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By: Jimmy Dee

Jimmy Dee — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:38:54 +0000

Here’s why you’d pay for the subscription….new music! I’ve used Rhapsody thru my Sonos for years and when U2 releases a new album, I have it the same day. You can also browse all new music every week to see what you like or don’t like. There’s also the fact that you can browse all genres of music to see what else you might like. The way I look at is that the subscription is the equivalent of buying 12 new CD’s a year, big deal. But, hey, if someone else is buying new music and giving it to you for free or you’re just happy with your stagnant collection of Abba albums from 1985, then you don’t need Rhapsody on the iPhone!

By: Ted Todorov

Ted Todorov — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:16:49 +0000

There is also the question of quality — Real uses 64Kbps data rate for their stream vs. 256Kbps for iTunes Store downloads and even higher bit rates including Lossless (full CD quality) encoding for CDs imported in iTunes. Real’s quality is laughably bad.

I think part of the reason that Aplle (and AT&T) are happily agreeing to competing music streaming is that nobody will use it.

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Aplicação da Rhapsody chega ao iPhone | Remixtures — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:07:25 +0000

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By: Uwe Rueckeshaeuser

Uwe Rueckeshaeuser — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:24:51 +0000

Hm, there is one HUGE difference between the Rhapsody and the Spotify apps: the Spotify app will save titles/playlists for offline use, with the Rhapsody app you can only enjoy what you have paid for while you have access to a data network. So, if you want to listen to music while riding on a plane or in most underground or cross-country trains… you might have nothing most of the time. The demand for subscription-based music is small anyhow, but without offline capabilities, you must really be dumb to pay a penny for it.

By: Dave Small

Dave Small — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:19:04 +0000

$15 per month is $180 annually. I have enough songs on my iPhone to play continuously for 8.5 days without a repeat. My sister in law lives with us and has a similar amount of music on her iPod Touch. With home sharing I can now copy over any of her songs. She’s got a big collection of Jazz, Broadway show music, and Blues. I like those categories and they’er different from my own library. After integrating I should be able to go for 12 or 13 days without a repeat.

So explain to me why it is that I’d want to pay Real $180 per year.

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