Subscription Music Service for the Office
We’ve been playing with different subscription music services in the office. Jenny has a Napster account and Walter has accounts with both Napster and Rhapsody. They’re relatively cheap and they have a reasonably good selection of music. After losing our “Guilty Pleasures” playlist (of which Jenny will post the contents at some point if we’re not too embarassed) for the third time to Napster’s absolutely incomprehensible playlist creation destruction ui we decided to give Rhapsody a go. (Seriously, the UI is horrible. They’ve overloaded the Now Playing queue with the playlist creation space and the combination is bad bad bad. There is such a thing as reducing the concepts by one too many.)
Three of the songs we tried to add weren’t available on Napster including the now even more iconic (thanks David Chase) Don’t Stop Believin’ by Jouirney. Only one of our “classic” choices — Escape by Rupert Holmes wasn’t available on Rhapsody (WTF?).
Anyone have a preference or know of some other service that’s better than these?
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Orion Adrian
June 20, 2007 at 5:07 am
May I strongly suggest you take a look at Yahoo! Music Unlimited as I’ve found their discography to be quite extensive and complete (in this case it has both the songs you listed). They’ve done a very good job of getting the popular songs within artist’s discographies even if they can’t the entire discography (e.g. Escape).
The other nicety is that it’s cheaper than the other services, it’s more stable than other services, the UI is pretty good (better than Napster’s was a couple of years ago), has nice integration with music videos and reviews on Yahoo! Music, but it does require a free separate player.
Chris
June 20, 2007 at 8:16 am
I use Yottamusic which is a Web interface to Rhapsody. Built by a guy here in Seattle.
http://www.yottamusic.com/
Jim
July 13, 2007 at 9:53 pm
If you can relinquish some control over what gets played, I would recommend Pandora. Pandora takes bands/songs you like, and plays other bands/songs you may like based upon why you like the original band/song.
You don’t get to obsessively build the playlist with your precise set of favorites, but I find that it’s internet radio that plays the kind of music I like. And it’s great for finding new bands.