Comments on: RealNetworks moves Rhapsody to the Web

Along with first fruits of Microsoft deal, RealNetworks' core music subscription service gets an online makeover.

[Gerry1981]

I assume

That we're going to have to use Real Player to listen to any songs we've bought. May I just ask..Who here actually still use Real Player???

[Captain-Atari]

I STILL USE REALPLAYER

Realplayer is a true cross platform streaming protocol. Forget the mp3 music crap. The best sound for the money for the MASSES is still good ol red book audio based CD's. The RIAA and major computer software vendors have turned the MP3 situation into a confusing mess for consumers. If CD's were priced @ $8.99-10.99 very few folks would even bother with any of these services. What's important about Realplayer is that it is available as a server and a client on Unix,Linux Windows and Apple platforms. Windows media players and servers aren't. Although you can find alternative players for windows media on other platforms when Microsoft updates or changes formats you may be out of luck for a small period of time until your player gets updated with a new codec.

[willcate]

More stupidity from Real

"Paying subscribers to the service can listen to unlimited amounts of music through the Web-based version. However, they will not have the same ability to download songs to their hard drives or MP3 players, or manage the other music on their computers."

Y'know, it's like RealNetworks wakes up every morning and says "How can we possibly suck more?" I suppose this is in accord with Rhapsody's current "Owning music is stupid" ad campaign.

Just simply amazing...

[Earl Benser]

I can't believe.....

... that RealNetworks is still in business. No one I know uses any
Real product, I almost never encounter encounter any .rm files.
I've yet to hear any positive comment on Real and it's products/
services. And my own experience with Real some time ago
convinced me never to try again.

There are too many good companies around to ever bother with
Real.

[petersider]

Doomed

With their suspicious manners and lack of respect fot their customers, RealNetwork is on its last breath. They will learn the hard way. Their products suck and more and more people know that.

[kenny-J]

I'm confused

I tried Rhapsody since it was offered free to Comcast subscribers. The whole Rhapsody/RealNetworks schmear is too confusing to try and keep up with. Now this old subscribers can't do that, new subscribers can do this, or whatever, makes me really happy I didn't subscribe to their schtik. I don't care about MP3--want good audio--and like the buy one song as I hate to spend good money for a whole CD just to get one or two decent songs, but I haven't found any service worth my money.

Rhapsody

I have never used real player unless I was forced to but I have been using Rhapsody since it's launch and I really like the service. The few files I have bought are not in mp3 format and were easy to burn. I think what they're doing is providing a web portal to those who just want to login via the web and but in so doing you limit the functionality you can provide because of the limitations of the portal, not the service. The downloadable interface will remain the same.
They are just trying to make it more accessable to people who just want to check it out without having to download and install some software. I probably wont use the web interface but only because I already have the software installed and have no reason to complain.

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go real!

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