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New Napster Off To A Solid Start
Anonymous Superhero writes "From Wired magazine Napster 2.0 has a sleek design and makes exploring new music a pleasure. The most nagging problem? The confusing licensing issues. A review by Katie Dean." I haven't tried it yet - still using the iTunes store.
Why does this make story here on slashdot? Napster is dead and buried. This is nothing more than a company that bought the name and turned napster in RIAA's wet dream. It's a pay for service that is DRM saturated, and thus no more noteworthy than any other DRM saturated service. Napster is dead, nothing more to say here.
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It's just best to stay away from Canadian Products. Anything that comes close to Celine Dion is just not safe. Globalization includes all countries except Canada.
From Blogzine.net...
[Note: The following article does not address the subscription side of Napster. Only the features it shares with iTunes]
Two weeks ago, about this time I was ecstatic. I was telling everyone I knew about this wonderful phenomenon of the 21st century....*trumpet sounds* iTunes!
Ever since I realized that buying 10 songs to listen to 1 song was not only silly but foolhearty, I've detested the RIAA's efforts to thwart legal digital music transfer. Why? Because I knew in my heart if such a service existed I would use it...even excessively. I love music. I hate CDs. I hate the RIAA.
iTunes was going to answer that need, and in many ways it did. In fact, I was content with its drawbacks...legal music was all I ever wanted. Getting rid of Kazaa Lite was all I ever wanted.
iTunes was liberating. I downloaded the 20MB of software from Apple.com the first day it was released....at 340 KB/s, a speed I rarely reach with my cable service. I loved it immediately. It had my artists, the songs were 99 cents cheap, the download was nearly instant, and the quality superb considering the bit rate was only 128k.
More than that, Apple, as always, had a snazzy ad and uber sexy hype about it. And perhaps deservedly so. "Hell froze over." read the home page "The best Windows application ever written." Great stuff.
Yes, iTunes was the answer, and I was spreading the word. "Woe to ye, sinners, pirates forsake thy evil theivery and embrace the salvation of iTunes!"
But in the back of my mind there were several problems, problems I was willing to brush aside at the time, or perhaps fix. In an IM dated, oh, I don't know...sometime last week I said something like this:
The problem was realized, it was out in the open now. Apple supported portable music, but only with their elite iPod. I would love to own an iPod, but I cannot afford one and won't be spending such a large amount of money on one. With apple, there was no alternative. I couldn't port music to my Pocket PC. Impooossssible. I also couldn't easily convert the songs to MP3s or WMAs. (Let's see, 1. Burn a CD 2. Rip the CD into the format of my choosing. 3. Type in all of vital information such as artist name. 3 easy steps!) This was a huge hurdle, one that I wasn't sure if I could surrmount. After toying with different audio codecs and attempting to find away to defeat the blasted DRM, I gave up...it was for all intents and purposes, impossible.
It was about this time last week I checked out the Napster home page. It wasn't available yet, and I didn't really like the looks of this new software. But one thing did catch my eye. Napster was going to use the WMA format. This could spell "Liberation". Liberation beyond iTunes, true liberation.
Fast forward to yesterday, I checked out the Napster site again, but this time I was greeted with a big "Download Now" button. I immediately downloaded it.
The interface is what I would call "iTunesian". It's basically a shameless clone, though not quite as sexy. It's a clone in a annoying sort of way. It was the "Bizzaro iTunes"....the same but different and very annoying. But I can learn to love that. I started out my adventure with Napster by searching for the Don McLean ode to Rock n' Roll, American Pie. It quickly appeared in the list, and in 30 seconds I was listening to its goodness. This brings us to our first benefit Napster has over iTunes.
Numero 1. Apple wouldn't let me have the song.
You see, I tried to download American Pie from iTunes l
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