Napster = Free Music
We're Napster subscribers in this house. Ponzi picked up the music subscription a few months ago when she was still using the Creative Zen Micro (which has now been relegated to a box in our storage closet). The desktop client is a beast, but it's admittedly nice to have access to on the average day when CDs just won't do. Today, Napster music is free again. Kinda:
“Yes. Here's how it works. You can listen to every track in our 2,000,000 song catalog up to 5 times for FREE. That's 10 million free plays! After the 5th free play of any single track, you can either purchase the track or become a Napster subscriber. As a subscriber, you can download an unlimited number of full-length songs to your PC. As a Napster To Go subscriber you can transfer those tracks to your compatible portable player without paying per track.”
Woah. Awesome. Great. Genius. Acceptable.
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March 16th, 2007
at 2:57am
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November 23rd, 2007
at 2:19am
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Ed
May 1st, 2006
at 2:59pm
Yeah, you failed to mention that it is low-quality streams. Who the hell wants that?
Leo Dirac
May 1st, 2006
at 3:01pm
It's nice to see some competition for free music on the web. We were getting a little lonely. A little welcome message for Napster streamed for free without registration in high-fidelity: http://play.rhapsody.com/gunsnroses/appetitefordestruction
Welcome to the web, Napster!
Anonymous
May 1st, 2006
at 3:18pm
Chris, you picked the wrong horse in this race… they're playing catchup, badly, to the folks who've already commented above, and they're still windows only… Do they offer a truly free stream of “Taps” yet? That would be more appropriate at this point.
Download Windows Media Player 11 Beta (Download)
May 29th, 2006
at 1:39am
[...] Microsoft released the beta version of Windows Media Player 11 yesterday. I’ve seen it go through several iterations behind the scenes and overall I’m happy with the features they are showing off so far. It’s certainly stable enough to install in place of Windows Media Player 10 (although it’s always smart to set a restore point). I’m running WMP11 on my main machine at home and taking MTV URGE for the 14-day test drive. So far I love it. Before you tune out because the service was built by MTV, keep in mind that it has more than just MTV tracks. They’ve got something like 2 million songs you can listen to and most of them have never been on MTV. [insert favorite joke about MTV never playing music here] The number one reason to download the WMP11 Beta today is the improved search functionality. Search in the new version of the player is head-and-shoulders above what we’ve seen in all previous versions. You get as-you-type search with super fast results by album, artist, genre, title, and a whole list of attributes you’ll probably never use. I wrote up a quick list of tips for anyone who wants to do power searches in WMP11. So far there’s no podcasting support built-in, but I’m hoping we’ll see it before the final build ships (unless they’re secreting it away for Vista, which would be stupid). URGE appears to be the only company with their store built into the beta, so if you were taking advantage of the free plays from Napster you might want to hold off on the upgrade, unless you use the Napster standalone app instead. Otherwise, download Windows Media Player 11 and dive in. [...]
Media Center
October 8th, 2006
at 8:03am
[...] Thu, 18 May 2006 18:51:52 +0000 Jake Ludington Download http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/media/2006/05/18/download-windows-media-player-11-beta/ Microsoft released the beta version of Windows Media Player 11 yesterday. I’ve seen it go through several iterations behind the scenes and overall I’m happy with the features they are showing off so far. It’s certainly stable enough to install in place of Windows Media Player 10 (although it’s always smart to set a restore point). I’m running WMP11 on my main machine at home and taking MTV URGE for the 14-day test drive. So far I love it. Before you tune out because the service was built by MTV, keep in mind that it has more than just MTV tracks. They’ve got something like 2 million songs you can listen to and most of them have never been on MTV. [insert favorite joke about MTV never playing music here] The number one reason to download the WMP11 Beta today is the improved search functionality. Search in the new version of the player is head-and-shoulders above what we’ve seen in all previous versions. You get as-you-type search with super fast results by album, artist, genre, title, and a whole list of attributes you’ll probably never use. I wrote up a quick list of tips for anyone who wants to do power searches in WMP11. So far there’s no podcasting support built-in, but I’m hoping we’ll see it before the final build ships (unless they’re secreting it away for Vista, which would be stupid). URGE appears to be the only company with their store built into the beta, so if you were taking advantage of the free plays from Napster you might want to hold off on the upgrade, unless you use the Napster standalone app instead. Otherwise, download Windows Media Player 11 and dive in. ]]> http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/media/2006/05/18/download-windows-media-player-11-beta/feed/ Copying iTunes Music Store Purchases Legally [...]
nelson
February 5th, 2007
at 4:36pm
thas cool!!!!!!!!!!
Samantha
March 14th, 2007
at 6:59pm
I want to know is it a good idea to download your program onto Windows Vista. The reason I am asking is because I have also had problems downloading thing and I want to know if it is going to work or not (so I am not wasting your time or mine).
sajid
June 19th, 2007
at 1:43am
blaugh|
jacob j
March 13th, 2009
at 11:37pm
!i use pandora and love it
Shtanto
March 16th, 2009
at 7:44am
Any technical details yet? Bitrates etc? Heh, it sounds like a good idea (sorry) but what’s to stop me recording the song? Better solutions already exist IMO.