Napster

[Shawn]

Napster Homepage

They promise:

* Listen to 30-second clips of all songs in the music catalog
* Choose what music they want to own, paying only $.99 per song and $9.95 per album
* Enjoy fast and easy CD burning with a drag-and-drop functionality
* Get detailed artist and album information
* Create play lists
* View music videos
* Search for music by genre, artist, track title or popularity
* Access over 4 decades of Billboard chart information
* Quickly and easily transfer music to an integrated portable device or a wide variety of other popular devices
* Discover and rediscover music through a powerful recommendation engine
* Opt out of music with Parental Advisory Labels
* Integrate tracks from Napster with existing MP3 collection
* A personal inbox for music and messages
* The ability to send music to friends both within and outside of the service
* The ability to browse other members’ music collections

Pricing

Premium Service

For only $9.95 per month, consumers can enhance their Napster experience by choosing a premium subscription service that offers:

* Unlimited streaming and downloading
* Access to professionally programmed radio stations
* Message boards to share opinions and offer suggestions

System Requirements

System Requirements

PC only

Windows XP/2000

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher

Windows Media Player 7.1 or higher

Internet connectivity

[Yoda]

use it and they do what they promise. it is very cool.

[rainbowdemon]

$9.95 a month for unlimitd downloading? With a fast connection, and NO restrictions on use,maybe.

[Shawn]

Well, Yoda? Can you burn these or are they locked down until an additional fee is payed?

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

N.Y. College Offers Students Napster Deal

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The University of Rochester will soon offer students free digital music from the relaunched Napster service.

It is only the second college in the nation -- after Penn State University -- to enter into an agreement with Napster to provide digital music at no cost to students.

The service is designed to curb students' illegal sharing of music sharing and piracy. Recording artists have filed lawsuits against people who use personal file sharing sites.

The school's 3,700 on-campus students will have access, starting later this semester to Napster's collection of some 500,000 songs. Access will be extended to off-campus students, faculty and staff by the fall.

"If it's sanctioned and it's legal, I'll use it," junior Robert Clemm, 21, said in Thursday's Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

But considering the high cost of a college education, Clemm said the Napster service might join "a laundry list of real or perceived wasteful spending on the part of the university."

The school declined to reveal the cost of the arrangement with Napster, whose premium service usually is priced at $9.95 per customer monthly.

The Napster collection was made available in January to 17,000 students living in residence halls on several Penn State campuses. The service will be offered in the fall to all 83,000 students throughout the university system.

Source: Sun-Sentinel

[Bombardier]

I can tell you, this is the only Napster I care to remember

http://web.archive.org/web/19991103154041/...ww.napster.com/

I will never use this "paid" service holding the Napster name. It only the name.

It's the declawed cat.