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Napster.com "Free" -- Can It Now Compete With iTunes
It was announced on May 1st 2006 that Napster.com would now be free… almost. The service, which is currently only available to U.S residents, now lets you listen to any number of tracks from its extensive 2-million song library. The catch is that you can only listen to each song a maximum of five times before being asked to either purchase it or subscribe to the Napster.com service. Once you’ve purchased the song, or subscribed to the service, you’re able to listen to it an unlimited amount of times or download it to your computer to transfer onto a portable device, such as an MP3 player." [Apple Matters]
sounds like a good deal to me
Posted on May 3, 2006 2:25 PM
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eh, these days you guys only listen to a band 3x anyways before moving on.
Posted by sam | May 3, 2006 2:29 PM
except for that fact that you CANNOT play the files on an iPod
Posted by wes | May 3, 2006 2:45 PM
unlike in sam's day when he used to listen to a band at least three times or more on his walkman, and that was just during ONE WAY of his trek to school in the snow uphill
Posted by scam | May 3, 2006 2:47 PM
i bet david bowie has listened to arcade fire more than three times!
Posted by javier buchananeversonia | May 3, 2006 2:57 PM
david bowie is gonna listen to the arcade fire until the day he dies.
Look, Bowie can listen to the arcade fire over and over again...that doesnt mean its right. AND Bowie can still be the daddy when he is doing wrong even though Bowie can do no wrong.
Bowie>wrong>no wrong>arcade fire = Bowie is the DADDY~~~
Posted by Axl Foley | May 3, 2006 3:50 PM
I think the main catch is not the fact you can listen to a song 5 times only, but that the sound quality is like crap unless you subscribe. I could use this to satisfy my curiosity about a song I haven't heard before, but I absolutely cannot "listen" to music of such terrible sound quality.
Posted by Anonymous | May 3, 2006 4:57 PM
it is like listening to a sample on itunes, no matter what the recording quality, it sound like it was made in a basement and wooden microphones.
Posted by daniel | May 3, 2006 6:37 PM
Do they continue to use WMA-DRM format for purchased tracks? If so, iPods aren't the only MP3 players that can't play them. However, if they let you burn purchased tracks to CD, you can do that and then rip them into the format of your choice.
Posted by Steve Jobs | May 3, 2006 9:19 PM
Could this guy be any more biased towards Apple? Granted, I'm typing this on a Mac, but this is a pretty good deal. I'll never buy anything from Npaster but I'll definitely test some records out before buying them this way.
Posted by Fed Ex Pope | May 4, 2006 1:54 PM
Fuck that. I choose Soulseek.
Yay.
Posted by Me. | May 5, 2006 1:11 AM