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[RAV]

I signed up this weeked for a free trial of Listen.com's Rhapsody service through Charter (my ISP). I am very impressed with their library (just about everything) and the sound quality is decent. Unlimited streaming but no downloading or burning for now. You can, however save playlists and your favorite albums.

It would be great if MJ could play the music from this service and manage the playlists. The Rhapsody player is OK but not nearly as good as MJ. The two combined would be a great fit. I think that Pressplay is going to be integrated into MS Media Player 9. This could be an opportunity to compete.

[KingSparta]

Are not the files On listen.com secure files?

can you burn them to CD?

If not IMHO A waist of Money

[daven]

if you use a computer as your primary source of music rhapsody can be a great service. something like 20,000 albums at your disposal.  of course you can't download or burn (yet), but as a home jukebox the service meets a certain need.  i agree rhapsody would be greatly enhanced with mj but i am sure there would be legal problems.  mj integration would make it even easier to record the audio tracks which the RIAA does not want.

[Charlemagne 8]

I haven't checked this out fully but it appears that Rhapsody locks the line-in of the soundcard out when it's running. (I just wanted to see if it would do it, OK?)

I use Rhapsody and even without the ability to burn and download, the library is VERY impressive. The sound quality is very good also but would be much better using Media Jukebox. I have become used to the DSP.

The format is a secure version of wma. It would seem that you could at least get MJ to play it.

The ability to burn has been promised (apparently it will be a controlled, one-time thing for each disc) but Rhapsody, like EMusic, is an experiment by the music industry to see what the market is.

Rhapsody has a large number of name artists and albums (even some that can't be found anywhere else) but no downloading. EMusic has unlimited downloads, but with the exception of Jazz artists, it's usually no one you've ever heard of. Which is better? I have both. I use both. They each have their place.

I use Rhapsody to listen to music I am either familiar with but don't have or albums that I always wanted but never bought. John Mayall's - Turning Point tops that list right now. There are uncountable and undiscovered others.

I use EMusic to download and listen to (at my leisure)  new things that I don't know about. There is some trash but many many jewels.

When the music business figures out that there is gobs of money to be made by combining the two ideas, the P2P's will fall into disuse.

CVIII

[RAV]

King- I agree that portability is a major problem, but for $10 a month, my library instantly becomes almost everything available even from well known artists, old and new. If the player were MJ and you could burn limited number of CDs, this would be great.

[JimH]

If you want it, try telling them.  It wouldn't be hard for us to add if we had their cooperation.