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Is That Some Kind Of Song I Hear Coming Out Of Your Phone?
Who would have believed, even through most of the last century, that the same device we use to contact friends or business associates could also be used to provide us with our favorite music. Yet, most new cell phones can do just that, especially the mobile phones carried by younger people.
Imagine trying to explain the Internet to someone as recently as the 1970′s. I tried…unsuccessfully. Furthermore, as late as the early part of the last decade of the twentieth century, our current Internet speed would have seemed more of a distant hope than a short term reality. Yet, today, most of us connect using broadband services. Streaming music to our desktops is no longer interrupted by frequent pauses to resupply the buffer of our memory.
The Napster people had something of a rocky start as the location where music fans could find each other and, using Napster’s amazing technology, exchange their music over the Internet. No money was ever exchanged. In a way, it was just like selling illegal bootleg CDs except that nobody made any income from it. In fact it was the free part of the model that bothered the recording artists and record labels. Eventually Napster settled with the recording industry, with a huge financial settlement at Napster’s expense. They learned their lesson well enough to completely change their business model.
Napster.com, started as a free trading music set, but it has transformed itself into the holder of the largest music catalog on the entire Internet–over seven million titles and still growing. It is still a terrific bargain, even though it is no longer free in the days when it was in hot water with the music industry. They offer various plans, but the best all around deal is a three month membership, which can be renewed if you still haven’t satisfied your music thirst. I suspect you’ll renew, but the three months will give you a good taste of the service.
For the widely recommended three month plan you get five download credits per month plus bonus credits. Included in the plan is the reason that most people subscribe in the first place–unlimited (!) streaming music. You can listen to entire albums or even the entire catalog of their various artists of your favorites. There are also over a thousand interactive, genre playlists. There are streaming radio stations, too.
The downloads you choose can be played on any MP3 compatible device, including a number of lesser know brands plus the extremely popular Ipod and Zune players. In fact, if you cell phone has this option, you can even carry the music you’ve downloaded from Napster on that, as well.
You have unrestricted rights to these recordings, so you can move them around to different devices that you own. You can even use your software to create your own compact disc.
Any musical genre you can think of is well represented. I’m sure you’ll find your favorite on the list, unless you are like me and listen to music from a wide variety of genres. The list is huge, but a few of the genres are jazz, pop, rock, Christian, children, comedy, country and the list goes on….
You can surround yourself with your own selected music and never repeat a song for three months for only fifteen dollars at Napster.com. Where can you find that much pleasure at that price?
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