has anyone subscribed to any of the legal downloading systems such as napster, press play, musicnet, rhapsody, or itunes. I just wondered the pros and cons of them. I know with pressplay, rhapsody, and musicnet they just stream the songs and you can't download them, so i was wondering really how itunes and new napster worked

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Napster seems like it will be the best. I haven't used it yet, but I probably will soon because you save a lot of time.

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Napster i believe would have the best Service and the best prices. A regular album costs maybe 15 to 20 dollars. But they sell you an album for like 10 on Napster and a song for like 99cents. I think thats a pretty good deal. I am subscribed to Rhapsody and i also subscribed to Musicnet@aol. I quickly unsubscribed to Musicnet because it was a peice of crap service with practically no songs available. If you don't mind the streaming part i think that Rhapsody is one of the best. I don't know about Itunes, I think that it is kind of expensive to pay for each song you download opposed to Napsters album purchase.

Theres Itunes, which I guess is good. I have never used it. MusicMatch now has downloadable music, which is nice. You can download whole albums, for about 12 bucks. Which is actually a nice price, considering you don't have to go out and get it. And it's there on your computer. I'm not sure on how the dependebility goes with that, but I may try it if I find a album I want to "download".

I wouldnt go with 99c a download for songs. That's actually quite expensive if you ask me.

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iTunes Music Store is pretty easy to use. 99 cents a song, or $9.90 for an album. They have around 400,000 songs avalable, but add more every week. Dont' forget McDonalds is giving away 1 Billion songs at the iTunes Music Store and Pepsi is giving away only 1 Million songs at the iTunes Music Store. Those promotions should start in the near future.

Napster uses .wma files. Not all portable music can recognize .wma files. Also, if you don't want to support Microsoft, .wma is their proprietary format. iTunes uses .aac files, which are the audio part of .mp4s Not all portable music players recognize .aa c files. I'm sure there will be utilities to convert both file formats to .mp3.

[url]http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/[/url]

[url]http://www.napster.com/[/url]

-seth

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Well now that i see all this info you guys have given him. I have to say Rhapsody is much better. I guess you can say you are sampling songs when you download them and if you want them portably you just burn them for 79 cents per burnt song. I'd say thats the better deal. So you can download full albums and then if there is a song you don't like you just ignore it.

itunes is the best. aac is a very high quality compression format, many times better tha .wma and it also uses smaller filesizes to boot. itunes also has the most music of all legal dowloading apps.

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Well when i get my ipod i definitly will get iTunes. Now that i know you can download full albums. You don't need to pay monthly for that service though right?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Coastr Crazy 72 [/i]
[B]Well when i get my ipod i definitly will get iTunes. Now that i know you can download full albums. You don't need to pay monthly for that service though right? [/B][/QUOTE]
nope, just pay as you go.

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Ok good.

the downside to Rhapsody is that once you stop paying the subscription, you lose your music library as cpfreak said before. iTunes has the most liberal use policy of all the legal music downloading services. Unlimited burning, 10 copies of the same playlist can be burned, and up to 3 PCs can use and play the same songs. Additionally, you can share your entire music library for other computers on your network to listen to.
-seth

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I saw an articcle and Napster ,Itunes, and the other one will all be the same price (give or take 35 cents) and be around .99 for a song, and 9.95 for a whole cd.

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Yea they are basically the same price. It's the details about the applications and how it was setup and also the amount songs available to you. Like i said, Once i get an iPod i will get iTunes and cancel Rhapsody.

sounds to me like Itunes is the best, imagine that something that apple came up with actually being the best

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Well you know Apple makes great products. Im not surprised its really good. The only thing is that they don't have Windows. There computers are amazingly fast, smooth and it has everything going for them except their competitor Microsoft who makes a product that other companies want to support. Cedarpointfreak have you ever actually used any type of Apple product, whether it be a computer or their amazing iPod or even now this new iTunes. You probably havn't.