Did you end up leaving Rhapsody and moving to Spotify? I'm considering the same move. With all my social media friends using Spotify, I might as well switch over if I'll be paying the same amount. If you switched, have you been happy you did so?
Even this downside had an upside: we have our own playlists though we can share them with each other , and instead of all our listening going on my Facebook page we like some of the same stuff but have some divergences as well , it is separated now. The suggestions seem good for the most part and you can preview them on the desktop before "committing" to listening. FYI: You have to make sure to go into preferences and change it from the default to the highest sound quality though.
I am finally starting to get rid of the association of certain songs with awkward gaps. Awesome detailed reply! Yeah, I didn't expect to be able to import my playlists from Rhapsody. I took screen shots of them all so I could re-create them if I want to.
I, too, tried Spotify a few years ago and I didn't really like the UI, so I'm glad to hear it has improved. Have you had any issues with music that you listened to on Rhapsody not being available on Spotify?
That was the case when I tried it out a while back, but I doubt that's still true. I used it free, not paid, so maybe that was a factor. I'm a single user so not being able to use 2 devices simultaneously won't affect me, but I'm sure it would be worth getting 2 accounts if I did have someone else.
I'll still be a little sad to be done with Rhapsody after so many years, but I'm looking forward to the social media benefits. Poor Rhapsody and their rapidly-dwindling market share. I made copies of my Rhapsody playlists, but so far I have not actually gone through the work of re-creating them. I decided to "make the bug a feature" and get a fresh start, get out of any ruts. A lot of what I listened to before has organically come back into the mix, but I've also probably found more new or "new to me" music this way than if I had imported the lists.
It would have been interesting on the other hand though to have some way of comparing to see what was not available. The only recent example that comes to mind is Peter Gabriel: you can get "Solsbury Hill" from a couple movie soundtracks, but not his stellar album So or famous tracks from it like "Red Rain" or "In Your Eyes". My unscientific gut sense is that Spotify has, if anything, slightly more of the music I look for than Rhapsody did.
I totally feel ya on Netflix. I have found though that despite being able to have different profiles there, we can only get the main one to play on Roku, which kind of defeats the point! If that seems overwhelming to you, try the program's radio station creation tool, which customizes a station based on up to 10 artists of your choosing. Following on the heels of Napster To Go's revolutionary Janus-based service, Rhapsody To Go gives you access to percent of the downloadable catalog to transfer to your device.
A clock built into compatible devices times out licenses for songs when the subscription runs out, but until then, these files can be played with aplomb. While you can populate your playlists with any track in your library, you can autosync when you connect your device with only purchased or imported tracks, not subscription-based downloads.
In other words, subscription content must be manually transferred, so you can't automatically fill your 20GB player with random tracks from the Rhapsody catalog. Though we're picky about music, it'd be nice to have a one-click subscription fill-up on our portables. New Rhapsody features Since both subscription services allow on-demand streaming of any track available, most users won't need to purchase tracks, but studies have shown that subscribers still buy their favorite tracks.
Subscribers have the option to buy tracks with a 10 percent discount. You should have a CD burner too. Rhapsody is predictably responsive over an office LAN; in our tests, songs started playing almost as quickly as if they were stored locally. In comparison, when we used Napster 2. So how did we fare with Rhapsody To Go? Rhapsody went with the same drag-and-drop method as Napster, though it doesn't have a completely separate window for your device.
Instead, a tabbed window in the lower-left corner serves to hold your tracks to play, burn, or transfer. Also unlike Napster, Rhapsody doesn't let you drag tracks, albums, or playlists into the window once you've begun a transfer; you have to wait until the current list has finished. After an intial bout with bugginess and transfer failures to compatible portable devices such as the Creative Zen PMC, the Creative Zen Micro, and the iRiver H10, we were finally able to transfer subscription-based tracks to our H10 with no hitches.
Presumably, Real engineers were working "real" diligently to get the feature to work postlaunch. A transfer of MB worth of tracks a smooth blend of Mariah Carey and the Postal Service took just less than four minutes or a rather slow 0. Our final comment: in this early stage of Rhapsody 3. The only way to contact Real is via an e-mail form that allows you to attach documents. Real will get back to you in 1 to 2 business days. The program won't automatically update to the new version, but there is a link to do this manually.
Menu options to authorize a computer or to import music to your library are few and far between, but they offer just the information or function you need. For example, the account summary page lists the number of artists, albums, and tracks available to the user, and there is a useful blogging feature in Preferences. Streaming technology has always been the heart of Rhapsody. So now, when you click on a user, you'll see a "match" percentage telling you how much your musical tastes overlap.
Someone with a 15 percent match you probably won't be interested in following, but someone with a 75 percent match seems a lot more likely to surface music you'll care about. I confirmed that someone with a 95 percent match probably won't have a lot new for you to discover; Rhapsody will use its algorithms to surface people who have high match ratings that still have some room for finding new songs.
Naturally, you won't have to go hunting for users to follow. For starters, Rhapsody will offer a playlist specifically containing music from people with high Music Match scores, and all of the songs on it will be things you haven't yet played.
When you click on songs in the playlist, you'll be able to drill down to the user that Rhapsody's algorithms pulled the song from. From there, you can start following that new user if you want to see more of their musical tendencies in your feeds.
You can also get a similar playlist but only based on music trending from people you already follow, if you want to play it safe. When you're visiting the profile of any user that you have a good music match with, you can also listen to a "matched playlist" of songs based on your similar tastes. These trending playlists feel like an answer to Spotify's aforementioned Discover Weekly feature, which surfaces a playlist of new songs you might be interested in every Monday.
But while it's not entirely clear how Spotify pulls together that list for you, Rhapsody wants you to be able to see every listener using the service and how their tastes influence what you're hearing.
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