Rhapsody music service?

Is there another real thread on the Rhapsody service? I always assumed it was crap, but just got a 14 day trial with a new mp3 player. Their selection is awfully good (just started poking around, but tons of stuff by Can, Fall, Talk Talk, Fleetwood Mac, Alice Cooper, Lilly Allen, Sonic Youth, Swans, etc.) They have Dananananaykroyd.

I'll have to see how well the depth of their catalog holds up, but at the moment $14.99 seems like a pretty good deal. Very slow download to mp3 player, which isn't a deal-breaker for me.

it's decent, those 25 free plays thing they have effectively allowed me to discover Melt Banana and the first Comets on Fire album...

I'v been a subscriber since 2003. for me it's all about streaming not downloading but I love rhapsody. it's nice to check new music, like I'll play the eternal when it's up but mostly i listen to old stuff. there are holes in the catalogue, but it gets deeper all the time. had a lot of trouble with mac compatibility for awhile but the latest player works like a charm. between rhapsody and youtube I'm happy as a clam these-days, music wise. like a kid in a candy store.

i love it, but I wish they would invent a player that didn't crash every 5 minutes in Firefox

Man, I'm just falling in love. Today I was able to play the new Nadja covers album, then Fox (kinda 10cc-ish stuff from the 70's), then some early Swans, then XTC, then Chatham's Guitar Trio recorded at the Kitchen. It's rare that I go looking for something that they don't have. They've even got Fowley's International Heroes, for christ's sake! (i.e. one of the greatest albums ever made, that's not even on CD.)

so I got two free months on this Rhapsody.com thing...

here's one of the other rhapsody threads fwiw. sry for getting all otm in it

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10231962-49.html

i almost want to say well who the hell would try to use rhapsody as an actual media player??? but i guess that's the point. suffering through their abandonware to get to the music isn't something most people will go for, rightfully so

i don't use the browser plugin that often, seemed even more disjointed (and laggy, which the player rarely is tbh) last i checked

i was interested till i saw it doesn't support ipod, which is what i use to listen to music in my car, which is where i listen to at least half my music.

can you plug a zen player into your higher end car stereos and control the playlist from the stereo controls these days, like you can the ipod? i gotta admit, i like the idea of this rhapsody thing - it would feel strangely good to actually pay for music for a change. not to mention rapidshare/soulseek work, but they're usually sorta iffy and a pain in the ass.

oh, shit, i see it's only available in the states, never mind. fuck you rhapsody!

most of those new radios only 'control' the ipod afaik, audio-in is pretty much the way what you get for zens

screw it then, back to soulseek i guess

i love it, but I wish they would invent a player that didn't crash every 5 minutes in Firefox

yea this happened to me all the time in firefoz & safari. hasn't once for weeks now. you gotta get this new player, man

I'm kind of surprised. I use it w/Windows and it's just fine...no problems at all. I've got it tied to a Sansa player (I've come to prefer Sansa to Ipod) and again no problems other than slow transfer time.

I just joined this yesterday after finding out about the death of lala.com. I hadn't noticed too many albums that I've searched for that was unavailable, but I haven't been searching too long.

$10 dollars a month ain't too bad, at least until Spotify comes to the states (if it ever does).