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First Napster 2.0 Review

Posted by michael on from the new-and-improved-hah-hah-hah dept.

prostoalex writes "Matthew Fordahl from Associated Press is trying out Napster 2.0, which, according to the review, has some serious stability issues. At least for Fordahl the software 'repeatedly crashed during installation and brought down the entire computer with it.' They also have this picture of this Samsung Napster-branded digital music player."

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  1. Bah to Napster, their time has gone. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    2.0 little.
    2.0 late.
    2.0 bad.

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  2. iTunes for Windows by BWJones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, given that S. Jobs just officially anounced iTunes for Windows, stability issues for Napster are moot for all those windows users out there.

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    1. Re:iTunes for Windows by faust2097 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      iTunes actually supports a whole lot of other MP3 players than the iPod, people just don't pay much attention to that anymore.

  3. Wait a second... by grasshoppa · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A) The software is beta
    B) The issues the reviewer had seems to have been hardware related, as was stated in the article

    So, do slashdot editors READ the story they post? How about those that submit it? Do they just read half way, find something they don't like, and submit?

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  4. Ahh, marketers... by Shenkerian · · Score: 2, Insightful
    That's not to say Napster 2.0, available to the public Oct. 29, 2003, has lost all traces of the old. The headphoned kitty logo is still there - in fact, everywhere.

    Even if nothing else is the same, thank goodness the logo's still there. It clearly means Napster is exactly the same. What a relief!

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  5. Standard Slashdot Response by zerocool^ · · Score: 4, Funny

    I won't even consider it until it's ($CURRENT_PRICE/2) and until the files are ($CURRENT_BITRATE*2). And until it's in (!($CURRENT_MEDIA_FORMAT)). Plus it only is going to have bands $BAD_BANDS[1]..$BAD_BANDS[134], which I don't listen too anyway.

    And they should have thought of this ($DATE-(rand())) ago.

    ~will

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  6. Re:Whohoooo! by wo1verin3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    >>Hint: A CD with 15 tracks = 15$! Shouldn't
    >>this be CHEAPER than the real CDs? It is worse
    >>on quality, no artwork etc etc etc...

    Napster, like iTunes, offers a $9.99 for the entire album.

    The $10 a month for unlimited downloads and listening (so as long as you keep subscribing) isn't too terrible either.

  7. Re:Ewwww... by DrEldarion · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've tried Gnutella many times, and every time have been disappointed. Besides the fact that it's relatively clunky, it's usually hard to find things and even harder to get a real download going.

    KaZaA is okay, but the music is usually low quality, and I definitely wouldn't trust downloading any sort of executable file over it.

    For music I use WinMX. It reminds me a lot of the old Napster - you can find just about anything on it. Sometimes you have to wait in line for the download, but such is life.

    For just about anything, though, bittorrent is where it's at. Find a good hub and you can get whatever you want, usually pretty darn quickly. Of course, the problem is finding that hub, since A) A lot of the good ones don't want every Joe Schmoe knowing about them and B) A lot of the time the good public ones require something ridiculous like 50GB shared and 10 slots open. Once you find a nice one, though, you're set forever with whatever you need.

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  8. Re:hell has frozen over by Feztaa · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, Zinf Is Not Freeamp. I can't stand that program.

    I just use XMMS, but I'll probably switch to Rhythmbox when it gets a little better.