Here in the US Rhapsody simply credited your new Rhapsody account with
whatever balance was remaining on your Napster account. So if someone
had just resubscribed with Napster for $60 (one year + 60 pm3's) your
credit on Rhapsody was also $60, BUT that is only about 5 months of
Rhapsody service
This may be old news, but I have just noticed that following its
purchase by Rhapsody Napster will close in the UK, and presumably the
rest of Europe in mid March.
This appears to be a total shutdown. It looks like we will lose Napster
streaming on our Squeezeboxes, Napster libraries and any
This appears to be a total shutdown. It looks like we will lose Napster
streaming on our Squeezeboxes, Napster libraries and any saved
playlists.
The Napster service will be replaced with Rhapsody. They even decided to
run it under the old name of Napster. Thus you Napster users might get a
mherger;689270 Wrote:
The Napster service will be replaced with Rhapsody. They even decided to
run it under the old name of Napster. Thus you Napster users might get a
new UI, but should still be fine listening to online music.
Thanks Michael. Some subsidiary questions:
Will everybody be
The US users already went through this a few months ago, and Napster
libraries are transferred to Rhapsody as best as they can. I don't know
why they are not changing the name, gotta love those legal issues.
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andyg
Napster doesn't have a bad reputation over here while Rhapsody has non
at best, I would keep the name, too.
Of course we'll have to see how the reputation can cope with the
smaller Rhapsody catalog, main argument for Napster over here was that
they had more content than Spotify et al.
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