Napster Is A Darned Site (sic) Better than Realplayer and Music Match Jukebox
Sep 04 '04
The Bottom Line Napster is resurrected and I am a little bit too.
Bloody but unbowed, Napster is in business again. I have seen a great PT review which lays the situation out so I will content myself with more personal observations about the declining quality of the incessantly upgraded Music Match Jukebox and RealPlayer when it comes to being able to hear what you want for something less than an arm and a leg.
Personal observations:
If I can get a program up and running with no trouble, I am a happy camper. I did so with the new Napster. I am currently on the $9 and change a month subscription plan which I can cancel in a few days if I decide to.
The really happy thing is that I am listening to a Waylon Jennings album which I have wanted to listen to for years -- just once, not to own. And it was easily findable on Napster.
Forget Music Match Jukebox. It has gotten worse and worse. Every upgrade spells strangulation. I defy you to find what you are looking for. And RealPlayer. If you are a fan of 39 second clips. It is truly insulting. Buy. Buy. Buy.
The whole idea for me is I will pay to hear so I do not have to buy.
Hey, I said personal opinions.
I have not upgraded RealPlayer but I am not inclined to. I have upgraded MusicMatch Jukebox for something like $60 a year but I will soon cancel.
Napster does the following things:
Appeals to my sense of the Web as at least an a place where folk can (sometimes) behave decently in the face of corporate idiocy.
Gives you what you are looking for, except in cases where the artists and their corporate connections have exhibited paranoia and refused to accept my money. Stand up and take a bow, CSN&Y.
A highly usable online-play option which is advanced over most I am aware of. In other words you can select what you want to hear and listen to it as I am now doing, to intense pleasure. I happen to love Waylon.
I miss him.
"I've got a couple of years on you babe, and that's all."
Napster has done better than these others at making Waylon sing online, and I know he probably appreciates it.
OK, I have not thoroughly examined this product.
I have made outrageous statements about RealPlayer and MMJ.
And I don't really care.
Napster got whacked and came back and is not pretentious.
These others are always upgrading and adding more and more barriers to being able to find and listen to what you want to hear.
I will happily pay $120 a year to Napster to listen to Bob Dylan sing Not Dark Yet as many times as I feel like.
Yup, the album is over and I think I will let the subscription ride.
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