Mac News: News: Rivals Hope To Sink iPod with Rented Music
The music subscription service ... rent-your-music ... stop paying the monthly fees and all the music stops playing.
Mac News: News: Rivals Hope To Sink iPod with Rented Music
Napster has announced the release of Napster To Go, a Windows-compatible portable digital music subscription service that lets users pick songs from its entire catalogue and load it onto compatible MP3 players for a $14.95 monthly fee.
As of now, the music players compatible with the service are the Zen Micro and Portable Media Centre, the iRiver H10 and Portable Media Centre and the Samsung YH999 Portable Media Centre.
Napster's advertisement says, "Users can fill and refill compatible MP3 players without paying 99 cents per track." The "99 cents" is a poke at Apple iTunes, which requires customers to pay 99 cents for each track downloaded.
The catch to the Napser service is that users are required to plug, or dock, the device into their PC at least once every 30 days in order for the company to verify if they are still paying the monthly fee. If users decide to stop paying the monthly subscription to their provider, they cannot access any of the songs in their library or on their music player.
Apple has always drummed up the fact that iTunes allows them to own their music like they do when they buy a CD. Napster though is trying to convince users to "Do The Math". For the price of one CD per month, they'll have access to as much music as they want, and with a catalog of over 1 million songs.
Apple iTunes claims to hold an estimated 70 percent market share for legal music downloads. It operates in 15 countries and has sold more than 250 million songs since launching the service. Napster operates in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Mac News: News: Rivals Hope To Sink iPod with Rented Music
Napster has announced the release of Napster To Go, a Windows-compatible portable digital music subscription service that lets users pick songs from its entire catalogue and load it onto compatible MP3 players for a $14.95 monthly fee.
As of now, the music players compatible with the service are the Zen Micro and Portable Media Centre, the iRiver H10 and Portable Media Centre and the Samsung YH999 Portable Media Centre.
Napster's advertisement says, "Users can fill and refill compatible MP3 players without paying 99 cents per track." The "99 cents" is a poke at Apple iTunes, which requires customers to pay 99 cents for each track downloaded.
The catch to the Napser service is that users are required to plug, or dock, the device into their PC at least once every 30 days in order for the company to verify if they are still paying the monthly fee. If users decide to stop paying the monthly subscription to their provider, they cannot access any of the songs in their library or on their music player.
Apple has always drummed up the fact that iTunes allows them to own their music like they do when they buy a CD. Napster though is trying to convince users to "Do The Math". For the price of one CD per month, they'll have access to as much music as they want, and with a catalog of over 1 million songs.
Apple iTunes claims to hold an estimated 70 percent market share for legal music downloads. It operates in 15 countries and has sold more than 250 million songs since launching the service. Napster operates in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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