# Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Which Rhapsody is right for me?

Anyone have a subscription to Rhapsody? I thought I should check it out, but the first step already has stumped me. If you do, or did, and have an opinion, I'd love to hear it.

RHAPSODY
All Access

$9.95/month
7-Day FREE Trial

Get access to everything we've got. Over 20,000 albums from more than 9,000 artists in every imaginable genre. Rock, hip-hop, R&B, country, jazz, classical...major label and indie...it's all in here. Want to listen to complete albums and create your own playlists? Want to build a library of your favorite music? Subscribing to All Access is like having a music megastore at your fingertips for less than the price of a CD.

  • Play what you want, when you want, without limits
  • Includes a subscription to Radio PLUS (see below)
  • Burn your own CDs - just $.79 per track

RHAPSODY
Radio PLUS

$4.95/month
7-Day FREE Trial

The ultimate Internet radio. Get access to over 50 professionally programmed radio stations in a wide variety of genres. Create custom stations based on your favorite artists. Listen in CD-quality sound. Skip the tracks you don't like. Want to listen to your favorites while we introduce you to great new music? Want to take control of your radio? Radio PLUS is for you.

[ RHAPSODY's Catalogs - The Best Music On The Web ]

And when you go to order, they tell you the pricing of the quarterly plans: $24.95 for All Access and $9.90 for Radio Plus, making the choice even more difficult.

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#    Comments [5] |
Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:32:20 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
I make my own music with my ukalale.
Jim Janson
Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:48:45 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
The radio takes the artists you enter as a starting point. So if you really wanted to listen to U2, and just entered "U2", you may only actually hear a U2 song every half hour. However, if you don't mind also listening to similar bands, and don't mind the fact that you can't hear a song again for a set period of time, the radio is the way to go. The one advantage here is that there are a lot of songs that you can only hear on radio and not on the Rhapsody catalog, due to licensing restrictions (i.e. Beatles music).

For me, I prefer the full access, as you can listen to close to a million songs whenever you want in addition to the radio.

Basically, if you just want to hear decent music that pretty much matches up with your tastes, go with the radio. If you want to hear specific songs or even specific artists, go with full access.
G$
Thursday, December 16, 2004 8:46:52 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Jim? Don't you mean ukulele?
Kearns
Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:27:03 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
I've had Rhapsody for 6 months. Overall we've been pretty happy with it. It's got a fairly large library. The only thing that sucks is that sometimes certain musicians get pulled out of the library and are no longer accessible. But on the the full subsciption is worth it.
Tom
Sunday, December 19, 2004 9:37:06 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
go for the 3 month subscription. rhapsody rules. i run a blog devoted entirely to offering rhapsody playlists that visitors who are subscribed can listen to. it's called rhapsody rock school. check it out at http://rockschool.blogspot.com if you're interested and end up subscribing.
matt
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