Audiogalaxy Returns as Pay Service

Triv writes "I just got an email from Audiogalaxy explaining how they have come back from the dead as a subscription service, labelled as Rhapsody."

Comments

Re:Erm, its a streaming service

[Squareball]

well you pay for cable TV right? No tangible product.. AND you have to have a TV. This wont work becuase you have to have broadband to use it really.. and $10 a month on top of 50 a month for broadband isn't worth it as long as there is still systems like Kazaa

Re:Unbelievable crap.

[mickwd]

"If there was no protection to intellectual property, people would not be encouraged to share knowledge with others. Writers would not write, inventors would not invent, artists would not....."

Well I guess this explains why Britain has never had any art or culture or scientific discoveries to speak of. Or France. Or Italy (what was all that Reneissance stuff anyway ?). The (Ancient) Greeks. The Egyptians. The Chinese. The Japanese. The Indian sub-continent. Many other countries I haven't got room to mention, or know little enough about. What heathens we've all been compared to the current cultural output from the USA.

Sorry - I know there is some good art, literature, music and science being made in the USA today. I'm just saying you're over-stating your point.

Give me THE SAME SERVICE and I'll pay.

[dpbsmith]

Once again... I'm willing to pay, but I have to GET something as good as I used to get.

There's no way that "Over 17,000 albums by over 7,000 top artists" is going to come close to the richness and variety we got from of individual fans trading their individual favorites.

I am now going to make a quick test on four items I obtained from the "real" Audiogalaxy a few months ago. This is an authentic test, I do not know yet what I am going to find. Bernard Cribbins, 'Ole in the Ground; Harry Champion, "I'm Enerey the Eighth;" Nervous Norvus, "Ape Call;" and the MIT Chorallaries, "We Are The Engineers."

Well, it seems you can't search for individual titles unless you actually join, but with great labor you can page through the artist list, and I find:

Bernard Cribbins: Nope.

Harry Champion: Nope.

Nervous Norvus: Nope.

The MIT Chorallaries: Nope.

Now, someone is saying "What kind of market is there for the MIT Chorallaries, for pete's sake?" Well, all I can say is, when Audiogalaxy was for real, _I_ wanted to hear them and _someone_ out there wanted to share them.

Without SHARING, all you're ever going to get is Britney Spears and Elvis Presley.