It’s just hard to imagine a scenario where iTunes is more cost effective, unless you only listen to a few albums in which case you should just buy the physical CDs, rip backup copies to your hard drive and be done with it.

I’ve tried for 3 years to make it work and have spent countless hours on the phone with the tech crew. Pay the money – get itunes… run away from Rhapsody…. It is torture for anyone who really likes to create playlists.

BTW your blog is bloatware. It took forever to download all the cheezy crap on this page. Good thing I’m only here to bitch about Crapsody.

Rhapsody vs. iTunes

“Wow! Thanks!” I took the nano from him and handed him the fifty bucks. Talk about my lucky day. I had just bought an iPod nano for only 50 dollars!! I mean come one…$50?! That was insanely cheap back then. He said nothing was wrong with it. He said he had just bought it and well he’s my brother so I believed him. Too bad my luck just had to run out. Too bad that wonderful little musical device that later became my world had to freeze and never work ever again. Too bad I was out 50 bucks in about one month’s time. Well after that month I was pretty revved about music so I just had to get another music playing device but I came upon a problem. I didn’t have a source of income so I didn’t have the 100 dollars (or plus) that I needed to buy an iPod. So I bought an MP3 player that had twice as much memory and even looked cooler for only 60 bucks! How cool is that? In getting this new device I used rhapsody to listen and buy music instead of iTunes. I think iTunes lovers should widen their horizons by looking at other music listening/buying medias. I believe that rhapsody is better than iTunes because not everyone has an iPod.
Seriously…you wouldn’t believe how happy I was to FINALLY get an iPod. EVERYONE I knew had one and I knew that if I didn’t have one, then I wasn’t as cool as my friends. I didn’t have a hundred dollars just sitting in my pocket though. So for awhile I believed that I wasn’t as “cool” as everyone else. But one day my older brother said he needed money and he would sell me his iPod nano for only 50 bucks! I HAD FIFTY BUCKS! That very day I fished out every cent I owned and gave it all to him just to hold that silver nano in my hand and call it mine. I was thrilled! I told all my friends. I showed it off to them. I matched bling, cases, and even earbuds with it. I think I probably named it something. I loved it. I remember one time when I was grounded from it. I was so depressed I didn’t even eat for a day. It was ridiculous. But after about a month…it,,,it,,,it broke!!
“Katie!!”
“What?”
“What’s wrong with your computer? I plugged my iPod into it to charge and now my iPod’s frozen!!”
My friend Katie just shrugged her shoulders while she did her make up in the mirror. I felt like banging her head against a wall. Didn’t she know what a crisis this was?!! My iPod wasn’t working!!
“Just see if it will run out of battery power and die then plug it in the computer again.”
“The battery’s not even going down. It’s just stuck!” I felt so frustrated.
“That’s weird,” she said.
I gave her an annoyed look. What a bad day. I was at my best friend’s house. I had plugged my iPod into her computer and now it was BUSTED! My music device that I had loved so much had stopped working…for good. I was mad.

After a little while I decided to buy a Memorex MP3 player for 60 dollars. It had amazing features! It could actually do more than my dinky little nano could do. With it I could listen to the radio, view pictures AND video, store documents, and of course listen to music…but twice as much music! When I did have a nano I used iTunes to listen to songs and buy songs. With my mp3 player I obviously couldn’t use iTunes so I found something else. I found rhapsody.

From personal experience I believe that rhapsody is better than iTunes. Rhapsody is easier to use, you can create an account, listen to music faster and longer, and you can also buy your music for a lower price. I think my top two all time favorite things about rhapsody is that (1) instead of only listening to 30 seconds of a song you want to hear (iTunes) you can have a 14 day free trial to listen to anything you want! (2) I don’t need to install a desktop client to play music. Rhapsody is strictly internet…no software downloads required.

I want all the iTunes lovers to know that rhapsody is truly better than iTunes in so many ways and they should really look into it. It’s simpler, it works for the ‘poor’ people who don’t have fancy iPods, it’s more reliable, and it’s cheaper! You will probably find a lot of advantages if you use rhapsody and I practically guarantee that you’ll thoroughly like it.

My problem with iTunes is the music you pay for is not the whole but a part. I will not go into file compression and what a mp3 really is at 128 or even 256. If I pay for a song or anything for that matter I would like the whole thing and not a part of it.

I like to see what some say. Everyone is doing it. Cars and so on ipod this and that. iTunes > all and so on.
My problem with ipod is the same as iTunes. It just can’t do anything right. Sure it does a lot but not one thing good. Take that back. It can surf the web like no other.

With Rhapsody you pay for what you get. You know it is renting. I look at iTunes the same way. It is renting music but I have to pay for every last song I care to hear. Renting.. wha..? Easy. Let me hook this sub par 256k mp3 up to my $5,000 NAD amp and hear good sound. It just down right sucks. What choice do I have but to buy a CD. With Rhapsody I can fire it up at work, car, home PC, laptop, phone ect. Sure it is not all great. Sure I can not fire it up on my home amp just as I can’t with iTunes. My point is you pay for what you get.

FYI do you use netflix? It is renting. For $15 a month I could buy 1 DVD a month. Sure buying is better but it will takes years to become better. Invest in w/e makes you happy.

Ever hook up good phones to a iphone or ipod? Not that good. Buy a Cowon if music is that important. Buy a Sony Lifestyle laptop tiny WiFi is what you need. I just can’t find anything a ipod or iphone gives to justify its price tag.

Rhapsody is the way to go so long you understand it is just renting and OK with that.

I hate any store or service that requires you to use their crappy software when all you really want is the song.

Seeing that I use [or used to use] my psp as my main music player itunes was not a choice for me. But now that my psp broke and I’m forced to use my ipod nano [1st gen] I still use rhapsody to buy music but just use itunes to organize my collection.

Rhapsody is awesome. I wish more people would see the benefit of using Rhapsody versus ITunes

Your iPOD will not work with Rhapsody subscription services, however, you don’t need to store your entire collection on your ipod either. I have a 20GB ipod with most of my CDs, but sync my 4GB sansa for rhapsody every week or so. I love it, I completely go with whatever I want every week – I don’t even know what I’m going to put on the Sansa till I start looking in the library. sometimes I just grab every album in the top 10 – no more thinking about money to listent to an album.

By far – Rhapsody is the service for people who like to hear new music all the time. I’ll bet I go through 150 new songs a month – for $15.99 a month. Did I mention it syncs to mention is plays on Tivo, 5 PCs and 3 MP3 players. (You do have to sync the mp3 player at least once a month to keep up the licensing – but that’s not a big deal.)

.89 cents a song to purchase with no buring restrictions if you want to burn a CD.

To me that means a lot.