geebea;402425 Wrote: > Just looking for something that is free or advert based and has the same > search possibilities as Napster. Napster is like £10 a month that is > more than I spend on CD's a month. > ... > Do you guys subscribe to Napster, is it expensive in the states too? > Gee You're likely to be looking for a long time then. I haven't done a full economic analysis of music services, but it seems fairly evident that they need the subscription revenue to make a go of it after paying the licensing fees required for providing specific-tracks-on-demand service. In most (all?) cases the agreements that free services like LastFM, Pandora, Deezer's free service, and others have with the music labels *prohibit* them from playing specific tracks on demand. For Rhapsody or Napster or the fee-based Deezer service to play specific tracks on demand, or full albums, they have to pony up more money to the labels, and the services have to recoup that from somewhere.
Napster in the US is $13/month, less than £10 at the standard GBP/USD exchange rate, but about in line with comparative costs of a lot of things on either side of the pond. That's more than you spend on CDs in a month, but you don't get as wide a selection on that CD budget either. On the other hand, at least you get to keep the CDs you buy, whereas the Napster library disappears when you stop subscribing (I'm not talking about buying Napster downloads here, which costs about the same as buying the CD). Personally, I used Rhapsody's 30 day trial and was considering subscribing, but their delivery via Squeezebox was too unreliable to warrant buying into it. Now I'm giving Napster a chance to shine. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60312
_______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
