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Web Based Rhapsody Targets Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-outside-of-the-box dept.

Asklepius M.D. writes "According to Marketwatch, RealNetworks is releasing a web based version of Rhapsody called.....Rhapsody.com that will function on other-than-IE browsers including Firefox and Safari. The article quotes Jupimedia analyst Joe Wilcox as saying "...it brings the first real subscription music service to Mac and Linux-based products.""

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  1. Good news by bogaboga · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Because services are moving to the Web. They should have done it much earlier.

    But the question is: Will Linux users use Real's product? Reviews on Real's products here on slashdot have not been that favuorable in the past.

  2. Re:From Real? by hug_the_penguin · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Their realplayer for windows is practically spyware. How many legitimate programs can get away with passing advertising messages, embedding adverts, popping up annoying content etc. and not get called adware.

    How many companies can do this and then charge for `premium` functionality?

    Real's days are at an end. They support very few portable music players, and what happens when noone wants to let real support their player? What happens to all your DRMed music then? And what happens when their ads get more invasive and more annoying?

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  3. Not WMV. Whatever it is, not that by CdBee · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Real use their own DRM scheme on AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)

    Its likely - from my guess, not the article - that they'll stream a file to an in-browser player. But then, remember this is all the words of a third-party "analyst" - which often means rumour-monger.

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  4. Re:Mac? BSD? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Last I checked Safari was was not available for linux. Maybe not, but you can get a browser based on Apple's WebCore rendering engine (essentially modifications to KHTML) for Linux called Gtk+ WebCore, which is based on GTK 2.x.

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  5. Re:Drm on linux by Wolfger · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hence the application "StreamRipper", which records streaming audio to mp3 for later playback. This is nothing more than modern-day "taping songs off the radio", except when I was a kid, I could tape more than 25 songs a month. I'm much more interested in Independant and Creative Commons music these days. The RIAA doesn't want to play nice, so I just won't play with them at all.

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