolphin842]

Real has been spamming one of my email accounts for the last six hours about it.

lol... indeed they let me know 'loud and clear' as well. I didn't even know Real had my e-mail, as they hadn't sent me anything in ages.

 

[yellow]

I got spammed by them this morning too.. Personally I hate the rent model. When I purchase music, I want to buy it and it's mine. Renting to own is lame.

 

[XNine]

Those prices also do not reflect the cost of burning the songs nor transferring them to a potrable player, which I believe is about a buck per song, doing either.

So, yeah, it's twice as expensive, at the very least, than ITMS.

 

[yellow]

Minimum System Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4+
- Safari 1.2 and above OR Firefox version 1.0.1 and above (except version 1.5)
- G3, G4, or Mac OS X compatible processor
- 256MB of RAM
- 2MB available disk space
- 16-bit sound card and speakers

Heh.. Doesn't work with the new FF, and it's going to confuse some n00bs with the whole "16-bit sound card" requirement.

 

[mwpeters8182]

I use rhapsody, as it's a good way to test out free music. The version they offer for mac is not nearly as feature rich as the one for PC - it's a web interface, and you can't download songs.

Tunebite (4x digital dubber) makes the subscription to rhapsody worth it.

On a different note, I wonder how many people in this forum would be making statements like "This is what apple needed to do all along!" if iTMS ever goes to a subscription model.

 

[yellow]

On a different note, I wonder how many people in this forum would be making statements like "This is what apple needed to do all along!" if iTMS ever goes to a subscription model.

Well, whatever number that is, it'll be n-1 because I think it's a terrible idea, and I'd be ticked if Apple switched to the rent-to-own model.

 

[iMeowbot]

Heh.. Doesn't work with the new FF, and it's going to confuse some n00bs with the whole "16-bit sound card" requirement.

I don't know why they say it won't work with 1.5, because it does work

 

[yellow]

I don't know why they say it won't work with 1.5, because it does work

Maybe one of the bells and/or whistles?