Jason Dunn
05-31-2005, 08:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.fstop-blues.com/2005/05/unlimited-music-review-napster-yahoo.html' target='_blank'>http://www.fstop-blues.com/2005/05/unlimited-music-review-napster-yahoo.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Ever since Napster’s Super Bowl half-time commercial I have been thinking I should take another look at subscription based music services. I decided to try out Napster, Yahoo, and XM Radio services. Each service is different but they all give you some type of unlimited music each month for a monthly fee."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/napster4_small.jpg" /><br /><br />Trying to pick a subscription service? This article has a nice overview of the three main options. I have a Napster subscription myself, but I share the reviewer's concern with the fact that many tracks aren't available for streaming/downloading with the music subscription (take the new Dave Matthew's Band album for instance). Kind of makes you wonder what the point is then, doesn't it? I also find the WMP10 interface slow and kludgy - it seems to be mostly Web-based with no local storage for graphics, meaning when you switch over to it there's a huge pause while WMP waits for the data to be downloaded. If there's network congestion, WMP essentially hangs for 5-10 seconds. :? There are proper way to do Web-based applications, and Napster is not it.